Posted 24 August 2026 - 01:57 PM
English people! Y'all have been keeping a secret.
I was on social media and saw an edit with what looked like Robin Hood set to Clannad music...so I was intrigued.
Thus I have discovered ROBIN OF SHERWOOD (1984-1986) and the excellence that is a FULL Clannad score, real sets across England VS any soundstages, and a gritty (albeit bloodless; all Xena) telling of the Robin Hood tales....Michael Praed's stellar 80's hair, Judi Trott's kind of gawky spindly Marion with a full spat of red curls backdropped against the lushest greenery you can find....amazing. Add in a young Ray Winstone as a grumbly Will Scarlet? So good. Is it hokey at times? It is. Is the action a bit overly campy? It is. Do I love it nonetheless? I do.
I know there are only three short series and I know there is some casting shenanigans in Series 3...but I'm still down for all of it (I'm about midway through S1).
And apparently in June of this year coincidentally it was announced that the daughter of original series writer/creator Richard Carpenter (who passed in 2012) had hired Mike Grell (who has written a lot of Green Arrow comics for DC) to write a trilogy of novels set in the canon and take place about a decade after the end of the show. So that's neat.
anyways. I like this a lot, but I'm a fan of like Xena and Merlin so this was always going to be my jam.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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Tiste Simeon, on 14 August 2026 - 07:47 PM, said:
