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dangermousieMy next watch is actually a rewatch. It's the 1980s ITV series about Robin Hood: Robin of Sherwood, IMO hands-down the best adaptation of the Robin Hood story into the film medium I've come across. (More specifically, series 1-2).
I first saw it when I was a child. I must have been no more than eight. Russian TV bought the rights to the program (probably because Robin Hood was always quite Soviet approved) and it was summer holidays. I and one of my cousins would glue ourselves to the TV and then, every evening, we'd go to the attic and play out Robin Hood. It left such a vivid impression on me, that I've remembered large chunks of plot.
And you know, unlike a lot of things I loved when a kid, this held up with time. I bought the DVDs a couple of years back, and put them in with a bit of trepidation. You never know when your childhood loves develop tatters.
But you know what? I loved it. Loved it in an entirely different way than when I was 8 because I was a grown-up now. I was also amused to notice that RoS hit so many of my fiction kinks that it wasn't funny. I wonder if it was responsible for some of them?
It had the incredibly strong hero, who was also messed up. Passionate about injustice, but also angry about not being able to have a normal life. Not the saintly Robin Hood of other versions, this one was flesh and blood. Tired, sometimes unhappy, always driven. And (miracle of miracles) not upper class. It had the awesome, strong heroine who fought beside the hero, and a completely devoted to each other OTP. It had h/c in spades and kisses and otp angst. It had decidedly mixed endings, not just happy fests, and points about power and corruption and responsibility. And it was a real world: real in grime and necessities, not a pretty unworldly pageant like the 1930s movie.
Oh, and Michael Praed was HOT. I wonder if this is where my predilection for fictional archers comes from?
Yum:
The cast:
Anyway, if you can overlook 80s hair, it's an excellent series to check out. The only other version I ever loved was the Russian movie version (which was even grimmer). Errol Flynn version is fun but no more, and don't even get me started on the most recent one, or the Kevin Costner movie.
Though I have to admit I cried so hard on rewatching the last ep in Series 2, Mr. Mousie had to calm me down. One of the rare shows that was necessary with.
Here are RoS mvs on youtube:
The OTP one:
Robin centric:
Heeee. Set to 'Holding out for a hero.' I have aserious weakness for super-cheesy 80s songs:
I first saw it when I was a child. I must have been no more than eight. Russian TV bought the rights to the program (probably because Robin Hood was always quite Soviet approved) and it was summer holidays. I and one of my cousins would glue ourselves to the TV and then, every evening, we'd go to the attic and play out Robin Hood. It left such a vivid impression on me, that I've remembered large chunks of plot.
And you know, unlike a lot of things I loved when a kid, this held up with time. I bought the DVDs a couple of years back, and put them in with a bit of trepidation. You never know when your childhood loves develop tatters.
But you know what? I loved it. Loved it in an entirely different way than when I was 8 because I was a grown-up now. I was also amused to notice that RoS hit so many of my fiction kinks that it wasn't funny. I wonder if it was responsible for some of them?
It had the incredibly strong hero, who was also messed up. Passionate about injustice, but also angry about not being able to have a normal life. Not the saintly Robin Hood of other versions, this one was flesh and blood. Tired, sometimes unhappy, always driven. And (miracle of miracles) not upper class. It had the awesome, strong heroine who fought beside the hero, and a completely devoted to each other OTP. It had h/c in spades and kisses and otp angst. It had decidedly mixed endings, not just happy fests, and points about power and corruption and responsibility. And it was a real world: real in grime and necessities, not a pretty unworldly pageant like the 1930s movie.
Oh, and Michael Praed was HOT. I wonder if this is where my predilection for fictional archers comes from?
Yum:
The cast:
Anyway, if you can overlook 80s hair, it's an excellent series to check out. The only other version I ever loved was the Russian movie version (which was even grimmer). Errol Flynn version is fun but no more, and don't even get me started on the most recent one, or the Kevin Costner movie.
Though I have to admit I cried so hard on rewatching the last ep in Series 2, Mr. Mousie had to calm me down. One of the rare shows that was necessary with.
Here are RoS mvs on youtube:
The OTP one:
Robin centric:
Heeee. Set to 'Holding out for a hero.' I have aserious weakness for super-cheesy 80s songs:
