From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Ahroo"  wrote in message   
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   > Sorry - I had hoped to have had time to rewatch this episode before posting,   
   but it just wasn't   
   > to be, so I'm posting based on memory and David's synopsis.   
   >   
   > Overall, I liked this episode - and I agree with the 8 rating.   
   >   
   > I agree that it seemed strange that Xena was captured so easily when   
   attempting to kill Caesar   
   > and so it must have been done intentionally, but it seems even stranger that   
   Xena could have   
   > actually killed him had she wanted to - so why didn't she? I'm sure that   
   with Caesar dead and   
   > Rome in chaos, she could have found another way to free Vercinix. You'd   
   think Pompey (who   
   > presumably would have taken control) would be happy to see Caesar out of the   
   picture and would   
   > allow Xena to get out of Rome safely as a "reward" so that shouldn't have   
   been an issue. I'm   
   > surprised that she didn't take advantage of the opportunity.   
   >   
      
           Maybe Pompey would have let them go (with Vercinix) and maybe not.   
   Being he's a ROMAN, I'm   
   sure Lucy trusts him as far as she does Caesar. This time she let her plan   
   override her hatred for   
   Caesar.   
      
   > Once again Gabrielle being upset with Xena because she knowingly was leading   
   a man to his death   
   > seems a bit too self-righteous to me. OK, being a part of the plot takes it   
   to a higher level,   
   > but how many times have people died at Xena's hands (directly or indirectly)   
   and Gabby hasn't   
   > even blinked an eye? Soldiers in battle? Muggers attacking them along the   
   wayside? Crassus'   
   > crimes may not have been as blatant or personally witnessed by X&G, but was   
   he any less a "bad   
   > man" than other people Xena killed? Xena is a WARRIOR - by definition that   
   means she fights and   
   > people die. If that is so abhorrent to Gabrielle, why does she continue to   
   travel with her? The   
   > fact that Xena is fighting for good doesn't change the fact that she is   
   fighting. And people will   
   > die. Sometimes directly at the end of Xena's sword or chakrum, other times   
   as a result of some   
   > scheme Xena has hatched. But the result is still the same - death.   
      
           Maybe Gab feels that fighting and killing isn't quite the same as just   
   letting someone die.   
   Particularly after telling Crassus she would give him his ring back, then not   
   doing it.   
           If he had been put on trial, and if found guilty, then executed, she   
   probably would have   
   better accepted it.   
           Good points, though. Something both Xena and Gabrielle have had to   
   live with ever since   
   they started traveling together.   
      
   >   
   > Once again we get the familiar exchange of "I love you" at the end. Things   
   have definitely   
   > improved between them since the last aborted exchange in "Maternal   
   Instincts!"   
   >   
   > Laura   
   >   
      
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