Meg


So I'm halfway through Season Three and I kind of wished that the writers would have kept Meg on for a little while longer. I was curious to see where her storyline might go, especially with Guy in the picture.

What does everyone else think?

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I think Meg is a means to an end. Although I liked the character a lot (she speaks her own mind, she's independent, bold, smart and all kinds of other attributes a girl back then wouldn't possess), I think she was there as a catalyst for Guy's 'change'. This character made it possible for the viewers to believe his 'transformation'.

(I'm using the inverted commas because I don't buy the whole changing thing: we've known him for three seasons (what is more, he was a real monster in the first one), he's been a bad guy all along (albeit with some shades here and there), not even him killing the one he loved changed him and now all of a sudden he's a good guy/ hero wannabe in the last three, four episodes or how many they are, just because he met Meg and had a chat with Robin's dad. It's just not believable for the character.)

Coming back to the main idea, she's an interesting character that played a specific part - she was the beginning of Guy's 'change'and she proved he was worth caring for.
I also think the writers managed to write a better version of Kate in Meg, maybe unwillingly.


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i haven't watched anything after episode 9 because i gave up, but from the plot summary of the next episode, guy is completely out of character, if i was guy and know my long time rival a-hole robin's a-hole dad had sexy time with my mom and knocked up her up while my dad was out fighting for the country and thus contracted leprosy and died with my mom in a fire (with guilty conscience that tormented me for years), i'd be super pissed about robin, his dad, and archer and will personally see to archer having a slow painful death, since the fire that killed my parents was pretty much the point where i lost every thing and had to fend for myself and latch on to whomever with wealth and power just to survive.

the revelation should've renewed and intensified his hatred toward robin. from guy's perspective robin's dad took his mom and then robin took marian, there is nothing but hatred toward robin. guy doesn't care too much about his full sister, other than pure contempt, why would he care about the bastard half brother who will only bring shame to guy's family name and damage his career if their association is known to the public.

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I kind of thought that too, but then I considered. At this point in the show, Guy's character has to go somewhere. And when you've run three seasons with him always winning first prize as most beloved, you just can't keep him a villain. As out of character as his sudden transformation seems to be, from a storytelling perspective it's difficult to plunge him deeper into evil. The audience WANTS to see him redeemed because most of them want to feel vindicated in liking him so much. He's an anti-hero, and no one likes it when an anti-hero chooses wrong.

We already saw Guy go down a darker path when Marion was killed. He was hitting some Sheriff levels of evil there. So they shook it up, and what better way to do that then give him someone much like Marion to help him along, even if just for one episode? Except this time, when she dies, it's not by his hand. Rather, it's protecting him. And that makes all the difference in the world.

But after that happens, they can't make him hate Robin again, otherwise Meg's sacrifice would have been for nothing. If anything, how out of character it is for him to save Archer and get along with Robin makes us feel even worse for him, since everything is Robin and his family's fault. I think that rehearing the story must have made him remember the example of his parents, who were clearly much better at raising children than Robin's dad. At the end of the episode, it is Guy who gets ready to go find Archer and Robin follows him. He's probably hurting very deeply, but then, he's used to that. And maybe he even feels a little bit bad for Robin, whose father was a piece of trash.

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I thought Guy and Meg had a lot more chemistry together than Guy and Marian, which is saying a lot. She was a real asset to the show, even if she was a means to an end like another poster on this thread mentioned. I think that the first episode with Meg (Season 3 Episode 9) is the best one of the entire series up to this point. It held my attention quite well.

One thing is a little strange for me though concerning the casting of Meg. The woman who played her was in Sparkhouse also with Richard Armitage as his step-daughter!

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I just recently saw Sparkhouse and was trying to figure out why the teenager looked familiar. When I realized it was Meg I wondered how weird it was just a few years later to be playing a love interest opposite the man who played ur stepfather!

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I know what you mean. I loved that episode with her and the way she was written. But Iguess with the show ending there would have been no point in leaving her alive. If they'd gone on for another season she would have been great especially concerning her chemistry with Guy.

This was one of my favourite episodes of season 3.

Anyway - I wanted to scream at Guy when he was mumbling this "AT least you have someone waiting for you" to Robin - gee, of course he had someone too ;).

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I'm a little late to the party, but that was probably my favorite episode of the show. There was more chemistry between them than anyone in the rest of the show put together.

I think that she was written as a game changer for Guy, true, but I also got the feeling that she was written as a character that the female audience could relate to. Because if we're all perfectly honest here, Guy is pretty much the favorite character, and it's pretty much impossible to be female and not be attracted to him. So Meg is kind of like the everywoman of the show - she describes the first time that she saw Guy, riding in black on a black horse, and was attracted to him. Then she was horrified by everything that he did, and yet here, when she really gets to know him, she sees the tortured and sweet soul that he is, and falls in love with him. And then she does what Marion never did and what the audience was all waiting for someone to do: focus all of her attention on helping Guy, not just physically but also emotionally. And Guy helps her - in a world where Robin is considered the epitome of manhood, no wonder she hates men. But then she meets a real one...

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