The Greatest Enemy
BBC Series Robin Hood

This seems to have been a "Nazir" episode that got converted into a "death of Robin" episode when Michael decided to quit the show. What a shame! Poor Nazir was finally going to get an episode about his past, and he was robbed of it. Never mind we had to deal with blondie from now on. It really is a shame in many ways.

King John gives the Sheriff a month to get rid of Robin Hood, or he loses his title and station. So the Sheriff grabs one of Robin's friends and threatens to destroy Wickham. There's an ambush, a few are captured, and Nazir is still off with his Saracen friends.

Soon - suddenly - Robin and Marian are trapped on a hill with Much, with the Sheriff surrounding them. It's very much a deliberate plot twist, again because this episode didn't seem to have been thought out as a "last stand of Robin". And as much as his last arrow shot is very dramatic, he clearly let the enemy know he was out of arrows - why not let them worry for much longer, so Marian and Much had a good escape?

I like the ending of this with the flaming arrows, the brief remembrances - but the whole episode seems rushed and forced. It's hardly the way to let such a beloved character go.

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