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It’s a tie! Well, technically, it’s a two-parter: “Purity” and “Back in the Bottle” from Season Five. It includes my least favorite villain (Pao Tzu) and a return to Chin in a weird attempt to recreate the magic of “The Debt” from Season Three. Even Robert Tapert, Xena producer and co-creator, was severely disappointed in…
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This episode has been and will always be my favorite, and I don’t care that it’s from the first season and features terrible makeup and crappy CGI. “Hooves and Harlots” is what got me into Xena and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. Recap: Xena and Gabrielle are passing through a…
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I’ll be finishing this challenge up this week, I promise! The past week has been … interesting, to say the least. But I’ll be working on these entries for the next couple of days, so I’m hoping to be done with the challenge before Friday. But onto the challenge, belatedly! Not gonna lie, I am…
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As you know from my previous posts, Season Five is … not my favorite. It has Xena’s mystical rape/pregnancy (I don’t care that she’s okay with it, she had no say in whether or not she had a baby), over-the-top religious allusion (Eve/Livia is basically Jesus and Paul wrapped up into one character, and Eli…
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Who would have thought that microbiology would be hard? I had to write two papers, complete three labs, and read two pretty hefty chapters this weekend, so sorry about the lateness, but school comes first, y’all. Anyway, back to writing about episodes. It’s actually been kind of nice to look at things in more of…
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There are few things that Xena: Warrior Princess did not tackle, but the one that I wish they did? Make Xena and Gabrielle a codified couple. I mean, yeah, as far as Lucy and Renee go, their characters were married, and sure, there was that last passionate kiss in the series finale, but come on.…
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Alrighty, so this is something that I’ve referenced several times since I started this challenge, but I’m going to go ahead and repeat it: I hate mystical pregnancies. First, it dehumanizes a woman* into a vessel instead of a person, and second, it’s just another way to bring rape into a story that is only…
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Ugh, the entire Go to Chin a Second Time … I get it. The entire Lao Ma saga was great, and everyone loved it, blah blah blah. But Pao Tzu was just so … meh. Also Lao Ma happened to have twin daughters, and neither Pao Tzu or her sister, K’ao Hsin, are mentioned beyond…
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Callisto is one of the greatest villains of television, hands down. She is the creation of our lead character, a major consequence of Xena’s history that directly correlates to how Xena sees herself, both in past and present, and she’s also a physical embodiment of how complicated actual redemption and forgiveness is. No matter how…
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Xena is arguably world-famous, mostly due to the fact that she was a ruthless warrior princess, but it’s safe to say she is pretty recognizable. But Xena: Warrior Princess writers would have us believing that there are not one, not two, but at least three women in “Ancient” Greece that are exact copies of Xena.…
a little more juju 