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Xena: Warrior Princess
1995 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by John Schulian, Robert Tapert
DramaActionAdventureScience FictionFantasy
Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.
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I remember the first couple of websites that I made back in 1997... Both were about The X-Files and Xena: Warrior Princess. Just basic info about the series, character and episode analysis and some screen captures taken with my TV tuner card. I've had an "about me" page in both of them with my contact information. I ended up making some basic websites for some small businesses in my area that wanted an online presence. A part of me wishes I had pursued Web development as a career.
Same here, I think I will enjoy the rest of this series too.
From what I observed, the negativity stems from a few different groups:
- Tolkien fans that are very critical towards derived works.
- anti-woke groups that take offence in racial and gender castings.
- People that like to see big Amazon fail.
After all the dust has settled, I think this series will do pretty well for Amazon.
Giving it a score below 6.7 basically means "This show is worse that Xena: Warrior Princess." Which it clearly isn't.
The internet crowd was already upset before the first episode aired.
>But we can still pillage the religions of the regions without a second thought?
Asia in general is sufficiently alien to the US, both geographically and culturally, that it more or less exists as caricature in many places, and because it's not Christian and European, many don't feel the need to respect it.
There was a tv show called Xena Warrior Princess, that decided to do a story arc where Xena travels to India and fights the Hindu pantheon, because fighting ancient mythological monsters was her shtick. Apparently, the people who made the show were shocked to discover that there were still Hindus in the world, who watched television and weren't happy to find that their religion provided the show's "monsters of the week."
This is a subjective example but... In the last 6 months I've been prescribed medical cannabis and after trying it for the first time in my life I was able to understand and analyze both film and music more in-depth.
For example, although I had seen the Xena: Warrior Princess musical episode "The Bitter Suite" before numerous times it wasn't until under the influence was I able to emotionally and mentally understand the allegory of the episode.
Basically, the symbolism of Gabrielle having a "demon" child forced into her against her will, who Xena considered a monster and wanted to kill whilst Gabrielle blamed herself for it's inception is a very clear metaphor of a rape. It took a strong emotional attachment to the journey of the main characters to truly appreciate as well as understand the message encoded in the symbolism. It may not be "profound" as the meaning of everything but realizing that with my own devices was at least enlightening.
In my very limited experience mind altering drugs seem to turn off/lessen the assumptions one makes, to step outside the critical path and analyze information more in-depth.
[Edit] Correcting auto-correct