From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   3.19 Tsunami   
      
   First air date Apr 20, 1998.   
      
   The episode starts out with a ship being loaded for a voyage.   
      
   Cut to Gabrielle with a palm reader telling her she will go on a long voyage   
   and will meet a man. Xena walks in and interrupts.   
      
   Gabrielle gives the woman one more chance, and she is shocked at what she   
   sees -- great danger and death. Gabrielle says she described every day of   
   her and Xena's life.   
      
       Xena and Gabrielle split up to buy supplies and food. Gabrielle sees   
   three slaves being loaded onto a ship. One is Autolycus.   
   She goes on board to talk to him, but is restrained. She fights back with   
   her staff, knocking several deckhands down. While she is being chased, the   
   ship starts to leave. Gabrielle yells for Xena who does several giant swings   
   on a bar, then flips through the air and lands on the ship.   
      
       The ship's captain says she tried to free a prisoner. The ship's owner,   
   Thaddeus, said it was a crime. His VERY young wife, Soraya, thinks maybe   
   Gabrielle can explain. She tells Xena about Autolycus. They go down into the   
   hold and Xena figures out Autolycus wants to go to the diamond mine to steal   
   diamonds.   
      
       Soraya tells Gabrielle she is pregnant but Thaddeus doesn't want her to   
   have children.   
      
       There are several jolts to the ship that Gabrielle, Xena and others   
   feel. Xena sees smoke from Mt Aetna erupting. They barely get down into the   
   ship's hole when a HUGE tsunami hits and turns the ship upside down.   
      
       Xena is frantic trying to find Gabrielle, and eventually does. The   
   ship's captain is hurt and unconscious. Thaddeus has a broken leg. Autolycus   
   gets out of the chains and frees the other two prisoners – Macon, a killer,   
   and Petrodes, a young man who is very scared.   
      
       Macon wants to get out going through the hull but Xena tells him they   
   are too deep, and the water leaks are from the pressure pushing the nails   
   out.   
      
       Xena has a plan to expose the rudder shaft and then turn it so they will   
   get out of the current and land on a reef. They break through the housing,   
   and using a harpoon stuck into the shaft, they manage to turn the ship. It   
   lands on a reef.   
      
   Macon tries to drown Thaddeus to save some air, but Soraya drive him off.   
      
   Xena has another plan to fill wine skins with air, cut through the hull, and   
   breathe from the wine skins while geysers raise them to the surface.   
      
   Petrodes starts to shoot Macon with a crossbow. Xena uses her Chakram to   
   stop him, but the arrow cuts a rope holding ballast or something and the   
   ship goes deeper and the deck is penetrated by sharp  rocks on the sea   
   floor. Xena feels warm water coming in and says a geyser is on that side of   
   the ship.   
      
   Autolycus and Xena breaks a hole n the hull to get out.   
      
   Autolycus volunteers to help Soraya with Thaddeus. Gabrielle and Petrodes   
   will help the unconscious captain. They all leave the ship. Macon loses his   
   water skin and fights Xena for hers. She beats him off, then goes back down   
   after him.   
      
   On the shore Gabrielle sees everyone is fine. Thaddeus tells Autolycus he   
   will stop using slaves to work his diamond mine and will hire workers at   
   decent wages.   
      
   Gabrielle helps Xena from the surf. Macon can't understand why Xena helped   
   him. He asks what she expected from him. She says from him -- nothing, but   
   from herself – nothing less.   
      
   As they walk away, Gabrielle asks Xena what she thought of the palm reader,   
   and Xena replies it was as Gabrielle said – just an average day.   
      
   ……………………………   
      
   Not a bad episode. Some pretty good things in it.   
      
   Always like to see Autolycus. But I didn't much care for his whining about   
   putting his friends in danger. It sounded like he was fishing for someone to   
   say nice things about him.   
      
   Liked Xena's reasoning for saving Macon.   
      
   Kind of wondered where the light came from. It should have been pitch black   
   inside the ship. That would have driven me totally insane!!   
      
   The only really action was Gabrielle beating up the deckhands. I guess her   
   staff is at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in the hold of the ship.   
      
   Petrodes was very annoying.   
      
   Kind of nice to see that Xena doesn’t have all of the answers right away.   
      
   I wonder how the ship's captain held his breath, or breathed from the wine   
   skin, when he was unconscious.   
      
   How is it that Thaddeus expects Soraya not to get pregnant? With a young,   
   nubile wife like THAT don't tell me there was no hanky-panky / foolin'   
   around. (wink wink; nudge nudge).   
      
   Mt Aetna (Etna) is on the eastern part of the island of Sicily,  and it was   
   a very VERY big tsunami that hit the ship!!  I wonder what kind of   
   devastation it caused when it hit southern Greece.   
      
   Macon (Tod Rippon) also play Goliath in 'Giant Killer' and in a couple Herc   
   eps I didn't see.   
      
   Not such a bad episode, but not one of the best, either. I liked it all   
   right, but wasn't blown away by it. A seven out of 10.   
      
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   3-19  Tsunami                          7   
   3-18  Fins, Femmes and Gems  8   
   3-17 Forget Me Not …             8   
   3-16 When In Rome …            8   
   3-15  King Con                        6   
   3-14  Forgiven                         8   
   3-13 One Against An Army      9.5   
   3-12 The Bitter Suite                9.5   
   3-11 Maternal Instincts             9.5   
   3-10  The Quill is Mightier…    8   
   3-09  Warrior-Priestess-Tramp  8   
   3-08  King of Assassins            6.5   
   3-07  The Debt II                      9   
   3-06  The Debt                         9.5   
   3-05  Gabrielle's Hope             9   
   3-04  The Deliverer                   9   
   3-03  The Dirty Half Dozen      8   
   3-02  Been There, Done That    9   
   3-01  The Furies                 6.5   
   Average score so far    ----       8.2   
      
      
   David   
      
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