Robin of Sherwood 2x3 First Time Watching Reaction & Review
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- This is a first time watching reaction to "Robin of Sherwood" Season 2 Episode 3. Future Reaction Polls + Early Access + Exclusive Content available on Patreon: / alexachipman
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Love seeing this other side to Abbot Hugo, when he's basically telling Guy to leave the blessing alone
I live in the English countryside and always have. I cannot do without greenery. We have a symbiotic relationship with trees and without the process for oxygen we cease to exist. Something overlooked by the many.
I used to have a favourite oak tree when I was a child, at a place where we used to go on holiday, standing all alone in a field near the river Severn. I measured the trunk at about seven metres in girth, which would have made the tree about four hundred years old at the time, so dating from the reign of Elizabeth I.
If you don't already know, the character at 3:49 (who says "Lord of the trees, let him see your power'') is played by actor Jeremy Bulloch, who is most famous for playing Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back!
He also cameos in ESB as an imperial guard. I was fortunate enough to meet him in the 90's and he said that initially he wanted to be one of the outlaws but was considered a bit too old then as they wanted younger actors. But then he got an offer of Edward of Wickham and got to be in ROS in the end.
@@mark-nm4tc Yes, he played a very Robin Hood-esque character in Doctor Who, in Sarah Jane Smith's first story.
i just love Robert Addie as Gisburn, he always gives it everything he's got. And Abbot Hugo is a welcome presence in any episode.
Sorry to hear about your experiences with fellow humans, you deserve better.
Another great reaction, thanks.
Philip Jackson as Hugo is a lovely actor playing a wonderful character. Later to find (more) fame as Chief Inspector Japp in the Poirot series.
Awesome reaction of my favorite Robin Of Sherwood episode!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
My favourite episode. Quintessential RoS.
Blessed be! Don't be so sure this will end up your favourite episode... there are some really impressive ones to come.
Summer in Britain starts at Beltane, not Mjdsummer (hence the mid). Nobody looks down on Pagans here, they are mainstream.
I loved trees long before I became a druid. When I was 11 and being bullied at school, I would stop every day to sit with an old oak and tell him everything. That tree offered so much love.
Sounds awesome - reactions to pagans here range from “you are going to hell for that” to “hahaha that is so ridiculous hahhaha”. Yesterday I mentioned it and had the person laugh in my face about it.
@@alexachipman "Being prejudged about something you know nothing about is the worst kind of ignorance"
Robin of Sherwood introduced me to paganism as a kid. I was too young to really get the message, but I vibed with it at an emotional level ❤
Edward of Wickham, played by Jeremy Bulloch, the man who played the original Boba Fett in Star Wars. I met him at a toy show and had him sign my Robin of Sherwood Dvd. He seemed to enjoy talking about RoS instead of Star Wars for a while. May he rest in peace.
I'm afraid I don't share your love of trees. Blame Twin Peaks for that. Those trees may look pretty but they can absorb your soul.
That is great that you got to meet him!
Jeremy Bulloch and his son Robbie showed me around Chepstow Castle once! Both lovely people.
Rules Of Luton loved it when I saw on broadcast and would imagine it when playing outside in waste ground. It gets unfairly critiqued these days.
Robin of Sherwood I haven't commented much on these and glad you are enjoying it. I saw on broadcast and only later realised how groundbreaking it was. I know you are well versed in Sherwood lore but this was first time a Muslim character was introduced as Nazir and when they made the Kevin Costner film they thought it was part of the legend from the beginning. It also was very much influenced by the time it was made in 80s UK with the destruction of traditional industries here a parallel with the ruling Norman oppression of the Saxons. You even have Will portrayed very much as an angry short haired cockney Punk Common in UK at the time. roles Ray Winstone excelled in.
Having the Saracen from the mediaeval mummers' plays is a nice touch, and fits in with how Friar Tuck and Maid Marian were eventually incorporated from their own play strands into the Robin Hood ones. RoS also has a good stab at incorporating Herne/Cernunnos and the Green Man. The novelisations make it clear Nasir doesn't partake of alcohol (which thankfully also saved him being hungover like the rest in the King Richard episode!). As an assassin he's not averse to a couple of admiring ladies though - all part of Allah's bountiful mercy.
It is an excellent episode, Alexa, and one of my personal favourites from the series as a whole.
I find this episode a little ponderous at times, but it is full of atmosphere, and you get a real sense of the pagan traditions and lore being embedded in the very fabric of Sherwood. Nice to see that the residents of Wickham are fully on side with the outlaws, after the way they were rejected by other villagers last time, and I also find Abbot Hugo's live and let live attitude towards those traditions very interesting; he may not be an especially nice person, but he is more sensible and pragmatic than Gisburne, and I definitely don't have a sense of him as being as wicked as either Gisburne or his brother, the Sheriff. The mercenaries are suitably repulsive, and nice to see Jeremy Bulloch pop up as Edward of Wickham - not only was he Boba Fett, but he appeared in a couple of Classic Who stories as well, The Space Museum and The Time Warrior.
The order of episodes in this series has been subject to considerable debate; it seems odd here that the Sheriff should be away in London again, having just returned to Nottingham from there in the previous episode. Gisburne is also presented as more impetuous here than in either The Prophecy or The Children of Israel, which makes me inclined to think this episode should have been shown before those. The disagreement between Robin and Will, though resolved amicably, also feels as if it might have worked as an early warning sign of their falling out in The Children of Israel.
Abbot Hugo is as greedy for wealth, land mainly, as his brother the Sheriff, but not as cruel - and not as empathically thoughtless and openly arrogant as Gisburne. As the Sheriff's older brother he could be a bit of a bully though, so maybe he takes some blame for how the Sheriff turned out!
Adore this episode. Love the folklore and pagan themes running through...
There's another HTV series you might consider reacting to from 1971/72 called 'Arthur of the Britons' it has a very similar vibe to RoS x
Sorry to hear you've been hurt by people, Alexa. I don't know who's worse: abusers or users. With the former the pain is more explicit but you can see that sort coming and hopefully avoid them. However, with the latter, the pain is oftentimes hidden but longer lasting. Betrayal oftentimes leads to a form of pain that never truly heals. Hopefully, this isn't the case with you.
Great review 😊
4:40 Yeah, we need an animated gif of that
I see you have met Edward of Wickham, another favourite character. I love that through him, we get the perspective of the villagers.
Interesting that this episode shows Abbot Hugo knowing and accepting that people observe both pagan and Christian rituals in their lives. People practiced divination at times, even using the bible to do so. Maybe it was the equivalent of reading horoscopes. 🤔
There is some scientific evidence that trees communicate with each other through their root network. Just saying.
My favorite tree communication story is that I went to one and asked it to show me a good place to go visit that day. I was sent to a location I knew nothing about, but when I researched it upon arrival, I realized the main history for it had to do with rain … and it was raining that day. (Fairly rare occurrence here).
I think Nasir is a Muslim, but he also learned to be more accommodating to others due to his own experiences
Yes he is a Muslim, from Persia, who was operating as an assassin in the Holy Land when the Baron de Belleme pressed him into service.
You'd have cheered on the Ents, then. I did and I'm not into trees as much as you seem to be! Though I'm more into the Lord of the Rings books rather than the films which I quite like.
Trees = freedom happiness safety another great episode 👌❤
Gisburne fucked around, Gisburne found out.
Is it just me or is Sir Guy getting more pompous and arrogant each episode? And at the same time he's really becoming unglued! Robin doesn't have to kill him because he'll find a way to get himself killed!
Yes, it doesn't help that the real Sheriff left him in charge and power has gone to his head!