PATREON ONLY: Xena Warrior Princess 3x13 Reaction
Added 2024-10-03 11:50:07 +0000 UTC
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This is such a reaffirming episode after being put thru the wringer of the rift and then the healing musical. Just what everyone needed... just X&G mooning over each other for 42 minutes. Top tier.
Octavia
2025-02-21 11:04:39 +0000 UTCSuch a great episode that truly shows the depth of the love that Xena & Gabrielle have for eachother. They see the best in eachother and want to be the best part of eachother.
mary smith
2024-10-04 02:48:34 +0000 UTCI own all the soundtracks and I concur absolutely. He is probably my favourite composer to be honest. His work on Xena is an element to it that is understated but incredibly impactful when you watch the show. There’s particularly a piece in a future episode that really makes the scene stand out and you are able to interpret it in such a drastically different way when you pay attention to the music.
Girl4Music
2024-10-03 20:09:45 +0000 UTCAbsolutely! He's super talented
TurnK
2024-10-03 19:00:39 +0000 UTCOh I know exactly what moment of the fight you're talking about, it's my favorite part.. and yes the music is key there to make it all badass and epic.. the music direction and the use of silence for the dramatic moments are always on point in this series, Joseph LoDuca deserved all the Emmys he won for this
Herbert West MD
2024-10-03 18:30:14 +0000 UTCThis was my absolute fav fight scene from the show. I actually started to like seeing Gabrielle fighting more than Xena but Lucy and the crew worked so long and hard on this particular scene that it's hard not to love the results. Also, the music direction. Joseph LoDuca is a genius. I love how near the end the music starts swelling and you get a full score of Xena's theme. It's like Xena UNLOCKED and it's so awesome. Also, apparently Gabrielle really was supposed to have the gift of prophecy but they cut it out. Oh well.
TurnK
2024-10-03 17:38:13 +0000 UTCEasily one of my favorite episodes, Lucy and Renee should've gotten all of the awards for their acting in this one... you get all the drama, feelings and epic action all into one, plus the tidbit that Gabrielle carries around a little Xena figurine down her bra 😆 just amazing
Herbert West MD
2024-10-03 16:11:14 +0000 UTCApparently when Gabrielle wakes up from that nightmare of Xena being killed and she caresses her hair as she’s sleeping next to her Renee said Gabrielle was thinking about how beautiful Xena was in their last moments together in that scene and they play that physical intimacy so quietly and so nuanced that it completely blows me away. It’s just a short simple action but there’s just so much behind it that I just can’t help but be in awe of it. It’s one of the most evidential moments of the lover affection she feels for Xena and in exemplifying that her feelings for her go beyond friendship. She’s in love. Don’t you wish WLW/queer representation was like this all the time instead of the easy and lazy sexual intimacy? In some ways I am so glad this TV show was censored because it forced the creators to really dig deep into this forever evolving relationship and really represent such a natural and authentic love between these two amazing women. You can tell they’re in love even without the explicity of sexual intimacy and it just feels so much more real and organic than TV shows today with WLW/queer representation in that aren’t under the censorship radar and have to abide by the restrictions of the censors. You know the creators/cast/crew ship them just as much as the fans do and that’s what makes all the difference when it comes to TV art/entertainment with lead female characters that are at least coded if not explicitly written and portrayed as queer. This is where Xena and Gabrielle lives and it’s bloody beautiful to watch over and over again. Even today this level of representation feels far more sincere than anything explicit. You can watch something like this and you can see that it is canon even if it cannot be confirmed as such because the love between them really does look and feel like a romance. It’s just more emotional. And honestly, I much prefer that. I much prefer emotional intimacy to sexual intimacy. They have such a profound love story. Regardless of which way you want to interpret it. It still works. It still hits. And to this day I have not come across a WLW ship as great as X&G because of this reason. When you think about that this is what SuperCorp could have been or SwanQueen or even Rizzles… If they were just as brave as the XENA lot were. Floors me everytime. Believe me Kassidy, you ain’t seen nothing yet. These ones are on our side. Absolutely.
Girl4Music
2024-10-03 14:17:10 +0000 UTCIt's certainly a good follow-up to the two-part event they just had. (Even if it seems odd they're talking so much about Chin((a)).) My favorite parts are the springboard attacks towards the end of Xena's fight, and Gabrielle's delirious callback to the first episode.
Koz
2024-10-03 12:40:35 +0000 UTC
