From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   The Titans   
   First air date: Oct 30, 1995   
           Brief Recap-   
   The episode starts of with Xena sending Gabrielle off with Argo while she   
   fights the bad guys unarmed.  Xena whistles for Argo, but Gabrielle has her   
   and won't let her go, apparently, Xena is angry and tells Gabrielle she   
   needs to improve. Xena rides off, and Gabrielle wanders into a cave where a   
   woman is chanting, trying to awaken the Titans. Gabrielle reads the chant   
   the correct way and three of them awaken – Hyperion, Crius, and Theia.  They   
   think Gabrielle is a goddess for being able to waken them.   
       And when Gabrielle realizes she can control them and can do good with   
   them, she gets this very cute smile on her face. But the Titans find out   
   she's not a goddess and take it out on the village.   
   Hyperion tells them that unless they turn over Xena to him,  he will destroy   
   every human.  The townspeople capture her to give to the Hyperion.  But she   
   escapes.   
      
   Now – Hyperion says he want to kill the humans because they will get in   
   their way in their war against the gods.  But what I want to know is –   
   exactly what powers do the Titans have? Hyperion says he is the Sun Titan   
   (whatever that means), but other than size, and accompanying strength, what   
   can they do? The Titans can't fly, can't teleport, can't throw lightning   
   bolts or energy balls.  So how can they hope to win against the gods?  Of   
   cours, he did say there were hundreds of them in rock, so maybe using   
   overwhlmong masses he thinks he can win.   
      
   But, back to the story.  Xena is making plans against the Titans, Gabrielle   
   wants to help but Xena shuts her down, and Gabrielle says that Xena doesn't   
   respect her, a valid statement IMO. Or maybe she lost some of the confidence   
   in Gabrielle's abilities she was beginning to have.   
      
   Gabrielle sneaks away to the cave to find the scroll with the chant to turn   
   them back into stone, but she is captured by Theia. Hyperion makes her   
   repeat the chant to wake up the rest of the Titans but she says it wrong -   
   stalling. Xena is about to kill Hyperion, stabbing him in the face or neck,   
   I guess, but Theia says if Xena won't kill Hyperion she’ll give her the   
   scroll to turn them back to stone.   
      
   So why didn't Theia just give the scroll to Gabrielle, instead of to Xena,   
   who then had to get it to Gabrielle somehow.   
   After some running and dodging, Hyperion falls into a chasm as Gabrielle   
   finishes the chant. And the two remaining Titans are turned to stone.   
      
   I'm not sure just how much I like this episode. There are parts that are   
   really good, mostly when Gabrielle thinks she is doing good things (and   
   being SO cute about it!). I guess Gabrielle is starting to grow on me   
   because I'm not really crazy about Xena criticizing her for things that   
   aren't necessarily her fault, like at the beginning when Gabrielle was only   
   doing what Xena asked – taking care of Argo.   
      
       I noticed that Xena was back to wearing her sword on her hip, so I'm   
   thinking that this episode was originally intended to be aired before "The   
   Reckoning."   Looking forward to seeing where Xena's sword is in the next   
   episode.   
      
     I guess I would rate it a six out of ten.   
      
      Sins of the Past  -- 7   
       Chariots of War – 7   
       Dreamworker ---   8   
      Cradle of Hope --   6   
      Path Not Taken --  6   
      The Reckoning --  8   
      The Titans -------  6   
      Average...............  8   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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