Alice i' the hood?

[matgb]

OK, we've got BBC Radio One on in the office, and I haven't retuned it yet. A few minutes back, an intro to a song I never expected to hear on a mainstream radio show came on, very distinctive.

Sisters of Mercy's "Alice". There was than a male voiceover, and it became apparent it was a trailer. For the new Robin Hood series. Now, I knew of course it was coming up, but not this weekend. Now, can someone with a TV confirm if it looks good and worth watching, should I find somewhere with a TV to go watch it at?

Also, are the TV trailers also using an old goth anthem for trailing it? Regardless, why use an old Sisters song for a trail for a medieval myth?

It sounded like the remix from the Under the Gun single, not the original, but with office background couldn't quite tell...

Comments

[sexygoldfish-uk.livejournal.com]

The trailer looks good, and the presence of Keith Allen
as the sheriff works. Some of the talk I've heard about it
says that the sheriff looks to portray Robin and friends
as being terrorists, allowing him to bring in new laws to
deal with them....

Not seen the TV trailer with Alice music but there's one
on the BBC website for real player.

[matgb]

Yeah, I'd heard that, modern analogies and all. Sounds, actually, great.

[sexygoldfish-uk.livejournal.com]

It certainly intrigues me, beyond looking shiny, so that's another few months with Saturday planned around the TV....

[shakalooloo.livejournal.com]

The new Robin Hood series looks freakin' awesome. Something decent to watch on Saturday again. The music is indeed all over the trailers, along with some very flashy camera-work.

[matgb]

Hmm, it sounds better and better, may need to find a TV I can watch it on. Or renew the TV licence. Nah, didn't do that for DrWho so not for this...

[harlotqueen.livejournal.com]

Yes it is in the TV version.

Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen!

[matgb]

So Eldritch cashes in on the broadcast fees? Cool. Weird, but cool.

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

It is going to be so very, very bad.

Okay, I'm biased. I saw the trailer weeks ago in Nottingham with half the actors from Robin of Sherwood. But seriously, we all wanted it to be good and... it isn't.

At one point he throws a sword across a courtyard like he's in the Matrix, it bounces off the heads of two guards and saves the prisoner crouching beneath. There's some bad rock music in the background that most certainly ISN'T Sisters of Mercy, and the lead actor looks like he belongs in a Manc indie band. He has about as much charisma and heroism as John Prescott on a moped.

Keith Allen is apparently a bit weak, but the man playing Guisburne is hugely camp and over the top and steals every scene he's in.

Early reviews have been around two stars out of five, but I suspect that slips if you wanted it to be brilliant so that Kip Carpenter could use the viewing figures to get his RoS follow-up made next year.

[matgb]

Keith Allen is apparently a bit weak

How? How is this possible? Keith is cool. I watched the trailer on the Beeb site after posting this after Dave mentioned it above, and you're right, even in the trailer, the lead actor looks crap.

But then, I still think Connery was incredibly weak. Ah well. We'll watch it anyway, and hope for the best. Y'never know, it might be a massive success regardless of being crap, thus restoring our faith in humanity to where it ought to be.

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

Connery WAS very weak. The funniest bit was seeing german fans who'd only had the german-dubbed dvds seeing Connery's performance for the first time in English and saying "...But he's terrible..."

They've said they're aiming it deliberately at the Saturday night Dr Who audience, so we'll have to see how it turns out.