Robin Hood 1x03 "Who Shot The Sheriff?"

[Brakkart]

Coming up in a couple hours time on BBC1 is the third episode in the series:

Robin Hood gets the blame when a mysterious sniper murders innocent people in Nottingham. Desperate to stop the killings, Robin must form an unholy alliance with the Sheriff of Nottingham. But the Sheriff has his own agenda.

I just hope Much gets shot, the show would be a lot better without him!

 

[Brakkart]

Well Much didn't get shot, but there was less of him and more of all the other Merry Men, and to my mind that is a good thing. I enjoyed this episode, a definate whodunnit kind of story and some nice character development of both Robin and Marian.

Good seeing Gisburne's men hunting the outlaws with dogs too (particularly since I'd just watched a similar thing happen in the Robin of Sherwood episode I watched last night), and seeing the peasants turn on the outlaws when they believed that Robin was committing the murders.

Also nice to see the Sheriffs henchmen (Gisburne and the other bloke whose name I've forgotten) scheming to advance themselves at the cost of the other.

 

[TheNovaLord]

I enjoyed this the best of the three so far. Much grimmer and grittier with highish body count.

I liked the nightwatchmans costume (looks like the scout piccie from Com Adv)

Awful pun on the sheriff/deputy joke.

Again the merry men had some of the best lines.

JohnD

 

[Brakkart]

Again the merry men had some of the best lines.

Yeah I'm beginning to really like the grumpy one of the Merry Men, not sure what his character name is but his comments are always funny:

"We're being chased through the forest by men with dogs and you're worried about not having any cheese?" (or words to that effect, said to Much who was moaning about being hungry).

 

[BrooklynKnight]

What about Robins motiviations.

This episode seemed to really throw it in our faces. Is he really doing it because its the right thing to do? Or because he yurns to be loved?

 

[delericho]

Yep, another vast improvement. The only thing I didn't like was the sheriff/deputy joke.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Oh, the editing was better too.
It seems as if the people behind the scenes are fairly slowly getting their sure footing on this. Bravo.

 

[delericho]

Unfortunately, while the show itself seems to be improving week-on-week, it's rapidly shedding viewers:

Episode 1: 8.2 million
Episode 2: 6.7 million
Episode 3: 6.0 million

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Unfortunately, while the show itself seems to be improving week-on-week, it's rapidly shedding viewers:

Episode 1: 8.2 million
Episode 2: 6.7 million
Episode 3: 6.0 million

Yea well thats what happens when you're not incredible from day 1. People slowly lose intrest, and by the time you're GOOD enough it doesnt matter.

But i'm just curious, what do ratings matter to the BBC? I thought BBC was funded by taxes and that there were no commercials?

 

[delericho]

But i'm just curious, what do ratings matter to the BBC? I thought BBC was funded by taxes and that there were no commercials?

Well, these days they seem to have huge numbers of commercials for upcoming BBC productions of one sort or another, albeit only between programmes rather than in breaks in the programmes themselves.

You're correct about the funding being public. I presume, though, that they are interested in ratings because they're generally inclined to only spend the money on making shows that people are actually going to watch. If Robin Hood cost £8M, then there's no point in spending that again on a second season if no-one watches.

(Plus, there was a time when the BBC competed with ITV for viewers, probably out of pride rather than anything else. They seem to have won that battle, for the most part, but now may have aspirations to take on Sky. I rather suspect that's a pipe dream, though, since they just don't have the funding to compete.)