I'm very weary of this new movie supposedly coming out with Gal Gadot...

I'm honestly terrified that in this era of needing to remake and "reboot" older movies and shows that the original beauty and lessons brought to the screen in the original will be completely lost and it's just going to be Gal in yet another "tall woman smashes all the things" movie...

There are soooo many other little details I worry about getting lost in translating a TV series of 6yrs into an movie, that I feel are important to context...

Does anyone else feel this way?

Does anyone else have a strong need to get in the face of whoever had this idea and scream "Stop breaking things that were already perfect and get some of your own ideas!!!!"...?

Who would win in a fight between Mavican and Najara?

Feel free to post here or message me directly! I just love this show so much and adore feeling connected to it.

Would love to know your experiences.

I was young and living in Auckland during filming and everyday curse my parents for not taking me to get cast, I could have been one of the many blonde children that Xena has to save from a stray arrow in a burning village.

Succession is one of my episodes this is the plot.

The hot-headed warrior Mavican wants to be Ares' right-hand woman and believes it is her destiny to be known as Xena's killer. Offering Mavican the chance to prove her worth, Ares sends her, Xena, and Gabrielle to another world and pits them against one another. With rules of Ares' game limiting their options, Xena and Gabrielle must escape from the other world as well as Mavican's bloodlust. Little do they know, Ares's goals are not what they appear.

The Legendary Journeys wiki says she can react at “literal lightning fast speeds” and dodge lightning bolts. Anyone know what this is referring to?

So I finally subscribed to yet another streaming service because I heard My Life is Murder is pretty good... I'm only in season 1, so I'm not sure if this bears out, but I've adopted the headcannon that Alexa Crowe is Xena reincarnated and her husband Gary is actually Gabrielle. I can't be the only one?? (No spoilers please)

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I love that Gabby had another hero to look up to besides Xena and Hercules. Meleager should have returned he had an interesting back story with his alcoholism

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Season 3 is up!

You might have watched the S01 and S02 versions I delivered, but in any case, here is the 3rd as well.

Now all of them safely (so far 🤞🏻👀) on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/xena-s01

https://archive.org/details/xena-s02

https://archive.org/details/xena-s03

Enjoy!

Any of y'all play DD2? I'm just starting to play and I'm looking for Gabrielle char build but can't find any. Here's for Xena btw: https://youtu.be/eR8UsqtWgBw

Season 3 comedies:

1. Been There, Done That
2. King of Assassins
3. Warrior...Priestess...Tramp
4. The Quill is Mightier
5. Fins, Femmes and Gems
6. Vanishing Act

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Season 4 comedies:

1. In Sickness and in Hell
2. A Tale of Two Muses - Does it count?
3. The Key To The Kingdom
4. If The Shoe Fits
5. The Play's The Thing
6. Takes One To Know One

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I watched Xena religiously back in the day. Haven't seen it since the World Trade Center tragedy. A few months ago I got a best of collection, and began to watch it, but I wasn't too pleased with the video quality, so I stopped after a couple figuring I'd wait for a blu ray.

Well, no blu ray will be coming, but in researching that, I found out something I did not know- that the first two seasons were filmed in 16mm. So I went back to my set and took a look at its first third season episode, and wow what a difference. It looked great. So I decided to get the full seasons three and four (Anchor Bay of course, ordered today).

I remember thinking that after season four, the show took a noticeable dip in quality, so I'll hold off on ordering those. Besides, my set has a few of the better eps from those seasons. Plus: seasons three & four are Sorbo-free (not a fan). And yeah, I know there are great episodes in season one & two, but it's just hard for me to look at all that grain & lack of colour. Anyway, I've been on the complete journey before- this journey is just a re-visit for fun.

Thoughts? Any stories about your first or most recent watch? Favourite episodes or seasons?

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I am trying to find out if I’m going crazy. I used to watch xena with my mom as a kid and recently have been rewatching it on Amazon prime.

I just finished Ides of March, and I feel like a scene was cut out. The scene where Caesar has a nightmare of Xena stabbing him during sex seems cut out. In my memory I remember vividly seeing Caesar get stabbed and bleed and die and then wake up, but in the Amazon version he never actually gets stabbed.

Am I going crazy or did they cut it out?

Those three meant so much to her, she refused to give up her granddaughter to the Gods, stood up to Athena like a bad ass and then to find out from one of her neighbors or one of her customers at her Inn that her granddaughter and her granddaughter's mothers were killed and never reuniting with them until after Cyrene's own village murdered her.

Cyrene didn't deserve that fate she was a good woman

The show never seem to dive into the origin of what made Xena so evil. We've met her father, her mother, her two dead brothers, but as far as we know the small old sheep country Amphipolis, every man and woman are peaceful and just regular farmers. All except her dad that left her mom for his adventurous indulgence, we never got much reasons on why Xena turn into this horrible warlord.

Ofc, Xena's evil deed got worse after Caesar and Alti, but that only clue us in on the past 10 years of her misdeed. Even meeting Xena's family gave us absolutely nothing of her upbringing. Not to mention the Remember Nothing episode (s2, ep2), apparently if Lyceus death was prevented Xena would've just been a regular girl???

Then why does she become such a horrible horrible warlord out of nowhere, and massacre so many people for pleasure. As what we've seen in the Sin Trade(s) episodes. Evil Xena was psychotic, like much worse than Callisto herself. Seeing this side of Xena actually justify Callisto 's feeling of resentment towards good Xena. I too would not believe a murderer like Xena would turn good meeting Hercules one day, and suddenly go on a do-gooder journey with a peace loving Gabrielle. That is such a 180 change.

So what am I missing here exactly? Xena's upbrining is normal, mom's a good person, her brothers were brought up morally right, her deadbeat dad was missing throughout her childhood. Lyceus died and she became a warlord overnight?? Met Caesar and became Genghis Khan....seems like the writer forgot a crucial part of writing Xena. Her true origin is a blank page.

So much happened to our four heroes thanks to the rise of Dahak and his daughter Hope.

Gabrielle was tricked into killing someone in self defense and then later raped by Dahak

Hope brainwashed Gabrielle into thinking that Hope was pure and innocent because Hope came from Gabrielle not just Dahak

Which resulted into Hope murdering Xena's son Solan and Solan's father Kaleipus

then in that same time frame, Callisto and Hope team up again to get rid of Hercules by having Callisto go back in time to kill Herc's mother while she was pregnant with him

then Gabrielle saved Xena by throwing herself and Hope into the lava pit.

then Herc loses Iolaus in a fight against Dahak. I feel like of all the villains on both shows (excluding Hera and Ares) Dahak really put a number on all four of them.

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This was Monday’s episode. The category was Character “the” Epitaph. The example Ken used: Joxer the Mighty!! I kid you not! Ken must be a Xena fan.

I’m 90% sure this was a Xena episode, 10% of me fears it might have been a BeastMaster episode. But in the episode there was this town or village that was protected by the giant flower/plant/vine thing that would release a gas that circled the town and acted like a kind of fence, but the plant would only secrete this gas if the town sacrificed one of its members to the plant once a month or year or something. They had this whole ceremony and the person would then jump into this giant flower and get eaten by the plant.

Does this ring any bells to anyone?

This is not me, but a reviewer I found called Eruditegorilla, who started watching XWP for the first time by watching AFIN first.

I'll say that again, before watching the series at all, they first watched AFIN:

eruditegorilla.com/2020/12/23/xena-preview/

"So, knowing what happens in the finale didn’t spoil the rest of the episodes for me, but it did kinda colour the way I saw them. Certain lines or situations (“Promise me that you’ll never die on me again.”) have extra meaning when you know what’s ultimately going to happen."

This was thought provoking to me because I feel like what happened is that AFIN-first, followed by the whole series, makes the viewer aware that there are huge themes in the show that revolve around the bond Xena and Gabrielle share. So they experienced a story that felt already meaningful, when they begin to watch Sins of the Past. The reviews they write makes it clear that they fell in love with the story and that starting with AFIN didn't spoil anything but rather gave the story a lot of meaning. That feeling isn't necessarily there for someone if they just come into the show blind, and start at the start.

Would you show AFIN to someone who hasn't seen the show, then follow with 1x01 and onwards?

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A.C.: Xena My time has come to be reincarnated into the mortal world and the body that will bear my spirit has been ordained. I can think of no greater mother than you.

X: It was you all along? You gave me this child.

A.C.: In the past, I destroyed your life, Xena.

X: And I destroyed yours....Maybe it's time that we both gave back what we once took from each other.

Its the BREAK in Xena's voice when she admits she destroyed Callisto's life that just gets me right in the chest.