YMMV / Robin Hood S 03 E 07 Too Hot To Handle

• Angst? What Angst?: Kate is captured and dragged off by soldiers, and the other outlaws barely blink an eye. This is especially odd since it's clear she's in very serious danger — in fact, she ends up on the receiving end of the show's most explicit rape threat. Yet a few scenes later, they're depicted as happily celebrating the return of water to the River Trent, despite having no idea whether she's alive or dead.
• Fans Prefer the New Her: Mild example, but this episode features what is generally considered Kate’s best look. She doesn’t have the forehead braid or the impractical green velour corset/dress combination — instead she’s wearing a light, simple dress that doesn’t hamper her movements in any way. However, within the context of the episode it’s not meant to be a good look, but rather one brought on by the unbearable heat of the drought.
• Fridge Logic: Much rather uncharacteristically leaves Kate to her fate after she’s been kidnapped, justifying it by saying: “if I’d only seen them [take her], I’d have gone after her.” It’s unclear exactly how this is stopping him, since they obviously would have taken her back to Nottingham Castle.
• Informed Wrongness: This episode attempts to build a conflict between Robin’s attraction to Isabella and his responsibilities to the people, with Tuck and Kate once again casting aspersions onto Isabella and insinuating that Robin is being distracted by her charms. After he leaves to meet with her, the outlaws are depicted as completely helpless to intervene when Prince John rides into Locksley and promptly drowns one of the villagers, the implication being that Robin is shirking his duties and should have been with them.
  • However, Robin is absolutely right when he says that Isabella may have valuable information to share with them — because she does. It’s entirely thanks to her that Robin learns how to unplug the spring and return the water to the wells, though the writing clearly wants us to think he's being an irresponsible fool for not trusting Tuck and Kate’s gut instincts.
• Special Effects Failure: They tried, but the depiction of the dried-up River Trent is not remotely convincing. It’s a narrow ditch filled with sand – not stones or cracked earth as you’d expect from a parched river bed, but actual sand that’s clearly been collected from the nearest beach.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Kate gets captured by the castle guards while all the other outlaws are running to safety, and no one seems to care. That they don’t even bother to mount a rescue mission only adds to the strangeness, as does their joyful celebrations on seeing the water return to the dried-up riverbank despite having no idea if she’s alive or dead at that point.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: Kate’s subplot in which she gets captured and imprisoned in Nottingham dungeons amounts to nothing and has no narrative purpose whatsoever. She doesn’t learn anything useful or participate in the sword-fight or even find a way out of the castle by herself. She’s just... there. The whole detour only seems to exist in order to bump up her screentime.