A cinematic Bataan Death March of a Series

I love the whole Robin Hood thing. Always have since I saw the Errol Flynn version when I was a boy. I actually liked this series thru about the beginning of season 2, but by then and since then it just grates on me and its harder and harder to watch each subsequent episode.

I think the worst thing about this show is the writing. How can Sir Guy kill Marion and Robin allows him to live? Are you kidding. She takes a sword thru the midsection and Robin is just like, you have to live with yourself now Sir Guy. Really? I mean was this show broadcast in the UK at 10:00am Saturday morning or something for children to watch? Every episode there is at least one person who should have their heads hacked off and used as a football, but they never end up dying. The wussification of Britian continues.

I'm half way thru season 3 now and its a tedious trudge to get thru each episode, but its like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I just can't turn away. I want it to end. In all honesty it can't end soon enough. I want resolution. I want to know if King Richard returns and if Robin is returned to his previous title. I should just skip to the last episode, but I've already got so much time invested in watching this series that I feel like I HAVE to watch the last 6 episodes and be done.

I hate the way women are shown as fighters here too. Maid Marion as the Night Watchman and now this new blonde girl from the village that Much is in love with going out there and swinging swords with blokes over 6 foot tall. PLEASE! Was it just an attempt to be non sexist on the part of the writers? To try and appeal to teenage girls? To show that women can be heroes too? Well they can't! Not in this role anyway. Its really so unbelievable that I can't suspend reality. It would be easier for me to accept an alien coming around the corner and using a ray gun on the Sheriff than it is to see woman not only holding their own but dominating men in hand to hand warfare. Where's Olivia De Havilland in all her grace and beauty when you need her? Can you see her picking up a sword and giving lessons to some guard? The Sheriff. God is he annoying, but he does make a good villain. I've been waiting around for someone to kill him since the first episode. Finally last night Sir Guy ends him at the request of the Prince. But just like a bad Friday the Thirteenth sequel the sheriffs finger has to twitch as he's being brought out to be buried. GIVE ME A BREAK! I'd swear sometimes that the writers of this series can't be older than 15 or 16.

Marion. Beautiful but annoying too. Just leave your father OR take him with you and join Robin in the forest already. How many times can she kick Sir Guy's heart around and think she can fool him again? A dozen obviously cause thats what kept happening. I was almost happy to see her killed. I wonder if they wrote her out at the end of season 2 because she wanted to pursue other roles.

The Merry Men. So they're so beloved by the people that their ranks never swell beyond the number five? Robin and four others? Thats it? No massive rallying of support from the villages to create an army of free men to take on the Sheriff? And how is it that at least one of them are captured EVERY episode and locked up and then not only are not executed, but escape? Every time!? This is a war! Someone's gotta die! What was up with the Lost in Translation episode? Some Abbot is going to let Robin and his men be burned at the stake because he dosen't want to have wasted ten years translating the bible? This is supposed to be a man of god! His motivations make no sense at all, just like most of the characters on this show. Again I go back to the writers. Who are these people? How can they be so bad episode after episode? I would believe dinosaurs marching thru Sherwood more than I would believe some of the character motivations that are presented here. Again, writing so stupid that I cannot suspend belief long enough to accept the presented premise.

Robin. One dimensional Robin. If I had my way he'd be hacking off heads every episode. Ya I know, Robins a good guy! Ya, well good guys deal out justice. You don't let villains off with a slap of the flat of your sword on their bottoms after they've just killed an innocent. This series should be remade on HBO or Showtime or some other channel that has the guts to show what would have really happened in England in the middle ages. The blood would flow! Stop being such a wuss and send a message to the powers that be! Get the job done! Is it too much to ask? Sir Guy. I liked his role I guess although he was far too gullible with Marion. Does anyone else think he sounds just like Sean Bean? Prince John. Just met him last night so I won't go out on too much of a limb with him except to say that if I were Richard I would have killed him decades ago.

Well thats it I guess. 6 more episodes to go is the equivalent of a cinematic Bataan Death March but what can I do? I must endure it or be bayo