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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 9, 2009 19:05:29 GMT -6
If you could remake Xena from scratch, what would you cut from the show, and what would you add?
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Post by EllieNeo on Sept 11, 2009 14:23:56 GMT -6
there were only a few things that really bugged me.
1. the staff that gabrielle gets at the end of hooves and harlots does not look like the staff she uses for the rest of the time she uses a staff. that's a huge continuity error, right there. always bugged the heck outta me.
2. what happened to toris? you know, xena's older brother? he was in that one episode, then we never heard of him again. even his mother never mentioned him. and, after xena reappeared 25 years later, where was he? i woulda liked to have seen him older, maybe wiser, doing something good with his life.
3. get RID of the married with fishsticks episode. what were they, all on drugs? worst. episode. EVER.
there are probably lots of other things some other xena fans would like to change, but other than these three things and xena dying at the end of the series, i really wouldn't change anything else. i love the series.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 11, 2009 18:10:15 GMT -6
1.) I figured she took off the totem at the top. Didn't pay any attention as to whether or not the rest of the staff was the same or not. I do know that at one point Gabrielle had a fold-able staff.
2.) I didn't much care for Toris, or the actor who played him, so I didn't care that he was never heard from again. If his part had been better written and played, I might have wanted him around more.
3.) Oooh. I LOVED 'Married With Fishsticks' and hoped it would become a spinoff. Which I later learned had been their intention, but then they decided against it.
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Post by jonjon3168 on Sept 11, 2009 19:55:19 GMT -6
i would take Eve completely out, and leave Callisto as a bad guy. Callisto was the best bad guy ever, and i was really disappointed when they made her into a good guy. but that's just me. also, of course, Xena wouldn't die at the end. and there wouldn't be any "subtext" about her relationship with Gabrielle. it would just be completely out in the open.
anywho. these are just my opinions.
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Post by EllieNeo on Sept 11, 2009 20:17:26 GMT -6
lol, i totally agree with jon on one thing; they were totally lovers. even that reporter guy in the you are there episode knew it. it shoulda been out there in the open. although, the subtext in the first couple of seasons was fricking hilarious.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 11, 2009 20:47:58 GMT -6
Oh my, Joxie. Really? I think you may be the first person I've ever heard say they even liked the episode; I certainly never read anyone write that they loved it. Wow. I'm surprized...kind of appalled, actually, but I shall not hold it against you. (eye-roll)
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 11, 2009 21:31:01 GMT -6
You must have missed the comment on the ep poll thread then.  I'm sure I've mentioned it at ezWhoosh, but I'm too lazy to go look.
I did like Eve, but I hated the 25 year sleep. I liked Callisto becoming good, but I would prefer it came closer to the end of the series. I also liked that Eve was Callisto reincarnated.
I think Xena should have died. Gabrielle too. BUT, then only the viewers are privy that the deaths were faked and Xena and Gabrielle are free to settle down and have families.
I don't see Xena and Gabrielle as a couple, so I would keep the subtext sub.
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