Regretting peeping at screencaps - BIG episode 13 spoiler
I'll be glad when tomorrow's over and the dirty has been done. I'll watch, but only for RA's final performance as Guy. I took a peek at the screencaps for episode 13 and they didn't make me feel better - just more sad at the way they've done away with Guy. His body just gets left in the tunnel prior to the Castle blowing up, while Bobbin goes off to be heroic, gets the big goodbyes, the reunion with Marian and a BLOODY FUNERAL.
Ok, I really didn't want a reunion for Guy with Marian, as I only ever saw them as a couple in fanfic, certainly not in the series where she manipulated him, betrayed him and didn't consider his feelings. It's not even like I believe in a life hereafter - when you're dead, you're dead - but in terms of the Mediaeval, Guy would have done and they gave him nothing, by the look of it.
Would it have been so hard to have taken him out of the castle, out of the shadows and at least given him some kind of send-off? I wouldn't have expected snot and tears from the outlaws, and let's be honest, we'll provide quite enough of those, but maybe just a tiny acknowledgement that he wasn't rotten all the way through?
It really hacks me off that so many promising avenues got cut off; his coming to terms with his culpability in episode 9, the explanation for why his life went off track in episode 10, the glimpses of the man he could have been with different circumstances in episode 11. Why give us those if there was never an intention of exploring them further or using them as a means for giving Guy some hope at the end?
I can't believe how caught up I've got in the death of a fictional character - on every level of logic, it's ridiculous. Perhaps someone can explain it, because I certainly can't!
Ok, I really didn't want a reunion for Guy with Marian, as I only ever saw them as a couple in fanfic, certainly not in the series where she manipulated him, betrayed him and didn't consider his feelings. It's not even like I believe in a life hereafter - when you're dead, you're dead - but in terms of the Mediaeval, Guy would have done and they gave him nothing, by the look of it.
Would it have been so hard to have taken him out of the castle, out of the shadows and at least given him some kind of send-off? I wouldn't have expected snot and tears from the outlaws, and let's be honest, we'll provide quite enough of those, but maybe just a tiny acknowledgement that he wasn't rotten all the way through?
It really hacks me off that so many promising avenues got cut off; his coming to terms with his culpability in episode 9, the explanation for why his life went off track in episode 10, the glimpses of the man he could have been with different circumstances in episode 11. Why give us those if there was never an intention of exploring them further or using them as a means for giving Guy some hope at the end?
I can't believe how caught up I've got in the death of a fictional character - on every level of logic, it's ridiculous. Perhaps someone can explain it, because I certainly can't!