From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Rivergoat"  wrote in message news:jb0763plkg   
   rsjmne2j9efkcs4qhr7fdpn@4ax.com...   
   > Well, I first watched XWP a few years back, but not when it first   
   > aired. Loved it, but it was the recent showings on O2 that got me   
   > really hooked. Of course, TV, even satellite channels such as O2, can   
   > suck the wangus. O2 was running Xena Mon-Fri until January, then cut   
   > back to Mon AND Fri, then stopped. Well it was enough of a push for me   
   > to just buy the entire series on DVD, and I'd been watching it since.   
   >   
   > Last night was FIN, the Director's Cut. I wondered how I would feel   
   > about FIN, standard or Director's version, this time around. I guess   
   > like everyone, I hate seeing Xena remain in the underworld as a   
   > spirit, with Gabrielle left alone, but I think I accepted the end much   
   > better. Xena knew she was likely not coming back, hence taking this   
   > trime to teach the pinch, and to insist that Gabrielle "know   
   > everything I know." Seeing Gabrielle carrying the chakram, then using   
   > it at the latter scenes was just freaking awesome, and maybe it all   
   > fits in the end. Gabrielle is one with Xena, hell she became her in   
   > the end, more or less. And with the reverse of the dialog ("...needs a   
   > girl with a chakram..." "....I knew you'd say that") from the start of   
   > the ep, just made it more so.   
      
       FIN was one of those I-loved-it-I-hated-it episodes. There was just SO   
   much to love - the   
   scenery, Xena and Gabrielle's moments together, Xena proving what a true   
   warrior is all about.   
       But there were things the finale should have had but didn't -- like Ares   
   and Aphrodite and   
   Joxer and Autolycus, and Xena and Gabrielle living out their old age together.   
      
   >   
   > Yeah, blah blah blah, but I just gotta rant after seeing the great   
   > show end (again), and know that I'll take a break before watching eps   
   > again. I still see the possibilities of the movie. Gabrielle was still   
   > holding the small urn of ashes; we just need the stupid politics of   
   > the film studios out of the way to make it happen. No one has to stay   
   > dead in Xenaworld, certainly not Xena herself. She and Gabrielle   
   > toasted each other with champagne in the back of the cab in "Send In   
   > The Clones." That's how I'll think of them for now.....   
      
      "... Clones" (or "When Fates Collide") should have been the real finale.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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