Last night, thanks to iTunes, we downloaded three episodes of BBC America's Robin Hood, Series One.
That sentence is full of geek happiness, is it not?
About a third of the way through the first episode, I turned to my partner and said "oh, they have totally Siddhartha'd this." She agreed.
In the earliest versions of his story, Robin Hood was a farmer or an archer, not a nobleman. He was just as violent as the culture around him, and he had yet to steal from the rich to give to the poor.
In this BBC version, Robin is a nobleman who goes off to fight what he thinks is the good fight. When he returns from the Crusades, he is a changed man. A man of nonviolence.
He gives up his riches, leaves his castle, so to speak, to go on a quest to find himself only to return to show others his way. He's not doing this consciously, but the story is there.
And it's familiar.
But it's also well done. And being Xena and Buffy fans, we are excited to find another ass-kicking show that doesn't have blood and is all about the Greater Good. Oh! and there are over-pronounced sound effects and crazy, unnatural feats. Like a Hong Kong style martial arts film.
We are happy.
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