Shift in tone between S3 and S4
This is in response to LadyKates question from the What was the last episode you watched? thread, where I had posted that over the past couple of days I have rewatched SAC II, AITST I and II and AFA...
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LucyLFan, very interesting points!Quote:The relationship between Xena and Gabrielle has always been light and fun, (with exception to Season 3) You know, I first read that, thinking, Wait... but what...
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May I disagree about the quality of the cast in Season 4?Claire Stansfield, Stephen Lovat, Sheeri Rappaport, Kate Elliot, Catherine Boniface, Katrina Browne, Katherine Morris, Jeremy Roberts and...
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Quote:I hope that when you say "turned on," you don't actually mean turned on as in... turned on.Well...yeah! I did mean that! Not the crucifixion itself, but...I liked what the vision did for the...
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Quote:Gabrielle is portrayed as extremely self-righteous and as basically refusing to accept Xena as she is and rewriting her (Xena) in her own image.Oh no not the cardinal sins of being smug and...
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Quote:But I think I wouldn't have liked it as much if IOM hadn't gone down the way it did. That was actually the best part of the season, for me. When Gabby slaughtered all those soldiers trying to...
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- and I could so definitely do without the angels at the...
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Quote:IOM was a very powerful episode, though I'm not crazy about Callisto as an instrument of some "Dark Lord" or about Xena invoking "the way" and karma to justify staying on her path as a warrior,...
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Quote:I thought the Dark Lord was Mephistopheles or as they said at the start of IOM "him". Yeah well I didn't care for Mephi in S6, either. MJ:Quote:LK, I think the angels at the end of IoM were...
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Another thing I wanna mention, In Fallen Angel, how can anyone bleed, like how can you bleed or get cut when your dead. I didn't get that at all....
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Quote:S4 was also the start of "Xena's Magical Mystery Tour"...I agree fully with those who claim that the series abandoned the underlying themes of free will and ability to change one's destiny into...
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Quote: I think Gabrielle could be pretty smug and self-righteous at timesWhat made Gabrielle's sudden temp self-righteous character particularly difficult for me was because the original beauty of her...
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Umm... you mean they put each other on pedestals, right? Anyway, I don't think I would have wanted Xena and Gabrielle to have no conflict at all for 6 seasons. I just didn't particularly care for how...
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Quote:Umm... you mean they put each other on pedestals, right?Yup. I have recently developed this bad habit of spelling things out exactly how I say it. I probably shouldn't especially when i've got...
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Quote:However, I don't think Xena ever sits around basking in how wonderful she is.And youre saying Gabrielle did? Care to back that up with a few examples?As far as Xena goes I dont know about...
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Well.... Joxer is not a literary critic. (Though who knows, maybe in The World According to Caesar, he is? ) I think the assumption in WFC is that Gab's play is good. But the lines s*ck.
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Quote:I think the assumption in WFC is that Gab's play is good. But the lines s*ck.Wasn't Caesar yawning his way through it? Alti didn't seem overly impressed either.
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Honestly, I'd rather not turn this into another Gab discussion thread. But I think there are lots of examples, often where Xena tells Gabrielle how wonderful she is and Gabrielle responds with a smug...
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Quote:Honestly, I'd rather not turn this into another Gab discussion thread. She says as she then proceeds to write a paragraph of Gab criticism. Like my Mama used to say "don't start none, won't be...
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Quote:She says as she then proceeds to write a paragraph of Gab criticism.Well, you were the one who asked me for examples!
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