Águila Roja

adventures. crumbs of Golden Century of Spain. not real convincing but nice. a film who reminds a lot of Romantic heroes. and who preserves the flavor of classic justice maker portrait. the script is not surprising. the performances are decent. but it has a basic virtue who defines its charm - the respect for the old recipes. in strange manner, that does it seductive. because it propose a different Zorro and Don Quijote, a not bad image of Spanish social categories, a mixture of religion and politic who is far to be credible but seems define contemporary cases. a film who has many ways. and who has the courage to give, with a low budget, a slice of a historical period in a not boring style. it is not Hollywood but it is a good product. simple, naive, touching, for kids and for the admirers of old fashion stories.

One of the best film criticisms I ever heard was "if the characters weren't so stupid, we wouldn't have a movie." That pretty much describes this series. Most, almost all, the problems the characters face result from their own unbelievable stupidity. I can't even count how many times I groaned & yelled at the TV, "Come on! Nobody is THAT stupid!!" The two main culprits are Satur, the faithful squire of our hero, and Alonso, his son. Satur's numbskull mistakes I could bear because the character is so lovable & endearing, but the son ... yeesh. He starts out as an obnoxious brat & over the course of nine seasons grows up to be a selfish, insufferable brat. His character became so deeply unlikable that I started rooting for him NOT to be saved from his various predicaments.

So how/why did I make it through all 116 eighty-minute episodes? You gotta love the 17th century superhero. Not only is he kind, selfless, and just, but he can take down a whole batallion of bad guys with his crossbow, ninja stars, and trusty sword. The fight scenes are rather unrealistic until you remember that he's not just a hero, but a superhero, with all the appropriate speed, reflexes, and strength befitting a superhero, centuries before Marvel Comics.

In summary, the series is a very mixed bag: groan-worthy plotlines but a truly great protagonist. Despite the ups & downs, I binged through all nine seasons in about two months. By the end, I was honestly hoping that they would revive the series, bring us Son of Aguila Roja, just with better-written characters the next go-'round.

Just catching up with this show and working my way across Spanish, still loving every second.

After Gonzalos' wife is killed he becomes a hero for his people. interesting, full of action and a good view of the amazing "Siglo De Oro" of Spain. there are few things that might now be accurate, still some of them will bother you while most of them you pay no attention to, there's something for everyone intrigue, deceit, great action scenes and a great story.

for many is going to be a new El Zorro but its so much better, i've seen kids excited about this show that can't speak five words in Spanish. you have to watch it to enjoy it, you have to enjoy it to understand it, you have to understand it to love it.

and I love it already

If it's possible to respond here in any way can anyone let me know which season and episode it was? thanks!

Well this is literally the first Spanish series I started watching back in 2012 when I was a teenager. To be honest I loved it from the beginning watching first episodes but due to some problems I could only watch it until season 7. The main reason I stopped watching it, was the TV Channel ( Gem TV ) that stopped dubbing the rest of the series; so since I don't understand Spanish I started looking for subtitles for the last two seasons but I ended up with nothing! There weren't even English subtitles! So I gave up until few days ago after some years I noticed some of my Persian countrymen ( Aguila Roja fans ) have recently made subtitles for the rest of the series. I can't be happier. And in the end I recommend this series to those who love history, sword fightings, drama, comedy and action all in just one package.