PATREON ONLY: Xena Warrior Princess 2x14 Reaction
Added 2024-07-28 13:32:57 +0000 UTC
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You summed that up so perfectly lol, and there's little things I find fascinating with the interaction between Xena and Callisto, little things that literally demonstrate everything you are saying lmao
Bo D
2024-07-29 02:55:14 +0000 UTCThe best villans are the ones that the heroes have stakes in. That's what makes Callisto so awesome. She will always create a certain amount of vulnerability with Xena & with the audience because she's a traumatized victim at her core. As another poster said, she could have grown up to be Gabrielle if Xena didn't come in and kill all of her family and ruin her life. I think you're right to be confused by Callisto. I think Callisto is confused by Callisto lol. She has such a singular focus and obsession with Xena. Xena is all she thinks and breathes but she's too scarred to even try to figure out the complex emotions regarding xena. I think she equal parts hates & adores, fears & respects, is repulsed & attracted to, wants to kill & be killed by Xena. She's mentally got a lot going on and unfortunately no therapist.
mary smith
2024-07-28 21:25:56 +0000 UTCI know right. I always say you don’t truly understand Xena without Callisto and you don’t truly understand Callisto without Xena. They’re in each other so much in ways that are so damn interesting. Other shows can only wish to create a mortal enemies dynamic like theirs.
Girl4Music
2024-07-28 19:46:56 +0000 UTCNot to take away from all the fantastic villains that have been created over the decades through all kinds of fictional series, comics, and movies (because there are fantastic ones)... ... ... But Callisto is in a class entirely of her own and nobody can convince me otherwise. I mean WHAT a CHARACTER!
Michael
2024-07-28 19:13:14 +0000 UTC🤯 : That was probably my legit expression the very first time I saw this episode. It was so wild. Especially having already watched everything going on with Callisto in Hercules. (Our network always aired Hercules first, and then Xena). It seemed the stories just kept on getting more dramatic and crazy, even this early on! I personally think Velasca was a great character to have around the past two episodes! Melinda Clarke was fantastic. It's a shame she never shows up again if I recall. Hudson/Callisto are in prime form. I imagine Callisto would have been a VERY fun character to write. These past 3 episodes really were this huge back to back "Quest" with so much going on.
Michael
2024-07-28 19:07:11 +0000 UTCLove the Xena/Gabrielle/Callisto teaming up episodes.. Two blonde village girls whose lives were changed by Xena in very different ways, because they met her when she was in very different stages of her life.. Such delicious parallels and so much to unpack there
Herbert West MD
2024-07-28 15:30:33 +0000 UTCWell, as you can probably ascertain, it was in Hercules Season 3 Episode 12 that Callisto returned to life (courtesy of Hera) and became an immortal, but got trapped by Hercules. ... That's a really good capper for this trilogy, and Velasca and Callisto are both great. I think this may be my favorite Callisto appearance. ... It doesn't really make sense that Xena doesn't whip out her chakram and slice off Velasca's hand to separate her from the ambrosia the second she sees it, but whatever. ... It's a nice logical mention that Gabby suggests Hercules as an alternative to freeing Xena's greatest enemy. ... Velasca's speech to Artemis is also very good. It's a great episode, all around. 👌🏻
Koz
2024-07-28 15:14:03 +0000 UTCCallisto - The “villain” or the “victim”? Callisto is an antagonistic character whose mind has been psychologically warped over the death of her family. And yet, she acts and speaks so sincerely and playfully as if she recognizes her own behaviour and attitude and she is so apathetic that anything she has done or said to others doesn’t register in her head that it comes anywhere even close to her own torment. Her own life so twisted because of Xena, she turned into a psychopath, bent on destroying everything good in Xena’s life. But not the textbook definition of one. Oh, no. The most interesting thing about Callisto, for me, is that she is extremely self-reflective and expressive of her pain, despite feeling no remorse or regret of causing pain to others. Regardless of all the hatred, anger and vengeance she has towards Xena, she seems to be able to just tell it all to her just like that. As if she’s aware that she’s doing it and she’s passed the point of caring about that she’s doing it. Here she taunts Gabrielle with details of murdering Perdicus just to get a rise out of her. Just to see her react in anger. Just to torture her. And I just find it so interesting the humorous way she acts despite being so depressed, damaged and deranged. Why would a psychopath be so honest? It’s not common for a psychopath or sociopath to be sincere because they’re pathological liars. They don’t understand other’s feelings when they hurt them and they don’t recognize that they are a psychopath. But Callisto is not like that at all. She’s a psychopath with a self-aware purpose. In fact she acts just plain evil. But you also can’t see her as evil because of the fact she expresses herself as a victim of evil doings. All of this is so clear in her demeanor - Remarkably portrayed by the incredible Hudson Leick. Easily one of the greatest actresses I’ve ever known and Callisto is definetly the greatest “villain” I’ve ever known. She has puzzled me for years.
Girl4Music
2024-07-28 15:05:52 +0000 UTC
