From: davideml@bellsouth.net
"Ahroo" wrote in message
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>> They lock the doors as the soldiers try to break in. Joxer tells Gabrielle
he loves her.
>>
>
> Talk about lousy timing - for both Joxer and the writers who decided to do
it at this point, when
> we can get absolutely NO response from Gabrielle. This is a big deal for
Joxer, and something
> that he has been building up to for several seasons, and then it just
becomes nothing. I was very
> disappointed that it was handled this way.
His reason was that he wanted to tell her just in case she died again.
It could/should have
been done earlier, but I guess he was desperate to tell her and he feared it
might be now or never.
I still don't think it should have been such a surprise to her.
>
>> Ares yells from outside that if Xena gives them Chakram he'll let them go.
When they don't
>> answer the soldiers start breaking in. Xena gets the broken Chakram from
Amarice and puts it
>> into the empty side of the altar and it is mended. The soldiers break in
and they fight. When
>> Kal starts to kill Gabrielle, Xena grabs one of the Chakrams and slices
open his belly with it
>> and he burns up to ashes. Ares tries to get Xena to give it to him. Instead
she picks up the
>> other one, puts them together and they turn into a new Chakram with a
yin-yang look. She splits
>> it into to two pieces and she throws them. A soldier is dead and the old
Xena is back.
>
> So, where do the broken chakram pieces in Season 2's The Xena Scrolls come
from, if they were
> mended here????? We thought that Ides of March provided the explanation at
least of how it came
> to be broken in half, but this just undid that. A huge continuity problem in
my mind.
>
yours and everyone else's!! Of course there could have been another
one made (by ??) and
was discarded in the same cave where Ares was imprisoned.
> ........
>>
>> A pretty good episode.
>>
>> Some of the back story about the Chakram(s), but not enough to suit me. 1)
Who made them? 2)
>> WHY were they made? 3) Why were they, and the altar, in Italy? 4) So
why were the two of
>> them made separately when together they neutralize each other? 5) Who was
supposed to use them?
>>
>>
>> Why did Xena lose her memories/dark side but Gabrielle didn't lose anything?
>
> Maybe because we already went through Gabrielle losing her memory in Season
3's Forget Me Not and
> they didn't want to be redundant? I also thought that maybe they could have
had Gabby lose her
> goodness and become darker, but again that was sort of already done in
several episodes to some
> extent or other over the years. So I guess they felt there was nothing new
for them to explore
> and wanted to focus in on Xena and the chakram.
>>
>
Maybe her mind was reeling from her asexual pregnancy.
>>
>> As I said, a pretty good episode. An 8.5 out of 10.
>>
>
> I always found this episode confusing in regard to the 2 chakrams. Perhaps I
haven't paid close
> enough attention to the explanations being given to us, or maybe it just
didn't hold my attention
> well enough to make me care! In any event, I wasn't too thrilled with this
episode, the first of
> the long, slippery slope into the rotten season that most of season 5 turned
out to be! I'm
> giving it a 6.
>
Admittedly, the story had big BIG holes, but I thought everyone's
performances were very
good.
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