Okay, so I watched the third series of Robin Hood (BBC) today and OMG, way to kill my pointless cracky show BBC! *sulks* From now on everything after the second to last episode of series two didn't happen, okay? I'll live in denial.
So, the second series ended with Marian's death while the bad guys fled the wrath of King Richard. I figured this was the end of the show, and while it was slightly depressing (poor Robin!), I though it was a nice enough way for it to go out. Will and Djaq(pronounced Jack) stayed behind in the Holy Land where she Djaq used to live before she went off to war in her brother's place. They seemed happy, although Djaq was wearing a ridiculously girly silk dress, which I though was out of character, but whatever. I assume they got married and had two.five kids and a nice house and where completely ignorant of anything that happened back in Sherwood. I wish I was.
So, series three started off with the gang coming back and Robin trying to kill Guy for killing Marian and Guy trying to kill Robin for stealing her from him. There's a lot of yelling and irrational behavior. Long story short, Guy tossed Robin off a mountain and he's rescued by Tuck, a preacher, who gives him a reason (the people he helps) to live again after the death of Robin's wife. An episode later and they meet Kate, who's brother gets killed and who eventually joins up with the team. Her first few episodes are unbarably whiny, but she gets better after she's accepted the lot life dealt her and tries to get justice and revenge for other people.
I have to note here that Tuck = Djaq and Kate = Will. They have pretty much the same personalities and abilities, just genderswitched and with no romance between them like there was for Will and Djaq. I find this absolutely hilarious. I guess the actors didn't want to do the show anymore, so instead of creating new characters the writers just changed their gender's and hoped the viewers wouldn't notice?
And yeah, I realize that this is a kids show and that half the time the plot never made any sense (I usually just stared at the pretty men and women when nothing made sense, the cast is ridiculously hot), but I don't know, I'm going to nitpick anyway. Also, I'm going to search for a tv show where the writer's/director's don't feel the only way to get an emotional response out of the audience is to kill of characters. I'm looking at you RTD and Joss Whedon! *is still bitter about Ianto and Wash*
Going back to Robin Hood, the gist of the third series involves a new Sheriff, Guy's sister (Guy killed the last one), who is almost as bad as the last one, although not as prone to manical laughter, which is a shame. First she seems good and Robin helps her out a few times, until he tells her he can't ever have a happily ever after with anyone, because it got his last wife killed and he doesn't want that to happen ever again. After she's informed that she'll never get in his pants, she turns into a psych bitch and tries to kill him a lot. It's all very random and weird. To be fair she was running from an abusive asshole of a husband that her brother sold her to because they were broke. She eventually kills him (YAY!), but after that she wears a lot of black leather, which in this universe apparently means someone is the epitome of evil. I guess this is to symbolize her turn to the dark side or something.
The other main plot of the series is Guy switching sides and joining Robin Hood's team as an outlaw in the woods after Robin's supposedly dead father turns up and tells them that he had an affair with Guy's mother (who died when he was a teen. We see her in a flashback apparently being killed by an elbow to the face. I don't even know. I still cannot figure out how she died) and they both have a half brother who is being sentenced to death in nearby York. They rescue the brother, who at first seems like a good guy, until he sells them out to the new Sheriff. But then he comes to the rescue at the last minute and apperently he's actually a good guy, just obessed with money. There is so much side switching going on this series that I can't keep track of it all.
In the last two part episodes of the series the gang rounds up some peasants and storms the castle. They have a sit in on the bridge and LOL a bit. Apparently the power of their sit in is so great that guy who leads all the guards is overcome by the Power of the Sit In and cannot kill them. (I seriously love this dude. He may be evil, but he just looks exasperated with everyone and he's the only one so far not to fall for the Lady Sheriff's charms. She asks him for help and he's all BITCH PLZ! He does help her set up and ambush for the good guy's, though, which dims his awesome a bit.
They end the episode by dumping Allen A Dale's body at the front of castle they good guys took over (by the old Sherrif, apparently he survived) and I feel very sad. I liked him! Now I can't pretend he ditched the weird pointless plots that is this show and ran off to have an awesome ployamorous relationship with Will and Djaq (Will/Allen/Djaq OT3 of win).
In the next (and last) episode Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. Well, almost everyone. Guy, the old Sheriff, the new Lady Sheriff, Allen (mentioned above), and Robin. That's right. In a show called Robin Hood, they kill off Robin Hood. *facepalm* I get that the actor wanted to go on and do new things, but come on! I'm pretty sure the show is over for good anyway. None of it makes any sense!
There is also a weird sequence, which I totally called beforehand, where a poisoned Robin is dying (after saying good-buy to his friends in a way that's reminiscent of the tenth doctor) and Merian comes to get him to take him off to heaven. At the end of this Robin slumps back and it's pretty clear that this whole scene was a hallucination. WTF people! Why couldn't you have let him go to heaven with his wife? (It's what happened in my head and I'm sticking to it.) So after, the remaining gang carry Robin's body out and they go on to carry on his legend.
I turn off my TV and say WTF a lot. It's all very annoying. Oh well, off I go on my quest for a show where everyone doesn't die in the end. I really didn't realize this was too much to ask from a kids show. *sulk* /rant
Now I'm off to see if rule 34 really does exist, hopefully in the form of Allen/Will/Djaq or at least Allen/Will fanfic. ETA: Rule 34 is real! I found some!