Guy DOES occasionally do something NON-Marian related that still suggests something going on. Ex. 2x3. Sherry told him to off the kids. He could/ would not. No Marian around
Plus he was still in 'Marian grrrr" mode in 2x03 but yeah. He compass may be drifty, but the point of a drifty compass here is that his morality has no set direction, sometimes it points northerly just by chance (but yeah, I think there are some lines even Guy thinks he won't cross, even though Vasey delights in proving that he totally will because until he does his corruption of Guy is incomplete).
All of 1x04 is kind of an OOC mess. Guy's no saint to be sure, but with his later portrayal as a hopeless romantic in desperate search of family and connection, to the point where *because* of that need he does horrible things and lash out when he loses them, 'Parenthood' really stands out as not fitting that with the usual implications/interpretations. If he had say packed Annie off as soon as he found out she was pregnant and never told her to contact him again, that's still cold-hearted and the good guys could have still found it dishonorable, but also could have been in character. Leaving his own infant child to die in the forest? Pretty much in contrast to 90% of Guy's characterization.
And really, if he'd left the kid there to die and didn't want anyone to ever find out...smirking when Robin rode away with the baby was probably also not the most in character response either. If he'd really intended the kid to die he'd have been worried for his reputation with Robin getting his hands on the kid. That's the problem with writing about the ep, as soon as I get one factor to fit(ish) I realize something else doesn't, which all the more proves that for it to make sense something else is going to have to be involved in the story.
Plus, the more I think about this, the more I think there's also some interesting possibilities in pathos for him not realizing that the kid Robin is carting around is Seth all while smirking that 'haha, Hood has to watch a baby.'
Oh course by late s3 I was already more or less watching the show from Guy's POV, especially in 3x10 which boiled down to 'Guy's an emo teenager, and he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, and that never changes, but damn he got a raw deal. Also the Locksley males are assholes." But I still definitely need to rewatch it because some of the details are fuzzy and it's kind of important to get that section of his life right when I write it.
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Date: 2009-07-29 04:06 pm (UTC)Plus he was still in 'Marian grrrr" mode in 2x03 but yeah. He compass may be drifty, but the point of a drifty compass here is that his morality has no set direction, sometimes it points northerly just by chance (but yeah, I think there are some lines even Guy thinks he won't cross, even though Vasey delights in proving that he totally will because until he does his corruption of Guy is incomplete).
All of 1x04 is kind of an OOC mess. Guy's no saint to be sure, but with his later portrayal as a hopeless romantic in desperate search of family and connection, to the point where *because* of that need he does horrible things and lash out when he loses them, 'Parenthood' really stands out as not fitting that with the usual implications/interpretations. If he had say packed Annie off as soon as he found out she was pregnant and never told her to contact him again, that's still cold-hearted and the good guys could have still found it dishonorable, but also could have been in character. Leaving his own infant child to die in the forest? Pretty much in contrast to 90% of Guy's characterization.
And really, if he'd left the kid there to die and didn't want anyone to ever find out...smirking when Robin rode away with the baby was probably also not the most in character response either. If he'd really intended the kid to die he'd have been worried for his reputation with Robin getting his hands on the kid. That's the problem with writing about the ep, as soon as I get one factor to fit(ish) I realize something else doesn't, which all the more proves that for it to make sense something else is going to have to be involved in the story.
Plus, the more I think about this, the more I think there's also some interesting possibilities in pathos for him not realizing that the kid Robin is carting around is Seth all while smirking that 'haha, Hood has to watch a baby.'
Oh course by late s3 I was already more or less watching the show from Guy's POV, especially in 3x10 which boiled down to 'Guy's an emo teenager, and he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, and that never changes, but damn he got a raw deal. Also the Locksley males are assholes." But I still definitely need to rewatch it because some of the details are fuzzy and it's kind of important to get that section of his life right when I write it.