Comments on: Robin Hood Season 2 Finale

By: panda

panda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:20:55 +0000

well i was rather too much disappointed with the finale so much so that it took away much of the liking i had developed for ‘ROBIN HOOD’ by once again making marian betray the poor loyal guy…altogether forgetting what the observers had been made to believe about the marian/guy relationship all through the previous episodes. guy deserved marian more than robin hood cos he has been defending her despite being the bad person he was, has been attempting to turn out good…compared to mr. robin hood who is would always get things right n is always successful!!!

the finale started against my expectations 1)when guy told the sheriff that marian was the nightwatchman (how on earth was the sheriff to discover it that he feared or what difference it made to remove sheriff’s doubt of guy’s loyalty to him in fact wasn’t the doubt confirmed by his telling this), 2)when guy refused to kill the sheriff ‘altogether’, 3)when marian started tying the knot in the desert n 4)when above all guy killed her n easily ran away…means like if they did show few of his tears or remorse, he recovered out of them pretty soon to run off with the sheriff n not even look back!!!

robin is no comparison to the feelings guy raises among the audience for his role n himself :p

By: The trainwreck that was Robin Hood Series Two | the Hathor Legacy

The trainwreck that was Robin Hood Series Two | the Hathor Legacy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:51:40 +0000

[...] would win them awards, Marian pulls out the sword herself and dies. Now, this scene has some crazy logic flaws that could cause you to read more into it than that (there had to be other ways to distract Guy [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:29:21 +0000

Don’t think it was all that bad…

…was entertaining at least.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:09:18 +0000

I,too, couldn’t quite believe the way that they pull an arrow out of King Richard and he pops up as good as new whereas Marian expires the moment that a sword is removed from her! But then I couldn’t believe quite a few things in this lame and disappointing series finale. Initially, I couldn’t believe that Marian was dead - again - and thought that Season Three would show her magically restored to health - again - but then they went and buried her! Perhaps in Series Three it will be revealed that it wasn’t Marian who went to the Holy Land with Notty and Gis but her hitherto unseen twin sister who conveniently switched with her at the last minute. Or perhaps Robin will wake up one morning, find Marian lathering herself in the shower and realise that it was all a horrible dream. My money’s on the second one, because of all the characters you could have killed off, surely Marian should have been at the bottom of the list? She has always been vital to the legend. Is Robin now going to be allocated some fresh totty, or will he simply have a different girl in every episode?

I also find it hard to imagine anything more ludicrous than the mawkish, tacked-on romance between Will Scarlett and token Muslim Djaq (a.k.a. Goofy and Sufi). It was only 3 or 4 episodes ago that she was pining over the defection of Allan A Dale and begging Robin not to kill him. And in the Lardner episode where she and Silly Willy are getting honey from the village, she rides off leaving him at the mercy of Guy’s men (and the threat of being hung) without a backwards glance. Plus, she displays little concern at his continued absence from the camp while she composes a message to the King for the carrier pigeon and, when he finally does return, breezily informs him that she thought he’d been captured. Then, all of a sudden, he’s the love of her life and they’re settling down to a life of bliss in the Holy Land. Yeh, right.

I’m not really sure where Season Three is going to go now that Marian has died (for real?) and he has lost two members of his band. Plus, surely Guy will kill himself in a fit of remorse? I was surprised that Marian mocked him at the end, because I was starting to believe that she had developed a genuine fondness for him and wasn’t just faking anymore.

For me, the current series finale struck a sour and unnecessarily tragic note, because I’d always found the show to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, more than a little panto and frequently hilarious (whether intentional or not). I think it would have been a great idea for Guy to take over as the “new” Robin and then Jonas Armstrong could have joined the cast of Corrie or Emmerdale, where he’s much better suited.