Yeah, there is over the top and then there is "OVER THE TOP" AS IN "LIFTING ROBIN HOOD OVER THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD WHILST YELLING 'ARRRRGHHHH'", and I'll be damned if RH hasn't fully embraced the latter. I... don't even know any more. Sigh.
Although of course I think you're right -- it is Robin Hood, Ye Master of All Things Crack, so it only makes sense that, once the show dives headfirst into angst, it does so in true crack fashion. It's... hm... an interesting combination for the moment. I don't know. Rrrarmitage certainly is looking a bit ridiculous so far. He's stepped over the edge, as it were -- ha, yeah, this show is anything but subtle in its imagery as Guy makes a mad dash for the edge of the cliff and starts threatening to chuck people over, displacing his own self-destructive desires. As always, I think RA's intense, purposeful acting choices do a lot to pull together the goofier elements of his current look. I mean, yes, much fun is to be had at his expense, but the scene where Tuck comes into Locksley and Guy goes off on demons clawing at his brain... yikes. A children's show this is not. Again with crazy show parallelism, but I think it's interesting that, after Guy's heartbreak at the end of series one, he tries to fold into total control "I feel nothing" roboGuy, and then the rest of series two is the unraveling of that -- and now from the epic fallout of series two he's reacted in the exact opposite way, becoming if possible even more volatile and just this purely reactive ticking time bomb waiting to go off. So, yeah, should be interesting...
Although of course I think you're right -- it is Robin Hood, Ye Master of All Things Crack, so it only makes sense that, once the show dives headfirst into angst, it does so in true crack fashion. It's... hm... an interesting combination for the moment. I don't know. Rrrarmitage certainly is looking a bit ridiculous so far. He's stepped over the edge, as it were -- ha, yeah, this show is anything but subtle in its imagery as Guy makes a mad dash for the edge of the cliff and starts threatening to chuck people over, displacing his own self-destructive desires. As always, I think RA's intense, purposeful acting choices do a lot to pull together the goofier elements of his current look. I mean, yes, much fun is to be had at his expense, but the scene where Tuck comes into Locksley and Guy goes off on demons clawing at his brain... yikes. A children's show this is not. Again with crazy show parallelism, but I think it's interesting that, after Guy's heartbreak at the end of series one, he tries to fold into total control "I feel nothing" roboGuy, and then the rest of series two is the unraveling of that -- and now from the epic fallout of series two he's reacted in the exact opposite way, becoming if possible even more volatile and just this purely reactive ticking time bomb waiting to go off. So, yeah, should be interesting...
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