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	sithwitch13 2008-07-21 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	Your icon and your post makes me wonder if you've read IDW's "Army of Darkness vs. Xena" comics. As for the actual show, I haven't seen it in years and couldn't say :-/ (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jar 2008-07-22 01:03 am UTC (link)
	I haven't read them, no! I didn't know they existed! Although that kind of makes sense of a meta level, they do have a lot of connections. I've actually only read on ED comic (which left me in a state of meh, so I've never picked up another. I wonder if there are good ones). I am a baaad fan. Are they actually worth checking out? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jkefka 2008-07-21 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	Oh god, my entire childhood. All I can say is watch out for the Hercules/Xena crossover episodes. They were generally wacky shit. Beyond that I just remember her kicking ass all over the place and it all being good. (Reply to this)

	phosfate 2008-07-21 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Day in the Life" is made of joy. (Reply to this)

	tarash 2008-07-21 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Anything with Autolycus is gold :D (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jar 2008-07-22 01:04 am UTC (link)
	I vaguely remember loving him, and that was BEFORE my massive Bruce Campbell crush has even begun to exist. So I am definitely looking forward to his episodes. Oooh. Thanks for reminding me omg. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rekall 2008-07-21 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	Wow this takes me back. Callisto and Ares were my favourite characters. Especially Callisto. She was so damn crazy, and hot. I felt the show went weird towards the end and stopped watching. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jar 2008-07-22 01:06 am UTC (link)
	I remember loving Ares with a disturbing passion as a wee kid. I wonder if my crush has survived all these years? I vague remember thinking it was weird towards the end too, but I think it ended up getting bumped to a late shitty timeslot here and I missed a heck of a lot after the first... few... seasons. :\. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	notjo 2008-07-21 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	You interested in FanVids? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jar 2008-07-22 01:01 am UTC (link)
	Hell yes! If you've got recs, definitely! The only thing Xena I've seen semi-recently was an awesome fanvid by... um, charmax, I think. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2008-07-22 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Check out this post (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jar 2008-07-22 01:08 am UTC (link)
	Oooh, thank you! That looks interesting. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tarash 2008-07-22 11:27 am UTC (link)
	Oh Callisto, you so crazy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tarash 2008-07-22 11:28 am UTC (link)
	Oh Callisto, you so crazy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	white_serpent 2008-07-21 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	I remember India being bad. I think it was the second season I liked best, though with scattered episodes through the third season (especially the "Been There, Done That" episode). (Reply to this)(Thread)

kylenne
2008-07-21 08:47 pm UTC (link)

India sucked because of ~~Jesus~~ Eli, who is pretty much responsible for the show jumping the shark, but I find that if I ignore him I like that whole arc way better just cause it's so cracky. The mehndi episode, Possessed!Gabby licking Xena's face...EPIC.

And I still think it's hilarious the Hare Krishnas got mad over it. Krishna got more respect than any other god on that show. I remember more than a few wanky Hellenic Recon Pagans hating on Herc/Xena back in the day.

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	jar 2008-07-22 01:09 am UTC (link)
	Which season does the India stuff start in? That sounds. Bad. The mehndi episode, Possessed!Gabby licking Xena's face...EPIC. That, however, sounds really really GOOD. I AM TORN. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kylenne 2008-07-22 03:45 am UTC (link)
	India was season 4. All in all it's worth watching for Adventures in the Sin Trade alone. And the Ides of March. It actually was a pretty good season, all things considered. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jadeleopard 2008-07-21 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	A Day in the Life, and The Quill is Mightier were my favorites. I also loved most of the Calisto as a god/immortal eps. (Reply to this)

kylenne
2008-07-21 08:39 pm UTC (link)

Aww, one of the first fandoms I was actively involved with. :D

I'm firmly in the camp that thinks everything went to hell (no pun intended) with the whole Eli fake-Christanity stuff. That sowed the seeds for season five, which would have been some of the worst TV ever conceived were it not for the fact that it was S5 when subtext became main.

Three words: Married With Fishsticks. Really, RenPic? Really?

Season six got a jump back...that was instantly negated by the finale. Which I'm STILL bitter about. I'm one of those fans that just pretends they rode off into the sunset and never set foot in Japan. As an aside, HP fandom has NOTHING on Xena fandom when it comes to spectacularly wanky tl;dr essays. Sorry, kids. I remember running to Whoosh.org every week when an episode was done just to read them.

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	jar 2008-07-22 01:11 am UTC (link)
	So S4/5 are the ones people bitch about? Are they worth watching, or will I go insane? (I mean, there's people think these seasons are bad Oz style [they were okay! they had awesome moments!] and people think these seasons are bad Smallville style [I wanted to rip my eyes out ever second and then gave up and became forever bitter about the show]). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kylenne
2008-07-22 03:49 am UTC (link)

Season 4 is a mixed bag but I think it's pretty good overall...there were some really stellar episodes. Season 5, OTOH, is Smallville bad (and I say that as someone who liked S1-2 of SV). Seriously. Between the ~~Ragnarok~~ Twilight of the Gods crap, the being frozen for 25 years, Shut Up!Eve...I'm getting a headache just thinking about it. The fandom universally hated it, as far as I can tell, with good reason.

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	jar 2008-07-22 03:53 am UTC (link)
	the being frozen for 25 years, Oh... I vaguely remember that. I also remember being weirded out by it as a child, and not in a good way. Hum. Thanks for that! At least I know what I'm in for now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	atalantapendrag 2008-07-21 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I loved The Bitter Suite so very, very much. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jadeleopard 2008-07-21 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	Oooooh, I forgot about that one. The Bitter Suite is really good... now I wanna see that one again. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	drich 2008-07-22 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	Mmm, seconded. Must go play this cd when I get home. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mercutia 2008-07-22 03:29 am UTC (link)
	The only mildly bad (as opposed to cheesily good) thing I recall is her battle cry, which always grated on my ears. I was fon of her chakram, because it reminded me of Wonder Woman boomeranging her tiara at people. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mercutia 2008-07-22 03:31 am UTC (link)
	I was FOND of it, too. facepalm (Reply to this)(Parent)

ellensmithee
2008-07-22 08:18 am UTC (link)

My favorite eps were the ones with Ares, Caesar, and Borias. I love Marton Csokas to death, but he annoyed me as Khrafstar. I was a Joxer/Ares shipper in the day, so anything with those two basically. Also Bitter Suite and most of the Autolycus episodes.

That whole faux Christianity plot eventually ruined the show for me, though, and I stopped watching it in S5/S6, and I was really glad I had when I found out what happened in the finale.

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	cheezdanish 2008-07-23 01:01 am UTC (link)
	I just remember the kerfuffles over the GabDrag and the GabChak, as they were called back in the day. THAT wasn't pretty at all. (Reply to this)

	lots42 2008-07-23 03:53 am UTC (link)
	I distinctly remember the episodes featuring the kids to be aaaaawful. My favorite was the unabashed carbon-copying of Groundhog Day. Especially the day when Xena flips out and ... (Reply to this)

	lots42 2008-07-23 03:53 am UTC (link)
	I distinctly remember the episodes featuring the kids to be aaaaawful. My favorite was the unabashed carbon-copying of Groundhog Day. Especially the day when Xena flips out and ... (Reply to this)