YMMV / Robyn Hood (2023)

• Ass Pull: The second half of the Season Finale reveals that John Prince has been plotting for years to Kill the Poor by flooding a quarter of the city. Up until that moment, there was nothing suggesting anything beyond him wanting to buy Sherwood Towers and evict the residents to replace them with "the right kind of people", and it feels like a last-minute attempt to make a villain out of a character who, up to that point, has been fairly reasonable in trying to deal with a gang of unrepentant criminals and never did much worse than being kind of a jerk.
• Narm: Early in the second episode, Little John warns Robyn that "Prince isn't the type to forgive and forget" in reference to their crimes the previous episode. As it's been maybe twelve hours since they broke into the man's home, assaulted him with swords and a bow, and stole his Rolls Royce, it seems pretty ridiculous to act as though he should have already forgiven them.
• Strawman Has a Point: John Prince at multiple points, to the point he unintentionally comes off as one of the more reasonable characters in the show.
  • He is blown off for being upset at the Hood after they rob him, with even the Sheriff sarcastically asking when his new Rolls Royce will be delivered. However, the man's house was broken into then he was assaulted with deadly weapons, his driver was taken hostage, and his car stolen. He's completely justified in wanting the perpetrators arrested, especially as it just happened the previous night.
  • He's considered evil for getting mad at his son Chet always bringing "peasants" into his home, but his son apparently leaves security cards lying around with each of his one night stands, to the extent that he's got dozens of copies. And Chet inviting up a delivery girl allowed her to steal his security guard and break into the place later that night.
  • After Robyn's mother gets shot, John Prince visits her in the hospital, apologizing for what happened^note He wanted her arrested, not shot, and was outraged with the sheriffs for doing so and offers her a million dollars, full scholarships for her daughters, and to pay all her medical expenses regardless of what specialists she needs in order to regain her mobility. All he asks in return is that she, and she alone, stop protesting his attempts to buy Sherwood apartments. Her response is to say her sole regret is that she can't "shove [her] foot up his ass".
  • Both John Prince and the Sheriff blow off the inhabitants of Sherwood apartments as a bunch of criminals. Considering the police are immediately pelted with trash and bottles everyone living there the moment they show up (they were chasing the then unknown Hood at the time), the pair are right.
  • In episode six, John offers to give everyone in Sherwood a free apartment if he's allowed to purchase the apartment block. Instead, Tressie and Marian demand he drop the (very legitimate) criminal charges against Tressie and build new apartments "right next to the rich people" for everyone in Sherwood to live in. The mayor backs them up, threatening to fire the Sheriff when she doesn't want to drop the investigation and threatens to veto the bill that will let Prince buy Sherwood if he doesn't capitulate to their demands. Legally, he's under no obligation to arrange for them to have new homes nor drop the charges against Tressie for the times she broke into his home to protest his purchase of Sherwood Apartments.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • The Hood resort to crime to solve all of their problems, such as shooting Guy Gisborne with a bow and arrow to chase him out of town after he starts assaulting people. At no point do they consider taking legal actions such as reporting him to the sheriffs. The following episode, when they get caught robbing a drug company's warehouse, they activate the fire suppressing system and nearly kill everyone there since the system uses inert gases rather than water. As early as the second episode, they have to talk themselves out of blowing all their stolen money on themselves rather than helping the community and quickly decide to keep robbing the rich even though the whole reason they stole John Prince's car (bail money for Robyn's mother) has been solved.
  • Tressie, Robyn's mother, refuses John Prince's offer to give everyone living in Sherwood free apartments around the city, because she's outraged that he wants them to move out of Sherwood. Besides the fact that Sherwood is repeatedly shown and stated to be in a bad neighborhood, Prince's offer is incredibly generous. Even him dropping the very legitimate charges against her doesn't move her. Instead, Tressie demands that everyone from Sherwood be put in apartments right next to "all the rich people", which is not only unreasonable but it's extremely unlikely anyone in Sherwood could afford to live in such a neighborhood.
  • The Mayor is intended to be a Reasonable Authority Figure who supports Tressie (and implicitly the Hood as well) in their fight against John Prince, especially when Prince threatens her with bad publicity if she keeps standing against him. Instead, she comes off as a textbook example of a corrupt Mayor Pain. Her support of the heroes is often illegal or at least amoral, such as threatening to fire the Sheriff if she doesn't drop the investigation against Tressie's crimes against John Prince and tells Prince that she'll veto the bill allowing him to buy Sherwood Apartments if he doesn't give in to every one of Tressie's and Marian's frankly ridiculous demands. Even the bad publicity Prince threatens her with is news stories about how she's not doing anything to stop the crime wave caused by the Hood, which is completely accurate. Then there's the conversation she has with Prince where her opposition towards his plan to buy the building stems from the fact Sherwood Apartments is filled with her voters, making it sound like she's just abusing her power to get re-elected.

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