Episode 68 season 3 # 22 SACRIFICE II
Part 2 commentary by Hudson Leick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8LxCiyUrw&feature=related
(loved Hudson's comment, "Listen to your wife, Xena.)
Part 3 commentary by Hudson Leick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaONXVGvsV8
(And howled when she said... "this is the begging scene... where Callisto turns into Joxer.)
The above vids are no longer available, here is a mere taste of the commentaries.
(Hope has just hatched from the egg, and revealed herself to be a "clone" of Gabrielle's.)
Callisto: “Ooh-- now, she’s scary. And you just lost your one chance before she hatched, Xena.”
Xena: “It ain’t over, yet.”
Gabrielle: “Xena! If you kill her, she... !”
Xena: “Get back, Gabrielle!”
[Fight]
Xena: “Hope is just using ya, Callisto. I wouldn’t turn my back on her.”
Callisto: “Like you turned your back on precious little Gabrielle? Yeah, guess you speak from experience, huh?”
(How reminiscent of "The Bitter Suite". )
After Callisto spirits Hope from the war god's hall...
Gabrielle: “Look, Xena you can’t kill her... ! Xena... ”
Xena: “Well, you protected your daughter well, didn’t you?”
Gabrielle: “Look, you don’t understand.”
Xena: “Why you released that monster that killed my son on all the children of the world? Well that, I do not understand.”
[ACT I]
Gabrielle: “Xena just listen to me. Ares came to me. He called in my debt. He said that I had to stop you from killing Hope, or you were going to die.”
Xena: “Don’t you get it? I would gladly die to rid the world of that thing.”
Gabrielle: “Well, I had to do something. I had to think quickly. I, I just couldn’t stand the thought of losing you.”
That little reminder was for those people who missed "The Bitter Suite", and "One Against An Army".
And for those of us who DIDN'T miss those two eps... this scene ender was for us.
Xena: “I hurt her in there. And when it happened Saraphin returned to normal for a minute. Gabrielle, whatever happens, I must stop Hope. And if I have to die doing it, then so be it. Do you understand?”
Gabrielle: “I understand.”
Xena: “You saw her face, didn’t you?”
Gabrielle: “Mmm.”
Xena: (Reaches up to touch the side of Gabrielle's face/hair) “It’s strange, the one I love most in all the world and the one I hate-- look exactly the same.”
The followers of Dahok are rounding up innocents to be blood sacrifices welcoming him into our world. So naturally Xena and her sword are busy fighting the baddies and releasing the victims.
Gabrielle, on the other hand, is being distracted by the god of war, just in case you forgot what he told her at the end of part 1. They are watching the Warrior Princess fight.
Ares: She never gives up... ”
Male Voice: “Yeah!”
Ares: “Even when it’s hopeless. Time was, it was a quality I admired about her.”
Gabrielle: “How’s life as a slave to your new master, Dahok?”
Ares: “I consider it a partnership. You know, he’s not so bad, once you get to know him. He’s ruthless, decisive. We got a lot in common.”
Xena: “Uhhh!”
Ares: “I’m here to remind you that our deal is still in place.”
Gabrielle: “I know that Hope has to die, no matter the consequences.”
Ares: “Even if that means saying goodbye to your beloved Xena? Think you can just let it happen? I don’t.”
Anything.
Everything.
Well, I'm sure Callisto is glad Xena isn't around to say,"I told you so." since she's just learned Hope doesn't plan on granting her "oblivion" anytime soon, which makes her a bit peevish. and Ares a bit smug.
Callisto: (To Hope, re the hinds blood dagger) “I want it, now!”
Ares: (Just appeared) “Just like old times.”
Callisto: “You remember when I killed Strife, that look in his eyes? You’re next, Ares.”
Hope: “Enough! Ares you and I have unfinished business. Callisto, I will deal with you when I say, not before.”
(Hope then puts the moves on Ares, when he finally comes up for air...)
Ares: “You are so not like your mother.”
So Callisto splits and heads out looking for Xena. Needless to say, Xena isn't pleased at being found, and like any good Mother, Gabrielle isn't pleased about hearing about her newly hatched daughter's sexual exploits.
Callisto: “Oh, well done, Xena. I’m not here to fight with you, Xena, just wanna chat.”
Xena: “Let me guess, things didn’t work out with Hope quite the way you expected.”
Calisto: “No, actually the sight of her and Ares rolling around like weasels made me sick.”
Gabrielle: “Hope and Ares?”
Callisto: “Oh yes, Gabrielle, it seems your daughter is in heat.”
And soon we hear what Hudson describes as the begging scene, where Callisto turns into "Joxer".
Callisto: “Look, I know about Ares deal with the Fates. After Hope dies, you’re not gonna be around much longer. And we can help each other out right? You know where that dagger is, don’t you? You could just-use it and do the job on me.”
Xena: “I could, but I won’t.”
Callisto: “No, you want it for Ares. You’re willing to take Ares out to get to Hope. Well, why not let me help you? And then it would be so simple to just turn it on me.”
Xena: “Because, I like the idea of you living with your suffering.”
Callisto: “Oh, please! Who said anything about suffering. Really, it’s more of a boredom thing, an emptiness, really. Anyways, I’m disappointed in you, Xena. The sensible thing would be to enlist me on your side. You’re taking this far, far too personal.”
And Gabrielle agrees... and makes Xena agree to Callisto's offer to help.
By the by... Joxer has arrived and plays several welcome parts. In this one, its as the unwitting tool of Hope masquerading as Gabrielle to learn intel about her "mother".
Hope [Aside to self]: “Strange-- there wasn’t enough love in her to let me live yet people love her. [Out loud, as Gabrielle]: What would you make of my feelings towards Xena?”
Joxer: “Xena? Well you know, you love her more than anybody in the whole world.”
Way to go, Joxer. Sometimes it pays to keep your mouth shut, my friend.
Of course, he also plays Xena's scapegoat, finally ticking the WP off so much she chases him from their traveling group, as they head towards Dahok's newest temple.
Of course part 2... like any good shumck, he runs afoul of the Dahok priests and is taken prisoner to be a blood sacrfice to Dahok.
Meanwhile... back with Xena & Gabrielle, an unwelcome visitor arrives to give Gabby some news.
Ares: “Congratulations, Gabrielle. You’re gonna be a grandma.”
So now the unlikely trio of Xena, Gabrielle and Callisto are about to enter the Temple of Dahok and do battle with Hope and her followers. This is when instead of allowing Xena to FOCUS, Callisto decides to splinter her concentration.
Callisto: “Try not to die before doing me first or I’ll make Gabrielle wish you had. How’s that for incentive?”
Xena must not be too impressed, since she's already been distracted by that person who looks just like the woman Xena hates most in the world.
Xena: “Gabrielle, stay here.” (Outside the Temple)
Gabrielle: “No way. After all we’ve been through, I am with you till the end.”
Xena: “Then just one thing. When I’m gone, I don’t want you to feel any guilt.”
Gabrielle: “Xena... ”
Xena: “Listen to me. A lot’s happened to us over the past year, and there were times when we were both very confused. But I want you to know that I still think you are the best thing that ever happened to me. You gave my life meaning and joy and you will be a part of me forever. Ready?”
Gabrielle: “Yeah.”
Xena: “Let’s go.”
Xena was so busy, asking Gabrielle to "listen" to her... she neglected to listen to Gabrielle.
Xena was so busy planning the destruction of the being that killed her son, she forgot what she witnessed months ago after Gabrielle poisoned her own daughter.
Anything.
Everything.
Joxer, the bumbling fool is kneeling in the temple, ready to be sacrificed with the other victims of Dahok.
Xena: “Joxer! Did you get it?!”
Joxer: “I got it.” (Tosses her the hinds blood dagger)
Follower: “Ahhhh! Uh!”
Xena: (Warns Ares off) “You want a taste of hind’s blood, huh?”
Ares: (Backs away, but is hit by Callisto's bolts) “This isn’t over yet. Ahhhhh!”
Callisto: (To Xena) “Do it! Gut her! Then it’s my turn!”
Hope: “You can’t stop the will of Dahok.”
Suddenly we see Gabrielle's memories of the three fates, and the debt she must pay to Ares, the god of war who loves Xena as much as Gabrielle does.
Clotho: “If Xena kills Hope... ”
Lachesis: “ Xena...”
Atropos: “ will die.”
Ares: “You know the stakes, Gabrielle. Xena’s fate is in your hands.”
Xena: (Struggling against Hope's mind control of her physical movement, she's finally winning as she brings the hinds blood dagger up at strike at Hope) “Ahhhhhhh!”
Gabrielle: “No!" (Pole vaults her way up the stairs, and rushes towards her daughter as she stands above the lava pit.) "Hope!”
Xena: “Ahhhhhhh!" (Gabrielle rushes by Xena with dagger raised, and bearhugs Hope in a twisting fashion. As they piroutte on the rim of the lavapit, we see Gabrielle look back at Xena one last time and Xena finally awakens to what has happened as the two women topple into the lava pit.) Gabrielle!”
Gabrielle: (As she falls down the flume towards the lava) “Xenaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
(Xena falls to her knees on the rim of the pit. She can see nothing but the burning lava far below.)
Xena: “Gab--”
Joxer: “Gabrielle!”
Anything.
Everything.
(Those who love Gabrielle are in shock. One is not)
Callisto[Laughs]: “I never thought I’d feel so good again! Seeing poor, dear Gabrielle sacrifice herself makes it all worthwhile. It finally gives me a reason for living, and I have you to thank for it, Xena!” [Laughs]
(Was she manipulated, or was it always Xena's intention? You decide as we watch Xena stand up from her penitential position on the side of that lava pit, and turn to drive home that hind's blood dagger into Callisto's midsection.)
Xena: “Ahhhhhhh!”
Callisto : “Uh!”
Xena: “No more living for you.”
(And as Callisto falls at Xena's feet, she does the one thing Gabrielle couldn't do as she died... we see Callisto reach out to touch the face of the woman who granted her dearest wish.)
Holy Crap! What a Freaking Awesome Season!
Needless to say... there are SO many advantages to watching a series for the first time on dvds.
You DON'T have to wait 5 months between a season finale like THAT one, and for the next season's premiere.
Sacrifice 2 Interviews:
Are you seriously telling me you STILL haven't bought this series yet????
Part 2 commentary by Hudson Leick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8LxCiyUrw&feature=related
(loved Hudson's comment, "Listen to your wife, Xena.)
Part 3 commentary by Hudson Leick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaONXVGvsV8
(And howled when she said... "this is the begging scene... where Callisto turns into Joxer.)
The above vids are no longer available, here is a mere taste of the commentaries.
(Hope has just hatched from the egg, and revealed herself to be a "clone" of Gabrielle's.)
Callisto: “Ooh-- now, she’s scary. And you just lost your one chance before she hatched, Xena.”
Xena: “It ain’t over, yet.”
Gabrielle: “Xena! If you kill her, she... !”
Xena: “Get back, Gabrielle!”
[Fight]
Xena: “Hope is just using ya, Callisto. I wouldn’t turn my back on her.”
Callisto: “Like you turned your back on precious little Gabrielle? Yeah, guess you speak from experience, huh?”
(How reminiscent of "The Bitter Suite". )
After Callisto spirits Hope from the war god's hall...
Gabrielle: “Look, Xena you can’t kill her... ! Xena... ”
Xena: “Well, you protected your daughter well, didn’t you?”
Gabrielle: “Look, you don’t understand.”
Xena: “Why you released that monster that killed my son on all the children of the world? Well that, I do not understand.”
[ACT I]
Gabrielle: “Xena just listen to me. Ares came to me. He called in my debt. He said that I had to stop you from killing Hope, or you were going to die.”
Xena: “Don’t you get it? I would gladly die to rid the world of that thing.”
Gabrielle: “Well, I had to do something. I had to think quickly. I, I just couldn’t stand the thought of losing you.”
That little reminder was for those people who missed "The Bitter Suite", and "One Against An Army".
And for those of us who DIDN'T miss those two eps... this scene ender was for us.
Xena: “I hurt her in there. And when it happened Saraphin returned to normal for a minute. Gabrielle, whatever happens, I must stop Hope. And if I have to die doing it, then so be it. Do you understand?”
Gabrielle: “I understand.”
Xena: “You saw her face, didn’t you?”
Gabrielle: “Mmm.”
Xena: (Reaches up to touch the side of Gabrielle's face/hair) “It’s strange, the one I love most in all the world and the one I hate-- look exactly the same.”
The followers of Dahok are rounding up innocents to be blood sacrifices welcoming him into our world. So naturally Xena and her sword are busy fighting the baddies and releasing the victims.
Gabrielle, on the other hand, is being distracted by the god of war, just in case you forgot what he told her at the end of part 1. They are watching the Warrior Princess fight.
Ares: She never gives up... ”
Male Voice: “Yeah!”
Ares: “Even when it’s hopeless. Time was, it was a quality I admired about her.”
Gabrielle: “How’s life as a slave to your new master, Dahok?”
Ares: “I consider it a partnership. You know, he’s not so bad, once you get to know him. He’s ruthless, decisive. We got a lot in common.”
Xena: “Uhhh!”
Ares: “I’m here to remind you that our deal is still in place.”
Gabrielle: “I know that Hope has to die, no matter the consequences.”
Ares: “Even if that means saying goodbye to your beloved Xena? Think you can just let it happen? I don’t.”
Anything.
Everything.
Well, I'm sure Callisto is glad Xena isn't around to say,"I told you so." since she's just learned Hope doesn't plan on granting her "oblivion" anytime soon, which makes her a bit peevish. and Ares a bit smug.
Callisto: (To Hope, re the hinds blood dagger) “I want it, now!”
Ares: (Just appeared) “Just like old times.”
Callisto: “You remember when I killed Strife, that look in his eyes? You’re next, Ares.”
Hope: “Enough! Ares you and I have unfinished business. Callisto, I will deal with you when I say, not before.”
(Hope then puts the moves on Ares, when he finally comes up for air...)
Ares: “You are so not like your mother.”
So Callisto splits and heads out looking for Xena. Needless to say, Xena isn't pleased at being found, and like any good Mother, Gabrielle isn't pleased about hearing about her newly hatched daughter's sexual exploits.
Callisto: “Oh, well done, Xena. I’m not here to fight with you, Xena, just wanna chat.”
Xena: “Let me guess, things didn’t work out with Hope quite the way you expected.”
Calisto: “No, actually the sight of her and Ares rolling around like weasels made me sick.”
Gabrielle: “Hope and Ares?”
Callisto: “Oh yes, Gabrielle, it seems your daughter is in heat.”
And soon we hear what Hudson describes as the begging scene, where Callisto turns into "Joxer".
Callisto: “Look, I know about Ares deal with the Fates. After Hope dies, you’re not gonna be around much longer. And we can help each other out right? You know where that dagger is, don’t you? You could just-use it and do the job on me.”
Xena: “I could, but I won’t.”
Callisto: “No, you want it for Ares. You’re willing to take Ares out to get to Hope. Well, why not let me help you? And then it would be so simple to just turn it on me.”
Xena: “Because, I like the idea of you living with your suffering.”
Callisto: “Oh, please! Who said anything about suffering. Really, it’s more of a boredom thing, an emptiness, really. Anyways, I’m disappointed in you, Xena. The sensible thing would be to enlist me on your side. You’re taking this far, far too personal.”
And Gabrielle agrees... and makes Xena agree to Callisto's offer to help.
By the by... Joxer has arrived and plays several welcome parts. In this one, its as the unwitting tool of Hope masquerading as Gabrielle to learn intel about her "mother".
Hope [Aside to self]: “Strange-- there wasn’t enough love in her to let me live yet people love her. [Out loud, as Gabrielle]: What would you make of my feelings towards Xena?”
Joxer: “Xena? Well you know, you love her more than anybody in the whole world.”
Way to go, Joxer. Sometimes it pays to keep your mouth shut, my friend.
Of course, he also plays Xena's scapegoat, finally ticking the WP off so much she chases him from their traveling group, as they head towards Dahok's newest temple.
Of course part 2... like any good shumck, he runs afoul of the Dahok priests and is taken prisoner to be a blood sacrfice to Dahok.
Meanwhile... back with Xena & Gabrielle, an unwelcome visitor arrives to give Gabby some news.
Ares: “Congratulations, Gabrielle. You’re gonna be a grandma.”
So now the unlikely trio of Xena, Gabrielle and Callisto are about to enter the Temple of Dahok and do battle with Hope and her followers. This is when instead of allowing Xena to FOCUS, Callisto decides to splinter her concentration.
Callisto: “Try not to die before doing me first or I’ll make Gabrielle wish you had. How’s that for incentive?”
Xena must not be too impressed, since she's already been distracted by that person who looks just like the woman Xena hates most in the world.
Xena: “Gabrielle, stay here.” (Outside the Temple)
Gabrielle: “No way. After all we’ve been through, I am with you till the end.”
Xena: “Then just one thing. When I’m gone, I don’t want you to feel any guilt.”
Gabrielle: “Xena... ”
Xena: “Listen to me. A lot’s happened to us over the past year, and there were times when we were both very confused. But I want you to know that I still think you are the best thing that ever happened to me. You gave my life meaning and joy and you will be a part of me forever. Ready?”
Gabrielle: “Yeah.”
Xena: “Let’s go.”
Xena was so busy, asking Gabrielle to "listen" to her... she neglected to listen to Gabrielle.
Xena was so busy planning the destruction of the being that killed her son, she forgot what she witnessed months ago after Gabrielle poisoned her own daughter.
Anything.
Everything.
Joxer, the bumbling fool is kneeling in the temple, ready to be sacrificed with the other victims of Dahok.
Xena: “Joxer! Did you get it?!”
Joxer: “I got it.” (Tosses her the hinds blood dagger)
Follower: “Ahhhh! Uh!”
Xena: (Warns Ares off) “You want a taste of hind’s blood, huh?”
Ares: (Backs away, but is hit by Callisto's bolts) “This isn’t over yet. Ahhhhh!”
Callisto: (To Xena) “Do it! Gut her! Then it’s my turn!”
Hope: “You can’t stop the will of Dahok.”
Suddenly we see Gabrielle's memories of the three fates, and the debt she must pay to Ares, the god of war who loves Xena as much as Gabrielle does.
Clotho: “If Xena kills Hope... ”
Lachesis: “ Xena...”
Atropos: “ will die.”
Ares: “You know the stakes, Gabrielle. Xena’s fate is in your hands.”
Xena: (Struggling against Hope's mind control of her physical movement, she's finally winning as she brings the hinds blood dagger up at strike at Hope) “Ahhhhhhh!”
Gabrielle: “No!" (Pole vaults her way up the stairs, and rushes towards her daughter as she stands above the lava pit.) "Hope!”
Xena: “Ahhhhhhh!" (Gabrielle rushes by Xena with dagger raised, and bearhugs Hope in a twisting fashion. As they piroutte on the rim of the lavapit, we see Gabrielle look back at Xena one last time and Xena finally awakens to what has happened as the two women topple into the lava pit.) Gabrielle!”
Gabrielle: (As she falls down the flume towards the lava) “Xenaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
(Xena falls to her knees on the rim of the pit. She can see nothing but the burning lava far below.)
Xena: “Gab--”
Joxer: “Gabrielle!”
Anything.
Everything.
(Those who love Gabrielle are in shock. One is not)
Callisto[Laughs]: “I never thought I’d feel so good again! Seeing poor, dear Gabrielle sacrifice herself makes it all worthwhile. It finally gives me a reason for living, and I have you to thank for it, Xena!” [Laughs]
(Was she manipulated, or was it always Xena's intention? You decide as we watch Xena stand up from her penitential position on the side of that lava pit, and turn to drive home that hind's blood dagger into Callisto's midsection.)
Xena: “Ahhhhhhh!”
Callisto : “Uh!”
Xena: “No more living for you.”
(And as Callisto falls at Xena's feet, she does the one thing Gabrielle couldn't do as she died... we see Callisto reach out to touch the face of the woman who granted her dearest wish.)
Holy Crap! What a Freaking Awesome Season!
Needless to say... there are SO many advantages to watching a series for the first time on dvds.
You DON'T have to wait 5 months between a season finale like THAT one, and for the next season's premiere.
Sacrifice 2 Interviews:
Are you seriously telling me you STILL haven't bought this series yet????
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I'll stick to Youtube
enough, she pretends to have been physically abused by Xena when Lila was absent.
