I started playing the F/SN game a while ago. I couldn't really get into it, maybe because I already know a lot of the things that happen so the incredibly long and uneventful build up became unbearable... Then again, if I didn't know that it gets good eventually I don't think I'd be able to bother getting through the intro in that case, either. Oh well, either way it's still on my metaphorical "to do" list.
Doesn't anyone think archer is robin hood? He's great with daggers, was rather intelligent, and plus whenever he used a nobel phantasm he spoke in english mostly. Plus, his warrior class was archer. I think they purposely dropped other hints to imply that.
I like the way you think but, and I hope this doesn't constitute a spoiler, he isn't actually Robin Hood. It actually says elsewhere in this thread who he actually is so if you don't want to know I'd leave this thread very quickly! I had a similar thing with Saber. It seemed to me that she was Joan of Arc. Her clothes and general stuffy, dutiful persona really implied that (not to mention her gender) but the key thing to figuring out Saber's identity is the fact that she almost always conceals her sword.