This is a review of the series, so it's my opinion, if you have other thoughts about this, that's totally fine! put it in the reviews!
disclaimer: I don't own the series, if I did, it's getting a makeover!
warning: may contain some character smashing
Chapter 1: The Premise of the series
Yes, we know about the whole plot of Robin Hood, King Richard the lionhearted fighting in the holy land, Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John take over England and tax the holy moly out of the townsfolk, Robin Hood goes from riches to rags to help the poor upon coming back from the holy land, yadda yadda, yadda! Nearly unoriginal to say the least, but it's good in a 'so cheesy it's hilarious' kind of way.
There are some weird and goofy things about the series that always had kind of….irked me, if you want to call it that. Firstly….what the hell kind of research where they doing in terms of the time period? Firstly, did someone from Doctor Who leave a bunch of Cover girl eye shadow and makeup as well as a curling iron in that time period? I'm looking at an article about makeup in the medieval times, and though it's debated, the makeup ladies used at the time period this series was taking place in was only rouge…not eyeshadow, pencils and blush as well as eyeliner! Secondly, there were some particularly odd things about 'new characters', don't worry, we'll get into that too. And then there's…..marriage, we're getting into that one as well, rest easy. Then there's the ever so lovely and cute…..technical issues….
Do not even get me started on the henchman known as the 'black leathered, tall, dark and handsome' man of lonesome fan girl's fantasies, who happens to be a mu'faffing mess!', ugh…I'm sorry, he's a bit like a whiny emo with as much skills in wooing as a dog in heat who had an already avalanched start of life to begin with, it just had rocks, swords and daggers stuffed into it! That's for possibly a future chapter ranting on most of the characters.
I mean, I've seen most episodes of the series and though I know it's supposed to be a *ahem* retelling of Robin Hood, I'm not sure they even nailed this right…It's like they shot the arrow towards the bulls-eye, but they missed it by that much.
Seasons 1 & 2 were like 'OK, this is a bit meh to me at best', but season 3…..what were they thinking? And the season 2 finale is going to be discussed definitely.
The writing is something to at times gawk at definitely, like stuff that we'd say in the modern days, they never in a bazillion years would say in Medieval Europe! 'Get a Grip!' 'Much, Shut up!' Huh? OK, the writers should be forced to do proper research into those things, wouldn't you say?
The way they did the characters for this series is almost correct, with some weird alternatives for certain characters *coughs* Alan a'Dale and Guy of Gisborne as well as Marian *coughs hard* excuse me!
So, in terms of the premise for this, it's almost like the stuff from movies, TV and books, it's not without a few Whoopsies on the side!
So, what are we going to discuss in future chapters?
Particularly peeving or annoying or questionable characters
The ever so weird writing for the scripting and screenplay for many episodes
The controversial ending to Season 2 and why Season 3 was a lot of 'HUH!?' from that point forward to the cancellation of the show after the views were less than abysmal
