From: davideml@bellsouth.net
"Lilah Morgan" wrote in message
news:K9n5i.18699$3P3.4574@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> "David E. Milligan" wrote in message
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>
>> Okay -- you HAVE to finish it !! !!! !! Or at least post what you
> have so far. ( And maybe
>> even accept a few suggestions about how to end the story? )
>
> haha ok sure...it's ok to post fanfic here? I thought that's what the
> alt.xena.creative group was for but my one story I posted there a few weeks
> ago has not gotten any replies.
>
Well, it's very possible not very many people are visiting the ng
anymore (I never have). I
don't see why you can't post the story here. If it's really long, a chapter
every day or every
couple of days should be fine. It's not like there are giong to be throngs of
critics to piss and
moan about this not being the proper forum!!
>> I kept hearing all this crap about Xena coming full circle
> when she died. I never
>> understood what that was all about.
>> I thought her journey was all about her trying to find inner peace and
> self-forgiveness as she
>> tried to atone for her violent past by doing what she could to help the
> helpless, right wrongs, etc
>> etc etc.
>
> Well the full circle is true, but not like how they intended. For the full
> circle part was that A: in Sins of the Past, Xena tries to start over by
> burying her armor/weapons just like she did in Friend in Need(that scene in
> the finale chilled me to the bone and I got kinda nauseous because that was
> the moment I realized it was over), and B: there were stupid villagers to
> deal with. In Sins of the Past, we find out that Xena saved
> them(Amphipolis-ians) from Cortese, but they were hardly grateful and wanted
> to stone her. In Friend in Need, in the flashbacks, Xena is going to put
> Akemi's ashes to rest when the villagers of ?Higuchi? attack her because
> they only know that Akemi killed her father and for that she must not find
> peace. They apparently didn't know Yodoshi was an evil bastard who killed
> all of her other family. Now how they didn't know that I dunno, but they
> really should have done their homework. And when Xena defends herself, a
> fire gets started that kills 40,000villagers. EXCUSE ME?! There was a
> BLIZZARD going on at the time, and it was a PORT city, meaning there was
> lots of WATER. Not to mention how the hell there could be 40,000people in a
> village?! It'd be a pretty big one, which means it would have taken time for
> the fire to spread through the whole village, meaning people would have had
> time to save themselves, especially since there was a mob around to attack
> Xena. So people were obviously awake. Have they never heard of stop, drop,
> and roll? Xena accidentally starts a fire through SELF-DEFENSE and she's
> responsible for their deaths?! It's not like Cirra/Callisto. Well it is in
> the sense that a fire got started somehow that wiped out most of the town,
> but the villagers died because Xena's army was there and people were afraid
> to leave their burning homes.
>
>
As great as the final two eps LOOKED, there was so much of the writing
that really sucked.
It's almost like it was written as it was being shot and no one bothered to
actually think about
the logic of some of the scenes.
For example, at the very beginning when Xena finds the messenger from
Akemi --
Xena: "Akemi? You saw Akemi?"
Kenji: "Several weeks ago. I was journeying with another monk
through a forest-- near the
town of Higuchi."
If he saw Akemi 'several weeks ago' he sure can't have been walking
to get to Greece that
fast. Or been on horseback. He would have had to be flying.
Personally, I think the ep to follow this one should have been 'Send
in the Clones.' Then
end the series with "When Fates Collide."
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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