From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Ahroo"  wrote in message   
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   >   
   >> Callisto goes into the caves where the  women and children are hiding. Xena   
   is there waiting for   
   >> her.  They fight. Callisto throws lighting bolts from her fingers, causing   
   the columns holding   
   >> up the ceiling to fall. At the last moment Xena escapes, trapping Callitso   
   in the caves.   
   >   
   > This scene was very interesting to me. Callisto tells Xena it is over - she   
   thought that by Solan   
   > being killed, she would feel some sort of relief from her own anguish, but   
   that was not the case.   
   > Xena has already "won the fight." She repeatedly tells Xena to walk away,   
   don't do this (fight),   
   > etc., but Xena wants her revenge. It is, apparently, no longer a case of   
   needing to fight   
   > Callisto to prevent her from hurting the children, but Xena just can't do   
   that. She has, in a   
   > sense, reverted back to the "monster" that Gabrielle begged her not to   
   become should anything   
   > happen to Gabby (the campfire scene from "Callisto") because she is now   
   trying to kill Callisto   
   > purely out of revenge, not to prevent something bad from happening (it   
   already has, and it is   
   > over). Perhaps Xena does not believe Callisto, but I did - I thought   
   Callisto was completely   
   > sane, in control of her emotions, honest (which she usually was with Xena).   
   >>   
      
               The  monster in Xena is there, just waiting for the right   
   circumstances to come out.   
      
   >>   
   >> It is night and there are twin funeral pyres, one for Solan and one for   
   Hope. Ephiny is singing   
   >> a funeral dirge.   
   >   
   > When I first watched this episode (and even now), I wasn't sure who the   
   second pyre was for -   
   > Hope or Kaleipus. I find it hard to believe that Xena would allow a pyre,   
   where the dead are   
   > honored and dirges sung for them, to exist for Hope side-by-side with   
   Solan's. She regards Hope   
   > as the evil one responsible for the death of her son, so how could she   
   possibly stand for Hope   
   > having a pyre at this time and location? And I find it hard to believe that   
   the Amazons and   
   > Centaurs would go for it either, since Hope was a threat to the children of   
   their villages. It   
   > makes more sense that they would have a pyre for Kaleipus, an honored member   
   of their society. I   
   > could see Gabby wanting a pyre for Hope, but I can't see anyone agreeing to   
   do so.   
   >   
   >   
           I hadn't thought about that, but you're probably right. Most likely   
   Gabrielle buried Hope   
   somewhere in an unmarked grave and she was there to mourn Solan -- and   
   Kaleipus.  I guess Xena   
   didn't want Solan's ashes, but left them for the centaurs.   
      
      
   >> A really, really outstanding episode. A strong 9.5 out of 10   
   >>   
   > Despite some of the plot holes already mentioned elsewhere in this   
   discussion, I'm going with a   
   > 9.9 for this episode on the basis of the great acting all around and the   
   gut-wrenching emotional   
   > ride.   
   >   
   > Laura   
   >   
      
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