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   "David E. Milligan"  wrote in message   
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   > "Lilah Morgan"  wrote in message   
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   >> "David E. Milligan"  wrote in message   
   >> news:g4L4i.407$FN5.265@bignews7.bellsouth.net...   
   >>   
   >>>         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."   
   >I so totally agree with you but then again, I think I've said that at least   
   >a dozen times as have you.  As far as I am concerned, there was no excuse   
   >for FIN and it was a terrible insult to those of us that watched every   
   >episode over and over again and then to have it end the way it did? It   
   >didn't even make sense.  I remember that last scene where Xena was ready   
   >for battle.... one that she knew was going to be a difficult battle and she   
   >was dressed in an outfit that was the next thing to a bikini....No armor,   
   >no protection of any kind????  She was just committing suicide.  TPTB went   
   >out of their collective way to hurt the fans as far as I'm concerned.  And   
   >I still don't know why they thought it was such a great ending... We all   
   >deserved better.   
   ... Vi   
      
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