PATREON ONLY: Xena Warrior Princess 4x07 Reaction
Added 2024-11-29 13:15:02 +0000 UTC
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The power and sincerity behind the words “Not as long as I’m around”. Gabrielle is saying that she’ll always be there to keep Xena on the right track. Of course Xena can still fall off the rails when she’s with her, as she does several times in the show. But the difference is that there’s always a chance to correct that because Gabrielle will continuously pull on her conscience. She won’t let her stay that way. She’ll even go against her to make sure of it. And I really think that’s the brilliance of her character. No matter if it’s a friend or an enemy or even a lover, Gabrielle will not leave ‘the greater good’ behind. She’s too pure. I mean we talk about Xena being the hero. But she wasn’t the one who walked freely into the dark and still was able to remain good. On the right side. It’s a testament to her emotional strength and courage and integrity as a good person. I mean can you ever be so loyal to a person to the point where you change who you are and what you stand for for them? Are your morals more important? They should be. And that’s what Gabrielle - the character and the theme - represents.
Girl4Music
2024-11-29 21:20:12 +0000 UTCMaybe they couldn’t get enough of them.
Girl4Music
2024-11-29 19:52:35 +0000 UTCThe idea of a person being eaten alive by crabs is a little... odd. If also feels like a lot is left out of this episode. The rat-fest was probably meant to evoke the infamous scene in Season One's "Death In Chains," in which Xena found herself under a fusillade of rats. It became infamous because of how much Lucy Lawless disliked the experience; she was expecting small white lab rats, not big brown ones. This isn't a great episode, but it's not awful or anything.
Koz
2024-11-29 17:49:51 +0000 UTCXena: I have to turn myself in. Me: Don't piss me off. Was it the right thing to do? Maybe. But we don't need you in prison Xena. I guess Gabrielle has a special touch lol. But if the warden wasn't Thellassa, Xena would still be in prison.
TurnK
2024-11-29 17:08:50 +0000 UTCGabrielle's first girlfriend of the week? Kind of lol I agree with u that the show missed the opportunity to have Thelassa throw crabs down the pit to xena. Definitely should have been crabs and not rats.
mary smith
2024-11-29 14:58:08 +0000 UTC‘Locked Up And Tied Down’ has Xena dealing with the justification for her regretful past. She is convicted and tried for a murder she committed to a young woman years ago, that has only just seemed to follow her up now. I thought that was quite weird at first, but it’s explained why later on. The build-up of the episode has her boarding a boat shackled in chains and leaving a grief-stricken Gabrielle behind to carry out her sentence: life imprisonment on Shark Island. Gabrielle follows her, of course, and tries to free her while masquerading as the new healer for the prisoners. It is here the sudden event of Xena’s conviction begins to make sense, as Gabrielle discovers that the person Xena, apparently, murdered, is the one who condemned her. It’s an episode where the empathetic ways of Gabrielle transform someone into finding their power and peace again, the way she has done for Xena. Meanwhile, the opposite is happening to Xena. She feels an immense amount of contempt in herself for all the horrible things she’s done. She’s so disgusted with herself, that she takes accountability for any kind of punishment or chore any of the prisoners are given while on Shark Island, along with her own. For me, that was an extremely painful thing to watch. My hero literally just giving up everything, including Gabrielle, because she hated herself. It was awful to watch how she just let the guards order and push her around like that and have all authority over her. But as painful and awful as it was to watch, it made me understand that forgiving yourself isn’t easy when your past sins follow you around and weigh you down when you’re trying to climb back up in your life. It’s not justice to just feel remorse for what you’ve done. You have to pay for those sins and accept the consequences of the pain and damage you’ve caused to others. You don’t get a free pass just because you believe you’ve repented for your sins. Others make that decision for you. Which means redemption is not earned and can’t be. It’s decided by others. It’s not a nice lesson to learn, but it is an important and realistic one. What’s more is you need to stop seeing yourself as a victim, because nobody is going to have mercy on you if you’ve done wrong. You have to own up to your crimes and deal with the consequences of your own actions. It’s a very dark, twisted and dramatic episode, but that’s just the kind of TV that I love to watch. That’s why this episode is one of my absolute favourites. This show is not afraid to tell the truth of the darkness of its themes or let the leads off for doing questionable things, unlike 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys’, and because of it, it is far superior to it in writing, directing and acting.
Girl4Music
2024-11-29 14:02:36 +0000 UTC
