From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   1-16    Mortal Beloved   Feb 12, 1996   
      
       The ghost of Marcus (The Path Not taken) appears and tells Xena help is   
   needed in the underworld. She leave Gabrielle sitting next to Lake Alcyonian   
   while she dives to the bottom to get to Tartarus and Marcus.  He tells her   
   that somehow the EVIL Atyminius has stolen Hades' Helmet of Invisibility and   
   has the innocents in Tartars and the dead bad guys are partying/fighting in   
   the Elysian Fields.   
       Xena and Marcus go to Hades' castle, fight off two Harpies and go in to   
   find a moping Hades. She tells him that Atyminius is going topside to start   
   killing mortals again. Hades agrees to make Marcus alive again for 48 hours   
   so her can help Xena.   
       Atyminius comes up from the lake near Gabrielle, starts to cut her up,   
   but she fights him off, kind of, with her staff. But he knocks her out but   
   just before he can do her in, Xena and Marcus arrive on the scene.  They   
   follow Atyminius to a village where a wedding festival is going on.   
   Atyminius like to kill brides just before they get married.   
       Xena tells the bride's dad she will take her place in the ritual   
   bathing. Of course the invisible Atyminius is listening in. But Xena pulls   
   the old switcheroo and the bride goes to her bathing while Xena stays in her   
   bed waiting for Atyminius. They fight, she kills him. Then she and Marcus go   
   back to Hades. Xena begs him to re-evaluate Marcus' life to see if he really   
   deserves to be in Tartarus. Xena talks him into it and Marcus is to spend   
   eternity in the Elysian Fields. And Gabrielle is once again waiting by the   
   lake shore for Xena.   
      
       For some reason not a favorite episode.   
       Things to nitpick – Xena's swimming suit didn't look like what she wears   
   under her leathers and armor.   
       How is it Xena didn't know what Harpies were?   
       Why was it she and Marcus came up  from the lake okay the first time,   
   but the second time Xena came up after being in the Elysian Fields she was   
   in such bad shape?   
       Why is Hades such a wimp?  Okay, he's not a totally omnipotent god, but   
   he all he can do is sit and sulk in his castle without his helmet? Why can't   
   he destroy the Harpies? He can give life back to Marcus, but he can't fight   
   Atyminius?   
       Again, more of a Xena episode, not so much of Gabrielle.   
      
       Out of ten, I had to give this one a 6.   
      
       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   
      Death in Chains - 7   
      Hooves/Harlots - 8   
      The Black Wolf -- 5   
      Beware Greeks – 7   
     Athens City ------  8   
     Fistful/Dinars ----8   
     Warrior/Princess – 8.5   
     Mortal Beloved – 6   
   Average..............   6.6   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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