Robin Hood makes no sense

Why the heck would he yell 'fire' to BOWmen?

They would think there's a burning fire somewhere in the forest, they wouldn't have any way to connecting that word with shooting with arrows. Are we SO accustomed to people yelling 'ready, aim, fire', that we forget ALL logic and common sense, plus historical facts?

I REALLY, really wish people that make ANY historical, even 'fictional-historical', which Robin Hood may be, event in a movie or TV show or whatever this is, would watch a couple of Lindybeige or Shadiversity videos - granted, they didn't exist when this was made, but come on..

I once watched Al Lowe rationalize their early games' crappy gameplay and constant deaths by 'We didnt' know any better, other this type of adventure games didn't exist back then', or something.

I always wanted to scream into his face as loud as I can from about 5 cm away, "COMMON SENSE DIDN'T EXIST BACK THEN?!"

It's the same syndrome here.. common sense, and they don't use it. Sigh.

Robin Hood would _NEVER_, ever, fictional or otherwise, have yelled 'FIRE', when he meant 'LOOSE!' (the ONLY concept where the word 'loose' can be a verb, and even then, it's archaic, because it should really be 'LOOSEN', shouldn't it?)

There are some alternatives, but I think 'loose' would've been the most common-sensical one. They, however, chose the most NONSENSICAL one, instead. Without firearms, there's no 'fire' when shooting, god damnit.

Another thing that even Lindybeige has lamented about, is the 'hold the bow until someone tells you to 'fire' (ugh). Even if Robin _HAD_ used the word 'loose', they wouldn't have held it for so long before it. I am not even sure how it's possible to even have that kind of last word, because surely telling a group of people (= MEN) to shoot at something, would leave the 'moment of release' to their own volition; I mean, only they know the PERFECT moment to loose(n) the arrow, the captain (or whatever) wouldn't be able to know it exactly, as it may vary for each individual archer.

(This kind of thing WOULD make sense if they used crossbows, but they didn't).

So TWO very stereotypical stupidities that make no sense right after another; yelling FIRE when you mean LOOSE, and making people HOLD THE BOW IN HIGH TENSION FOR A LONG TIME.

This trope works with GUNS, because it takes no effort to point a gun at someone and hold your finger right at the trigger, ready to shoot immediately.

It does _NOT_ work with bows, because each millisecond you hold the bow at maximum stretch (or whatever), adds PAIN to your muscles until you can't hold it anymore. Even the best archers in the day that have been trained since they were kids, and thus formed a 'mutated skeleton structure best suited for archery' and had humongous muscles as adults as well, couldn't hold the bow fully pulled back for all that long.

In ANY case, we're talking about seconds, and not very many of them, either. The bow is not supposed to be HELD at maximum yank/draw (or whatever it's called) for a long time, a bowman is supposed to draw the bow while aiming, then let go when the aim is as good as it's gonna get, perhaps choose the timing with Zen, but not just HOLD IT and HOLD IT and HOLD IT until their muscles cramp and the arrow flies any which where.

This Robin Hood doesn't have a friggin' clue, it's like they inserted a MODERN guy into a medieval time or something, without any idea how people talked or how god damn bows work.

But Baldrick being in a high governmental position makes sense. You know, due to corruption and all that.