From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Ahroo"  wrote in message   
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   >>          WHY would Caesar bring Gabrielle to Rome? What a DUMB move! Unless   
   he didn't know it   
   >> was Gabrielle, but just a playwright with a reasonably well known play   
   someone told him about.   
   >   
   > From the look on his face, I think he was completely surprised - either that   
   the author was   
   > Gabrielle, or that she was actually there on stage.   
   >   
           Sometimes Fate will NOT be denied!  : - )   
      
   >>   
   >>          How did Alti get from the Amazons in Greece to become Rome's High   
   Priestess?   
   >   
   > And how did Joxer get there, too? Unless, since Caesar had conquered Greece,   
   he had some Grecian   
   > soldiers transferred to Rome for some reason. Hard to think that Joxer could   
   have become such a   
   > competent solider!   
   >   
           Not really sure if he was so competent seeing that he seemed to be   
   more of a guard than a   
   real soldier. Probably a good thing, considering his "warrior skills" weren't   
   exactly top notch.   
      
   >>   
   >>          Everything exploded - so just what world/time line did they end up   
   in? Just how far   
   >> back in time did the Fates and their Loom go? Gabrielle sure took a chance.   
   They could have   
   >> ended up in a world where dinosaurs were still around and people were no   
   better than cavemen, or   
   >> less.   
   >   
   > I assume that they ended up in their own, current time - i,e, exactly where   
   they had been up   
   > until the moment Caesar changed everything.   
   >   
           Probably so.   
      
   >   
   >> Just about everything else. Everyone did such a great job! Everyone knows   
   their characters so   
   >> well, and just how to play them to perfection.   
   >   
   > Agreed! And even though I have never particularly liked Alti, she, too, was   
   played to perfection.   
   > I would have preferred Callisto as the villain (and I'm sure that the   
   writers could have easily   
   > rewritten the script to work around the loss of Alti's special powers).   
   >   
               I miss evil Callisto. I think every ep she was in I rated 8.5 or   
   9. I think I would   
   have preferred Callisto to Alti.   
      
   > Speaking of Alti's powers, I wondered why she allowed Brutus to take her to   
   the dungeon without   
   > any protest, and why she stayed there. I'm sure she could have escaped   
   easily and didn't need to   
   > make her deal with Xena.   
   >   
           One of those inexplicable things only Alti knew. Maybe she knew Xena   
   would come to see her   
   and had Plans A, B, C, and D to get out of the dungeon.   
      
   > And although I understand that Alti needed to "feed" off of the emotions   
   when she shows others   
   > scenes from their other lives, or past pain, etc., it seems to me that it   
   was not such a great   
   > idea for her to do that - it gave Xena, in particular, the knowledge that   
   this world was not   
   > real, thereby ultimately triggering its downfall. You'd think she could   
   accomplish the same thing   
   > by showing people other events in THIS world, and not take such a risk.   
   >   
           Possible she had no real control over the precise memories,  just what   
   ever painful ones   
   were there.  But neither she nor Xena ever saw Caesar reset the Loom. I wonder   
   how that memory got   
   in there.   
      
   >>   
   >> The scenes between Xena and Gabrielle were purely heart-wrenching,   
   particularly the one in the   
   >> dungeon just before Xena was to be crucified.   
   >   
   > This episode is a sub-texter's dream!   
   >   
   >>   
   >> The back and forth scenes between Caesar being knifed and the spikes in   
   Xena's hands were as   
   >> dramatic as anything they've ever done on XWP.   
   >   
   > This was just like the death scenes in Ides of March - very effective then,   
   equally effective   
   > now. It seemed to be as I watched it again that they focused on Caesar's   
   death a bit more than   
   > Xena's crucifixion.   
   >   
           Somehow this one seemed more dramatic to me. Maybe because it's   
   fresher.   
   >>   
   >> I have to say I really wasn't too crazy about the last scene. I can   
   understand that X&G were   
   >> uncertain about the new/reset world they were in. But the bit about   
   Gabrielle's play and   
   >> everyone being a critic just didn't seem to fit in.   
   >>   
   >> Both Lucy and Renee were confused about the last scene. Neither understood   
   why Fawcett wanted   
   >> them to talk so stilting and wooden.   
   >>   
   >   
   > This has always been the big disappointment for me about this episode. I   
   would have expected some   
   > sort of emotion from at least one of them (probably Gabrielle), if not both,   
   in seeing each other   
   > again. I don't know what they were trying to achieve with this deadpan   
   interaction, but it   
   > totally failed.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> And lastly, when the series was over, there were MANY fans who thought the   
   finale should have   
   >> been this episode rather than FIN II.   
   >   
   > I agree. It was a near perfect episode that further cemented the nature of   
   the relationship   
   > between X&G, and had a "happy" ending.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> A really great episode, and despite the few questionable things, because of   
   the amazing   
   >> performances by Karl, Claire, and especially by Lucy and Renee, I give this   
   one a 9.5 out of 10.   
   >   
   > I give it a 9.9 - it loses out on a 10 only because of that last scene!   
   >   
   > Laura   
   >   
      
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