I love this next commentary, from her purposeful run-on sentences to the brief asides like "...and Xena kisses her gal pal as a wedding gift, 'as you do' ".
It's a long video but it is a compilation of 4 different videos.
Here's a shorter video revealing 9 "hidden" lesbians in Xena:WP.
I say "hidden" since I don't think they are all that obscure.
This videocommentator goes on in this 3rd vid about unmasking the gay icon that is Lucy Lawless.
I disagree with this part of her theory about "when" Xena and Gabrielle became a couple.
My theory is the intimacy began after Britannia and before Xena left for C'hin.
I can't find a stand- alone clip of the scene that sealed it for me, but here's the beginning from the previous video that makes me feel by this moment that had already crossed the frontier from friends to lovers.
And their chat after Xena went looking for her missing "bed" partner suggests their intimacy is more than physical.
Xena: "Oh. Gabrielle?"
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Gabrielle: "Hmm."
Xena: "Everything all right?"
Gabrielle: "Yeah-- fine. Just thinking. Hmm. Thank you."
Xena: "For what?"
Gabrielle: "You stuck by me through everything."
Xena: "Likewise, I'm sure."
Gabrielle: [Giggles] "I hope I never disappoint you, Xena."
Xena: "Impossible."
Gabrielle: "I've learned that anything is possible. There's somebody in the shadows by the poplar tree."
Xena: "I know."
Messenger: "Xena."
I think this is why Gabrielle was so upset at the start of "The Debt", when Xena decided to drop everything and go to C'hin.
That Xena would simply throw away their relationship to answer La Ma's call not only confused Gabrielle, but made her jealous.
Xena wasn't just throwing away a road trip partner; Xena was throwing away a part of her soul by dismissing her friend of 3 years and more recently her lover, Gabrielle.
A loyal woman that had recently followed her to Britannia where she not only lost her blood innocence but was psychically / sexually assaulted in Britannia by a demon because Xena was too distracted by her own vengeance to properly attend to her friend.
A broken woman who returned to Europe with Xena and discovered in the course of 1 day that she was not only pregnant but was about to deliver a fully grown child.
A distraught woman who (supposedly
) killed her own child at Xena's insistence.
A woman who has done "everything" that Xena asked, who is now being tossed aside for a woman Xena hasn't seen in over a decade.
Now, that (post pregnancy/pre C'hin) was when they first became lovers. But when did they resume that aspect of their relationship?
Now maybe it's just me, but I think all the events surrounding The Debts may have poured some cold water on part of their relationship for a while.
How long?
Not sure, but the events surrounding Solon and Hope would definitely squash any flame of passion that might have resurfaced after "The Debts".
I'm thinking after "One Against an Army".
It's a long video but it is a compilation of 4 different videos.
Here's a shorter video revealing 9 "hidden" lesbians in Xena:WP.
I say "hidden" since I don't think they are all that obscure.
This videocommentator goes on in this 3rd vid about unmasking the gay icon that is Lucy Lawless.
I disagree with this part of her theory about "when" Xena and Gabrielle became a couple.
My theory is the intimacy began after Britannia and before Xena left for C'hin.
I can't find a stand- alone clip of the scene that sealed it for me, but here's the beginning from the previous video that makes me feel by this moment that had already crossed the frontier from friends to lovers.
And their chat after Xena went looking for her missing "bed" partner suggests their intimacy is more than physical.
Xena: "Oh. Gabrielle?"
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-----------
Gabrielle: "Hmm."
Xena: "Everything all right?"
Gabrielle: "Yeah-- fine. Just thinking. Hmm. Thank you."
Xena: "For what?"
Gabrielle: "You stuck by me through everything."
Xena: "Likewise, I'm sure."
Gabrielle: [Giggles] "I hope I never disappoint you, Xena."
Xena: "Impossible."
Gabrielle: "I've learned that anything is possible. There's somebody in the shadows by the poplar tree."
Xena: "I know."
Messenger: "Xena."
I think this is why Gabrielle was so upset at the start of "The Debt", when Xena decided to drop everything and go to C'hin.
That Xena would simply throw away their relationship to answer La Ma's call not only confused Gabrielle, but made her jealous.
Xena wasn't just throwing away a road trip partner; Xena was throwing away a part of her soul by dismissing her friend of 3 years and more recently her lover, Gabrielle.
A loyal woman that had recently followed her to Britannia where she not only lost her blood innocence but was psychically / sexually assaulted in Britannia by a demon because Xena was too distracted by her own vengeance to properly attend to her friend.
A broken woman who returned to Europe with Xena and discovered in the course of 1 day that she was not only pregnant but was about to deliver a fully grown child.
A distraught woman who (supposedly
) killed her own child at Xena's insistence.A woman who has done "everything" that Xena asked, who is now being tossed aside for a woman Xena hasn't seen in over a decade.
Now, that (post pregnancy/pre C'hin) was when they first became lovers. But when did they resume that aspect of their relationship?
Now maybe it's just me, but I think all the events surrounding The Debts may have poured some cold water on part of their relationship for a while.
How long?
Not sure, but the events surrounding Solon and Hope would definitely squash any flame of passion that might have resurfaced after "The Debts".
I'm thinking after "One Against an Army".
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