From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Ahroo"  wrote in message   
   news:rWMMi.11109$JD.1148@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...   
   >>  I think that Najara is a decent villian.   
   >   
   > As good an actress as Katherine Morris is, and she does a really good job   
   walking the fine line   
   > between dedicated bad-guy fighter and lunatic, once again I think she was   
   mis-cast due to her   
   > muscle-less body. She's supposed to be a warrior - someone so powerful that   
   she even beat up   
   > Xena. Yet this woman has absolutely no muscle tone whatsoever! I understand   
   that when casting,   
   > acting ability has to come first (and again, I think she handled the role   
   very well). But I just   
   > wish they could have come up with someone who was physically more believable.   
   >   
      
           Like maybe a lady wrestler?  But Hudson / Callisto sure didn't have   
   the musculature but   
   she did okay.   
   >   
   >> It makes me sad that Gabrielle is questioning her life with Xena.  I   
   >> know that it's the underlying theme for the fourth season and that it   
   >> leads to good character growth, but it still bums me out.   
   >   
   > It is for this reason that I found this episode bothersome. It seemed just a   
   little too contrived   
   > and easy for Gabrielle to be willing to leave Xena to go off with Najara to   
   start the hospice.   
   > Funny, Season 3 is always referred to as "the rift" season, but in some   
   ways, this season is more   
   > about them growing apart than last season was.   
      
           The Rift was sudden and dramatic, I think this way, slowly but surely,   
   is much more   
   true-to-life and may be harder to fix. This was one of the reasons I found   
   myself drawn more to   
   Gabrielle -- she was always searching for her place, her destiny. It was like   
   she needed to be   
   protected and cared for (and I was more than willing to help out).   
      
      
   >   
   >>I thought   
   >> that Lucy did a nice job with the sadness Xena feels when she   
   >> overhears Gabrielle talking to Najara about her life.  She was subtle   
   >> but definitely got the emotion across.   
   >   
   > I absolutely agree - Lucy really developed over the years into quite a good   
   actress!   
      
           And now it seems like there isn't ANYTHING she can't do!   
      
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