From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   3-02 Been There, Done That   
      
             First air date Oct. 6, 1997   
      
             The episode starts out with a rooster crowing and Xena waking up   
   in a barn. Joxer comes in with goose eggs in his helmet telling them to rise   
   and shine. Gabrielle wakes up from under a pile of hay and says she'll rise   
   but refuses to shine. Someone in the loft drops a horseshoe into the eggs,   
   splattering them onto Joxer's face.   
      
             They are walking through the town and Joxer says he will go find   
   more goose eggs for Gabrielle. Two men are arguing in the town square as   
   Xena and Gabrielle pass by. They hear Joxer's voice and as they rush back,   
   he has been stabbed by one of the men and dies. That evening they burn his   
   body on a funeral pyre. Xena tells Gabrielle that tomorrow the pain will   
   hurt less and they go to sleep together.   
      
   The rooster crows again and Xena wakes up in the barn again. Joxer comes in   
   as the day before with the goose eggs. Xena is overjoyed to see him alive.   
   She thinks she had a dream until the Gabrielle says the same thing about   
   rising and shining and Joxer almost gets hit with the horseshoe.   
      
   Xena tries to explain as they walk thru the town. The same two men begin   
   arguing and Xena sends Gabrielle and Joxer to an alley. Xena stops the fight   
   but one of the men is killed. When they go back to the barn the man in the   
   barn says all the horses were killed, including Argo.   
      
   Every day starts the same --   
      
   Xena stops an old man from being run over by a horse and wagon.  Xena sends   
   Gabrielle and Joxer to the alley. Xena stops the fight in the street, but in   
   the alley Gabrielle is stabbed and dies.   
      
   Joxer suggests it's the rooster. Xena kills the rooster but the day repeats   
   again.   
      
   She ties up Gabrielle and Joxer so neither will get killed. The day   
   repeats.   
      
   Xena has Joxer declare the three of them enemies of the warring families   
   and all three are killed by both sides. The day repeats.   
      
   Xena wakes up and throws her Chakram into Joxer's chest then goes back to   
   sleep. The day repeats.   
      
   Xena finally figures out she has to stop the cycle. She finds a broken vial   
   that contained Night's bane, a deadly poison.   
      
   She goes to a Healer who can't find it.   
      
   She goes to the village midwife to hear about everyone in town. She brokers   
   peace between the families by telling them how each is related to the other.   
      
   The day repeats.   
      
   Xena finally finds out who took the night's bane, a woman named Hermia. And   
   when her lover, Miron found out, he prayed to Cupid that the day would never   
   end until a hero came to make things right. The next day, Xena lets everyone   
   fight while she figures out angles and distances from the barn at one end of   
   town to where Hermia took the poison at the other end. At the end of the day   
   Gabrielle looks around and it appears everyone is dead.   
      
   The next morning, Xena throws her Chakram, it ricochets  a couple dozen   
   times until it reaches Hermia and breaks the vial. Then she once again   
   brokers the peace between the two families.   
      
   The rooster crows again. Xena and Gabrielle are in the barn again, and Joxer   
   comes in again but this time he has turnips instead of goose eggs. The cycle   
   has ended   
      
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   Excellent episode. Lots of laughs and good performances by all three heroes.   
      
   Almost the opposite of 'The Furies'. Starts out very serious with Joxer   
   being killed, and Gabrielle's tears and pain. Then as the days begin   
   continue to repeat, the humor starts. No doubt I left out a lot of the days   
   (I counted 15 rooster crowings, including the first and last non-repeat days   
   and the 13 repeat days). And the ones I mentioned are probably out of   
   sequence.   
      
   Some of the highlights were -   
      
   Xena cradling Gabrielle when she died, hoping the day would start over.   
      
   Xena hugging Gabrielle when she  wasn't dead and Joxer's "Group hug!"   
      
   Gabrielle putting her foot on Joxer's chest trying to extricate the buried   
   Chakram (got a GOOD laugh at that!) as Xena turned over to go back to sleep   
   sucking her thumb.   
      
   Xena trying over and over to explain what was happening, and Gabrielle's   
   expressions.   
      
   Gabrielle and Joxer's faces, sitting side by side as Xena explained, and   
   them still there at the end of the day (but it seemed to me that they had   
   changed sides).   
      
   Don't need to  mention the movie "Groundhog Day."   
      
   Miron expecting Hercules to show up to save the day, or Sinbad.   
      
   One question - when they woke up for the last time, did the repeat days   
   repeat one more time with everything right, or did they go back to the barn   
   for the night and Gabrielle's stock answer is "I'll rise, but I refuse to   
   shine"?   
      
   Liked this one a lot. A 9 out of ten.   
      
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   Been There, Done That   9   
   The Furies                      6.5   
   Average score so far       7.75   
      
   David   
      
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