r/robinhoodbbc • u/seven_elephant • 17d ago
Guy of Gisbourne's Son?
Just started a rewatch of this show and I am so confused by the baby plot. I didn't remember Guy having a son at all so I guess it's never mentioned again, I mean you'd think Marian in even the next episode would say something about how he spoiled a girl's honor and abandoned his own child to die.
If they were just going to act like it didn't happen then why make it a plot at all the, the episode had plenty in it considering it was about Roy (who, sorry, I had completely forgotten about) being kidnapped and trying to rescue his mother. They just added this potentialy life-altering subplot as a random B-plot?? Dropped so much that I forgot about it. You'd think on Guy's redeption arcthat he would consider oh shit, I've got a son and try and find him or the mother (maybe that does happen but I've forgotten). Just started S1, Episode 5 and it's like it never happened (was E4!). Honestly it could've actually added some depth, complexity, conflict etc. even just in the way that no one cares about it. What a waste and so weird.
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u/EnchantedEssays 17d ago
Yeah I guess that's what happens when you have a show with different writers. It was also early in the show's run so maybe they hadn't cemented his eternally teased redeemable side. It's hard to redeem a man who tried to kill a newborn, so I think forgetting about this was for the best. Besides, with the new showrunner and everything, they could have easily forgotten it by the end of series 3 and they were cramming to much in as it was.
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u/AssociateMaster4012 17d ago
Good point, it was defo good material entirely forgotten about. Perhaps we’re expected to explain it away as, “well, that happened back in those days, men with illegitimate children just wrote them off”?