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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote 2009-02-28 08:52 pm (UTC)

I think it's mostly how the trope is done? I really don't have a problem with the trope as a general thing -- there are real life examples, even. But I feel like the show is having trouble pulling off the concept in a way that doesn't feel (to me) ham-handed and emotionally manipulative. I think that in order to keep my own disbelief suspended, they did a bad thing by having such a blatant emotional ploy in the first episode, and having the characters all fall in line with it in the end -- maybe if they'd had them come around more slowly to the Robin Hood concept, it wouldn't have seemed so bludgeon-y? I don't know; something about it is just not working for me, even though I think that under different circumstances I could be sold on it.

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