MacLeod wrote:
Well there's nothing like doing the upteenth re-imagining of something.
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When you're dealing with a centuries-old figure of legend like Robin Hood, a story we only remember
because countless writers over more than a millennium have continually reimagined and reinvented it, it's pretty silly to talk about that like it's a bad thing. Our "standard" perception of the Robin Hood story, with characters like the Sheriff of Nottingham and Alan-a-Dale and so on, is itself a later reimagining of the old legends. Reinventing old stories is what keeps them alive and engaging to generation after generation.