From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   The Titans   
      
   First air date: Oct 30, 1995   
      
   The episode starts with Xena sending Gabrielle off with Argo while she   
   fights the bad guys unarmed. But when Hesiot hijacks a horse, 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.   
      
           Xena  catches up with Hesiot in a tavern, captures him but then has   
   to face more bad guys. Gabrielle and the Titans save the day. But the Titans   
   find out she's not a goddess and take it out on the village.   
      
       The townspeople hide in the temple of Cronus, one of the dead Titans,   
   which is sacred to all Titans.   
      
       Hyperion tells them that unless they turn over Xena to him,  he will   
   destroy every human.  When he chases children into the cave, he starts to   
   kill them. And when Crius tries to stop him, Hyperion kills him.   
      
       After Xena rescues the kids, the townspeople capture her to give to the   
   Hyperion, led by Hesiot.  But she escapes and Hyperion kills him and one of   
   the townspeople who helped him.   
      
       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?  One of the townspeople  says the Titans are inextricable. But   
   Xena hurt Hyperion when she stabbed him in the bottom of his foot with her   
   sword when he started to stomp on Gabrielle.   
      
       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?   
      
       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.   
      
   The next morning, Xena finds Gabrielle and Phyleus sleeping together –   
   Gabrielle's almost love interest. And Xena looks a bit shocked, and . . .   
   jealous??   
      
           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 (either hundreds of   
   them according to Hyperion, or thousands according to Xena. Maybe they   
   intend to overwhelm the gods with sheer numbers.). But Gabrielle says she   
   isn't a virgin anymore and the chant won't work. So Hyperion decides to kill   
   her until Theia reminds him he said he wouldn't.   
      
           With a trap made by the townspeople, Hyperion's hand is caught and   
   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. But Hyperion says Gabrielle has to be a virgin, and   
   she says she lied, she IS a virgin. He gets mad and breaks out of the trap.   
      
       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 back to stone.   
      
       Just before they leave, Xena asks Gabrielle why she went into he cave by   
   herself and Gabrielle says she did it so Xena wouldn't hate for all her   
   mistakes. Xena says she could never hate Gabrielle, because her heart's   
   always in the right place.   
      
      The End.   
      
      
       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.   
      
       One  thing I noticed – 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.   
      
       No Gabrielle yelling out "XENA!"   
      
       All in all, a entertaining episode.  I guess I would rate it a six out   
   of ten.   
      
   David   
      
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