Sherwood S1 E7

## Plot

Tui sees all of the Drobos heading for the market. Rose and Gripper want to stop them, but Robin, Iniko, and Juba still aren't back yet. Tui wants to wait for them to return so Robin can come up with a plan, but she admits that they might not have time to make one, and Rose and Gripper point out that Robin wouldn't want them to do nothing while the Sheriff attacks the Sea Croppers. While on the way there on her hoverboard, Rose and Gripper laugh at the two of them –an Upper City girl and a salt miner– being on a team together. Gisbourne is surprised to find his father leading the assault on the Lower City market. It turns out that Gisbourne has been keeping an eye on Tui. She's been sneaking off to the market at night. He believes that she's up to something about the food, and asks for some security to investigate her kelp farm more. The Sheriff agrees to give him one Drobo. Robin, Iniko, and Juba reach the market and see what's going on. Rose and Gripper are glad to see them, especially since they don't have a plan. However, after Iniko just jumps in, she says that the plan is that they improvise. The hits actually sound and feel like they have real effort and impact behind them! Finally! At least, some of them do. I don't know, maybe my brain just wanted the action to be smoother or something? Which is weird, because I don't think it's a problem with the frame rate, and even if it was, that would be a first for me, since I never had any problems with *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse* or season 1 of *The Dragon Prince*. My brain just doesn't notice frame rate stuff, except maybe lagging during a live stream, but that might be a different thing altogether. Robin uses the gauntlet to find out that the Drobos are after the food. Gripper saves Juba. That wasn't just a good catch; that was an insanely awesome and extremely lucky catch! Gisbourne shows up at Tui's farm and investigates her lab. He tells her that he built his taser himself, but it does more than that. It also contains a DNA tracker and a deep-cell bio-analysis unit. I still don't think that excuses its large size, but whatever. He finds the kelpotein. Tui sends an emergency signal to Robin. She leaves to check it out while Iniko and the others try to save the food. Meanwhile, Thomas is yelling at the Sheriff for going against his word and using his technology as a weapon. Nottingham reminds him what the Ascension Project, which is also his technology, will do once it's activated. Even with all of the food from Sherwood, they'll only have enough to last for a few months. It doesn't matter whose hand they suffer by. Thomas says there is a difference, because unlike him, the Sheriff enjoys it. Yeah, but still, you're not doing anything to stop him. That makes you complicit in all of his schemes. Complacency because you benefit from the status quo can result in, among many other things, the complete erosion of a stable society and democracy, your faith and trust in others, basic compassion and empathy, etc. Anyways, before Gisbourne can take Tui back to the Cube so she'll answer his questions, Robin saves her. Gisbourne locks himself inside the lab and sends a transmission, saying that Robin is there. The Sheriff has his elite unit 8 Drobos deployed. They're just like the one that Robin had to fight during the competition. One of them shoots Iniko, but he's still alive. He thinks they're all going to die though, so he thanks Gripper for being his brother. Aw! Before they're killed though, the Drobos leave. Meanwhile, Robin and Tui try to figure out how to get Gisbourne out of the lab. They can't shut off the air supply because that would damage the kelpotein. There's an emergency release mechanism, but it's at the top of the building. Robin wants to climb up there, but Tui says she needs to be down here to grab Gisbourne when the doors open. However, the elite Drobos attack her and knock her out. Gisbourne tells his father the good news and assumes he's going to be proud of him. The Sheriff just tells him to take Robin to the lab instead of the Cube, and have the Drobos destroy everything. Personally, I think Robin's capture would've worked better if she saw how hopeless the situation was and decided to surrender, provided that everyone else in Sherwood was brought to the Upper City to get away from the next super-storm. Then her friends would be in a different kind of prison than her, and they'd have to figure out how to escape and free her. It'd be a great character development opportunity for Rose, and maybe Gripper too, plus Iniko since he has romantic feelings for Robin. It'd also be nice to actually *see* what the rest of the Upper City is like instead of just hearing about it.