Casting was dead-on, The fighting was prooty awesome, too. (Yes, the show could even make this scene thrilling.) When you write that down, it looks kinda silly. Oh, and also a god inhabiting the body of a forest shaman gives him a magic sword and declares him “The Hooded Man”, freedom fighter for all England. Anyway, he kills the wizard, gets one more follower, and sets off to have some adventure burgers with action sauce. Sorry, I was confused on account of it being like the worst prop ever. He falls in love with the beautiful Lady Marion saves her from marrying an evil wizard frees the wizard’s bewitched slave, Little John hooks up with Brother Tuck, a novice monk fearful of his abbot and wins a metal dildo in an archery contest. They hook up with Will Scarlet, a former soldier, and find themselves outlaws. PLOT OF THE PILOT: Robin of Locksley, a poor forester, stops his idiot brother Much from poaching, and are both jailed by the cruel sheriff. It’s damned good, and has proven very influential to the Robin Hood legend, most notably by adding a Moorish outlaw to the band. This show was the brainchild of one Richard Carpenter, who wrote nearly every episode. What’s the point of having a snarky blog if there’s nothing to snark about? And why does my word processor’s spell-checking software not acknowledge ‘blog’ and ‘snark’ as words? Ah well. Man, how am I suppose to write a funny entry about this? It was good. And when I say ‘influential’, I mean “Prince of Thieves” ripped it off massively. So here’s the awesome and influential ITV series Robin of Sherwood. Also, I’m not doing the promised Star Trek blog right away, because I figured I’d start with something a bit more… epic. And for TV show blogs, every main character gets a section, while they’ll just have to squat in the “Other” sections on movie blogs. Readers of the old blog will notice that I’ve expanded the ‘General Thoughts” section into three bits, detailing what’s good, bad, and otherwise notable. As you can see, I’ve already put up all the old posts, and added some new pictures and whatnot to them.
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