Nice one, one of the "faces" of Robin Hood shown on the monitor was Patrick Troughton who played Robin Hood on TV and then went on to be the second Doctor.
This... This was my first episode of Doctor Who. Our english teacher played it for us back when the eight season was airing and I like this so much I decided to watch the whole show. So to me, this one is rather special.
"WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT DOCTOR?!?" is an homage to the line attributed to King Henry II about Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, "will no one rid me of this turbulent (sometimes meddlesome) priest."
I love this episode. I love that the show can have fun, can be serious, can make you sad and happy in quick succession. It also has two of my favorite monologues from the show at the end with "History is a burden. Stories can make us fly," and "if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name." The Capaldi seasons have so many good ones. Also the next episode is one of my favorites of the entire show.
As someone who likes this episode's humor, I'm very pleased to see you embrace it as well. The Doctor /Robin feud reminds me a lot of the type of humor in Black Adder, which I love. There's a few silly bits, but this is a fun change of pace episode.
I know this episode isn't all that popular, but I really enjoy it. It's not a deep or original episode by any means, but it's ridiculous amounts of fun, and easily Mark Gatiss' best episode for the show. There is this sense that the episode was written for Matt Smith, but I feel it works much better with Peter Capaldi, since his sardonic and serious demeanour is the perfect contrast for the boisterous heroics of Robin and his Merry Men, and the episode gets a great deal of comedic mileage out of Twelve's cynicism and refusal to play along with the silliness of it. The script provides him with loads of hilarious one-liners and put-downs ("do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?"), and his banter with Robin is loads of fun. Speaking of which, Tom Riley's turn as Robin Hood is loads of fun, he's clearly having a blast aping that old Errol Flynn-esque character and he truly sells the heroic bravado as well as these rare moments of emotional vulnerability, and that final scene between the two is just perfect. Much like the previous episodes, Clara gets some good stuff to work with too, acting as childminder to both the Doctor and Robin, and holding her own in her confrontation with the Sheriff, a brilliant panto villain brought to life excellently by Ben Miller. The robots are an impressively designed menace, the action scenes are fun and exciting, and Murray Gold is clearly having loads of fun with the bold heroic soundtrack that he's composed for the episode. And that's the key word really, fun. While other episodes are arguably more significant, and better written, and tackle much more impactful ideas and themes, sometimes you just need an episode that you can have an absolute blast with, and leave 45 minutes later feeling really good, and "Robot of Sherwood" is just the kind of story to fit that bill
I generally like this episode with it's fun tone and banter. Even it's silly resolution with the golden arrow is a little more digestible than the Doctor's torch run in "Fear Her." After the heavier episodes prior to it, I appreciated its (mostly) lighthearted direction.
Ben Miller (The Sheriff) usually plays a transplanted British Policeman in the Caribbean in 'Death in Paradise' but was also with a group fighting time-travelling Dinosaurs in 'Primeval'.
I loved the episode too. The fun, the swordfighting (which I love)... Clara in this was impossibly cute! Specially in the "Will you two SHUT UP??!!" part...
Fun fact: On the day this aired I had spent the entire day in Sherwood Forest - pure coincidence! I live in Nottingham and often visit Robin Hood’s home.
This ep gets a lot of fan flak but for some reason those reacting to a reaction all seem to love it. I’ve always loved it, 12 at maximum grouch! Ha ha! Also check out Ben Miller (the Sheriff) and his comedy partner Alexander Armstrong (Madge Arwell’s husband) in their RAF WW2 pilots sketches - standard isn’t it or some shit like that!
This is actually my favorite episode of this season and one of my favorite Capaldi episodes/stories. This is also when Peter Capaldi became the Doctor for me. And I'm not even a girl.:-)
As I mentioned on Patreon, one of my fave bits of trivia from this story is that it has Ian Hallard in a small(ish) role as Alan-a-Dale. The trivia part of that? He's Mark Gatiss's longtime husband.
Paula knows 😉 Everything in this episode made it special & the character work was brilliant! I’m a 36 year old & know my Who! I’m happy you liked this one 👍🏻❤️
Fun fact: this episode was originally written with Matt Smith as The Doctor in mind, but I think the juxtaposition between Robin Hood's laughing banter and 12's grouchiness works perfectly. Not so fun fact: the ending of this episode originally had the Sheriff beheaded (possibly revealed to be a robot himself if I remember correctly) but they had to change it last minute after an actual beheading happened in the UK earlier in the week.
Not in the UK, but Daesh/ISIS beheaded two journalists just a few days before it was broadcast., and the beeb understandably decided that having a prime time show treating a beheading fairly lightly seemed in bad taste. It's kind of a shame the original edit was never made available. Establishing that one of the central characters from the Robin Hood legend WAS a robot does help explain why 12 continues to question whether Robin is real right to the end, and IMO would add more weight to Robin's speech about pretending to be heroes. Also, dropping a robot Sheriff in molten metal seems like it might be have been intended as a Terminator 2 homage. :)
a lot of people dont like this episode, but i think it perfectly accomplished the sort of comedy it was attempting, and was sort of a light hearted rest episode among many very serious stories
I loved this episode; it was so much fun. Space robots, but Paula said the arrow, with just enough gold was far fetched. Brilliant! Loved the reaction, G gals.👍👍
Look on the bright side. Even if people do comment on you not mentioning something, comments are good for the youtube algorithm. So, it's an overall plus.
One can tell that this episode was written with Matt Smith in mind, especially the banter in the dungeon and the homing arrow bit, but I love Capaldi's take here. He did wonderfully.
I like this episode too, sometimes it's ok to have a silly fun episode in your sci fi series (although I do like Love and Monsters too so maybe I just have bad taste lol). I recommend you both watch the BBC Robin Hood series starring Richard Armitage if you haven't already, I loved that show when I was a kid.
I think the reason why reactors seem to love this episode more than the audience did on airing is that reactors don't have the gap between Time of the Doctor and Deep Breath. Reactors have all those big important episodes back-to-back-to-back and this is the first just *fun* episode since the previous Mark Gatiss outing (coincidentally). We'd had that time to process a bit and Deep Breath came and asked a few questions and set up a few mysteries. We weren't ready to appreciate this episode for what it was.
if you like the Robin Hood fable you may well like UK TV series from 1980;s - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_of_Sherwood - a very enjoyable update of the classic (with a stunning soundtrack by Irish band Clannad)
If you have a chance, you two should check out Robin of Sherwood, a mid-eighties take, blending the historical stories with some Celtic mythos. It starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery
It's a wonderful show. I've got the DVDs and regularly rewatch. I was 15 in 1984 and we all were crushing on Michael Praed. Makes me laugh, makes me sob. And it's the reason for Morgan Freeman's character in Prince of Thieves.
@@Feena191 I was about 16 myself. Found the soundtrack album first, which lead me to the show on PBS. I absolutely fell in love with Clannad as a result.
Jaffa Cakes are from the UK and there is a dispute regarding whether they are biscuits or cakes. Pretty much like this episode, it's just as bad as Tennant meeting Shakespeare or Enid Blyton.
I didn't love this episode the first time around but every time I watch it back I like it more! I think maybe people were being extra skeptical at the beginning of this season because of the new doctor more so than the quality of the episode itself. And then there are always those who don't appreciate the sillier episodes of course, but that's a matter of taste.
I love your reactions to this! This episode feels like it could be a story that the ninth or tenth doctor could have dealt with in the best way. I think this is a nice feel-good episode that reminds me that Doctor Who, at its core, is supposed to be fantastical while maybe teaching you a few things throughout the journey.
Glad Paula and Katrina liked this one . The classic Errol Flynn movie was probably the original fantasy action movie and Robin Hood is a much filmed story . This was a nice balance with some good comedy and some super banter and dialogue . There were some excellent performances and Ben Miller made a good OTT. villain , liked it A lot .A nice break from the more serious episodes .
I'd say just the silly tone and that they make The Doctor too macho and chauvinistic when interacting with Robin Hood. It comes off as rather petty and jealous. You can give the hero flaws as long as it doesn't make them unlikeable.
Having just gone from a Robin Hood script read, this was a very fortuitous upload! And yes, I don't think the story gets enough credit. I thought it was beyond daft when I first watched it but once it dawned on me what the byline of the story was it was very, very good. And it's not like Doctor Who has had it's silly campy fun in the past so this was just top notch.
You know, I really did not like this episode. I had only watched it once before (while I have watched most others many times) because I thought it was too silly. However seeing it again through your eyes, I think I can appreciate it much more. It is still silly, but the message it has was great. Glad you liked it and glad I like it somewhat more now.
Neat bit of trivia, when The Doctor was going through the depictions of Robin Hood, one of those was a young Patrick Troughton, ie the second Doctor from Classic Who. He's my favorite Doctor, even now, a terrifying example of the wolf in sheeps clothing.
I adore this episode, and I'm so salty about it being divisive in the fandom. I liked Deep Breath but found it to be pretty dark and drab; a better Doctor introduction than it was an episode. And at the time I didn't like Into the Dalek at all. So in the intervening time between that and this one I found myself really desperate for a fun episode, and this delivered in spades. The next episode is also very good, and the two together made me very hype for Capaldi's tenure (beyond the precious cinnamon roll energy Peter Capaldi exudes already)
This is one of the few episodes I liked Clara in. She didn’t get in the way. Had some good lines. We went on the trip because of her but it was ultimately all about The Doctor
One of the Robin Hood images the Doctor shows is Patrick Troughton (2nd Doctor) who played the outlaw back in the 1950's. The show had some last minute editing - the Sheriff was actually the robot in the title, he was killed when the spaceship crashed and was rebuilt. Robin cuts his head off and the Sheriff puts it back on in front of the Doctor. This was too gruesome and around the time the Jihadists were executing people so it was... errr.... cut - the scene, I mean
Has Paula seen any of the “Doctor Who at the Proms” concerts? They are excellent and showcase just how young kids (as well as old ones) connect with the show.
Since you enjoyed this episode you might also like DC's Legends of Tomorrow. The first season had them try to take time travel somewhat serious but then they leaned in hard to the ridiculous and outrageous. Also enjoyed stories of Robin Hood including Disney's cartoon fox just like Paula. :-)
@@weirds0up But you are stifling the great debate - we cannot let something as important as Jaffa Cakes fall victim to cancel culture! I know the clue is in the name and I know where I stand on them (I don’t, I actually scarf them down at a rate of knots) but if the government was undecided there’s a conundrum to be discussed!
Trivia time, since Katrina knows we fans will provide. It is not entirely clear in the version of the episode that made it air but the Sheriff was a robot. Part of the fight with Robin Hood had Robin behead the Sheriff who then picked up his head and reattached it before continuing the fight. That bit wound up being removed because just before the episode first aired on the BBC a British soldier was beheaded by terrorists. The missing scene can be found online, but only because unfinished cuts of Capaldi's first few episodes wound up getting leaked online and the version of this episode that leaked still included the full scene. (The quality of those leaked episodes is pretty poor though, due to them being the unfinished cuts and what the source of the leak was).
Katrina, don’t you listen to them haters! I love all of who and I’m sure I could call people out if I wanted to! Got ya back girl 👍🏻 Paula, you are 100% not new to who, you know who now and I’m glad you love it! Anyways, let’s go girls! It’s Who time!! ❤️❤️
Yay for Jaffa Cakes, some of my favourites, unlike the episode unfortunately. Okay, I have to admit, the edited version seems a lot better than I remember. The banter between Robin and the Doctor with Clara playing referee was good.
Nice one, one of the "faces" of Robin Hood shown on the monitor was Patrick Troughton who played Robin Hood on TV and then went on to be the second Doctor.
"I am the Doctor.... and this is my spoon!" I adore how goofy this story is.
The gesture where he subtly gives the middle finger after saying "I am the Doctor" is so good. xD
The "not a hero" monologue at the end is one of my favorite moments in all of Who.
This... This was my first episode of Doctor Who. Our english teacher played it for us back when the eight season was airing and I like this so much I decided to watch the whole show. So to me, this one is rather special.
This was my first episode too.
"WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT DOCTOR?!?" is an homage to the line attributed to King Henry II about Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, "will no one rid me of this turbulent (sometimes meddlesome) priest."
"No. So I can knock up an ornamental plant stand" - Twelve
Everything about 'Robot Of Sherwood' is pure joy! 💙💙
I love this episode. I love that the show can have fun, can be serious, can make you sad and happy in quick succession. It also has two of my favorite monologues from the show at the end with "History is a burden. Stories can make us fly," and "if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name." The Capaldi seasons have so many good ones. Also the next episode is one of my favorites of the entire show.
As someone who likes this episode's humor, I'm very pleased to see you embrace it as well. The Doctor /Robin feud reminds me a lot of the type of humor in Black Adder, which I love. There's a few silly bits, but this is a fun change of pace episode.
I know this episode isn't all that popular, but I really enjoy it. It's not a deep or original episode by any means, but it's ridiculous amounts of fun, and easily Mark Gatiss' best episode for the show. There is this sense that the episode was written for Matt Smith, but I feel it works much better with Peter Capaldi, since his sardonic and serious demeanour is the perfect contrast for the boisterous heroics of Robin and his Merry Men, and the episode gets a great deal of comedic mileage out of Twelve's cynicism and refusal to play along with the silliness of it. The script provides him with loads of hilarious one-liners and put-downs ("do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?"), and his banter with Robin is loads of fun. Speaking of which, Tom Riley's turn as Robin Hood is loads of fun, he's clearly having a blast aping that old Errol Flynn-esque character and he truly sells the heroic bravado as well as these rare moments of emotional vulnerability, and that final scene between the two is just perfect. Much like the previous episodes, Clara gets some good stuff to work with too, acting as childminder to both the Doctor and Robin, and holding her own in her confrontation with the Sheriff, a brilliant panto villain brought to life excellently by Ben Miller. The robots are an impressively designed menace, the action scenes are fun and exciting, and Murray Gold is clearly having loads of fun with the bold heroic soundtrack that he's composed for the episode. And that's the key word really, fun. While other episodes are arguably more significant, and better written, and tackle much more impactful ideas and themes, sometimes you just need an episode that you can have an absolute blast with, and leave 45 minutes later feeling really good, and "Robot of Sherwood" is just the kind of story to fit that bill
I generally like this episode with it's fun tone and banter. Even it's silly resolution with the golden arrow is a little more digestible than the Doctor's torch run in "Fear Her." After the heavier episodes prior to it, I appreciated its (mostly) lighthearted direction.
"And he's gonna disguise himself as a stork." 🤣🤣🤣 Love the reference!
I can't understand how anyone could not like this episode. Its well-written and superbly acted and lots of fun which is what Doctor Who should be.
To take a line from the episode "The Next Doctor," I love when the show is "wonderful nonsense."
Ben Miller (The Sheriff) usually plays a transplanted British Policeman in the Caribbean in 'Death in Paradise' but was also with a group fighting time-travelling Dinosaurs in 'Primeval'.
I think this episode is so fun. I love Robin and the doctors bickering
I loved the episode too. The fun, the swordfighting (which I love)... Clara in this was impossibly cute! Specially in the "Will you two SHUT UP??!!" part...
Fun fact: On the day this aired I had spent the entire day in Sherwood Forest - pure coincidence! I live in Nottingham and often visit Robin Hood’s home.
So he WAS real! I KNEW IT!
This ep gets a lot of fan flak but for some reason those reacting to a reaction all seem to love it. I’ve always loved it, 12 at maximum grouch! Ha ha! Also check out Ben Miller (the Sheriff) and his comedy partner Alexander Armstrong (Madge Arwell’s husband) in their RAF WW2 pilots sketches - standard isn’t it or some shit like that!
Really??? I loved it. I thought it was great
Standard
@@robertwareham8466 Harsh.
@@gwinnellheald8592 I did too, but….
This is actually my favorite episode of this season and one of my favorite Capaldi episodes/stories. This is also when Peter Capaldi became the Doctor for me. And I'm not even a girl.:-)
That was the perfect reaction to a fun story that I've always loved! So glad you enjoyed it too :)
This episode has a strong vibe of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
PS! I really like this episode, Capaldi is brilliant with Robin Hood! 😊
Katrina and Paula both with their Stargate cakes...... Jaffa!
Indeed
As I mentioned on Patreon, one of my fave bits of trivia from this story is that it has Ian Hallard in a small(ish) role as Alan-a-Dale. The trivia part of that? He's Mark Gatiss's longtime husband.
Paula knows 😉 Everything in this episode made it special & the character work was brilliant! I’m a 36 year old & know my Who! I’m happy you liked this one 👍🏻❤️
This is definitely one of my favs of series 8, such a fun episode!
I always wondered where the Tardis kept their hair extensions because they did a great job with Clara LOL
Great reaction to a truly fun episode!
I was curious about what's next so I looked and wow this whole season is amazing!
Fun fact: this episode was originally written with Matt Smith as The Doctor in mind, but I think the juxtaposition between Robin Hood's laughing banter and 12's grouchiness works perfectly.
Not so fun fact: the ending of this episode originally had the Sheriff beheaded (possibly revealed to be a robot himself if I remember correctly) but they had to change it last minute after an actual beheading happened in the UK earlier in the week.
Not in the UK, but Daesh/ISIS beheaded two journalists just a few days before it was broadcast., and the beeb understandably decided that having a prime time show treating a beheading fairly lightly seemed in bad taste.
It's kind of a shame the original edit was never made available. Establishing that one of the central characters from the Robin Hood legend WAS a robot does help explain why 12 continues to question whether Robin is real right to the end, and IMO would add more weight to Robin's speech about pretending to be heroes.
Also, dropping a robot Sheriff in molten metal seems like it might be have been intended as a Terminator 2 homage. :)
a lot of people dont like this episode, but i think it perfectly accomplished the sort of comedy it was attempting, and was sort of a light hearted rest episode among many very serious stories
I'm a guy and i loved that episode! My favorite episode of this season is a call back to a short scene from an earlier episode!
I loved this episode; it was so much fun. Space robots, but Paula said the arrow, with just enough gold was far fetched. Brilliant! Loved the reaction, G gals.👍👍
"I'm in love with the Cartoon Fox Robin Hood"
My mind's expectations:
ruclips.net/video/zKy8CzX4TEU/видео.html
We are all stories in the end.
Look on the bright side. Even if people do comment on you not mentioning something, comments are good for the youtube algorithm. So, it's an overall plus.
One can tell that this episode was written with Matt Smith in mind, especially the banter in the dungeon and the homing arrow bit, but I love Capaldi's take here. He did wonderfully.
Clara shouting "shut up" in the prison cell reminded me of a Kindergarten Cop scene.
I like this episode too, sometimes it's ok to have a silly fun episode in your sci fi series (although I do like Love and Monsters too so maybe I just have bad taste lol). I recommend you both watch the BBC Robin Hood series starring Richard Armitage if you haven't already, I loved that show when I was a kid.
I think the reason why reactors seem to love this episode more than the audience did on airing is that reactors don't have the gap between Time of the Doctor and Deep Breath. Reactors have all those big important episodes back-to-back-to-back and this is the first just *fun* episode since the previous Mark Gatiss outing (coincidentally). We'd had that time to process a bit and Deep Breath came and asked a few questions and set up a few mysteries. We weren't ready to appreciate this episode for what it was.
very fun and often underrated. gatiss best i think. 8.5/10.
if you like the Robin Hood fable you may well like UK TV series from 1980;s - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_of_Sherwood - a very enjoyable update of the classic (with a stunning soundtrack by Irish band Clannad)
Oh gosh, it's Listen next! Easily among my all-time faves!
What a band of merry reactors!
If you have a chance, you two should check out Robin of Sherwood, a mid-eighties take, blending the historical stories with some Celtic mythos. It starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery
It's a wonderful show. I've got the DVDs and regularly rewatch. I was 15 in 1984 and we all were crushing on Michael Praed. Makes me laugh, makes me sob. And it's the reason for Morgan Freeman's character in Prince of Thieves.
@@Feena191 I was about 16 myself. Found the soundtrack album first, which lead me to the show on PBS. I absolutely fell in love with Clannad as a result.
I love that Paula mentioned how Robin is going to disguise himself as a stork to go to the contest. That was such a damn good movie.
Jaffa Cakes are from the UK and there is a dispute regarding whether they are biscuits or cakes. Pretty much like this episode, it's just as bad as Tennant meeting Shakespeare or Enid Blyton.
That's just a fun silly episode!
"Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!" - Worf.
Definitely an underrated episode for sure
Great reaction, I love everything about this episode, and next up is my 2nd favorite Doctor Who Episode of all time
Disney's Robin Hood is my fave Disney Animated movie!
I didn't love this episode the first time around but every time I watch it back I like it more! I think maybe people were being extra skeptical at the beginning of this season because of the new doctor more so than the quality of the episode itself. And then there are always those who don't appreciate the sillier episodes of course, but that's a matter of taste.
You too! At the beginning, that was bantering. I’m against bantering!
doctor who just 4 fun??? what a great idea!!!
Methinks the difference between a British and American reaction to this show is the particular English institution of pantomime.
The Doctor doesn't believe that Robin Hood is real only to find out how wrong he is
Katrina just casually mentioning she has a freaking bow and arrow in her room..!
I love your reactions to this! This episode feels like it could be a story that the ninth or tenth doctor could have dealt with in the best way. I think this is a nice feel-good episode that reminds me that Doctor Who, at its core, is supposed to be fantastical while maybe teaching you a few things throughout the journey.
Worf and 12 would completely get each other regarding Robin Hood related matters. "I am NOT a merry man!"
My favorite episode
I can't see the word Jaffa without thinking about Stargate.
Indeed...
Next stop, "Listen".
Glad Paula and Katrina liked this one . The classic Errol Flynn movie was probably the original fantasy action movie and Robin Hood is a much filmed story . This was a nice balance with some good comedy and some super banter and dialogue . There were some excellent performances and Ben Miller made a good OTT. villain , liked it A lot .A nice break from the more serious episodes .
"you call that a knife? THIS is a knife." -homer, thats not a knife, thats a spoon. "alright then, i see you've played knifey-spooney before, then"
I really fancy this episode, although I don’t get why the consensus of fans are turned off by the episode?
I'd say just the silly tone and that they make The Doctor too macho and chauvinistic when interacting with Robin Hood. It comes off as rather petty and jealous. You can give the hero flaws as long as it doesn't make them unlikeable.
Love from the UK!
P.s I literally live to consume Jaffa Cakes
People are crazy. This is the best episode of the season! How the heck does Clara look good in everything?
Answer: Genetics and a wardrobe department with a budget. :)
About a hundred years before the Renaissance period. I think.
How were the Jaffa Cakes?
Having just gone from a Robin Hood script read, this was a very fortuitous upload! And yes, I don't think the story gets enough credit. I thought it was beyond daft when I first watched it but once it dawned on me what the byline of the story was it was very, very good. And it's not like Doctor Who has had it's silly campy fun in the past so this was just top notch.
Awesome! All it needed was for Roger Miller to pop off. :D
Honestly a fun episode
7:09 wilhiem scream!
Patrick Troughton cameos in this episode, can you find him?
You know, I really did not like this episode. I had only watched it once before (while I have watched most others many times) because I thought it was too silly. However seeing it again through your eyes, I think I can appreciate it much more. It is still silly, but the message it has was great. Glad you liked it and glad I like it somewhat more now.
What's wrong with silly?
@@paulkennedy8701 Nothing if done well. Maybe ridiculous is a better word. But as I said I can appreciate this episode more now.
That was an incredibly professional intro for several seconds!
Out of curiosity, has anyone sent them Jelly Babies yet? That would be perfect for this show!
Neat bit of trivia, when The Doctor was going through the depictions of Robin Hood, one of those was a young Patrick Troughton, ie the second Doctor from Classic Who. He's my favorite Doctor, even now, a terrifying example of the wolf in sheeps clothing.
I adore this episode, and I'm so salty about it being divisive in the fandom. I liked Deep Breath but found it to be pretty dark and drab; a better Doctor introduction than it was an episode. And at the time I didn't like Into the Dalek at all. So in the intervening time between that and this one I found myself really desperate for a fun episode, and this delivered in spades. The next episode is also very good, and the two together made me very hype for Capaldi's tenure (beyond the precious cinnamon roll energy Peter Capaldi exudes already)
This is one of the few episodes I liked Clara in. She didn’t get in the way. Had some good lines. We went on the trip because of her but it was ultimately all about The Doctor
Sorry Katrina, gonna be one of those people. Robin Hood set in 12th century, the Rennaisance at least 200 years later.
Yes, but Renaissance Faires definitely are NOT set in (just) the Renaissance. :D
@@firefly24601 Of course. Sorry, not something we have in the UK.
One of the Robin Hood images the Doctor shows is Patrick Troughton (2nd Doctor) who played the outlaw back in the 1950's. The show had some last minute editing - the Sheriff was actually the robot in the title, he was killed when the spaceship crashed and was rebuilt. Robin cuts his head off and the Sheriff puts it back on in front of the Doctor. This was too gruesome and around the time the Jihadists were executing people so it was... errr.... cut - the scene, I mean
Has Paula seen any of the “Doctor Who at the Proms” concerts? They are excellent and showcase just how young kids (as well as old ones) connect with the show.
Since you enjoyed this episode you might also like DC's Legends of Tomorrow. The first season had them try to take time travel somewhat serious but then they leaned in hard to the ridiculous and outrageous.
Also enjoyed stories of Robin Hood including Disney's cartoon fox just like Paula. :-)
I found this episode very fillery but fun,cant wait for Ep 4 🔥
It is quite funny, but very on point with his character, that The Doctor, who’s met the actual devil… has trouble believing a human legend was real😂😂
Fun fact: this was the episode where Paula and Katrina both had Jaffa Cakes!
There should be a three hour discussion on whether it’s a biscuit or a cake!
@@weirds0up Plus they're literally called "cakes"
@@weirds0up But you are stifling the great debate - we cannot let something as important as Jaffa Cakes fall victim to cancel culture! I know the clue is in the name and I know where I stand on them (I don’t, I actually scarf them down at a rate of knots) but if the government was undecided there’s a conundrum to be discussed!
Yay
Trivia time, since Katrina knows we fans will provide. It is not entirely clear in the version of the episode that made it air but the Sheriff was a robot. Part of the fight with Robin Hood had Robin behead the Sheriff who then picked up his head and reattached it before continuing the fight. That bit wound up being removed because just before the episode first aired on the BBC a British soldier was beheaded by terrorists. The missing scene can be found online, but only because unfinished cuts of Capaldi's first few episodes wound up getting leaked online and the version of this episode that leaked still included the full scene. (The quality of those leaked episodes is pretty poor though, due to them being the unfinished cuts and what the source of the leak was).
I loved it 2
am i the only person who loves every episode and every doctor (that ive seen 1,9,10,11,12 and 13)and have never seen one i didn't enjoy?
Katrina, don’t you listen to them haters! I love all of who and I’m sure I could call people out if I wanted to! Got ya back girl 👍🏻 Paula, you are 100% not new to who, you know who now and I’m glad you love it! Anyways, let’s go girls! It’s Who time!! ❤️❤️
Yay for Jaffa Cakes, some of my favourites, unlike the episode unfortunately.
Okay, I have to admit, the edited version seems a lot better than I remember. The banter between Robin and the Doctor with Clara playing referee was good.
I love this episode...aside from the " shooting the ship with the golden arrow fixes it... jk, lol BOOM " ending
Do people not like this episode? Weird
Paula tried to stop herself from the TNG Robin Hood spoiler. Don't worry I am sure the Netflix thumbnail was going to spoil it.
as a lover of robin Hood shit, you should check out the British series Robin of Sherwood
ruclips.net/video/U3U1YkhwrOA/видео.html
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but anyone who dislikes this episode needs to be fought in a spoon on sword fight 🥄
Often times actors who can fire bows are instructed to do it that awful from the hip way as to not block their face from the camera.
Good job