From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Ahroo"  wrote in message   
   news:OEMfj.60559$eY.28929@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...   
   > When Gabrielle sees a soldier   
   >> about to kill Xena, she throws a spear at him and kills him. She then picks   
   up a sword and kills   
   >> more solders. She grabs a knife and stabs another one repeatedly until she   
   sees the bloody knife   
   >> in her hand. >   
   >   
   > But did you notice that the sword she used to kill the first batch of   
   soldiers remained   
   > blood-free all the way through? I realize that they didn't want to focus on   
   the blood and gore,   
   > but this was a particularly brutal, gory scene - there should have been at   
   least a LITTLE blood   
   > on the sword!   
   >   
   >   
           Probably so, but if they showed blood everymen someone was killed, it   
   would be a bloodfest   
   and probably would turn off a lot of more sensitive viewers. And possibly they   
   wanted to reserve   
   the bloody weapon for Gabrielle's shock when she realized what she was doing.   
      
   >>   
   >> As Caesar is being stabbed, Xena and Gabrielle are having nails driven into   
   their palms and   
   >> ankles.   
   >   
   > The juxtaposition of Caeser's death and X&G's crucifixions was just   
   masterful - very effective   
   > and very moving. One of the best scenes in the entire run of the series! I   
   wonder if we'll get to   
   > see anything like it again later in the series, say in a parallel universe   
   type of episode ;-)   
   >   
   >   
           Just another reason I rated it a 10.   
   >>   
   >> The crosses Xena and Gabrielle are on are raised into place. After they   
   die, Xena's   
   >> spirit/soul/ghost goes to Gabrielle and awakens her spirit/soul/ghost. They   
   clasp hands, smile   
   >> at each other, then disappear, leaving their bodies on the crosses.   
   >>   
   >> Lucy said that the final scene with  Xena and Gabrielle's spirits smiling   
   at each other was   
   >> added during the filming of "Fallen Angel" so the ending wouldn't seem so   
   bleak.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > Interesting that that was an afterthought add-on scene. Actually, I would   
   have preferred the   
   > scene WITHOUT the beautiful, smiling spirits. I think it would have been   
   much more effective and   
   > gut-wrenching to just leave it with them hanging, dying on the crosses. It   
   was the bleakness of   
   > it all that really hit home. But, I guess that since they were still trying   
   to make a show that   
   > would appeal to viewers of all ages, they felt they had to soften it up a   
   bit and turn it into a   
   > bit of a "happier ending" somehow.   
   >   
   >   
       You are probably right about TPTB wanting a more hopeful and happier   
   ending. Got to please as   
   many fans as possible. Don't want to lose any of them.   
      
   >>   
   >> ......   
   >> I thought a better line for Gabrielle, rather than saying, "I had a choice   
   - to do nothing or   
   >> save my friend. I chose the way of friendship", she should have said "I did   
   choose the way of   
   >> love, my love for you."   
   >   
   > I agree - "friendship" only takes you so far; only LOVE would drive a person   
   to make the   
   > sacrifice of her principles and beliefs in order to save the other's life.   
   And it doesn't matter   
   > what type of love (since we all have different views of the nature of their   
   love) - it could be   
   > platonic love, love of a parent for a child, romantic love, etc., but it has   
   to be something more   
   > intense than just friendship!   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Lucy said they added Amarice to have someone who is kind of dumb and makes   
   mistakes, because   
   >> Gabrielle has outgrown that.   
   >>   
   >   
   > But we already have Joxer for that....why do we need to suffer with another   
   one??? And why do   
   > they always have to be so obnoxious?????   
   >   
       To make you dislike them at first? And gradually have them grow on you   
   when you realize they   
   might not be so bad after all.  When Joxer first showed up I hated him! I was   
   so SURE they were   
   going to make him the love interest for Gabrielle. I   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> One of, if not THE best, episode ever. Everything you could ask for - a   
   mostly naked Callisto, a   
   >> killer fight scene when Xena is disabled, one of the most touching scenes   
   between Xena and   
   >> Gabrielle, with a minimum of talk -- just the looks on their faces. And a   
   pretty darned good   
   >> story.   
   >>   
   >> A 10 out of 10!!   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'll agree that it is a 10, and I'll agree that it is one of the very best   
   of the entire series,   
   > but NOT the best EVER - that is still reserved for season 3's One Against An   
   Army!   
   >   
   > Laura   
           Hard to argue which is the VERY best one (so far).  Everyone sees   
   something different in   
   every episode.   
       To - may - to    To - mah - to.   
      
   David   
      
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