Any Xena:WP fans on the boards?

Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by JanewayRulz!, Oct 4, 2010.

  1. JanewayRulz!

    JanewayRulz! Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I agree, this sounds bad.

    Instead of a naïve farm girl, Gabrielle would begin the series as part of the nomadic Scythian tribe. By contrast, Xena would begin the pilot working alongside the villainous Hercules to complete his mythical twelve labors, the joke being that she was responsible for most of them and he was taking the credit. But after Hercules betrays her and leaves her for dead, Gabrielle nurses Xena back to health...


    This doesn't sound like an evil warlord who has to spend the next 6 seasons atoning for her life. If anything it sounds like she's already trying to atone by helping "evil" Hercules out. And having Xena get "nursed back to health" by Gabrielle sounds too much like a romance novel.

    I don't mind shipping, but as strange as it sounds, the Xena / Gabrielle "ship" lasted as long as it did because the romance wasn't the focus of every ep. I use this logic discussing star trek romances. As soon as Picard marries Crusher, the relationship is doomed (divorced in the same ep). As soon as Worf kisses Troi, the relationship is doomed (Troi dies in that ep). It takes a few seasons in DS9, but just look what happens to Worf and Jadzia. :klingon: For the oldsters on the board, a nontrek reference would be Rhoda. Once she and Joe got married, the show went downhill. :crazy:

    Watching X&G's relationship unfold over the years was so affecting because they focused on the feeling behind the relationship more than the hormones. Xena wasn't horribly jealous every time someone sniffed around Gabrielle, so when she WAS jealous it was a sight to see.

    I still think TPTB should just show us X&G at another intersection of their karmic cycles in another ancient time period. :cool:

    https://www.calliscreations.com/wallpapers/wallpaperburn.html

    Or a less ancient one. :bolian:

    https://www.calliscreations.com/wallpapers/wallpaperthecrusade.html

    Or 19th century one. :beer:

    https://www.calliscreations.com/covers16-20covers/tumbleweed.html



    I'm not that picky. :whistle:
     
  2. JD

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    I just signed up for Hulu and it turns out they have Xena! No Hercules though.
     
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  3. JanewayRulz!

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    Xena, a feminist game changer.

    https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/watch-xena-warrior-princess-was-a-feminist-game-changer

    ^^Correction syfyw, Lucy didn't break her hip, she broke her pelvis albeit in 4 places.

    The importance of Gabrielle's quest.

    https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-importance-of-gabrielles-quest-on-xena-warrior-princess

    Check out our Lucy at a New Zealand awards show. (scroll down)

    https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/tv/topp-twins-win-lgbti-awards-mafs-39900

    A list of 20 kickass women... and all I can say is this better not be 1st to last in kickassedness. :wtf:

    http://www.zimbio.com/Kickass+Ladies+Of+TV+Who+Empowered+Us+Growing+Up/articles

    Because I refuse to believe Elaine much less Raven or Topanga would outrank Xena ! :brickwall:

    This has been posted elsewhere, but I thought I should include it in this thread too... and no, I havent been brave enough to read it yet. :sigh:

    https://nerdist.com/xena-warrior-princess-reboot-script-online/


    ETA: Acorn TV? :confused:

    https://1428elm.com/2018/11/22/lucy-lawless-life-murder-u-s-bound-2019/
     
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  4. Janeway’s Girl

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    That list is SO wrong. Xena should be #1 and Buffy #2!

    @JanewayRulz!, I’ve been meaning to do this for the last two years. Laziness stopped me. But I feel like you will appreciate this.

    My Xena blanket.

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    I also have a poster of Xena and Gabby from the last calendar that says 20th Anniversary.
     
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  5. JanewayRulz!

    JanewayRulz! Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Excellent JG! :bolian:

    My only Xena related collectible is a photo with her aiming a crossbow (at Ares but you can't really see him). :klingon:

    I had to move her on my autograph wall because it looked like she was shooting Capt Janeway. :eek:
     
  6. Janeway’s Girl

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    That sounds so funny!

    I had really wanted a chakram replica and I found a website where they were selling them. $225-250 depending on which one (dark or yin and yang) you wanted plus $30 shipping. I thought about it for a year but couldn’t justify the price. Then I found the blanket and it was way more affordable.
     
  7. JanewayRulz!

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    The sad thing is that even a foam replica is 80 dollars. :eek:

    I got to admit, I like the chakram necklaces I found on ebay and the T shirt that proclaimed "I am a lunatic with lethal combat skills":guffaw:
     
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    I had a chakram necklace but I put it in the “donate pile” during my last move.
     
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    I used to watch Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and became a long time Xenite through it. (I think 'Dreamworker' was the first XWP episode that I saw.)

    Gabrielle was/is my favourite character. I liked Joxer and Ares (rest in peace Kevin Smith) too.
     
  11. Janeway’s Girl

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    Gabrielle is a great character. Watching her journey from peasant girl to warrior was one of the most interesting things from the show.
     
  12. JD

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    The collected edition of the most recent Xena comic came out on Wednesday.
    Physical
    Digital
     
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    A Valentine for Xena. :luvlove:

    https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/14-02-2019/a-love-letter-to-xena-warrior-princess/

    Another nostalgic look backwards at a first crush from the other side of the aisle. :adore:

    https://goodmenproject.com/sex-relationships/xena-warrior-princess-my-adolescent-crush/

    A game review or yet another nostaligic look into the 1990's rear view mirror? :beer:

    https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/vbkjg8/assassins-creed-odyssey-xena

    For all you toy collectors out there... may I present Funko Xena. :hugegrin:

    https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/02/15/xena-warrior-princess-funko-pop-figure-toy-fair/

    This summer down under, a new LL series debut's... (you have to scroll half way down). :bolian:

    MY LIFE IS MURDER

    Australian drama starring Lucy Lawless (Top of the Lake, Xena: Warrior Princess) as a complex, contrary and compelling private investigator who is a brilliant woman who refuses to give in. Or give up. (10 EP
    S)

    https://www.broadcastingcable.com/post-type-the-wire/acorn-tv-2019-preview-release

    Casting spoilers?

    https://www.if.com.au/bernard-curry...-join-lucy-lawless-in-cjzs-my-life-is-murder/

    https://1428elm.com/2019/02/19/lindsay-farris-lucy-lawless-reunite/
     
  15. Janeway’s Girl

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    OMGods! That Xena Funko POP is adorable!
     
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    Its nice to see the cons are back again, just wish they were on the east coast once in a while.

    IIRC, there was a big hullabaloo back in 2015 over the Xena conventions coming to an end. :censored:

    https://www.latimes.com/tn-blr-devoted-fans-savor-final-xena-convention-20150221-story.html

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/maceyjforonda/25-kick-ass-costumes-from-the-last-ever-xena-convention (The male Gabrielle and female Joxer are my fav duo. :bolian: )

    This next article explains "why" they were ending, given the attendance estimates. (Probably another reason why they don't do an east coast convention, too costly to ship everyone there.)

    https://www.axs.com/news/xena-convention-takes-a-final-bow-in-burbank-feb-20-22-41748

    Fugate wrote another skit for that last 2015 con (at the 2012 con she had Gabrielle propose to Xena), here's the end of the 2015 skit



    Here's the aforementioned 2012 skit... loved the fact Lucy had to read the script to find out Xena's response. :lol:



    Maybe the con will jump start the reboot movement. :vulcan:

     
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    I gave some serious thought into attending the 2012 convention but it (financially) wasn’t going to work out. I remember seeing the proposal clip and thinking “It’s canon! Take that people who say it isn’t!”
     
  19. JD

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    Just keep in mind that that is preliminary artwork, so the final one might not look exactly like that.
     
  20. Janeway’s Girl

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    I’m familiar with Pops so I know that but I doubt she’ll be changed too much. I’ll probably definitely still want her.