YMMV / Robin Hood S 03 E 12 Something Worth Fighting For Part One

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Kate spontaneously invents CPR and successfully administers it to Robin. What makes it even more bizarre is that Guy and Much were buried deeper in the limestone and yet are revived by Archer simply waving what looks like a vial of smelling salts under their noses.
• Narm:
  • Archer kills one of the guards by throwing a ninja star into his back — which wouldn't be too bad except it's done in Slow Motion and the star itself barely looks big enough to be used as a bottle opener, let alone kill an armored man.
  • The cringe-worthy Cat Fight. It's not particularly well choreographed, the actresses make all kinds of silly gasps and grunts as they lunge at each other, and it's just plain embarrassing to watch two grown women fight like children over a man who has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't care about either of them.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Tuck's peaceful protest is widely considered as something the character should have been doing all along, rather than spending much of the series being Demoted to Extra after the first few episodes.
  • Averted with Rebecca humbly confessing her role in Isabella's scheme to break up Kate and Robin, which was clearly meant to be a redemptive moment for the character, but only ended up making her more loathed by viewers for giving Kate a reason to return to the main storyline instead of leaving Nottingham forever.
• Romantic Plot Tumour: It’s the penultimate episode. Prince John’s forces are massing in the north, there are rumors King Richard has returned, Archer is attempting to form an alliance with Isabella, Allan is accused of treachery, Sheriff Vaizey is Back from the Dead... and a significant portion of the screen-time is devoted to Kate fretting about whether Robin loves her.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: The entire subplot in which Kate is tricked into believing that Robin is still romantically attached to Isabella ultimately amounts to nothing. Its only narrative purpose is to justify the Cat Fight, but physically overpowering Isabella isn't anything the other outlaws weren't capable of doing themselves, and it's not like Kate needed another reason to attack the woman she's hated from the start.