So is anyone going to post what the original ending was or what.
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{snip} I liked the episode, although Robin was a little too much like Lord Flashheart. {snip}
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Lord Flashheart was a send-up of impossibly heroic manly-man swashbuckling-type characters. The conceit in this episode was that every (modern) British literary swashbuckler was derived from/based on exaggerated tales of a real Robin Hood’s exploits and prowess.
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So is anyone going to post what the original ending was or what.
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IIRC, the ending that aired is the original ending. The only thing that changed was that about 2 minutes was edited out of the Robin’s and the Sheriff’s final fight in which Robin decapitated the Sheriff, thus revealing him to be a robot. FWIW, someone upthread linked to an excerpt taken from the black and white preair screener that leaked (well, okay, was stolen off the BBC-Latin America server[s]) in July/August.
That was me–post #22.
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That was me–post #22.
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You stole the preair screeners off the BBC Latin America servers?!?!? :eek:
WOOF WOOF!
The episode was pretty heavily influenced by the Third Doctor story The Time Warrior, which is still rather splendid: the Doctor travels back to 12th Century England to find that a Sontaran warrior has been kidnapping 20th Century scientists to repair his stranded spaceship, whilst passing the time by arming and equipping a local robber baron with robot knights. Notable for being the first Sontaran story, the first Sarah Jane story, and Boba Fett as Hal the Archer, it’s well worth your time.
Can’t let my credentials as an obsessed Whovian lapse. So, even though it’s been three weeks, this is still bothering me and I’m going to address it:
The name of this episode is Robot of Sherwood. “Robot” in the singular, not plural. It matters because first, it’s a pun on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Of_Sherwood"]“Robin of Sherwood” and second, along with the Doctor’s grumpy insistence that Robin Hood was not a real person, that pun is meant to deceive the viewer into thinking that “the” robot of Sherwood is Robin, when it’s really the Sheriff.
Bonus round: Phil Davis, who played “Prince John” in Robin of Sherwood, played “Lucius the Soothsayer” in The Fires of Pompeii (S04E02). Who else was in TFoP? Karen “Amy Pond” Gillan and Peter “Twelve” Capaldi.