2.17.2006
Round 1 Match 11: Action Division
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Space-Age Hero Battle!
Rocket Robin Hood: The hero of Sherwood Asteroid. In hindsight, his adventures were fairly short, once you edit out the incessant vignettes and chorus songs in between the chapters. However, most recognize those refrains even today, ("Band of brothers, marching together, heads held high in all kinds of weather...")
Brown Hornet: The hero of Fat Albert and the Cosby kids. The adventures of the Brown Hornet usually contained the moral message of each Fat Albert episode. Memorable also in that the narrator would simply throw away whatever cliffhanger trap the Brown Hornet was in from the previous chapter, and state that he had "escaped the clutches of the hideous fang-beast" and was now back in his spaceship.
# posted on Friday, February 17, 2006
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This goes without much of a fight to the one, the only, Rocket Robinhood. Rewatchable, great stories, and came out when I was just four.
Come gather around me. Space travelers surround me. Hark now to the ballad of Rocket Robin Hood.
I may well confound you, astound you, spellbound you, with heroes and villains, the bad and the good.
Watch now as our rockets race here from afar. For now, with our Robin, we live on a star.
Three. Two. One. Blast off!
Band of brothers, marching together. Heads held high in all kinds of weather.
With fiery blasts, our roaring rockets rise, beyond the Earth, beyond the skies!
At the sight of Robin, take your stand, with the gallant leader of our band.
Send a joyous shout throughout the land! For Rocket Robin Hood!
Come gather around me. Space travelers surround me. Hark now to the ballad of Rocket Robin Hood.
I may well confound you, astound you, spellbound you, with heroes and villains, the bad and the good.
Watch now as our rockets race here from afar. For now, with our Robin, we live on a star.
Three. Two. One. Blast off!
Band of brothers, marching together. Heads held high in all kinds of weather.
With fiery blasts, our roaring rockets rise, beyond the Earth, beyond the skies!
At the sight of Robin, take your stand, with the gallant leader of our band.
Send a joyous shout throughout the land! For Rocket Robin Hood!
Ugh! Rocket Robin Hood - whenever i heard the music or saw the little egg-shaped ships zooming by, i knew it meant something good was NOT on.
But I didn't even watch Fat Albert.
Do i go with the unknown and hope he's cool enough to deserve the vote, or do i throw my vote to the known, but seriously disliked one?
I'm going with the one that isn't Rocket Robin Hood, cause i'm like that.
But I didn't even watch Fat Albert.
Do i go with the unknown and hope he's cool enough to deserve the vote, or do i throw my vote to the known, but seriously disliked one?
I'm going with the one that isn't Rocket Robin Hood, cause i'm like that.
I'm probably remembering Rocket Robin Hood more fondly than I actually experienced the cosmic saga. I do find great delight in the Friar Tuck food montage and on the strength of that little snippet alone, I'm voting for the space men.
Brown Hornet. Of the two, who do you expect to be on t-shirts across the land? The mighty Rocket Robin Hood, of course. Of the two, who was the more ironic of characters in the first place? The Brown Hornet. I must vote for the Cosby Kids' super hero - BROWN HORNET!
Why did I watch Rocket Robin Hood?
I like the vignettes, but the only ones on seemed to be Friar Tuck (amusing because of the celebrated "one bite and throw" approach to the buffet dinner) and Little John. Wouldn't it have been more interesting to learn more about others among the "band of brothers", or the sheriff?
[A fanpage tells me that Robin Hood is also profiled, as is Prince John.]
Between these vignettes and the recurrent theme, there was precious little time for any plot.
Here's a description of the animation from the same fanpage: Animation quality is uneven and at times incontrovertibly poor, always limited but in the first season more blatantly so- because the backgrounds are not impressive enough to compensate for scarce character movement. That's a fanpage!
I cast off my viewer shackles, and vote for the Brown Hornet.
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I like the vignettes, but the only ones on seemed to be Friar Tuck (amusing because of the celebrated "one bite and throw" approach to the buffet dinner) and Little John. Wouldn't it have been more interesting to learn more about others among the "band of brothers", or the sheriff?
[A fanpage tells me that Robin Hood is also profiled, as is Prince John.]
Between these vignettes and the recurrent theme, there was precious little time for any plot.
Here's a description of the animation from the same fanpage: Animation quality is uneven and at times incontrovertibly poor, always limited but in the first season more blatantly so- because the backgrounds are not impressive enough to compensate for scarce character movement. That's a fanpage!
I cast off my viewer shackles, and vote for the Brown Hornet.
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