Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie!

So, I guess I've been MIA for a bit? Mostly because I found Book 1 of Maging Sino Ka Man on YouTube with English subtitles and got so ridiculously wrapped in it that I couldn't spare a moment of free time for anything else. OH MY GOD, THIS SHOW! It was so, so, so good. OMG, by far the best soap that John Lloyd and Bea have ever done, although, technically, this is the only one that I could 100% understand, but still, it was amazing. By now, I've come to expect insanely over the top villains and ridiculous scheming plots that just get tiring and lead to nowhere, but this show? While it did sort of contain those elements, it was done well and effectively. I think what I enjoyed was that pretty much everyone brought about their own downfalls, and even the villains came to realize this eventually. But, obviously, my main element of enjoyment was the Jackie/Eli love story. It made me laugh, it made me cry my eyes out, it made me sigh in contentment, it made me shout at my computer screen, it made me want to give up on Eli all together but Jackie loved him so completely that I just couldn't, and then it made me cry again, and then it made me laugh again, and just... it was so, so beautiful. John Lloyd and Bea gave brilliant performances, which, yeah, I always say that, but seriously, they outdid themselves in this one. Jackie's the beautiful, kind rich girl that Eli crushes on from afar, Eli is a poor orphan who's being raised by a loving family, Jackie and Eli have super adorable run-ins where Eli concludes that she's a snob but he's also kind of dazzled by her craziness, and then Eli's brother Pong gets involved in the kidnapping of Jackie because he needed the money for his father's heart operation, and Eli had a feeling that Pong was doing something stupid and ends up finding him after Pong had crashed the getaway van in an attempt to save Jackie and he asks Eli to hide Jackie, and then Eli and Jackie end up in a barrio and he tells the country folk that Jackie is his wife, and naturally Jackie wakes up with amnesia and trusts the story, and she and Eli fall in love after many trials and tribulations, but then Jackie gets her old memories back and forgets about Eli and this KILLS HIM, even though it's better for his family because it means that she doesn't remember that she had been kidnapped, and then through a crazy string of events Eli ends up working for Jackie and she falls in love with him yet again and it's even more adorable than the first time, and they fight for their love (literally, Jackie's father even beats her up after he has Eli nearly beaten to death) but, eventually, Jackie gets her full memory back and leaves Eli and goes back to her tyrannical father and it just all goes downhill from there. Eli gets hell-bent on revenge against Jackie's father and he ends up coercing Jackie into marrying him and he's such a jerk to her and I just keep thinking, "Man, this all could have been avoided had she just taken a day or two to cool down after she got her memory back and not gone back to her father, especially since, you know, she chose to marry Eli anyway." And so now, on their third attempt at romance, Jackie is still in love with Eli but Eli blames her for her father's sins even though he doesn't mean to and he's just awful to her but she refuses to give up on their love but he doesn't exactly know that she loves him until he's hurt her so much that it's kind of obvious she still loves him, but his heart is so full of rage that he just can't give her the love that she deserves but he also doesn't really want to let her go, but in the end they both decide to free each other and go their separate ways while Eli learns to love himself again, and then we get to see Eli and Jackie fall in love for a fourth time. It's insane.

But anyway, the overall theme of the show was basically that forgiveness and humility = salvation while bitterness and vengeance = hell. What's interesting is that the most evil character was probably Fidel (Jackie's father), but because he had the capacity to love he ended up being "saved" by that love when he finally looked at himself and saw what he was doing to the people that he supposedly cared about, and he finally took responsibility for everything that he had done and stopped blaming other people for his actions. Same thing happened with Eli. He never actually stopped loving Jackie, and that saved him from Oca's complete manipulation (and his love for his adoptive family made him realize that he was turning into someone that they never would have wanted him to be). But then there's JB's mother, who was actually the lesser of the three main villains, and yet she ends up suffering the most because she doesn't know how to love selflessly, nor can she forgive anyone, not even her own son, so in the last shot we get of her she's basically stuck in this terrible hell with a dude that is even more evil and controlling than she is, and that's directly contrasted with the wedding of Jackie and Eli where the scenes are practically glowing and absolutely everyone but JB's mother is there experiencing the happy ending. Of course, the happy, sappy ending gets a little ruined by the random setup for Book 2, and that's pretty much my only complaint about the show. I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO A PERFECTLY SAPPY ENDING, DAMN IT! I will probably seek out Book 2 tomorrow even though it's not subtitled, because, well, I want more Jackie/Eli coupley goodness. THEY ARE SO CUTE. SO CUTE! See? *dreamy sigh* More adorableness. Angsty adorableness! Okay, I'll stop now. I kind of want to link to like every single Jackie/Eli scene there is, but I'll try to restrain myself. On a side note, the acting in this soap was superb, aside from Sam Milby. Like, seriously, how does this dude keep getting acting gigs? I just don't get it. He did grow on me towards the end though, I must admit, but seriously, dude lacks skills when it comes to ~emotion~, especially when his scenes are paralleled with John Lloyd's (or when he's in a scene with Bea where Bea is simply fantastic and Sam... isn't).

Er, anyway, JOHN LLOYD AND BEA 4EVR!!!1!1! I'm pretty sure that Maging Sino Ka Man is now my new favorite thing of theirs. At least, Book 1 is, haven't watched Book 2 yet (but I doubt I'll enjoy that one as much seeing as how most of the stories came to a satisfying conclusion in Book 1).

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The 30 Day TV Meme
Day 23 - Most annoying character

Oh, gosh, Owen Harper from Torchwood, no contest. UGH, HE IS SO GROSS. Robin Hood as played by Jonas Armstrong comes in as a close second. DOUCHEBAG.

Day 24 - Best quote

"To me, religion is like Paul Rudd. I see the appeal and I would never take it away from anyone, but I would also never stand in line for it." ~ Jeff Winger, Community

This is brilliant, because 1) that's exactly how I feel about both Paul Rudd and organized religion, and 2) this quote can apply to so many things if you just take out "religion" and substitute it with something else.

( the days )

The 30 Day Film Meme
Day 07 - The most surprising plot twist/ending

The Sixth Sense? I haven't watched many films where twist endings happen, so, that's the only one that comes to mind. Oh, oh, I know! Me, Myself, and Irene where Jim Carrey's thumb gets shot off. I was not expecting that. And the weird part is that it still shocks me even though I've seen that film dozens of times.

Day 08 - The best opening/closing credits

Well, clearly Austin Powers wins for best opening credits. I am also quite fond of the opening credits for Naked Gun 2 1/2. As for closing credits, that would be any Jackie Chan movie that shows the bloopers at the end, because that is always my favorite part of Jackie Chan movies.

( the days )

So, Robin Hood. Had no clue it was back till I saw my f-list and all the people who are AFRAID to watch the new episode. Well chickens, I DOVE RIGHT IN! Although, I only minorly shipped Guy/Marian, therefore when Marian got killed I wasn't too broken up about it, but the show still sucks for writing out all of its female characters. Seriously, WHAT was up with that? Psh. Not surprisingly, I didn't particularly miss Will Scarlett. Or Djaq, for that matter. I did miss Marian though. A little bit. Okay, quite a lot. I never even knew I liked her so much till she was gone. On the plus side? I didn't have to sit through nauseating Robin/Marian scenes! On the downside, I had to sit through uber emo Robin scenes, blech. Much, Little John, and Allan were awesome as always. The Sheriff was seriously lacking in awesomeness this ep. That has never, ever happened before. What the freaking hell, man? That is my #1 complaint with this ep. Brother Tuck was WONDERFUL. I can already tell that I will adore him. But none of this is really important. Let's focus on what I really watch the show for.

1) Guy and Robin's sexcapades in the woods.





2) Guy and Sheriff being devious together



Also, they both got brand spanking new outfits. In fact, everyone did. Even Robin has gone puffy leather. Polyester hoodies are so last year.

3) Guy!!! Who... has done something new with his hair.



Oh dear lord, please fix that nonsense ASAP as possible.

In conclusion, this episode was ridiculous. Not even a good kind of ridiculous. But the last ten minutes rocked. You can easily save yourself a lot of boredom and just watch that. But then you'll miss broodishly emo Guy! So, I don't know. Just fast forward through Robin's scenes, I seriously can't stand that douche. But see, if you do that, you'll miss Brother Tuck. I DON'T KNOW! But I assure you that the last ten minutes is the show we all know and love. It gave me smiles times. But the rest of the ep gave me quirking eyebrows times. But Guy was hot. And there was much manlove. And Allan was hilarious.

( I'm warning you right now, this post is full of this hyper rambling... )

Is it weird that I never liked Hootie until he left the Blowfish and put some twang into his background music? Probably. But it's a lovely song. I remember the first time I heard it I knew that I knew the voice, but for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. And then the radio person was like, "That's Darius Rucker with blah blah..." and I was like, "OMG, HOOTIE! NO WAY!" I really want to hear the rest of his album. Hey, wait, is that that Jared Padelsomethingrather from Supernatural/Gilmore Girls? Or just a lookalike? Hmm... he looks too pretty, probably not him.

Okay, MEME TIME!

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

toxic_corn gave me L. Hmm...

( Llllllll )


Meme #2 from grimorie:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

( Colin Firth, Veronica Mars, martial arts films, Sam Seaborn, Robert DeNiro, Gilmore Girls, Crews/Reese )

Whew! Told you there was a lot of hyperness. I don't know where it came from.

So, I've been watching an episode of Robin Hood every other night for the last two or three weeks, and I've just now come to the realization that the Sheriff is Keith Allen.  The Keith Allen from The Bullshitters and countless other Comic Strip Presents episodes.  WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?  He looks completely different, so it didn't even register whenever I saw his name in the opening credits.  Then this morning, as I was putting the DVD back in its sleeve for Netflix, I read the name "Keith Allen" and said, "Hang on, Keith Allen?  I know that name!  No... he can't be the same dude from the Comic Strips.  Can he?  That guy was such a douche.  I refuse to believe that it's the same person."  Then I looked it up on IMDb and... yeah, it's him.  And suddenly all the sexual ambiguity of the Sheriff makes sense.  And now I know why the Sheriff always reminds me of Rik Mayall.  Similar style of comedy, used to be in the same shows.  So... naturally I had to pull out The Bullshitters and upload the only scene that's really worth watching.  The Bullshitters was making fun of a cop show called The Professionals, but it's pretty much making fun of all cop shows.  And at one point they ran through the city wearing nothing but their jackets and thongs.  That was pretty funny.  But by this point they had found some pants (and the killers):




Now I want some Guy/Sheriff action.  Because I'm insane.  And I already picspammed about the utter hotness that was the scene where the Sheriff was practically violating Guy.  Good times, good times.

Speaking of Guy, I saw the ep last night where Marian walks in on him with his shirt off.  OMG THAT SCENE IS SO FRICKIN' HOT!  GAH!  I adore how flustered she was, and that smile the second she saw him.  She may not want to marry him, but she totally wants to do him, always has.  I love that he evokes this pure lust in her that she has absolutely no idea how to deal with.  Guy represents danger and mystery and adult feelings, whereas Robin is everything innocent and she's known him her whole life, knows what to expect, so there's no mystique there, no lust, just a view of true love that she's held onto from childhood.  This contrast is beautiful, and I LOVE that it gets her so confused.  And... I'm fairly certain that Marian wanted to save Guy at the end, and not just Robin, because... well... he looks hot without his shirt, and it would be a shame for him to die before she gets to do him all night long.  Trufax.  I can't blame her, really.  But I love that Guy still sees her as this bridge to purity, and he definitely has lusty feelings for her, but he wants more than that.  And Marian doesn't.  Marian wants to ravage him and then forget that he exists, but she can't, because she's a fair maiden.  But you know she wouldn't have been able to stop herself from jumping Guy had Robin not shown up at the window.  She was SO riddled with guilt becuase she knew she would have let Guy do pleasurable things to her.

And, speaking of Guy and Robin, they had another hate!sex fight, sadly, there was no tree bondage.  But Guy gets so passionate whenever he sees Robin.  And it's the only time when I can stand Robin, because he abuses Guy and Guy's hidden feelings of love for Robin spews out of his mouth without him even realizing it.  I believe this time he said something like, "I want you, Locksley," and they were in Guy's bedroom.  Now, how am I supposed to resist that?  Seriously.

Also, I'm loving the Guy/Alan scenes.  Particularly the one where he overzealously slaps Alan around.

Obviously this show is trying to make me ship Guy with everyone.  I still love Guy/Marian the most.  Although I seem to be extremely fond of Guy/Robin, because Guy always loses his head around Robin, and Robin is basically his greatest passion.  Oh, show, you kill me.  I'd love to get a scene of Robin walking in on a shirtless Guy.  That would be wonderful.

My friend, who was being ridiculously sweet to me and sent me a bunch of Damian pics because she was thinking of me, sent this pic and I was like, "Man, Damian looks kind of girly in that pic."  I think it was the eyelashes.  I'm not used to him eyelashing it up like that.  And, so, instead of doing my schoolwork, I decided to give Damian long hair.  And somehow, some way, he looks even sexier.  HOW DOES HE DO THAT?  He was supposed to look ridiculous, damn it!  That came out surprisingly well for a 5 minute photoshop job.

Anywho, I'm still on a Richard Armitage kick, even Netflixed his Vicar of Dibley eps that I had never gotten around to copying, so I'm probably going to watch that now.  Instead of doing my work.  But I'm so damn tired.  I did my walking today, because it was so absolutely beautiful outside and it was the first day where it was below 80 at 10:00am, so I had to go.  But when I go walking, I get absolutely nothing else done, because I'm gone all morning, then I come home and fool around on the computer for an hour, then I have to make the salad, eat lunch, wash all the dishes and clean up the kitchen, so I'm not done till about 3:00, then I briefly fool around on the computer, then I do my work for about an hour and a half, then my parents come home and I have to make dinner (and eat it), then I simply don't feel like doing anything but watching TV or talking on LJ.  UGH!  I WAS SO GOOD ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY!  Now I'm being bad.  But since I am, I'll talk a little more about Robin Hood.

I watched a couple eps last night, and there's this one scene where the Sheriff is pretty much violating Guy, so I couldn't not talk about it.  I was worried for Guy's... something.  I don't know.  But the Sheriff is so deliciously creepy and sexually ambiguous and he knows exactly how to manipulate Guy and preys on all of his fears and weaknesses (much like Marian does, only... Marian's a lot less creepy when she does it).  Actually, I find it interesting how the Sheriff truly does not understand human emotions like love and kindness, and he watches Marian manipulating Guy by appealing to the humanity in him, so the Sheriff goes about it in the same way, only he appeals to the darkness in Guy.  But I love that he uses pretty much the same methods as Marian (human contact, using Guy's supposed friend as a pawn), only... he really kicks it up a notch.


Also, I just want to note, the Sheriff/Guy relationship is so very much like the Robin/Much relationship, and the Marian/Guy relationship is almost an exact mirror of Robin/Much.  And poor Guy is so desperate to be good and loved and successful but he fails miserably, so he just succumbs to being bad, hated, and a failure.  I actually love that Guy wants to be Robin.  It means that his soul isn't completely dark.  But at the same time, Guy is like a dark version of Robin.  And the reason why he was having so much pleasure in the kinky tree bondage scene from the Tattoo episode was because Robin showed that he could be capable of just as  much darkness as Guy, and that deep down they were the same man, and this made Guy feel better about himself, and it brought him that much closer to actually being Robin Hood.  I really shouldn't be analyzing such a campy show so deeply, but I can't help it.  Guy rules.  As does the Sheriff.  I think I may love the Sheriff even more than I love Guy.  But Guy is the pretty one, so he's the one that gets picspammed.  But yeah, this show is fun and goofy and violent and kinky and I love it.  The only character I don't like is Robin, oddly enough.  He's so damn cocky.  Ick.  I don't understand the Robin fangirls at all.  I am a Guy fangirl through and through, and Robin being such a douche makes it even easier to love Guy. 

So... last night I rewatched North & South in its entirety, which I haven't done for months, and man, I forgot how much I love that miniseries.  More importantly, I forgot how much Richard Armitage makes me swoon with the smallest quirk of an eyebrow.  Seriously, I could feel my insides melting every time he looked at Margaret with that pained, "I'm in love with her but she'd never have me" look.  And then I actually cried happy tears at the end when he's like this precious little boy, all innocent and happy looking (well... until he frenches Margaret in public.  That wasn't so innocent.  But that did other things to me).  But yeah, the fact that the man can still make me cry after seeing the same scene more than 20 times is a testament to how deeply he makes you feel for him.

Anyway, that kind of rekindled my passion for Richard, so tonight I decided to watch Robin Hood since I never actually finished series 1, and I got to the Tattoo episode, and OH MY GOD!  OMG!  I knew it was kinky from the picspams, but I didn't quite know HOW kinky it actually was.  You have no idea how huge of a smile I had on my face through the entire Guy-tied-up-in-the-woods scene.  It was pretty much foreplay between Guy and Robin.  And then their fist fight was the love scene, complete with romantic music.  If Robin was a woman, you know that would have been hate!sex instead of a fist fight.



Now that's the look of a man who enjoys being tied to a tree and getting the crap beat out of him.  And, come on, Guy's like... a foot taller than Robin.  There's no way Guy would be so easily beaten by a puny emo half-bearded freak in a hoodie.  He wanted to get tied up.  You know it.


That's exactly how it happened.  No lie.

Anyway, this entire episode was made of so much win.  I love the Sheriff so very, very much.  He gets all the greatest lines.  I love Guy/Marian a lot, but I think I'm even more fond of the Sheriff/Guy relationship (in a strictly platonic way, mind you.  I'm not quite sure what the Sheriff's kinks are.  I can't tell if he likes women or men, or both, or none.  He's a hard one to figure out).  But yeah, I'm baffled as to why it's taken me so long to get back to watching this show.  That's why I shouldn't read spoilers.  Once I read the spoiler about Marian, I suddenly lost my craving to watch the show.  But now I'm in a Richard Armitage mood, so... I predict I'll get through it by the end of the week.

I feel like I'm cheating on Damian.



Ahh, that's better.  Don't worry Damian, you're still my main man.  Richard's just a harmless flirtation... that's been going on for 3 years or so.

Yeah, you read it right, nipspam.  Why?  Because 15lbpurebunny challenged me.  And it doesn't take much to make me to look at nudey photos of Damian all afternoon.  I had a very good afternoon, by the way, thanks for asking.  Now, 15PB claims that this is only for scientific purposes, so I will now conduct my very own experiment.  This is a good lesson on the Scientific Method for all you kiddies out there (and by kiddies, I mean everyone over the age of 18, because this is a dirty, dirty picspam).

1. Observation



Rawr, what a sexy hunk of... hey, wow, he's got big nipples.  For a man.  Right?  Right?

2. Hypothesis:

Damian has unusually large mannips.

3. Prediction:

If I'm right (which I totally am) then Damian has unusually large mannips.  What?  I used an if/then statement, okay?  That means it's perfectly scientifical.

4. Experiment:

So, if we're going to do this right, we need a control group that we can compare our Damian nipples to:


Okay, now that we've got our control group set up, it's time to feast our eyes on the lovely Damian nips (and... some Damian hiny, because I just couldn't resist):


5. Conclusion:

Will Ferrell has extremely tiny nipples.  Oh, wait... hmm... Damian's nips are definitely larger, but not unusually so, just a little bit.  In fact, it looks like his nipples got bigger once he got older and beefed up a little bit.  Check it out.


Hmm... interesting.  You see?  I never would have learned this had it not been for this study.  Oh, useless info, how I cherish you.  This was definitely a service to the education of the world.

DAMN YOU COMCAST!  DAMN YOU!  WHY DID YOU TAKE AWAY BBC AMERICA?  WHY??? :'(  Stupid Comcast changed their setup, and apparently that meant taking away BBC America and giving us a bunch of crappy movie stations that play the crappiest movies in existence.  WHAT THE HELL, COMCAST?  WHAT  THE  HELL?  Right when season 2 of Robin Hood is to premiere?  DAMN YOU!  Now I'm going to have to wait for the DVD release before I see the damn thing.  GAH, I HATE YOU COMCAST!  I HATE YOU!  ESPECIALLY YOUR SUCKY INTERNET CONNECTION!  YOUR COMMERCIALS ARE ALL LIES!  LIES!  WHY DID YOU TAKE AWAY MY BBCA?  DAMN YOU!  AND WHY WON'T YOU PROVIDE ON DEMAND FOR MY AREA?  WHAT'S YOUR DEAL, MAN?  GRRRRRRRRR!!!!! *rips out hair*

Oh, and you know what else sucks?  I have no willpower.  I went and bought that Hearts and Bones series that I wasn't supposed to buy, but I've been jonesing for new Damian, and I couldn't stop myself.  It's been about a week without any new Damian to satisfy to my addiction.  HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ME GOING BANKRUPT!  Almost bankrupt, anyway.  DAMN YOU, DAMIAN!  DAMN YOUR SUPERIOR GORGEOUSNESS!  BUT MY EYES THANK YOU FOR IT!  DAMN MY EYES!  DAMN THEM!

Oh man, I love it when Doctor Who is over dramatic.  SO HILARIOUS!  Sorry, I really shouldn't be laughing at people dying, but... I CAN'T HELP IT!  Especially with that super dramatic music, which makes it even better.  And the crappy special effects!  Gah, I love it.  And David Tennant always totally sells the Doctor's pain at losing people/aliens, but he's over it in about 2 seconds, which makes it even harder to not laugh.  Anyway, it resulted in one totally kickass moment of the Doctor flying with the angel things, so that was cool.  But overall it was just a meh episode.  I don't think anything will ever beat the Christmas ep from series 2, where David Tennant became the Doc.  I have yet to see an episode that made me as giddy as that one did.  But as much as I love David Tennant as the Doc, I actually think I like series 1 better story-wise.  It just seems like series 1 was so awesomely written and the characters were complex and interesting and everyone got just as much development as the Doc did.  Series 2 was pretty darn good too, but it started depending solely on David to sell the stories.  Then series 3 it was all about David, as was this episode.  I love him to death, but I need more than his awesomeness and crappy effects that make me laugh.  Anyway, it was still a fun watch.  I'm interested to see who the new companion will be (I've kept myself completely spoiler free considering I don't venture into the Who fandom, so I just get little tidbits from my British friends, most of which is "I want to live in Ten Inch Tennant's pants." *rolls eyes*).

OH!  Also, I saw an ad for series 2 of Robin Hood, which starts on Saturday, April 26th on BBC America.  I hope I remember to watch!  I tend to always forget about Saturday programming, which is why I missed series 1 on the first go around, and why I couldn't keep up with series 1 of Torchwood (although, to be honest, I thought Torchwood was utter crap, so I didn't try too hard to keep up with that one, but I hear it got better during series 2, so now I'm bummed that I didn't keep watching it).

Okay... you know how I called Robin Hood fluffy?  So the wrong word.  OMG, this episode was so excellent!!!  I am totally invested now, and not just because Richard Armitage knows how to work the leather.  Is it wrong that I didn't truly fall in love with the character of Guy until I saw him actually kill someone?  And then I loved him even more after I saw him kill another person?  OMG!!!  This is clearly what he excels at.  He's just so awesomely intense and pervertedly happy when he does it.  Also, I love that this show can have such a huge body count, and still be light-hearted.  Also... you know when I said that Guy/Robin was classic enemy slash?  Wrong about that too, because they barely share any scenes together (at least so far.  In the first ep they had a few lovely tension-filled scenes, but since then it's been all about Robin/Sheriff, which really isn't as aesthetically pleasing for slash, sadly).  Anyway, my reason for adoring this episode so much, aside from Guy being ridiculously sexy when he kills people?  We got some layers added to Guy, with him so desperate to please the Sheriff, and we got a bit of backstory about him being a laughingstock, and we got a whole lot of the Sheriff, who I fear I am falling madly in love with purely for his sense of humor.  He's so twisted and just a ball full of sarcasm, I love it!  Also, Robin's growing on me, and now the Robin/Marian storyline isn't quite so hard to believe anymore, although the crazy mad sexual tension going on between Marian and Guy is making my stomach do somersaults, which basically means that they rock my socks as a pairing, because it would be so terribly dysfunctional and wrong, and yet, I think Marian could totally bring out the soft side in Guy.  He's definitely shown some vulnerability already (which is probably why I'm so in love with him), so I could easily see him falling desperately in love with Marian (and getting his heart horribly broken, because he's not a man who loves easily, and he detests Robin, and Marian will always love Robin, no matter what. *weary sigh*)  And of course Robin is all about being loved by everyone and he can't stand it when someone doesn't adore him, and this brings out his prickishness, so I can completely understand Guy's dislike of Robin.  He's pretty much his opposite.  He's quietly smoldering, total loner, everything about him is dark and cold (dark hair, dark clothes, deep voice), while everything about Robin is light and warm (the light hair, light eyes, warm colors of clothing, boyish "charm" (psh, if you can even call it charm), a light voice, always smiling), and Guy has to work hard to get what he wants, while everything comes to Robin easily.  Also, Guy is socially inept, and you all know how much I love socially inept characters.  OMG, I LOVE GUY!!!!

Dudes, I am so happy that I decided to give Robin Hood a try.  Such a fun show, and I'm a total sucker for sword fights, and I used to be obsessed with Robin Hood when I was a kid (the Prince of Thieves version, so... this show has everything as a completely different story than the one that I know, but I'm still loving it).  Also, I really, really adore Much, and his utter jealousy whenever Robin shows some love to anyone that isn't him.