"How can we make Robin Hood and his band of THIEVES more modern?" "I know! We can make him and all of his THIEVES black!" "...dammit, that's GENIUS!" Edit: Wait, this was created by a BLACK GUY??
Yes. A "creative" known more for making music videos than actual riveting cinema. He's had three films under his belt that seriously underperformed and never made back it's production costs.
Just as hilarious for me, is his explanations of storytelling techniques as though we were hypothetically unprepared for X's idea of 'creative genius.'
They somehow did it. They made the darker edgier modern re-imaginings of old tales from the 1990s-2000s look well considered and restrained by comparison to anything at all.
They have to do everything they can to try to be like Europeans, since they won’t go out in the real world and work. Dressing up, and acting like characters from an English story, that these people obviously hate to reimagine them as themselves must produce a crazy inferiority complex. They won’t make movies about minorities, myths and legends but demand minorities play white European characters based of Europeans mythology. 😂.
'Re-imagining' Another entry into the dictionary of mealy mouthed words. Words like: "Modern Audience", "Inclusion", "Progressive".. All fall under the umbrella of garbage.
inferiority complex is strong with western leftist. Imagine having to walk the earth, knowing that your ancient ancestors didn’t do nothing compared to what the English has and are still doing.
Love the bit where Mayor and John actually care about a protest of 5 people, pretty much all from the same family... Out of a building that holds a thousand or more people.
Im so glad the main character is a strong, stunning black female woman of color, who is also brave and strong, and dont forget independent and stunning.
Africans should be upset that Hollywood keeps on making them play as white European Characters. They can keep on playing dress-up and using white European stories as their backdrop. I would be highly embarrassed if I was a person of color and have to rely on European stories to “ Reimagine” since they can’t even imagine stories from non-Europeans
I will ask only two things ... Who wanted this? Who is this for? Thank you, Echo Chamberlain, for watching this so I will not have to waste my lifetime on it.
I'll be Reviewer _Sigh_ and that kick from ginger police person was absolute gold. Where she barely even lifts her leg and still sends the copper flying. (Perhaps she broke wind.) I cannot believe that you undersold that... brilliance.
I like that somebody in the ideas room had the train of thought of "Hey, you know Robin Hood? That story about a gang of thieves? They should be black!" and everybody clapped.
I thought Robin Hood was against high taxation of the population, which would have been a good contemporary theme. Or would the austerity following it cut too deeply in social programmes for Robyn and her crew? 😂
How was Robin Hood against high taxation? He took from the rich and gave to the poor. That’s why she wants to take the gold from the rich guy. If this show had any level of sophistication they might play on the theme that the middle class pays high taxes because the rich pay little or no taxes, but I doubt they even thought of that.
Robin, no matter what Version they cast him in. He will always be a white English European legend With all this diversity, they still have to use old European stories not a single one of them have any history of their ancestors, sad
“The kids are going to think this is so fire….that’s what the kids call cool nowadays right? Fire? Yeah it’s gonna be fire”. -Studio executives talking about producing this show, probably
I don't mean to compare various critics I frequent on YT, but let me say this -- in your video here, you've managed to lock down fundamental flaws, tropes, and nonsense in the show in a fraction of the time used elsewhere. I like my long form criticisms just fine, but this is really well done.
I don’t understand their fascination with European legends, mythology and stories, You’re telling me all these diverse, non-white people cannot come up with a story of their own culture or history? I feel extremely bad for them. They literally have nothing except for this to look forward to in their culture.
To be honest, I'm surprised by the fact of the sheriff being female- I wonder if it's a creative decision or just a way to show the antagonist as empowered and independent, only to later on team up with the protagonist to fight the "real enemy" which will surely be a white guy.
Fellow from Nottingham England here. Given the state of the real city of Nottingham, which used to be the gun crime capital of the UK and had worse crime statistics than central London, I used to joke that these days, the criminal elements of Nottingham were more like robbing hoods! I never thought a Canadian film studio would not only take my joke seriously, but make it the theme of a woke series so extreme, that honestly it's hard to tell if it's real or a parody! Five years ago, if some doom-sayer had looked at the 2016 Ghostbusters and the state of starwars and said: "soon, every western male hero from myth and culture will be a black lesbian!" I'd have thought they were at the least exaggerating, at the most perhaps being themselves a bit sexist or racist, (INSERT STANDARD DISCLAIMER ABOUT ORIGINAL NONE-WHITE OR FEMALE CHARACTERS). But look where we are now!
Social commentary done right is presenting the idea, then challenging the idea yourself with a question, then leave the idea open-ended for the audience to decide themselves which argument is more solid. But the characteristic of a despot mentality is to only have answers but none questions.
Isn't it interesting that in every promo image of "X" he looks exactly like Prince and not at all like Robyn? Apparently he's one of those "oppressed" rich black guys. This show is the epitome of what's wrong with Hollywood today. 🙄
Uh...no. "Director X" has about as much "authentic, lived experience" as a faux leather couch on sale at TJ Maxx. In between the shameless self-promotion photo shoots and inane Twitter ramblings about being a misunderstood genius, I can hear the lofty refrain of one of the hit musical numbers present in "CB4", wafting delicately through the aether... Song: "I'm black! I'm black! I'm blacker than black, and I'm black!" THAT is the most appropriate song track one could possibly choose for the talentless hacks of the race-hustling minority mindset, of which "Director X" is, at best, the usual mediocre example. 🤷♂️
9:00 The writers gave sheriff lady a shocking dark secret - she's really a 9-tentacled Cthulian horror, and that's how she's so efficient at her job and can afford to spend time in the middle of day subjecting her desk to an OCD-style arrangement ritual. Can't wait for that setup to get paid off!
Back in the day Costner's California accent was all we 'kids' needed for the movie to be *updated for modern sensibilities*. And we were happy with it. I'm kidding, it was a major distraction. But otherwise the movie was pretty entertaining.
I appreciate your channel. I found you through Little Platoon and think you both fill a niche the internet absolutely needs. Intellectual and objective critique, keep it up
So... It's come to this... I'm not sure what Hollywood has against redheads, but for the past ten years or so they've been elliminating iconic redheaded characters by changing their race and hair color, and now a female redhead is the arch villain. Merida from Brave is very, very nervous. She knows she's next on the chopping block.
Now that we've made it to the apartment tower and are safe let's all go to the balcony so the police can use a drone and see what apartment we're in. Genius.
Nicely done. You confused me a bit with all those sophisticated cinema terms, but everything worked out in the end. Robyn Hood was roasted with just the right amount of withering sarcasm. And only a week before Thanksgiving! Sadly this turkey comes from my country. It's a cheap series done to fulfill government legislated Canadian content requirements. Chorus Entertainment owns a bunch of broadcast TV and cable channels, and makes a good living repackaging mostly American entertainment for local audiences. But the government says that big companies like Chorus have to spend a certain amount of their budget on locally made productions, hence this show. No one expects Canadian shows to have an audience, not even in Canada. So you get stuff like Robyn.
Opening bars to Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" are ringing in my head 😂 Thanks for sticking in there until the end of the episode, Echo, while the trauma of Arse-oka is still fresh in your mind 👏
Honestly this show would of always been trash imo, but where it tries to force the Robin Hood bits is the worst. The Sherif has a gun and suddenly people are fighting with bows and swords. While every one ignored the threat of the gun, the bow is so powerful no one moves. Never mind the fact those gold coins are likely near impossible to fence and even if they did how would Robyn's family explain the sudden influx of wealth? Given it was to be used to pay for a lawyer in a court case against the cops, people would notice money turning up from no where right after a high value item was stolen.
When the sheriff kicked one of her own guys in the thigh and sent him flying I nearly died from laughter, truly amazing stuff Also the guy who is their “tech guy” at one point is questioned about his robe he is wearing and he responds with “it’s anti facial recognition tech” yet he’s wearing it on his body.
And here I thought "business mogul wants to evict innocent residents for profit and is this revealed as the bad guy" had been played out by the 1990s. Or, no, I'm underthinking it - it must be a case of "what is old is new again", with that story beat having been played out for so long that it is ready to be fresh again for a new generation. Yeah, that's the ticket! Nailed it!
lol 'Robin Hood' tried to do a version of Cristobal Tapia de Veer's recurring audio motif in 'Utopia', but did it in a hacky way that highlights the chasm of creative ability between the two projects.
This show and so many like them remind me of that Emo Kid parody song...."You'd be non-conforming too, if you looked just like me." If the average 45 year old white dude knows exactly what you are going to do (and they do) in your "groundbreaking and fresh modern take" on a classic story maybe you aren't breaking ground, maybe you are just piling up dirt.
It's extra cringey because it would have been the kind of Fantasy I might have written as a pre-teen (If I were a Marxist). I'm Cringing for having childish fantasies as a child, and for the writer who produced this , and for the actors who participated in it. Cringe has become a high art it seems, they missed no opportunities.
@funkrobot9762 look up Fabian socialism and it's connections to Marxism and propaganda induced population control through use of the destruction of the patriarchal family relationship. You asked don't remain ignorant. If you can't make the connections between money, people, and ideology no one can help you.😂
Who wants to go watch a bunch of no culture or history having minorities dress up and reenact white Europeans legends It truly shows how desperately they want to be white and hate it that they’re not
For some reason Marxists really hate ginger people. Gingers are true minorities, the rarest and most beautiful type of person on earth. For some reason, they are often used to depict villains, especially in older works. There seemed to be a period recently where gingers were depicted as normal people and were used often in television and print ads because of their rarity. Now apparently, red heads are the symbol for ultimate whiteness. The grand wizards of the Caucasian menace. Their ranks as titular characters, supporting roles and roles as human beings with complexity must be completely purged for the sake of "diversity" Oh well. Gingers had a good run there for a minute. It's time to start burning them as witches again I guess.
The glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel I see is this. Works like Netflix's "Arcane" demonstrate that audiences will full-throatedly cheer stories full of strong and diverse characters of various sexes and sexualities if those characters have depth, complexity, and flaws. Similarly, "One Piece" demonstrates that an audience with low expectations *will* come around and give something they expect to disappoint a chance, and celebrate if their expectations are overturned for the better. Eventually, maybe creators of things like "Robyn Hood" (and many others) might have to face up to the possibility that if the audience sneers at their work, it may not be prejudice, but their failure to create something of worth.
Robin Hood was a character of peasant folklore, updated and gentrified through the centuries. What's interesting about 'Robyn Hood' is that it arrives already gentrified, with a commodified vision of the poor, and reliance on lazy racism and bias. Jada Smith might have written or produced this sort of schlock.
It's not that new of a thing. I mean when I was a kid there was that Romeo and Julet movie set in modern times. American McGee re-imagines Alice in Wonderland for his video game series. Lots of things like that.
Robin Hood doesn't "need to be reimagined" on screen because there hasn't been a straight film about Robin Hood since the Disney film, and even that was different in that it made them animals.
Sturgeon’s Law: “90% of everything is crud” If only the percentage of crud was that low for modern Hollywood, there might be a reason to watch something.
What might be a gripe I have that only exacerbates the sheer obliviousness that was behind the inspiration of the show in general is that it would have been so much more, dare I say “original”, or at least clever, and certainly more in line with the portrayed narrative, if they called the show “Robyn’s Hood”. Being that it works as a double play on both the name of her rap group/gang and ss a reference to the neighborhood she and her people inhabit. But, no…they had to be all “on the nose” with their naming conventions. Figures.🙄
This looks like a community college theater production.
Men in Tights was underrated.
People call me Little John, but as you can see, In Real Life, IM Very Big!
Dave Chappelle as ACHOO was hilarious 😂
Creativity is dead in Hollywood. RIP 🪦
I think I have a way to save it....
Black...
Female...
Lead.
(pause for applause)
@@TS-qr3rk Ahh, the infinite pause.
@@TS-qr3rkNuh-uh. This is what is required to save it:
Black...
Female..
LESBIAN...
Lead.
This is all Canadian brother.. including the writer.. Hollywood should get a pass this time..😆
@@Wildjason888 Interesting! Thanks for the info! So, the cancer has spread.
"How can we make Robin Hood and his band of THIEVES more modern?"
"I know! We can make him and all of his THIEVES black!"
"...dammit, that's GENIUS!"
Edit: Wait, this was created by a BLACK GUY??
Robbing from the rich, to buy drugs from the poor.
But they're stealing from the 1% (probably) so that's ok.
Blacks are not known for forward thinking.
Yes. A "creative" known more for making music videos than actual riveting cinema. He's had three films under his belt that seriously underperformed and never made back it's production costs.
@@ericfrancisco6615 Huh, it says 4 replies but I only see yours
😂🤣 the way he dragged this show , in such a sophisticated , polite way 😅
Yet still managed to call it "dog shit" on his way out. Most impressive.😊
Just as hilarious for me, is his explanations of storytelling techniques as though we were hypothetically unprepared for X's idea of 'creative genius.'
They somehow did it. They made the darker edgier modern re-imaginings of old tales from the 1990s-2000s look well considered and restrained by comparison to anything at all.
Hollywood: “Stunning & Brave!”
Us: “Ho & Hum” 🤢 🤮
Didn't know they still had money to burn on nonsense like this.
BlackRock and Vanguard investors in cahoots with WEF and the Federal Reserve baaayybeeeeeee! LESS GOOOO! WOOOOOOH!
They have to do everything they can to try to be like Europeans, since they won’t go out in the real world and work.
Dressing up, and acting like characters from an English story, that these people obviously hate to reimagine them as themselves must produce a crazy inferiority complex.
They won’t make movies about minorities, myths and legends but demand minorities play white European characters based of Europeans mythology. 😂.
I love how the lady who partnered in to make this works for a company called Original Content.
This plays like it was a skit on SNL and someone in the writers room exclaimed “Wow, we’ve really got something here!”
This is beyond ridiculous.
1998 wants it's "edgy and clever reimagining" of a classic tale back.
'Re-imagining' Another entry into the dictionary of mealy mouthed words. Words like: "Modern Audience", "Inclusion", "Progressive".. All fall under the umbrella of garbage.
Don't forget, "Authenticity"
"Empowering"
And "Woke" - don't leave that one out 🤣
The appropriation of England's culture continues unabated.
inferiority complex is strong with western leftist.
Imagine having to walk the earth, knowing that your ancient ancestors didn’t do nothing compared to what the English has and are still doing.
Love the bit where Mayor and John actually care about a protest of 5 people, pretty much all from the same family... Out of a building that holds a thousand or more people.
Im so glad the main character is a strong, stunning black female woman of color, who is also brave and strong, and dont forget independent and stunning.
Africans should be upset that Hollywood keeps on making them play as white European Characters.
They can keep on playing dress-up and using white European stories as their backdrop. I would be highly embarrassed if I was a person of color and have to rely on European stories to “ Reimagine” since they can’t even imagine stories from non-Europeans
I will ask only two things ...
Who wanted this?
Who is this for?
Thank you, Echo Chamberlain, for watching this so I will not have to waste my lifetime on it.
I'll be Reviewer _Sigh_ and that kick from ginger police person was absolute gold. Where she barely even lifts her leg and still sends the copper flying. (Perhaps she broke wind.)
I cannot believe that you undersold that... brilliance.
I like that somebody in the ideas room had the train of thought of "Hey, you know Robin Hood? That story about a gang of thieves? They should be black!" and everybody clapped.
Bryan Adams would NOT sing to this movie!
bravo
No movie should want Bryan Adams to sing to it.
This would be Sam Smith territory
Lol
I thought Robin Hood was against high taxation of the population, which would have been a good contemporary theme. Or would the austerity following it cut too deeply in social programmes for Robyn and her crew? 😂
Well, wokism deals with made-up problems, not with real ones. ;) You might even call it a huge distraction.
Greetings from Germany
Black liberals against high taxation?😂😂😂😂
How was Robin Hood against high taxation? He took from the rich and gave to the poor. That’s why she wants to take the gold from the rich guy. If this show had any level of sophistication they might play on the theme that the middle class pays high taxes because the rich pay little or no taxes, but I doubt they even thought of that.
No one cares about politics, not this woke garbage, nor your weird right wing political views.
Robyn Hood & her Mary Sue Minions, Freya Tuck, Li’l Joan, and Shield-Maiden Marion.
And the costuming for Freya Tuck can be done by Target.
@@user-ck9wv5cw8y Excellent! I see what you did there. So funny! 😜😂🤣
Imagine actually believing that a black female protag is in any way new, fresh or original.
No kidding. Groundbreaking would be an old, white male virtuous and heroic protagonist in 2023
Kinda like how Disney would advertise their first gay character ... for the sixth or seventh time.
Or desired!
DIRECTOR X DUMDEST DIRECTOR EVER.
Imagining a black female, in any role is Beyond belief, totally immersion, breaking.
"Robin is, in this version, a rapper/activist."
...Where's Jlongbone when you need her?
Robin, no matter what Version they cast him in. He will always be a white English European legend
With all this diversity, they still have to use old European stories not a single one of them have any history of their ancestors, sad
@@19ate4 You could say that Activist Rapper Robin Hood might as well be an act of colonialization.
“Now director X, he’s no slouch when it comes to dramatic tension and emphasis”.
The photo you selected is priceless.
“The kids are going to think this is so fire….that’s what the kids call cool nowadays right? Fire? Yeah it’s gonna be fire”.
-Studio executives talking about producing this show, probably
more like nifty or neato, these people are so out of touch
How do you do, fellow kids?
It's all intentional, never by mistake
Using terms one is unsure of the meaning is tight 😅
@@balthazarasquith making fun of these people is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
If you try to compare this show to a natural calamity, it would be a cringe tsunami.
I'm adding "cringe tsunami" to my vocabulary
I don't mean to compare various critics I frequent on YT, but let me say this -- in your video here, you've managed to lock down fundamental flaws, tropes, and nonsense in the show in a fraction of the time used elsewhere. I like my long form criticisms just fine, but this is really well done.
I don’t understand their fascination with European legends, mythology and stories,
You’re telling me all these diverse, non-white people cannot come up with a story of their own culture or history?
I feel extremely bad for them. They literally have nothing except for this to look forward to in their culture.
Most can only do "anti woke rage".
This is a CLASSY takedown.
the writing in these analyses is absolute poetry -- why am I not surprised that Echo reads Dostoyevsky?
More like Solzhenitsyn I'd risk to bet
In most European countries, Dostoevsky, specifically Crime and Punishment, is school reading.
It's pretty clear from these videos that Echo Chamberlain has an extensive education and an interest in the arts.
Y'all know he's an author, right?
@@JavierSalcedoCall the literature
To be honest, I'm surprised by the fact of the sheriff being female- I wonder if it's a creative decision or just a way to show the antagonist as empowered and independent, only to later on team up with the protagonist to fight the "real enemy" which will surely be a white guy.
White women have more social power than anyone else in America (I assume Canada is similar), but I doubt the show is aware enough to know it.
THAT'S A WOMAN?????
I've got bigger tits and I'm under weight!!!!!!!
Fellow from Nottingham England here.
Given the state of the real city of Nottingham, which used to be the gun crime capital of the UK and had worse crime statistics than central London, I used to joke that these days, the criminal elements of Nottingham were more like robbing hoods!
I never thought a Canadian film studio would not only take my joke seriously, but make it the theme of a woke series so extreme, that honestly it's hard to tell if it's real or a parody!
Five years ago, if some doom-sayer had looked at the 2016 Ghostbusters and the state of starwars and said:
"soon, every western male hero from myth and culture will be a black lesbian!" I'd have thought they were at the least exaggerating, at the most perhaps being themselves a bit sexist or racist, (INSERT STANDARD DISCLAIMER ABOUT ORIGINAL NONE-WHITE OR FEMALE CHARACTERS).
But look where we are now!
Finally got the memo eh?
Underrated comment
@@StonyStevenson75Better late than never, I guess.
@@potman4581 Concurred.
On behalf of Canada, we sincerely apologize for our film industry being just as woke and full of cringe like our American contemporaries.
Thank you for plodding thru this nonsense, cash-grab, ego-trip for us.
If you want to see a cheap, Canadian Robin Hood-type story done right, watch Trailer Park Boys. You're welcome.
I wish I could upvote you fifty times
🤣🤣🤣
Rocket Robin Hood was much better than this.
Based
@@vania1917 I have very fond memory of RRH.. cheap animation but it was goofy as hell and fun
Social commentary done right is presenting the idea, then challenging the idea yourself with a question, then leave the idea open-ended for the audience to decide themselves which argument is more solid.
But the characteristic of a despot mentality is to only have answers but none questions.
Correction: Wakanda Forever features TWO stunning and brave teenage girl technology geniuses!
Isn't it interesting that in every promo image of "X" he looks exactly like Prince and not at all like Robyn? Apparently he's one of those "oppressed" rich black guys. This show is the epitome of what's wrong with Hollywood today. 🙄
If the IMDB scores are anything to go off of I think the vast majority of people have seen through and rejected this filth.
It’s painful anyone can predict this type of shows so accurately now
Uh...no. "Director X" has about as much "authentic, lived experience" as a faux leather couch on sale at TJ Maxx. In between the shameless self-promotion photo shoots and inane Twitter ramblings about being a misunderstood genius, I can hear the lofty refrain of one of the hit musical numbers present in "CB4", wafting delicately through the aether...
Song: "I'm black! I'm black! I'm blacker than black, and I'm black!"
THAT is the most appropriate song track one could possibly choose for the talentless hacks of the race-hustling minority mindset, of which "Director X" is, at best, the usual mediocre example. 🤷♂️
+15 for CB4 reference.... "....cause we're straight oughta Lowcash...."
He's blackitty black....lol.
I'm just waiting for a post on the Internet that tells me this is the most watched show in the world this week
The only thing which saves me from having heart attack from embarrassment while watching this video, is the perfect Echo's monologue.
9:00 The writers gave sheriff lady a shocking dark secret - she's really a 9-tentacled Cthulian horror, and that's how she's so efficient at her job and can afford to spend time in the middle of day subjecting her desk to an OCD-style arrangement ritual. Can't wait for that setup to get paid off!
I can tell you are a lover of Lovecraftian classics. 😉 👍 🐙
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Errol Flynn's Robin Hood and Costner's prince of Thieves are still the best two adaptions of the story. Disney's Robin Hood is also a lot of fun.
Costner's Prince of Thieves is worth watching only because of Alan Rickman's brilliant performance.
Back in the day Costner's California accent was all we 'kids' needed for the movie to be *updated for modern sensibilities*. And we were happy with it.
I'm kidding, it was a major distraction. But otherwise the movie was pretty entertaining.
Let's not forget Mel Broooks Robin Hood Men in Tights, it's a classic parody.
Best one was the 2010 with Russel Crowe.
@@user-rv4wn5qk7q In my opinion, this one was not good at all. Typical deconstruction done according to a checklist.
It should also be noticed that the "villain" does nothing illegal while the "heroes" are indeed criminals.
X: “I believe so strongly in this feminist project that I am going to have my junk cut off! This will be featured in my next documentary.”
I appreciate your channel. I found you through Little Platoon and think you both fill a niche the internet absolutely needs. Intellectual and objective critique, keep it up
Don't forget humorous😂😅❤
My six year old nephew would have done a much better job of writing this show.
So... It's come to this... I'm not sure what Hollywood has against redheads, but for the past ten years or so they've been elliminating iconic redheaded characters by changing their race and hair color, and now a female redhead is the arch villain. Merida from Brave is very, very nervous. She knows she's next on the chopping block.
"As Reviewer Y...." that is your new pseudonym
This show would’ve been right at home in 1992.
I miss the boondocks
Now that we've made it to the apartment tower and are safe let's all go to the balcony so the police can use a drone and see what apartment we're in. Genius.
rewriting culture is a precursor to rewriting history
everyone: how low can they go?
director x: hold my ginger beer
They can’t go any lower because their ancient ancestors have no stories to tell so they have to use white Europeans myths to reimagine. Sad
“It needs a swell of intense music” Christ……..
I'd love to see a panel with you, The Drinker, Doomcock, and Razorfist on movies/TV shows...I think it would kill
Being from Canada this is on course for media within last 10 at least. X as a music director is legend in Toronto but this show has tubi vibes imo
I never thought thieves in this show would use neon lights to stealthy do thievery in the dark of the night...brilliant, Director X, brilliant!
Nicely done. You confused me a bit with all those sophisticated cinema terms, but everything worked out in the end. Robyn Hood was roasted with just the right amount of withering sarcasm. And only a week before Thanksgiving!
Sadly this turkey comes from my country. It's a cheap series done to fulfill government legislated Canadian content requirements. Chorus Entertainment owns a bunch of broadcast TV and cable channels, and makes a good living repackaging mostly American entertainment for local audiences. But the government says that big companies like Chorus have to spend a certain amount of their budget on locally made productions, hence this show.
No one expects Canadian shows to have an audience, not even in Canada. So you get stuff like Robyn.
Canada has loads of woke garbage. Like the dog series Hudson & Rex where the dog is a retard and everyone is black in Newfoundland.
Opening bars to Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" are ringing in my head 😂
Thanks for sticking in there until the end of the episode, Echo, while the trauma of Arse-oka is still fresh in your mind 👏
Honestly this show would of always been trash imo, but where it tries to force the Robin Hood bits is the worst. The Sherif has a gun and suddenly people are fighting with bows and swords. While every one ignored the threat of the gun, the bow is so powerful no one moves. Never mind the fact those gold coins are likely near impossible to fence and even if they did how would Robyn's family explain the sudden influx of wealth? Given it was to be used to pay for a lawyer in a court case against the cops, people would notice money turning up from no where right after a high value item was stolen.
This is just the Hood with no Robin in sight.
Honestly, a cyberpunk show would've been a fantastic series to make.
Let us not forget the young female technological genius also in Black Panther as T'Challa's sister.
When the sheriff kicked one of her own guys in the thigh and sent him flying I nearly died from laughter, truly amazing stuff
Also the guy who is their “tech guy” at one point is questioned about his robe he is wearing and he responds with “it’s anti facial recognition tech” yet he’s wearing it on his body.
Wakanda Forever featured TWO
Panther AND Iron-gyal
Probably calls himself that to protect his identity from someone.
And here I thought "business mogul wants to evict innocent residents for profit and is this revealed as the bad guy" had been played out by the 1990s. Or, no, I'm underthinking it - it must be a case of "what is old is new again", with that story beat having been played out for so long that it is ready to be fresh again for a new generation. Yeah, that's the ticket! Nailed it!
"Reimagination" means "disrespectful bastardization".
I didn't know I needed to Subscribe, and like this Channel but I'm glad I did.
Maid Marian and her Merry Men was a far superior 'reimagining' and honestly that contained many 'woke tropes' but it was actually entertaining.
appreciate you echo
Hilarious. Thank you for this.
lol 'Robin Hood' tried to do a version of Cristobal Tapia de Veer's recurring audio motif in 'Utopia', but did it in a hacky way that highlights the chasm of creative ability between the two projects.
"Modern Audience" should be in quotes in the title, too
I low-key thought the first 2 minutes of the video were joking
This show and so many like them remind me of that Emo Kid parody song...."You'd be non-conforming too, if you looked just like me." If the average 45 year old white dude knows exactly what you are going to do (and they do) in your "groundbreaking and fresh modern take" on a classic story maybe you aren't breaking ground, maybe you are just piling up dirt.
Honestly, this is so on the nose and ridiculous that, if it was made with any kind of self-awareness, it would be amazing.
_Reviewer Y_
I came so close to snorting coffee across my keyboard when I heard that...
well, I wish all the merry men and women responsible for this show good luck in finding new careers.
entertainment clealy wasn't for them.
Of for f@ck sake. How have we ended up here.
It's extra cringey because it would have been the kind of Fantasy I might have written as a pre-teen (If I were a Marxist). I'm Cringing for having childish fantasies as a child, and for the writer who produced this , and for the actors who participated in it.
Cringe has become a high art it seems, they missed no opportunities.
What does Marxism have to do with anything?
@@funkrobot9762 Woke=Marxism- same thing.
@@funkrobot9762 -- Pitting groups against each other. It's more neo-Marxism than anything.
@funkrobot9762 look up Fabian socialism and it's connections to Marxism and propaganda induced population control through use of the destruction of the patriarchal family relationship. You asked don't remain ignorant. If you can't make the connections between money, people, and ideology no one can help you.😂
Who wants to go watch a bunch of no culture or history having minorities dress up and reenact white Europeans legends
It truly shows how desperately they want to be white and hate it that they’re not
You are way too lenient.
For some reason Marxists really hate ginger people. Gingers are true minorities, the rarest and most beautiful type of person on earth. For some reason, they are often used to depict villains, especially in older works. There seemed to be a period recently where gingers were depicted as normal people and were used often in television and print ads because of their rarity. Now apparently, red heads are the symbol for ultimate whiteness. The grand wizards of the Caucasian menace. Their ranks as titular characters, supporting roles and roles as human beings with complexity must be completely purged for the sake of "diversity" Oh well. Gingers had a good run there for a minute. It's time to start burning them as witches again I guess.
But is it "Reviewer Y" or "Reviewer, why?"
The glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel I see is this. Works like Netflix's "Arcane" demonstrate that audiences will full-throatedly cheer stories full of strong and diverse characters of various sexes and sexualities if those characters have depth, complexity, and flaws. Similarly, "One Piece" demonstrates that an audience with low expectations *will* come around and give something they expect to disappoint a chance, and celebrate if their expectations are overturned for the better. Eventually, maybe creators of things like "Robyn Hood" (and many others) might have to face up to the possibility that if the audience sneers at their work, it may not be prejudice, but their failure to create something of worth.
No men in tights? this isn't Robin Hood in my book.
Robin Hood was a character of peasant folklore, updated and gentrified through the centuries. What's interesting about 'Robyn Hood' is that it arrives already gentrified, with a commodified vision of the poor, and reliance on lazy racism and bias. Jada Smith might have written or produced this sort of schlock.
It's not that new of a thing. I mean when I was a kid there was that Romeo and Julet movie set in modern times. American McGee re-imagines Alice in Wonderland for his video game series. Lots of things like that.
Robin Hood doesn't "need to be reimagined" on screen because there hasn't been a straight film about Robin Hood since the Disney film, and even that was different in that it made them animals.
He didn't document the plague of craque but he must have been smoking it.
Sturgeon’s Law: “90% of everything is crud”
If only the percentage of crud was that low for modern Hollywood, there might be a reason to watch something.
I think the.... "Music" exists because X Director watched Squid Games once, saw it was popular and probably... "composed" it himself.
What might be a gripe I have that only exacerbates the sheer obliviousness that was behind the inspiration of the show in general is that it would have been so much more, dare I say “original”, or at least clever, and certainly more in line with the portrayed narrative, if they called the show “Robyn’s Hood”. Being that it works as a double play on both the name of her rap group/gang and ss a reference to the neighborhood she and her people inhabit. But, no…they had to be all “on the nose” with their naming conventions. Figures.🙄
Caricatures creating caricatures.
I can't wait to see the new Shaka Zulu movie starring Emilia Clark
If HBO had produced this concept I’d watch it 😂
I honestly never heard of this movie until now
tbf its a low budget Canadian CW-equivalent show. And it might actually be mocking black people on purpose.
It is a show i believe
What makes me laugh is that a Sheriff in England is a tax collector. Nothing more.
That chick wouldn't even be able to _draw_ the bow!
Perhaps if we Canadians return to our CBC roots? Bring back “Seeing Things” staring Louis Del Grande. Now that was funny stuff!