Poor Guy. As the designated evil henchman on a family-friendly show, he was bound to be thwarted again and again. Literally and figuratively, he kept getting knocked down (and tied up! And gagged and caged–wait, what about all that “family-friendly” stuff? oh well, never mind), Yet he kept getting up again, bringing us those sneers, smirks, snarls and delicious smouldering stares. Sometimes, it’s hard out there for a henchman. But Sir Guy always makes it look good!
Guy–so sexy when totally peeved. Love that stare. And the floppy fringe.
Love Guy when he’s totally peeved and he has so many reasons… And we did have fun with the “Guy tied” challenge on DF. Family friendly, hah. Guy bound has our minds heading for NC-17 territory fast.
Guy did not have an easy life. He lost his parents in a terrible way, lost his home and had no one, really, to turn to for help; he was stuck with that morose little sister with schizoid tendencies and did the best he could for her. Of course all THAT came back to bite him. So he ends up working for a man who is the closest thing he has to family and frankly, Guy would have been better off being raised by wolves. He has to deal with that spoiled git and gloryhog Robin constantly getting the better of him. And the woman he loved was lying to him and manipulating him in the worst way. Yeah, he had a right to be totally peeved IMHO.
And you don’t tie a character to a tree-twice!-and to a bed and have him bound and gagged while his tattoo is burned off and toss him into a go-go cage without being perfectly aware a segment of the audience is going to love seeing that big, strapping, gorgeous alpha male in such situations.
And now he has his revenge — SND and thriving, well-looked after, with a magic sword, and with a multitude of adoring admirers. Those who wronged him haven’t got that. The best they can hope for is some fanfic author to take pity on them.
“. . . . a multitude of adoring admirers”! Never was a truer word spoken!! If ever anyone was perfectly cast it was Richard as Guy of Gisborne!! As he has done with every other chaRActer he’s portrayed, he “became” Guy and is forever imprinted on our minds.
Oh yes – unforgettable! *sigh*
I freely admit I cried over Guy more than I have some of my own flesh-and-blood relatives of the more distant variety. I simply had to love him into being.
I think there are many of us who still can’t handle his “death” very well no matter how many times we have watched S3 – or any of his chaRActer’s “deaths” come to think of it! The trouble is he makes us believe that what we are watching is real!! It’s an amazing talent but so VERY hard on our hearts!
No, I don’t deal with the “deaths” of any of the characters well. *sigh* And it doesn’t seem to get any easier, either.
That catharsis that lets us cry for Guy is important. Just like opera lets us cry in the dark over the poignant tragedy of the characters, there has to be a place where we are allowed to cry over everyone and everything in real life as represented by the character. No one puts up with our grief elsewhere (sometimes not even ourselves) and it helps to let ourselves feel it for a character.
That’s sooo true and why we love Richard so much! He makes us believe these characters are real!!! Only some actors can do that repeatedly role after role and he’s one of them! I really am having a hard time waiting for Thorin and Gary!!!
He’s very happy now. Sure, he’s a bit prickly and growly and jealous at times–heavens, he wouldn’t be Guy otherwise!–but life is much better now that he’s SND.
I so wanted another couple of episodes with Guy in charge in of Nottingham, defending them against Prince John. He just needed the chance to come into his own, I reckon, to show that he was more than the Sheriff’s patsy.
I know. There really was a lot of potential in Guy, he just was always in the sheriff’s malevolent and poisonous shadow. Even Marian managed to somewhat look beyond her blinders to see that. Too bad she didn’t look a little harder. Setting aside the whole sex god aspect, here’s the man who wants to save you from certain death and then returns to your side to fight rather than save himself and there’s the self-absorbed man who compares you to his bow. Hmmmmm. No contest for me.
Nor for me either. It was Guy who put his life on the line repeatedly for Marian, who ran interference for her time after time, even when she was being incredibly stupid. He was so thoughtful, even bringing her a beautiful coif to cover up her shorn hair so she would not be shamed. How many men would think of something like that, even today? “It’s not my problem” would be the more typical reaction. He gives her a horse, not some stupid trinket she’ll never use. He offers marriage, three times, not just a quickie in the underbrush. In her place, I know who I’d want…
And you just KNOW he would have stayed totally devoted to her.. Unlike the guy with the bow, who grieved for her for like 5 seconds!
Exactly. Once Guy’s heart was truly won, I don’t think he’d give it to another. As for Robin, well–I think his kissy-face antics with Isabella and Kate after proclaiming he would love Marian forever sort of told us what kind of a husband he would likely have made. I remember how he fooled around with that tarty-looking wench on the way back to Locksley from the Holy Land, and then showed up on Marian’s doorstep seeming to expect her collapse in raptures over his long-awaited return. Have I mentioned I don’t really like Robin much?
Our “beloved” RH always had a wondering eye.. He really wasn’t a hero with many attractive traits, was he?
He really wasn’t. He didn’t even have the hotness factor to make up for some of his other shortcomings.
Yeah.No eye-candy factor there, that’s for sure…There are so many hot young British actors around surely they could have found somebody better looking? Maybe they would have cost more to hire.
You know, Jonas would have been fine as one of the gang. But he just doesn’t have the physicality or charisma to fit into the heroic mold. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is. You know, the guy who played Archer also tried out for Robin, I do believe. He would have been a better choice than Jonas.
I have always enjoyed that video!! The music, the captions and of course the hottest henchman ever, all combine to create a very fun video. Thanks