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   "~Vi" <~vi@comcast.net> wrote in message news:LrKdnSd_I5R3rcvbnZ   
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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   
   >   
           From what I read, it was Rob all the way. He loves the J   
   panese/Chinese martial arts   
   movies. But why he would have Xena die . . . .. Who knows?  Maybe he was   
   thinking of a Xena movie   
   to bring her back somehow.   
      
   David   
      
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