From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   Prometheus   
   First air date:  Nov 6, 1995   
       Brief Recap --   
   The story starts out with Gabrielle sleeping through a fight Xena is having   
   with bounty hunters.     Xena is carrying her sword on her back again. Can't   
   make up her mind?   
       They are in a tavern and two men die suddenly.  Xena says Prometheus has   
   been chained. How did she know that, and that the haunting scream was   
   Prometheus?   
   So she leaves Gabrielle once again to visit the Oracles. And has to pull the   
   chain to get a worthless tablet. The Head O tells her to go to Vulcan Mt. to   
   the Cave of Hephaestus to get the Sword of Hephaestus, the only sword that   
   will break the chains binding Prometheus. She fights her way in against some   
   of Hera's warriors, but gets the sword anyway. However, Hercules is waiting   
   for her when she leaves the cave. They fight, him with a stick and her with   
   her sword. She back-flips onto her horse and rides away. It seems that   
   whoever wields the sword to Free Prometheus will die!   
   Gabrielle is once again waiting, this time in the tent of a shady souvenir   
   peddler. And who should come in, but Iolaus. Then Xena comes back and takes   
   Gabrielle away.      Xena and Gabrielle are in a barn when the warriors find   
   them and re-attack. Herc and Iolaus arrive to help out.   
   They agree to help each other to get to where Prometheus is chained up. But   
   Iolaus has been injured during the battle, so he and Gabrielle stay behind   
   in a cavern leading up to the top.  Xena knocks out Hercules, takes the   
   sword and climbs up the rope to the top of the mountain.  When Herc comes   
   to, he climbs up the hard way.   
   Xena threads her way through seven large blue eggs even though it would have   
   made more sense to just walk around them (or even run!).  Hera's men break   
   out of the eggs and start fighting Xena. But Herc makes it up to the top and   
   while he's fighting them, Xena is carried away by some kind of giant bird,   
   maybe a Roc.   
       Xena manages to get on top of the bird and while she is perched up   
   there, she takes her sword and stabs it down through the back. Smooth move,   
   Xena – kill your ride!   
   Xena from a mile or more above the earth yells down to Hercules to catch the   
   sword, he deflects it with a large rock and it rebounds into one of the   
   chains, allowing Prometheus to free himself. And fire and man's ability to   
   heal himself is restored.  (So what happened to the magic sword?)   
      
   I have to say this isn't one of my favorites.   
       One thing  bothered me--  Hercules mentioned his father, and Gabrielle   
   said "Your father, Zeus-- the king of the gods, the maker of all creations?”   
   Hercules agreed, but I thought the gods just took over when they defeated   
   the Titans. Surely Gabrielle should have known that.   
   Noticed that Xena looked so young while she was being carried along hanging   
   onto the rope with the wind blowing in her face.   
       Hard to give this one a rating.    So I guess a 6 out of 10.   
      
      
      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   
      Prometheus --    6   
      Average...............7.75   
      
      
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