From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   3-19    Tsunami   
      
      
      
   First air date Apr 20, 1998.   
      
   The episode starts out with a ship being loaded for a voyage.   
      
   Cut to Gabrielle with a palm reader telling her she will go on a long voyage   
   and will meet a man.   
   Xena walks in and interrupts. Gabrielle gives the woman one more chance, and   
   she is shocked at what   
   she sees -- great danger and death. Gabrielle says she described every day of   
   her and Xena's life.   
      
             Xena and Gabrielle split up to buy supplies and food. Gabrielle sees   
   three slaves in   
   chains being loaded onto a ship. One is Autolycus. She goes on board to talk   
   to him, but is   
   restrained. She fights back with her staff, knocking several deckhands down.   
   While she is being   
   chased, the ship starts to leave. Gabrielle yells for Xena who does several   
   giant swings on a bar,   
   then flips through the air and lands on the ship.   
      
             The ship's captain says she tried to free a prisoner. The ship's   
   owner, Thaddeus, said it   
   was a crime. His VERY young wife, Soraya, thinks maybe Gabrielle can explain.   
   She tells Xena about   
   Autolycus. They go down into the hold and Xena figures out Autolycus wants to   
   go to the diamond   
   mine to steal diamonds.   
      
             Soraya tells Gabrielle she is pregnant but Thaddeus doesn't want her   
   to have children.   
      
             There are several jolts to the ship that Gabrielle, Xena and others   
   feel. Xena sees smoke   
   from Mt Aetna erupting. They barely get down into the ship's hole when a HUGE   
   tsunami hits and   
   turns the ship upside down.   
      
             Xena is frantic trying to find Gabrielle, and eventually does. The   
   ship's captain is hurt   
   and unconscious. Thaddeus has a broken leg. Autolycus gets out of the chains   
   and frees the other   
   two prisoners - Macon, a killer, and Petrodes, a young man who is very scared.   
      
             Macon wants to get out going through the hull but Xena tells him   
   they are too deep, and   
   the water leaks are from the pressure pushing the nails out.   
      
             Xena has a plan to expose the rudder shaft and then turn it so they   
   will get out of the   
   current and land on a reef. They break through the housing, and using a   
   harpoon stuck into the   
   shaft, they manage to turn the ship. It lands on a reef.   
      
   Macon tries to drown Thaddeus to save some air, but Soraya drives him off.   
      
   Xena has another plan to fill wine skins with air, cut through the hull, and   
   breathe from the wine   
   skins while geysers raise them to the surface.   
      
   Petrodes starts to shoot Macon with a crossbow. Xena uses her Chakram to stop   
   him, but the arrow   
   cuts a rope holding ballast or something and the ship goes deeper and the deck   
   is penetrated by   
   rocks. Xena feels warm water coming in and says a geyser is on that side of   
   the ship.   
      
   Autolycus and Xena break a hole in the hull to get out.   
      
   Autolycus volunteers to help Soraya with Thaddeus. Gabrielle and Petrodes will   
   help the unconscious   
   captain. They all leave the ship. Macon loses his wine skin and fights Xena   
   for hers. She beats him   
   off, then goes back down after him.   
      
   On the shore Gabrielle sees everyone is fine. Thaddeus tells Autolycus he will   
   stop using slaves to   
   work his diamond mine and will hire workers at decent wages.   
      
   Gabrielle helps Xena from the surf. Macon can't understand why Xena helped   
   him. He asks what she   
   expected from him. She says from him -- nothing, but from herself - nothing   
   less.   
      
   As they walk away, Gabrielle asks Xena what she thought of the palm reader,   
   and Xena replies it was   
   as Gabrielle said - just an average day.   
      
   ...........   
      
   Not a bad episode. Some pretty good things in it.   
      
   Always like to see Autolycus. But I didn't much care for his whining about   
   putting his friends in   
   danger. It sounded like he was fishing for someone to say nice things about   
   him.   
      
   Liked Xena's reasoning for saving Macon.   
      
   Kind of wondered where the light came from. It should have been pitch black   
   inside the ship. That   
   would have driven me totally insane!!   
      
   The only really action was Gabrielle beating up the deckhands. I guess her   
   staff is at the bottom   
   of the Mediterranean Sea in the hold of the ship.   
      
   Petrodes was very annoying.   
      
   Kind of nice to see that Xena doesn't have all of the answers right away.   
      
   I wonder how the ship's captain held his breath, or breathed from the wine   
   skin, when he was   
   unconscious.   
      
   How is it that Thaddeus expects Soraya not to get pregnant? With a young,   
   nubile wife like THAT   
   don't tell me there was no hanky-panky / foolin' around / etc. etc.   
      
   Mt Aetna (Etna) is on the eastern part of the island of Sicily,  and it was a   
   very VERY big tsunami   
   that hit the ship!!  I wonder what kind of devastation it caused when it hit   
   southern Greece.   
      
   Macon (Tod Rippon) also play Goliath in 'Giant Killer' and in a couple Herc   
   eps I didn't see.   
      
   Not such a bad episode, but not one of the best, either. I liked it all right,   
   but wasn't blown   
   away by it. A seven out of 10.   
      
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   3-19  Tsunami                          7   
      
   3-18  Fins, Femmes and Gems  8   
      
   3-17 Forget Me Not .             8   
      
   3-16 When In Rome .            8   
      
   3-15  King Con                        6   
      
   3-14  Forgiven                         8   
      
   3-13 One Against An Army      9.5   
      
   3-12 The Bitter Suite                9.5   
      
   3-11 Maternal Instincts             9.5   
      
   3-10  The Quill is Mightier.    8   
      
   3-09  Warrior-Priestess-Tramp  8   
      
   3-08  King of Assassins            6.5   
      
   3-07  The Debt II                      9   
      
   3-06  The Debt                         9.5   
      
   3-05  Gabrielle's Hope              9   
      
   3-04  The Deliverer                   9   
      
   3-03  The Dirty Half Dozen      8   
      
   3-02  Been There, Done That    9   
      
   3-01  The Furies                       6.5   
      
   Average score so far    ----       8.2   
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