I'm glad I'm of some use. Praed's Robin is a lot more reliant on his merry men than the other ones are. He's not cocky, and when he's acting like he is is generally when he gets knocked down a peg. The whole "King's Fool" episode is one of those cases where everyone finally looks to him as leader and he brashly does the WRONG thing.

And I sort of like Gisbourne too. Gisbournes are generally the bumbling lackey without two cents in their heads to rub together (except for the BBC version who is just wickedly, wickedly hot), but you don't get that feeling from this one. As he keeps stating, he's a soldier, not someone skilled in fighting guerilla warfare and making big decisions. You feel for him sometimes as he becomes the Sheriff's whipping boy and stooge. He doesn't seem so much evil as normal. Sure, there are flashes of ruthlessness, but you have to think that it's something his surroundings have cultured in him or he wouldn't have seemed sympathetic to Alan's woman.