🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:44:47 -0000, B. Hoffmann <spamfilter.list@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:55:02 +0100, Fred X <alexserv@himki.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't if any UK Thief fans have been watching the BBC's new version
>> of Robin Hood, but did any of you get a feeling of deja vu when the
>> "Night Watchman" character was revealed? I've posted some links to
>> some pictures to show everyone what I'm talking about.
>>
>> http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2773/101661rp6ee5.jpg
>> http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/1236/101660is3uh7.jpg
>>
>> Fred X
>
>
> Re. deja vu are you talking about T2x ?

Well partly, but the whole outfit seems very Thiefy.

> Can't help it but the new Robin Hood smacks decidedly 20th century. Don't
> think they were talking back then like 'you have to play within the
> system'. The concept of a political system as it is meant here is a
> relatively recent modern one , though I haven't done any search on Google
> or Wikipedia on when it first showed up.
>
> (Actually I have now and it seems to go back to the Romans and the Greek
> in a scientific sense and the decimal system, but that's not the same
> here.)
>
> Medieval societies were feudal relationships and I'm sure the ordinary
> peasant or lower aristocrat had no concept of a socio or political system
> determining his place in the world, let alone would know and use the word.
>
> Thus I'm not gonna watch it anymore, it's lost it's credibility, how many
> times has R.H. been remade anyway?

I wouldn't take it too seriously as it is basically a kids programme about
a bunch of blokes who may not have even existed.

Fred X