PATREON ONLY: Xena Warrior Princess 3x16 Reaction
Added 2024-10-20 12:08:02 +0000 UTC
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forgot to add 3x15 to the collections.
Dudley, the Stardew Valley cat 2
2024-10-20 18:12:58 +0000 UTCThe last scene between Xena & Gabrielle really encapsulates the central tension between them for the whole show. They both have the capacity and calling to do such much good in the world. It took a while for Xena to know this but I suspect Gabrielle knew since birth (prob why she was so eager to leave her hometown). But at the core, HOW they do good is diametrically opposed. Gabrielle is very peace driven & Xena's life is very violence driven...even when doing good. I think at this point in the show they've come to terms with the fact that they love eachother and want to go through life with eachother...but I dont know if they are OK with what this life is doing to gabrielle. Really good stuff that continues to play out.
mary smith
2024-10-20 17:27:05 +0000 UTCGabby probably should have given Crassus the ring. ... That one guy in the crowd always reminds me just a little of Mel Brooks.
Koz
2024-10-20 15:53:17 +0000 UTCGabrielle is really not having a good time this season 😆 but I just love how angsty all of their "I love you"s are 😆
Herbert West MD
2024-10-20 13:18:08 +0000 UTCXena just has no patience for Gabrielle's moral quandaries sometimes 😂
TurnK
2024-10-20 13:09:50 +0000 UTCThere is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself. And there's a real danger of losing ourselves in the process because we cannot reconcile with the choices we have to make to live in this very harsh and hard world - to survive - to not only protect and defend ourselves but also our most cherished loved ones too that share this very harsh and hard world with us. And realizing that we would have fell to ruin much sooner without them because they're really the only thing keeping us going. Keeping us holding on to life and love no matter how much we wish we could disappear from it completely.
Girl4Music
2024-10-20 12:15:10 +0000 UTC‘When In Rome’ doesn’t seem all that important of an episode at first. But then you realize Xena basically commissioned Gabrielle to kill Crassus. It’s painful cause you know Gabrielle is a person that genuinely does appreciate human life and won’t kill just for the sake of it. If it can be avoided, she will avoid it. Yet, she’s forced to decide time and time again for what to do in the heat of the moment and the conclusion seems to always be for somebody to die. Whether it be herself, Xena or other, and sometimes even at her own hand. She said she accepted the consequences of living her life with Xena early in their travels together, but I don’t think she accounted for the fact she’d have to kill just to keep her and Xena alive. Or, like in the case of this episode, to save Vercinix, a good, innocent man and a hero to his people, from being executed at the order of Caesar. It wasn’t just about sacrificing her own life, it was also sacrificing and betraying everything she stood for so that her and Xena could survive. This is the life Gabrielle chose. To experience and face all the violence, blood and pain again and again, being just as much a partaker in it as trying to stop it from happening… Just to be with Xena. That’s got to be the most tragically romantic, beautiful and powerful thing I’ve ever known. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Xena and Gabrielle truly are the greatest love story ever told, and I’m not just saying it because they’re my OTP. I’ll be damned if I ever find anything more romantic than Gabrielle’s insistence to throw away her morality for Xena. She’s going against her own sense of self time and again just to protect and defend people’s lives. Especially Xena’s. It’s a testament to how much and how deeply she really loves her and that’s so incredibly romantic. Wouldn’t you agree? This is another episode where no one really cares about the Xena/Caesar fued. This episode belongs to Gabrielle and her struggle to betray her ideals by personally sending Crassus to the executioner. Commissioned and expected to by Xena, no less. She's the heart of the whole story here. It all wraps tightly around her. Just like 'The Deliverer', without what's going on with Gabrielle, it's just another cat-and-mouse Xena VS Caesar game and even though I love the Rome episodes, they're not as interesting as you think they are without Gabrielle’s stuff. And as great as all the other writers are with Gabrielle’s representation and development, only Steven truly gets what Gabrielle’s about. Him and Renee really make this show resonate far beyond a villain-turned-hero seeking redemption story. Without Gabrielle - this show is half its watch value. Well and truly.
Girl4Music
2024-10-20 12:11:23 +0000 UTC
