Robin Wood- Do you like him?

I didnt mind him too terribly. I am glad they drifted past the whole buffy-wood ramance angle they threw at us for a mili-second. I dont think I would have liked those two together. He wasn't horrible with Faith. I did like that he was a son of a slayer. I guess I am saying I could have lived with or without him. 😛
 
i dont think there ever was a buffy/wood romance. maybe he was attracted to her, but i think he just asked her out because he was suspicious and wanted to find out more about her and thought he could do it that way.

I think Wood and Faith were great for each other. I really liked that couple.
 
Does anybody else keep reading 'Robin Hood'? It's driving me mad!!

Wasn't Buffy aslo at least a little bit atracted to him? I kinda got that vibe in First Date
 
Social Suicide said:
Does anybody else keep reading 'Robin Hood'? It's driving me mad!!

Wasn't Buffy aslo at least a little bit atracted to him? I kinda got that vibe in First Date
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she was and thats partly whats bugging me about him.
And, funny you mention Robin hood because whenever i said his name "Robin Wood" i kept thinking...what does that sound like!?? and now i know!😛 ROBIN HOOD!!!
 
I actually wish that with him being perhaps the only son of a slayer, I would actually wish he had some type of slayer powers. That would have made his story and his character more interesting if he had powers, even if it wasn't full slayer powers but partial powers that would have been great.
 
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I strongly disagree to this as there is no real justification for it and it detracts from the point of the story
I think he's hot 😉 And I really loved his discussion with Faith about who was better in bed 🙂
What I didn't liked was that he was going after Spike, but and some point I understood it.. I think.. I have no idea how it feels if your mother is murdered and a few years later you walk up with the guy who did it, but I think I would have wanted the same.
 
CharmedSlayer85 said:
I actually wish that with him being perhaps the only son of a slayer, I would actually wish he had some type of slayer powers. That would have made his story and his character more interesting if he had powers, even if it wasn't full slayer powers but partial powers that would have been great.
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I could not disagree more.

Why on earth would he need powers?

The fact that he was a normal child was far more interesting and powerful because it told the Slayer that they could have something normal in their abnormal world.
 
Bored of the Dead said:
The fact that he was a normal child was far more interesting and powerful because it told the Slayer that they could have something normal in their abnormal world.
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I completely agree. I don't see how slayer powers could pass on to him anyway... its not genetic, or else, for all we know, there could have been other slayeresque people walking around as decendents of other slayers (I'm sure in one of the Tales of the Slayer books, another slayer had child(ren)... although I think they may have been killed/turned... not too sure).

But my point is, I think that they included the whole 'son of the slayer' thing exactly as it should have been done, if they had to include it at all. I'm still hoping for an evil Robin Wood at some point, even though I think the chances of that are virtually nil... I just think he could have had so much more potential as a turncoat, or just as one of The First's associates.
 
Bored of the Dead disagrees: I strongly disagree to this as there is no real justification for it and it detracts from the point of the story
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There's really no justification that he WOULDN'T have powers though. Just finished Tales Of The Slayers, and for all we know either no other child was born. (Heck, most do seem awfully young and once you add killing vampires they probably didn't have a lot of time to get any.)

I DO agree that he shouldn't have lots of power. Not real Slayer power. But, it would be kind of neat if he had something. Maybe like the "Cramps" from the Buffy Movie that she got when vampires were close by.
It would be darn funny seeing Robin running around with cramps!
 
Dlou444 said:
There's really no justification that he WOULDN'T have powers though. Just finished Tales Of The Slayers, and for all we know either no other child was born. (Heck, most do seem awfully young and once you add killing vampires they probably didn't have a lot of time to get any.)

I DO agree that he shouldn't have lots of power. Not real Slayer power. But, it would be kind of neat if he had something. Maybe like the "Cramps" from the Buffy Movie that she got when vampires were close by.
It would be darn funny seeing Robin running around with cramps!
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There IS a justification for him to not have powers though.

The justification is that the Slayer can have normal things, being the slayer isn't the be all and end all, not any more.

If the Slayer was to have a gifted child then that detracts because that child will be compelled to use its gift(good or evil) where as, the legacy of the Slayer that has a normal child is a child that can have a normal life, even if she never could.
 
I'm just saying to justify something you have to have proof and we don't really have any PROOF that it couldn't happen.

As I said, I don't think he should have any "real" Slayer powers. I'm just saying with him being the only KNOWN child of a Slayer we have no proof there for we can't justify him not having powers.

Dawn may count some though. Hard to tell. But even she's not a child of a Slayer.

I'm just saying that without proof, he COULD. Obviously not REAL powers, we've seen that much. Otherwise he'd have been better in the fights. It wouldn't be so bad for him to have stupid powers. That would be kind of funny. Like the cramps.
 
I always kinda liked him.. his vendetta was a little dull, but the actor was awesome and I enjoyed having him around.
I really think Spike should have given him his mothers coat back at the end of the show, but yeah that didn't happen >.>
Sucks he wasn't in much of season eight. I think him and Faith could have been interesting.
 
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I love your sig :) But its Spike's coat, not Nikki's!! He'd look weird without it...
To me, I never understood why people singled out Robin Wood. He was a symptom of an uneven season. Wood actually is an interesting juxtaposition to Holtz( although Holtz was infinitely a more developed character) as he is what you get if someone has a life outside vengence. Here is someone who isn't consumed by it and isn't totally driven by it. Is he pissed that Buffy 'chose' Spike over him. Sure, Wood lost another slayer to Spike, that's got to sting no matter how petty or Oedipal it sounds (ewww no, I'm not a Freudian).

I don't know what people mean about wanting him to be evil. If he was a guy totally driven by vengence and became a tool for corruption then, well, we get Holtz mark 2. If he were simply an agent for the First, again, really dull. If he was using the First to get to Spike but then realised "omg I need to good and not work with evil" then they wouldn't have had enough time do develop that (part of the problem in the first place). I didn't mind Robin but I think he suffered from Season 7itis.
 
I liked Wood's character. He had issues, but that's not surprising. Having a slayer as a friend or sister is hard enough, but as a mother...? Your mother should be the one person in the world who you know would put you first, beyond everything, but Wood knew that wasn't quite true: the mission was what mattered. Plus, if Spike was right in Fool for Love, and part of Nikki wanted it all to end, then her son wasn't enough of a reason for her to stay.

I can completely understand Wood wanted to kill Spike. Finding him and getting revenge had been the focus of his life (maybe at the expense of indulging in some healthy grieving and moving on). A few minutes of thought though, should have made him realise that, big picture, they were in the middle of a war and Spike was one of their strongest soldiers.

I think Wood also had a slightly oedipal thing going on with slayers. He wanted to be close to Buffy and Faith, because it was a way to be close to his mum.

He got over the thing with Spike (well, enough to be able to fight on the same team) and threw himself into the battle, so he deserves some credit for that.

Plus, he was really funny! Delivered some great lines!

Bringing Wood in was a really interesting way to resurrect Nikki's character, which always stood out to me, even though she had just a few minutes screen time back in Season 5. I think it would be interesting to find out a bit more about her (A comic perhaps?) . I assume she didn't get pregnant on purpose, but decided to keep the baby, and then managed to combine motherhood and slaying for four years....
 
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She's in "Tales of the Slayers." You should check it out.
I liked Robin Wood. He was fascinating. He certainly was flawed. I didn't agree with his decision to go after Spike in revenge for his mother's death. But I certainly understood where he was coming from a hell of a lot more than I did Giles.

"I really think Spike should have given him his mothers coat back at the end of the show, but yeah that didn't happen."
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What for? The coat was not going to bring back Nikki. Wood didn't need it. The coat would have been a constant reminder of her death and it would not have served a purpose for his development as a character. And considering that Wood tried to kill Spike, despite knowing that the latter was trying to turn his life around, I don't think he really deserved the coat.
 
I'm gonna agree with Keanoite on this one. Principal Wood was really just scenery...like a tree. A tree that walked, talked, cried, complained, and slept with Faith...

But seriously, aside from the events in LMPTM, he didn't do much. He just sort of glared at the camera at the very end of every act, and man, did he do a good job. He looked totally menacing and badass with his glaring. In fact, all acts of all shows should just end with a closeup of DB Woodside, even if he's not actually in the show.
 
I didn't care for Robin much.
Well,at the beginning when he was all mysterious he was kinda interesting, I even thought he would be evil ( and I really think it would be better if he was).
But then he just became boring and I didn't pay much attention to him.
Except for when he was trying to kill Spike and really pissed me off!
And then he was boring again.
 
I've always been torn with Wood's character, and I'm still not really sure of what I think of him! When we first meet him he seemed like a good guy (I really liked how he fit into the principal role), but I think that since his personal baggage with his mother and Spike took up so much of his character's story, that's probably the only reason I don't like him all that much.

I like him when he's not talking about either one of them, so I think if he had stuck around longer I would have grown to like him.

Just for the record though, I can understand his situation with Spike. I mean picture yourself, a little kid, and someone breaks your mother's neck on a Subway one night. Years later, the killer walks straight into your life, supposedly "all better" now-- no longer willing to harm others. Soul or not, I think all that I would see is the "man who killed my mom" rather than a guy on the path to redemption. I'd want payback, I don't think I'd act rationally at all (in fact my whole OUTLOOK on the situation would probably still be stuck in that little kid mentality. Grown up now or not, all I would think is "this man killed my mom"... whether it be a risk to her "lifestyle" or not). So not saying I liked his attitude, just as is with many characters, I can understand it.

Really though, poor Spike, everyone had it in for him on that show! 😉
 
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