This is why I should never be allowed around new television shows
Even in the face of its exceeding cheesiness, I am totally obsessed with Robin Hood. What began as a simple summer fling has rapidly escalated into true fangirlish passion. That's right -- I'm like Danny Zuko at the beginning of Grease, trying to act all cool in front of my friends when I see Sandy at school but really going "OMGFLAILAHHHSOEXCITED!!!!" on the inside.
Because OMGFLAILAHHHSOEXCITED the second season starts tonight!
Lucy Griffiths and Richard Armitage together on one show? I am a lost cause already. Oh, wait, what's that you say? They also share agonizingly on-the-edge sexual chemistry and spend the majority of their scenes together alternately fighting and flirting? Two brain-breakingly gorgeous people involved in an epically effed-up relationship? I can resist everything except temptation!
Marian is beautiful, smart, and capable, and also completely badass as the Nightwatchman.
Sir Guy is... well... pretty much a bastard. But a hot one! Richard Armitage brings a lot of humanity to the role as well. At the beginning of the series he is written as an unmitigated baddie, but I feel like they were seduced into fleshing out his character a lot more than was originally intended; by the end, he's an extremely layered character who has probably shown the most growth out of anybody.
Over the course of the first season, they have evolved from "Who is that strange man glowering behind me?" to "Plz to be makin out nao?"
The whole set-up is basically Marian stringing Guy along for her own ends, but I honestly think she is having far too much fun for it to be that simple.
Flirt!!
Let's follow Marian's eye line...
"I don't know what you've heard about me, Guy, but I'm an old fashioned girl... In my family, the kinky sex always comes after marriage!"
*dead from adorable*
Guy trying to be a smooth operator; this must be the medieval equivalent to yawning and stretching out your arm in the movie theatre.
Am I reading too much into the apple as a rather suggestive symbol of seduction? I hope not, because it comes back again:
Hot guy in leather at three o'clock!
A simple offering of fruit
Oh, to be that apple...
"That smugness of yours really is an attractive quality." "Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain."
Let's have the actors weigh in on this relationship for a bit. From this interview, Richard says, "He just can't help himself with Marian. She's just his Achilles heel and he's gonna go the whole distance for her. And it sort of unpicks him, and it's kind of making him fail in his career and he knows it." Meanwhile, as Lucy adds here (omg most adorable interview ever!! If you've got six minutes to spare, you have to watch it), "They develop a bit more of an understanding in this series. She realizes that she needs him to make her own ends and I think he falls for her more and more. And there are times when he shows a side which we haven't necessarily seen yet, which is slightly more sensitive and generous and, like, brave almost at one point you know, towards the end of the series." I know they didn't exactly end on the best note last series, what with her punching him out at their wedding and all, but the fact that they are able to overcome that stands as testament to their total OTP status.
Oh, yeah, and there's this guy called Robin Hood who bounces in and out of the show every so often. I've heard rumours that he and Marian are supposed to be the true romantic core of the show, but as far as I can tell he's too busy off making pillow talk with the Sheriff to pay much attention to her.
Seriously, I'm not even making this stuff up.
This post brought to you by the wonderful Sir Guy Fanlisting and Lucy Griffiths Online.
I can't believe I just spent two hours on a Saturday morning typing that up. Actually, uhh, the sad part is that that is totally believable :/
Because OMGFLAILAHHHSOEXCITED the second season starts tonight!
Click to viewLucy Griffiths and Richard Armitage together on one show? I am a lost cause already. Oh, wait, what's that you say? They also share agonizingly on-the-edge sexual chemistry and spend the majority of their scenes together alternately fighting and flirting? Two brain-breakingly gorgeous people involved in an epically effed-up relationship? I can resist everything except temptation!
Marian is beautiful, smart, and capable, and also completely badass as the Nightwatchman.
Sir Guy is... well... pretty much a bastard. But a hot one! Richard Armitage brings a lot of humanity to the role as well. At the beginning of the series he is written as an unmitigated baddie, but I feel like they were seduced into fleshing out his character a lot more than was originally intended; by the end, he's an extremely layered character who has probably shown the most growth out of anybody.
Over the course of the first season, they have evolved from "Who is that strange man glowering behind me?" to "Plz to be makin out nao?"
The whole set-up is basically Marian stringing Guy along for her own ends, but I honestly think she is having far too much fun for it to be that simple.
Flirt!!
Let's follow Marian's eye line...
"I don't know what you've heard about me, Guy, but I'm an old fashioned girl... In my family, the kinky sex always comes after marriage!"
*dead from adorable*
Guy trying to be a smooth operator; this must be the medieval equivalent to yawning and stretching out your arm in the movie theatre.
Am I reading too much into the apple as a rather suggestive symbol of seduction? I hope not, because it comes back again:
Hot guy in leather at three o'clock!
A simple offering of fruit
Oh, to be that apple...
"That smugness of yours really is an attractive quality." "Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain."
Let's have the actors weigh in on this relationship for a bit. From this interview, Richard says, "He just can't help himself with Marian. She's just his Achilles heel and he's gonna go the whole distance for her. And it sort of unpicks him, and it's kind of making him fail in his career and he knows it." Meanwhile, as Lucy adds here (omg most adorable interview ever!! If you've got six minutes to spare, you have to watch it), "They develop a bit more of an understanding in this series. She realizes that she needs him to make her own ends and I think he falls for her more and more. And there are times when he shows a side which we haven't necessarily seen yet, which is slightly more sensitive and generous and, like, brave almost at one point you know, towards the end of the series." I know they didn't exactly end on the best note last series, what with her punching him out at their wedding and all, but the fact that they are able to overcome that stands as testament to their total OTP status.
Oh, yeah, and there's this guy called Robin Hood who bounces in and out of the show every so often. I've heard rumours that he and Marian are supposed to be the true romantic core of the show, but as far as I can tell he's too busy off making pillow talk with the Sheriff to pay much attention to her.
Seriously, I'm not even making this stuff up.
This post brought to you by the wonderful Sir Guy Fanlisting and Lucy Griffiths Online.
I can't believe I just spent two hours on a Saturday morning typing that up. Actually, uhh, the sad part is that that is totally believable :/