Robin of Sherwood: a few randoms and Nasir

[meganbmoore]

Some of this has come up in replies, but...

1.  I really like how they did King Richard in Robin of Sherwood.  Unlike other productions, where Richard is perfect and shining and when he comes back all is well in England, this Richard is portrayed as a good man, but flawed, and more concerned with battle than anything else...in other words, the way

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[southerndave]

"The idea of a middle eastern man as part of Robin's band originated in Robin of Sherwood with Nasir."

I think Nasir was meant to be a Moor, which (if I have my history figured out correctly) would have put him more in North Africa than the Middle East. (This, though, is going from my vague memories I have of a show I haven't watched since its first broadcast 20+ years ago so don't worry unduly if I'm wrong).

Back when the show was first shown here, a big deal was made about all the supernatural elements of "Robin of Sherwood" (Herne and that sort of stuff) as previous versions of the story had no supernatural content at all, or very little.

[meganbmoore]

Nasir's been identified several times as a saracen, and in the ep i'm watching(last in this set) he was talking to people who were DEFINATELY middle eastern.

The supernatural elements are another thing that keep cropping up after this...they aren't in film productions of robin hood, but they are there in earlier stories because it's stuff people still believed in at the time(that said, the supernatural elements are very understated in the first season, but around a lot more in the second.

[scottishlass]

I just love what Carpenter did to the legend as a whole, never had Robin and his bunch looked so gritty, dirty and smelly as they did. ;) Heck, they lived in the woods, and Erol Flynn and the sorts looked like they had just stepped out of The Woodsman - the magazine for the fashionably (merry) ranger. In RoS they wore what they had on themselves when they weren't wolfheads or wore what they had scavenged off their victims. The realism was so new at that time

[meganbmoore]

Nasir being a saracen is referred to a lot, actually...it also comes up in the King Richard episode, and is a plot point in the last Praed episode

[dangermousie]

Ooooh, Brings back memories. I should dig out my DVDs...

[meganbmoore]

yes, you should.