BellaFox Jonah makes an excellent Robin Hood, in fact the whole cast was great! I really enjoyed it, the story, the characters, the bonding. All up until 03x02, from there on I ignore quite a bit of it. Sure there were some cool parts in Series 3 but I personally enjoyed s1 and s2 more. If Kate didn't replace Marian, which no one could have anyway, I believe I'd enjoy s3 more than I did, although a sad ending, it was a good ending. Robin found happiness, and peace.

TheLittleSongbird From the very start right up to where it ended, 'Robin Hood' was one of the Saturday Evening shows always watched in our family household. While it was a favourite with a few members of my big family, apart from a few good things 'Robin Hood' never did much for me. Love the character of the stories and other incarnations of the character.In particular, the 1938 Errol Flynn film is one of my all-time favourites, with amazing production values, Flynn's definitive Robin, Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone as villains and one of the best music scores of all time from Korngold so it really pains me to say that the 2006 BBC version of 'Robin Hood' failed to impress me. Other incarnations are also very entertaining in their own way, and although it is easy to rag on the Kevin Costner film it at least had Alan Rickman. Have never been able to see much inspired or special about BBC's 'Robin Hood', even when it first started airing and became a Saturday Evening staple for three seasons worth.'Robin Hood' has a few good things in its favour but it is far outweighed by the many things it does wrong. The scenery has a lot of beauty and atmosphere and the one visual element that actually looks like care and detail and attention to accuracy went into it. The most memorable thing about 'Robin Hood' is the rousing main theme, one of the main themes of any Saturday Evening television show when growing up that really stuck with me most.Was not crazy about the acting on the whole but there were exceptions. One was Richard Armitage as a broodingly intense Guy of Gisborne, and he actually tries to give the character complexity.The other is Keith Allen who very memorable and ruthlessly evil, he is very campy at times but often because of the rest of the cast not being that good and that he is actually trying to do something with what he's given. Toby Stephens is one of the few bright spots of the later episodes, bringing some welcome levity.Jonas Armstrong however is far too smug and cocky in the title role, and he lacks the wit, charismatic swagger and authority for Robin too. Far too often he's very charisma-free. Lucy Griffiths is luminous but inexperience does creep in in some of her acting, while the rest of the merry men are not so merry. The writing is very stilted often, horrendously so at its worst, and far too modern with some ridiculous one-liners and embarrassingly ham-fisted dialogue, very rarely does one feel like they're being transported to the time the show is set in. The stories mostly lack thrills, fun or coherence (especially in Season 3) and badly ran out of ideas towards the end of Season 2 and throughout the last season.Action is mostly disjointedly edited and clumsy in choreography. Despite the well done scenery, the whole show has such an uninspired low-budget television look and the cheap costuming is also far too anachronistic. 'Robin Hood' really doesn't do a good job with the characters, Gisborne is the only one that the show even tries to develop whereas the other characters are treated stereotypically and inconsistently. Am completely with those that disliked the treatment of Much and the way the show got rid of Marian was a big slap in the face (would say something unrepeatable but my critique always aims to be constructive and sincere, not rude).Of the music, only the main theme sticks out. Can't really say much about it due to not being able to remember a lot of it.Concluding, didn't care for it at the time, regrettably still don't. 3/10 Bethany Cox

jb2k20 Well first preview ever, I once saw the first episode and immediately didn't like it. Robin used foreign weapons and well the whole costume designs were a little weird. Actors were some well placed some less, especially in the first seasons there were only the bad guys who stole the show, Gisburne and the Sheriff were nice. Of Robin and his Merry Men only John was a nicely cast the rest was to generic and lacked character. SPOILERS--In season 3 we see Friar Tuck and instead of what you expect he's a colored man. Not the Friar you know from ballads and other shows but completely weird. The story goes from OK to not so OK, it has some good point but also weird things. Every child could understand some so called secrets in the storyline, Allans first screw-job and they can't figure it out. Also the weapons some Djac and Kate use more ninja like weapons than Saracen weaponry except Robin. It was medieval time-line yet I have seen men wear boots with laces, the leather coat's instead of some capes. John's Black Knights wore face-paint under their helmets, we never learn how the Sheriff returned and got such an massive army. Women fight easily against the soldiers is very normal these times apparently and needed in every series. When Gisburne gets a special armor he seems invulnerable, he even gains extra strength. The music was decent yet forgettable, except the main theme and that was getting annoying. Since that theme was played when they came into action, and was very short.--SPOILERS The show just didn't do it for me I finished it but it didn't leave a great impression.

studioAT OK,let's face it, this version of the Robin Hood legend won't win any awards for it's historical accuracy or even it's costumes but as a mildly engaging Saturday night show it's a lot better than I think people give it credit for.The cast are good and for the first two series the plots were well constructed with nice finale episodes. However in the third series the show lost it's way and more and more complications were being added that didn't help things for Robin or us as an audience.Overall a decent enough show for the first two years. My advice would be to stop there though.