Robyn Hood - Raceswapped, Genderswapped, Moderinzed Robin Hood series made in Canada.

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Michael Wade said:
Wait there's an episode of Christopher Lee fighting an alien!?
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Sadly, no.

I'm talking about the late '90s TNT series The New Adventures of Robin Hood (here's Season 1 on Youtube), which tried to be like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess, and was about on par with Jack of all Trades and Cleopatra 2525 (for those of you that remember such fun junk food).

In the episode "Dragon from the Sky," Robin and his crew encounter an extraterrestrial.

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And Robin himself was played by the same actor who played Will Scarlet (O'Hara) in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," plus Turner Broadcasting was based out of Georgia (callback to a line in Men in Tights), so there were all these little dots connecting that my autistic mind couldn't let go of. Decades later I still remember this dreck.

And I wish Christopher Lee would've fought (different) aliens on this show, it would've been the series highlight!!
 
Solomon Bundy said:
I'm talking about the late '90s TNT series The New Adventures of Robin Hood (here's Season 1 on Youtube)
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Oh God you've reminded me of those things! There was a William Tell one too right?
To be fair given both Hercules and Xena ran for several seasons with specials and a Young Hercules spin off I can understand people looking at that and going "seems like a good idea."
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Oh God you've reminded me of those things! There was a William Tell one too right?
To be fair given both Hercules and Xena ran for several seasons with specials and a Young Hercules spin off I can understand people looking at that and going "seems like a good idea."
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You know what was even better than Hercules and Xena? Jack of all Trades. Too bad they cut the series short so they could make more fucking Cleopatra 2525.
The only bad part is the show helped Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to get jobs in Hollywood.
 
McSchlomo said:
I don't understand you people who watch this. How can you stand this?
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Because imagining how proud the writer/director probably was when making this cringe shit while unknowingly going against their own message makes even the worst scenes fucking hilarious.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Oh God you've reminded me of those things! There was a William Tell one too right?
To be fair given both Hercules and Xena ran for several seasons with specials and a Young Hercules spin off I can understand people looking at that and going "seems like a good idea."
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The New Adventures of Robin Hood was Saban(Power Rangers) trying to get in on the Xena/Hercules money while spending as little as possible.

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The old BBC show was, despite 80s TV production values, excellent and had some great music.
Solomon Bundy said:
Will Scarlet (O'Hara)
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McSchlomo said:
I don't understand you people who watch this. How can you stand this?
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Personally, I was fascinated by the disconnect between what was intended in theory and how it comes off in reality. The over the top, ham-fisted progressive messaging completely backfires. The heroes are villainous, the villains are heroic and the show very clearly shows how morally bankrupt its creators are. It's also funny to see how little the people that shat this show into existence know about topics like: law, police procedure, real estate development, ethics, economy, music, archery, close-quarters combat, room clearing etc.
 
I'm honestly just impressed someone managed to top Velma not just as a terrible show, but as an adaptation of a well-known and culturally significant story/property that has been adapted numerous times already. Both Scooby-Doo and Robin Hood can be boiled down to a basic framework with which to build a story. While Velma was clearly a completely unrelated show with the Scooby-Doo imagery painted on, Robyn Hood is just shear what-the-fuckery by someone who thinks he understands the source material but just doesn't.

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You know I joke that a great pitch for someone like the Daily Wire would be a right wing version of this essentially.

People always forget Robin Hood was fighting tax collectors, not cops. That's what Sherrifs were back then.

So make an Uber American Robin Hood as such: Robin is an Appalachian military veteran who gets a bunch of his buddies to form an insurgency in support of the common man, and rightful President. Villains of the week include the IRS, ATF, and the usurper President.

Done well, its Dukes of Hazard for the Modern era. Done badly, can't be worse than this crap.
 
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