Robin Hood
May. 2nd, 2012 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI need to watch a bunch more Robin Hood. I've only seen a couple of films. Might be easier to respin if I knew what I was spinning.
But: todays new ideas for the not-Green-Arrow character
So we've got modern protesters going back to the forests to run heritage centers or wilderness centers or whatever it was, and a rise in homelessness that's going to get pushed out of city centers because of policy and police. Pretty good setup for a new Sherwood community.
What we don't got exactly is the need for someone to run around shooting pointy sticks.
So I was thinking on martial arts movies, about how they're often about the moment one man meets the machine, the skill and training and elegance of martial arts meeting small boxes that throw lots of bits of metal very fast. Not being the guy with the gun has a lot of reasons. And there's a whole genre sets them up.
One of the ways that one man wins is being at one with his environment, so we've got the green angle if I want to play with it that way.
But his opponents, they're the ones with all the tech and none of the know how. No honor, no connections to other warriors, just mindless death boxes.
So we're talking arms dealers. Pre revelation Tony Stark. High tech spy stuff ala BUGS, or whatever more recent more popular things there are.
And Robin Hood is a weird mix of rebel and loyal, in the stories I know, so sure the true king is coming back but fighting the local bastards with everything he's got. How's that play in current politics? The comic book version thereof anyways.
It's somehow a lot harder to reimagine Britain in comic book style. All kinds of anything can happen in America. Well known fact. But Britain has to be kind of sort of plausible cause I'm so used to it.
Ignoring that though:
We need a Britain with a military industrial complex, a high tech spy system aimed at their own populace, and maybe private security such as we usually only see exported to war zones. Privatised police? Corporate security? Arms dealers, obviously. If we go full out alt verse we can do the Lumic thing and have corporations using the homeless for parts or targets, but once it's that bold it's hard to crank it back. Something a little closer to real? Or something that's fun to poke holes in with aforementioned pointy sticks?
I still can't get it out of my head that this new Hood dude is played by Jamie Bamber.
It's just so pretty once I've thought of it.
But I feel like apologising to the dude cause the whole soap opera thread makes the guy about a dozen different ways to fail as a father, and nobody wants to be the first thought for that guy.
But more thoughts on that direction: Intro to not-Red-Arrow/Will-Scarlett (to keep the color theme, not the character so much). Dude turns up and gets 'grandad' to babysit. Kids mother has enemies and he needs to know she'll be protected as he goes after them. So it's a bit soap, but a bit here's a problem now save the five year old damsel.
Also, the contest for the silver arrow, meant to smoke out the best archers in the land: I don't know precisely how to set it up. On the enemy land inside their security, as bait and trap both. Maybe a platinum arrow to update the value. I keep thinking of Arrowette doing the Olympics; why do other competitions if that's in your sights? But anyways, if it's set up, it's how to bring the other kids in. The ones who grew up just like dad in the skill set. Maybe just her though, don't know. So notGA goes in to steal or destroy something specific - which I find implausible because I think in terms of data and destroying data is not a bow and arrow job, or indeed much possible. BUT he goes in for specific hunt, and a lot of others are lured in, and they're doing the thing where they reckon he's the best archer so whoever wins they arrest. But it's the girl who wins. Who is very much not GA shaped. Only then they meet when they're both hunting the same thing. Follow in his footsteps. And there's a big fight where he thinks he's protecting her and she thinks she's protecting him.
Reckon it needs a few turns more before it's far enough away from DC to call quite interesting.
And, as I said, me to watch / read considerable more Robin Hood source.
But: todays new ideas for the not-Green-Arrow character
So we've got modern protesters going back to the forests to run heritage centers or wilderness centers or whatever it was, and a rise in homelessness that's going to get pushed out of city centers because of policy and police. Pretty good setup for a new Sherwood community.
What we don't got exactly is the need for someone to run around shooting pointy sticks.
So I was thinking on martial arts movies, about how they're often about the moment one man meets the machine, the skill and training and elegance of martial arts meeting small boxes that throw lots of bits of metal very fast. Not being the guy with the gun has a lot of reasons. And there's a whole genre sets them up.
One of the ways that one man wins is being at one with his environment, so we've got the green angle if I want to play with it that way.
But his opponents, they're the ones with all the tech and none of the know how. No honor, no connections to other warriors, just mindless death boxes.
So we're talking arms dealers. Pre revelation Tony Stark. High tech spy stuff ala BUGS, or whatever more recent more popular things there are.
And Robin Hood is a weird mix of rebel and loyal, in the stories I know, so sure the true king is coming back but fighting the local bastards with everything he's got. How's that play in current politics? The comic book version thereof anyways.
It's somehow a lot harder to reimagine Britain in comic book style. All kinds of anything can happen in America. Well known fact. But Britain has to be kind of sort of plausible cause I'm so used to it.
Ignoring that though:
We need a Britain with a military industrial complex, a high tech spy system aimed at their own populace, and maybe private security such as we usually only see exported to war zones. Privatised police? Corporate security? Arms dealers, obviously. If we go full out alt verse we can do the Lumic thing and have corporations using the homeless for parts or targets, but once it's that bold it's hard to crank it back. Something a little closer to real? Or something that's fun to poke holes in with aforementioned pointy sticks?
I still can't get it out of my head that this new Hood dude is played by Jamie Bamber.
It's just so pretty once I've thought of it.
But I feel like apologising to the dude cause the whole soap opera thread makes the guy about a dozen different ways to fail as a father, and nobody wants to be the first thought for that guy.
But more thoughts on that direction: Intro to not-Red-Arrow/Will-Scarlett (to keep the color theme, not the character so much). Dude turns up and gets 'grandad' to babysit. Kids mother has enemies and he needs to know she'll be protected as he goes after them. So it's a bit soap, but a bit here's a problem now save the five year old damsel.
Also, the contest for the silver arrow, meant to smoke out the best archers in the land: I don't know precisely how to set it up. On the enemy land inside their security, as bait and trap both. Maybe a platinum arrow to update the value. I keep thinking of Arrowette doing the Olympics; why do other competitions if that's in your sights? But anyways, if it's set up, it's how to bring the other kids in. The ones who grew up just like dad in the skill set. Maybe just her though, don't know. So notGA goes in to steal or destroy something specific - which I find implausible because I think in terms of data and destroying data is not a bow and arrow job, or indeed much possible. BUT he goes in for specific hunt, and a lot of others are lured in, and they're doing the thing where they reckon he's the best archer so whoever wins they arrest. But it's the girl who wins. Who is very much not GA shaped. Only then they meet when they're both hunting the same thing. Follow in his footsteps. And there's a big fight where he thinks he's protecting her and she thinks she's protecting him.
Reckon it needs a few turns more before it's far enough away from DC to call quite interesting.
And, as I said, me to watch / read considerable more Robin Hood source.