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The New Adventures of Robin Hood 3rd season
First of all, a big thank you to Brit_Canuck for bringing this Television series to our attention.
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Over the last two days I’ve watched all thirteen episodes posted by DailyMotion contributor “Robin–Hood” (two dashes between names). The video quality is superb. I watched in full screen.
Oof, what a marathon. In this 3rd series: John Bradley played Robin, Barbara Griffin played Marianne, Richard Ashton as Little John, and Martyn Ellis as Friar Tuck..
All really good performances. This version is in French: a great hindrance for me. But the facial expressions were enough to get me by on the major points. The bad guys wore black under their armor.
The underlying sexual tension between Robin and Marianne was palpable, and never slaked.
Good. That kept another ball in the air.
In these thirteen episodes the struggle was always against some bad guy, not the Sheriff. In one episode I think Robin enlisted the aid of the Sheriff (tall, “John Cleese, character and his men in red).
The episodes brought beautiful young women into peril. Those women also swung swords with gusto. Excellent. One excellent duel between Marianne and a bad girl ran for some time. I took screen caps, but the big “paused” sign ruined the effect. Besides the women were almost in constant motion.
Early in this 3rd series magic came into play. One beauty (Christie Woods?) portrayed a friendly slightly fey mage in many episodes
Viewing two episodes back to back at a sitting (usually 3 uploads per episode) made the fights with henchmen and Robin’s band seem repetitive. Probably would be better if viewed as one episode a week.
The fights were long on stunts (bodies flying through the air, etc) and less true swordplay. Lots of woodwork destroyed by flashing blades. Archery was not as prominent as I expected. The screen required close fights, so I suspect that's why the bulls-eye arrows were downplayed, but far from eliminated.
Season/series 1 and 2 are posted By the same contributor (Robin- -Hood) but I’m going to recover before viewing those.
drace68
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11/21/2008, 4:46 pm
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