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This show reminded me, more than anything, of the early-90s kids' TV series "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men", with Tony Robinson. Many of the actors seem to be playing it as teatime comedy, almost panto ~ people "hiding" in full view behind a branch ~ coupled with the hero's refusal to actually do more than shoot scissors from the air and whack baddies with the flat of his sword, this is very bloodless, insipid stuff.
And yet the comedy and supposedly smart lines seem telegraphed in and badly translated from another culture: two soldiers have a... a "joke" about how Robin of Locksley might as well be called Robin Wood, and we're meant to believe Robin Hood is so-called because an executioner misheard it? A running gag consists of someone squealing that food isn't properly cooked? And the scene where some poor soul had to try to make a funny out of "you could say the Sheriff got your tongue. Not the cat... if someone was being quiet. You could say not the cat got your tongue, but the Sheriff got it..." I was almost blushing as the joke blundered on through dead air, floundering, taking a minute to die. It felt almost like a version of Robin Hood beamed in from Borat's village. Robin, he very niiice, he wear t-shirt from Gap clothes, play with dog. |
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