Subtext? What subtext?

Re-watching RoS for refreshment of brain for Nanowrimo, and after groaning over the travesty that is 'The Inheritance' (I know, let's put King Arthur in an ep of Robin Hood! That's a good idea!) and being unable to get Sean Connery from Robbin' the Legend out of my head, I put on 'The Sheriff of Nottingham'. Dear god. One of those bits you fail to remember completely. RoS has, of course, subtext. Lots of it. Occasionally we get such things as the bathtub scene and 'Harder, Gisburne, harder!'. But... um.... there is no such thing as subtext in this. Lewis Collins (Bodie from the Professionals) is camping it up something chronic.

'You belong to me now, Gisburne.' (whilst laying a possessive hand on his) Really. In 'You're my wife now, Dave' tones.
'You must show me this... tunnel of yours.' (added smirkage)
Flirty caressing of Robin's chin whilst making innuendo laden comments.
Oh, and of course there's the catamite comment from the Sheriff that he took earlier offence to. He's a top, dammit! Plus the 'my room, later' vibe you get with the serving boy.
Aww, the Sheriff just re-claimed Gisburne as his. How cute.

Oh, squee! I'd forgotten this is the episode of '27 years I've been in here. Think it's 27. I've got one question. When are they going to change the straw?'