Current Events > Almost done with Xena's fourth season (ongoing spoilers)

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The modern time episodes in both Xena and Hercules were so awkward.

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God, Gabby's squid-child is a friggin' horror. It looks like a murderer from Puppet Master.



Teh_Dr_Phil posted...

The modern time episodes in both Xena and Hercules were so awkward.

Yeah, they've been kinda hit-or-miss so far. Thankfully they're very infrequent.

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Wait, they off-screened Amarice? She was kind of a fun character, so that's disappointing.

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An episode about Joxer peeping on bathing Amazons and the justice that results? lol

Gabrielle: Do you deny spying on these bathing Amazons?
Joxer: I resent that!!
Gabrielle: Do you deny it?
Joxer: No, I just resent it!

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This hot Amazon is trying to sex up Joxer and he's resisting? I find this hard to believe.

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I refuse to accept Nu-Cleopatra. We already had Cleopatra earlier!



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there was a show called cleopatra 2525 made by the creators of xena i think
it didnt do so well i think it only had 1 season. 2 at most
it had a great theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZRSwul7cE

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I remember seeing that show back in the day. Every chick was smokin'. I'm not usually into blondes, but I couldn't help it!

The theme song seems to be a play on this golden oldie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2525
Never really liked that honestly, lol.

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Shotgunnova posted...

I refuse to accept Nu-Cleopatra. We already had Cleopatra earlier!

Lawrence Fishburne's wife, Gina Torres.

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Yup. This Nu-Cleopatra (who died in the first two minutes) is an impostor.

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Daaaamn, Gabby cut Brutus' jugular with a well-timed sword swing. And then Xena made Marc Antony cry, lmao.

Also, why does Hades dress like some King Arthur reject? You'd expect the God of the Underworld to have more skull motifs or swing a scythe, not run around with a claymore and a velvet cape.



They should get the old Hades back. He felt more goth and odd, which is what you think about when you're around dead folks and CGI harpies all the time.



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It's weird that Xena is taking Death hostage, especially after saving her from that king in the first season. At least they acknowledged that.

PS: Athena is bae


Oh snap, Gabrielle died (?), Eve died (??) and Xena committed suicide (!!??) as Joxer watched. I know this'll all probably erased and the baby is safe somewhere (I wonder if Death did it), but that's still pretty dark.

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Wow, that 25-year timeskip came out of nowhere. Eve is now grown and a Roman general, corrupted by Ares, and after meeting her, she's now out pillaging and murdering like old Xena would.

I did get a kick out of Xena waking up from her cryocave and asking for Ares, only for a peasant to say he hasn't been seen in "these parts in twenty-five years!" That was never a problem before, but apparently Eve living have switched pleas and paeans over to spotty wifi rules. (Even weirder, she finds Ares later using this exact method.)

Old Joxer having Virgil as his son is funny, though.

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Oh snap, Eve killed Joxer. They're really trying to make viewers hate 'er.

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Shotgunnova posted...

It's weird seeing Hera be a "good guy" in Xena.

I do not remember this at all. I remember her getting fucked off but not killed off in Hercules like pretty early and I don't recall seeing her again

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yeah when i said that xena loved killing off its recurring characters joxer was the one i was referencing
of course there were a ton of recurring characters who died before him but none of them were ever as important as him

he wasnt around all the time but he was around often enough where i often thought of him as the unofficial third member of the xena team

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Machete posted...

I do not remember this at all. I remember her getting fucked off but not killed off in Hercules like pretty early and I don't recall seeing her again

Hera helped Hercules against Zeuss wishes when Xena was pregnant. I dont remember exactly why though

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RIP Joxer
Although to be fair, the second he showed up looking like Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride, I knew he was sending out infinite death flags. Still sucks, but I hope they don't try to replace him with his kid.

Also, Eve is finding redemption!


EDIT: Also, looks like Poseidon, Discord and Hephaestus died permanently? Poseidon caught a godmagic richochet into his watery chest, and they said Xena had god-killing powers aftewards, so I guess it's true. But who's that weird white-haired goofball god? He just showed up like we're supposed to know who he is. Maybe he was introduced in Hercules.

Eliza3 posted...

Hera helped Hercules against Zeuss wishes when Xena was pregnant. I dont remember exactly why though

IIRC, Zeus wanted to fight fate and Hera disagreed, thinking their time was over. Zeus absorbed (?) Hera at some point in a weird tornado limit break and she never showed up again. Maybe she's still out there, I dunno.

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Ohhh, the white-haired god is Deimos, god of terror. No idea who that is. The Furies poisoned Gabby's mind into stabbing Eve, and now they're about to all gank Xena as her two comrades are injured. I like how Aphrodite is helping Gabby anyway.

Ares: You SHOT me! I'm the god of war! Nobody shoots the god of war!

lmao

EDIT: So Ares gave up his immortality to save Gabby and Eve, which then allowed Xena to kill Athena. What a bloodbath of an episode. Definitely one of the best in years.

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On the fifth season now. I'm a little astonished at the way some of the older characters were written off. Gabrielle's parents and Lila's husband were all beheaded (off-screened) and her niece was sold into slavery; Xena's mom was tormented by Mephistopheles and burned at the stake. I shudder to think what happened to Minya and Autolycus (not that I think they'll necessarily show up again).

PS: Xena tricking Lucifer into committing all the deadly sins and becoming a demon was gold.

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welp

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Nice. You gonna binge watch it?

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Whoa, they were broadcasting Xena and Gabby's bare-assedness in S6E5. The show's been a bit shyer about anything too risque like that, but I guess by the year 2000, that wasn't much of a problem anymore. (Probably body doubles anyway...probably.)

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Shotgunnova posted...

Nice. You gonna binge watch it?

probably not full on binge but definitely a quick watch through. Already on episode 6

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Yeah, I'm okay with Lydia/Eve fitting into the travel companion dynamic to replace Joxer (RIP). Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but Eve hasn't shown up in several episodes and I forget why. I'm also curious where the hell Amarice went. Did she get off-screened in the timeskip? I want to say she died in the same attack that killed Yakut, but I forget if they showed some Amazon queen instead of her on the pyres.

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I remember her getting naked in Spartacus, but nothing in particular. Not a bad series overall.

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yusiko posted...

like supernatural levels of kill happy when it came to recurring characters

I never felt like Xena introduced recurring characters just to kill them. Sure, they would bring in a likeable character for a episode to kill it. Where as Supernatural felt cheap with the way they would build up character or bring back characters that didn't need to be just to kill them.

After slogging through some rather bland Norse trilogy, we're back with an ep about Ares assuming a new identity as a peasant. There's a great exchange right at the beginning when Ares is brainstorming possibilities.

Xena: You've got to do something that no one would expect.
Ares: Like what?
Xena: Ares...how are you at shoveling shit?

The look on Gabrielle's face had me rolling.

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i never finished xena
wish i had

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Ares falling in love with a pupper was adorable.

yusiko posted...

i never finished xena
wish i had

There's no time like the present!

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Yeah, Ares is great. I mean...he still wanted to be a slave-owning plantation dude, but compared to his earlier bloodlust, he's slightly more reformed. Without Xena around to pull on his leash, though, who knows what would happen to him.

Another ep I watched this morning was a parody of "The Most Dangerous Game," where some Amazon trapper is hunting people. He had a triangular boomerang thing to counteract Xena's chakram and had all these traps laid. Varia was in the ep and she bonded with Xena (d'awwww) after almost dying in a mineshaft like a putz.

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I'm watching it on SyFy.

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Im almost done with season 1 now. It was always the weakest season IMO. But I actually enjoyed the first half way more than I did as a kid. There was some great character development and relationship building. Second half has been less interesting, its mostly episodic filler.

Looking forward to the season 1 finale. I remember that was a sharp dark turn compared to the seasons overall lighter tone.

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Hmm, I'm trying to remember what happened in S1, but I'm having trouble remembering just looking at episode titles. I recognize the ep where Gabby enrolled in bard college and maybe the one with the Trojan horse. But yeah, outside of some Callisto craziness, there were some drab eps in there (anything with Xena's clones was bad).

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Shotgunnova posted...

Hmm, I'm trying to remember what happened in S1, but I'm having trouble remembering just looking at episode titles. I recognize the ep where Gabby enrolled in bard college and maybe the one with the Trojan horse. But yeah, outside of some Callisto craziness, there were some drab eps in there (anything with Xena's clones was bad).

couple episodes of note:
the reckoning -intro to ares. First see xenas dark side This ep was a lot deeper than I remembered. Xena decided to stay and be judged even though she was innocent. It wasnt worth hurting those villagers to escape and she was guilty of far worse things from her past

hooves and harlots -meet ephiny and gabby gets initiated into the Amazons. Its funny how ephiny had zero patience for gabby at first.

The path not taken- we get to meet some of xenas old colleagues, one of whom struggled with the same thing Xena did. Marcus wanted to turn over a new leaf but thought he was too far gone, I really liked the juxtaposition between Marcus and Xena in this episode.

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Oh yeah, Hooves and Harlots was the Amazon/centaurs episode with the kid taken hostage, and The Reckoning was the one where Ares (laughably petty here) used his supreme god powers to erase footprints in the dirt. What a guy!

I didn't know Ares' actor died in real life, though. It's been eighteen years already? Damn.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Oh yeah, Hooves and Harlots was the Amazon/centaurs episode with the kid taken hostage, and The Reckoning was the one where Ares (laughably petty here) used his supreme god powers to erase footprints in the dirt. What a guy!

I didn't know Ares' actor died in real life, though. It's been eighteen years already? Damn.

yea thats right!

and yea it was tragic. He died in a stunt gone wrong on the set of some film I think. Such a shame to die like that. I know the whole cast was broken up about his loss


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While I was watching the show, I was always wondering why I'd never seen this guy in anything recent -- his comedic antics are pretty good in the show. Pity he died in a fall.

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TC I hope you dont mind if I hijack your thread with some random watch-through thoughts of my own . After all you did force me to order the box set

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I usually think of the Clerks dude when I hear "Kevin Smith," but that's gonna change now.

RIP Kevin

Eliza3 posted...

TC I hope you dont mind if I hijack your thread with some random watch-through thoughts of my own . After all you did force me to order the box set

It's perfectly fine. I doubt people just want to hear me complaining about every episode, lol.

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Wow, two great eps back to back.

First, the Caligula episode, where Archangel Michael tasks Xena with killing the emperor who's siphoning Aphrodite's powers to become a god himself. It's been a long time since we saw Aphrodite, so it's good to see her again, even if she's lethargic from losing her powers (which ends up happening). Caligula -- played by Alexis Arquette -- steals the show, though, and is campy, fun, and hedonistic. In fact, he only dies when Xena tricks him into killing himself!

Next is "You Are There," a comedy episode spoofing investigative journalism. Iolaus (not playing himself) is a smarmy reporter pushing all kinds of stupid agendas as Xena goes about her plotline of getting Odin's golden apples to attain godhood. At the end, she gives apples to Ares and Aphrodite, restoring their powers. While it's odd that there's canonicity in a comedy episode, there's a ton of funny parts, from Iolaus making Eve the "messenger of peace" go into an expletive-fueled rant and interviews with Charon and Caligula in the underworld. I usually can't stand comedy episodes (I also hated most X-Files eps in this vein), but this was rewarding enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Ac_butY3Q

Alexis Arquette died a few years ago, so that's another homie to pour one out for.

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Holy crap I never realized Caligula was played by AA! Those two episodes were enjoyable indeed.

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Not really familiar with AA's works or anything, but he was pretty great.

On the latest ep, Artemis' kid is killing Amazons for having stopped their worship of her. Craig Parker plays Bellerophon.



He looked familiar, too, so I looked it up and he was in Spartacus. But then I remembered he was actually one of the elves in the LOTR movies, haha. That's probably why he jumped to mind immediately.

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Another "clip show episode masquerading as silly comedy" one. I got a good laugh at these cloning dorks, especially this fangirl who says "we should play these Gabby old episodes of Ellen". It's a shame Joxer hasn't shown up outside of old clips, though. Salmoneus needs to show up again, too.

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Dammit, they took all season of Xena off SyFy. =(

I only have six eps left.

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its not that hard to find the show online
id offer to pm you a website that has nothing to do with watching things online
but you are a mod and i dont want to send harmless non TOS breaking links to a potential narc

wink wink

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You don't need to do that. :P

If I'd have known it was expiring within 24 hours, I wouldn't have spent all those hours watching dog and cat shows on Animal Planet.

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