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JanewayRulz! · Apr 19, 2011

Episode 121 season 6 #9 "Return of the Valkyrie"

Previously, on Xena: Beowulf disrupts Xena's dinner and spoils her appetite with the news that a beast she (created and) caged 35 years ago during her evil past is loose and killing people. Our heroine leaves her friend behind to protect her from the suicide mission she must undertake, but Gabrielle refuses to be left and follows. Before she can reach them, the monster nearly kills Beowulf and Xena but Gabrielle's tenacity not only brings her to Xena's side "in time" it aides Xena in killing Grindl. Unfortunately, that act of courage enrages Grindl's Mother, just as Xena's refusal to hand over the ring of Power enraged Odin, King of the Norse gods and former lover of a certain Thracian Warrior Princess.

As Xena has inspired Gabrielle to heights of courage, Gabrielle has inspired both Beowulf AND Brunhilda's passions, but with differing results. Brunhilda kidnaps Gabrielle as Xena and Beowulf attempt to rescue her. The turncoat Valkyrie then threatens to kill her true rival for the Warrior-Bard's affections, that woman Gabrielle has identified as her soulmate.

Gabrielle's passionate words finally break through the young Valkyrie's love blindness, and Xena's act of self sacrifice in the face of a losing battle with Odin and Grinhilda/Grindl and the remaining Valkyries show Brunhilda the true way to Gabrielle's heart. As the Warrior Princess wanders the forest with amnesia, its up to Brunhilda to protect Gabrielle from Odin and Grinhilda, and she does so by turning herself into an eternal flame and placing Gabrielle within its protective ring. A ring of fire through which only her "true" soulmate can safely enter.

Its now.... 1 year later....and we see that the Viking Lord Erick, is approaching the Sleeping Beauty of recent legend.

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Lord Erick: (Stops before the flame, to gaze upon the sleeping blonde woman within...) "The lady of the ring. The legend of your beauty does you no justice. Your destiny has arrived. I have come to save you."
Beowulf: (Runs up to save the silly fellow) "Lord Erick! My lord, this is madness. You cannot penetrate the ring of fire. Only Gabrielle's soulmate can pass
through the flames." (He removes his glove from his left hand to show the scars from his own foolish attempt) "All other flesh is doomed."
Lord Erick: (What a great, arrogant line!) "A boar on a spit has reason to fear the flame, not a Viking Lord."
Beowulf: "That is not the only thing that stands in your way."
Lord Erick: (Silly man... you should have listened to the WHOLE legend before embarking on this journey) "I should worry about getting mud on my boots?"
Beowulf: "Actually..." (Looks up to the very large Grindl that has just walked between the eternal flame and the Viking Lord) "...that is not what I was referring to." (Beowulf and his squire hightail it away as Grindl back hands Lord Erick across the Bog and has her way with his soldiers.)

Needless to say, many men die, and/or are dismembered because Lord Erick refused to listen. He himself became a crispy critter because instead of running away, he charged into the flame even as Gabrielle slept blissfully and thankfully unaware.

Beowulf takes the remaining men and his squire back to Lord Erick's boat, to make for Denmark and the one man he thinks can help defeat this curse. Lord Hrothgar! But before he leaves, he turns to the sleeping love of his life to say...

Beowulf: "I will return, Gabrielle... I promise you."

From the Eastwyn Bog and the Sleeping Beauty captive there, we go to the great hall of Hrothgar of Denmark and a joyous celebration!

Wiglaf, the squire: http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/jpeg/b0536c49444763ce7d6572ce707114e904e25458.jpg

Wiglaf: "Hey! It looks like we arrived in time for some kind of party. Ooh..." (He runs into a Viking who at first looks none too pleased) "...excuse me."
Beowulf: (To the Viking) "What conquest are you people celebrating?"
Viking: "The conquest of King Hrothgar's heart, sir. He's marrying the noble and fair Wealthea."
Beowulf: "Hm-m, thank you"
Wiglaf: "Wealthea, that's not a Norse name."
Beowulf: "Hm-m."
Wiglaf: "I wonder what it means."
Beowulf: "My guess would be that it's uh, Celtic for..." (He turns and looks up as the main doors open and into the happy gathering, riding upon a heifer, is the beautiful raven haired bride carrying a sword and a smile) "....Warrior Princess."

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JanewayRulz! · Apr 19, 2011

Episode 121 season 6 #9 "Return of the Valkyrie"

Just a reminder... when Xena ran off during that last fight with Odin, Beowulf was on the ground in a faint (AFTER taking Weltraute's sword through the gut!). He "came to" after the fight was over, and later found Xena's chakram and sword discarded in the woods. He obviously later found (off screen) Gabrielle and the ring of fire, and burnt his own hand trying to get to her. Since she wasn't at Gabrielle's side, and since she was without her trademark weapons, he (wrongly) assumed Xena was dead.

ACT I:

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"Wealthea" is riding her bovine mount into the great hall and up to the altar where her groom awaits. Beowulf is close behind, trying in vain to get her attention, much to his squire's consternation. She dismounts and stands before the Lord of the realm, Hrothgar.

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Priest: "Hrothgar, the ancient ritual of the exchange of blades seals your pledge of fidelity to Wealthea."
(Down among "the little people", Beowulf is jockeying for position to get to the front of the crowd. A very unhappy woman takes notice.)
Wiglaf: "Beowulf! This is not the time."
Beowulf: "This changes all of our plans. Now that I have Xena to help me save Gabrielle, I need Hrothgar for nothing."
Wiglaf: "Yeah, except his wife... whose name is Wealthea."
Beowulf: "Her name is Xena. Trust me."
Wiglaf: (Not a very trusting squire, this fellow) "Xena...th-the mighty warrior princess. I don't think so."

We watch Hrothgar excitedly give his betrothal vows, and place a ring upon Wealthea's finger. Wealthea reminds you of one of those Xena twins we've seen in the past. She looks like her, "sounds" like her... but isn't her. Think the innocence of Priestess Leah but with the accent of Princess Diana. As the ring goes on this innocent's finger, she flashes to scenes of the Ring of Power being forged... and forgets her place in the ceremony. She recovers with coaching, and begins her rehearsed vows... but when she puts the ring on HIS finger, the flashbacks get more intense and violent! Once again she loses her "place", but covers up as best she can.

The reception proceeds, and we discover the woman who overheard Beowulf and Wiglaf is none other than Hrothgar's embittered sister, who has NOT come to embrace this union of her beloved brother with a foreigner.

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We also learn that the woman formerly known as a Warrior Princess is truly NOT herself. She has forgotten Gabrielle, she has forgotten the woman she became... she's forgotten how to stand up for herself... she's forgotten who she wants to be.

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Hrothgar: (He finds Wealthea wandering aimlessly through the crowd) "... You look as if this was your funeral, not your wedding."
"Wealthea": (Still very distracted) "Hrothgar, at the ceremony I had such a strange sensation."
Hrothgar: "As did I. It besieges me whenever you are near and I know of only one cure for this malady." (He backs her against a wall to steal a kiss)
"Wealthea": (She squirms out of his embrace and backs away.) "No, Hrothgar, Hrothgar... tradition says that we cannot be together until the moon is high. Otherwise, you would jinx our union."
Hrothgar: "I've waited so long to make you truly mine."
"Wealthea": "I know, Hrothgar. Yes and you know that I have been devoted to you since you pulled me from the icy waters. But would it be so very hard to wait just a few more hours?"
Hrothgar: (Frustration definately mounting) "I would wait even longer, if I thought I had your heart as well."
"Wealthea": "Yes, but-- "
Hrothgar: [He moans as he pulls her into a quiet alcove and begins to kiss her neck as she protests]
"Wealthea": "Hrothgar, my husb... husband... Hrothgar! No. You... our
union has given me a new purpose." (He steps back, confused) "You have always known that my priorities are different than other women's."
Hrothgar: (Now he's just ANGRY and he grabs her by the neck and admonishes her) "You are a viking queen. Your priorities are as your master decides."

He proceeds to forcibly kiss her again, and just then Beowulf arrives and interupts them. Hrothgar introduces his blushing bride, but despite Beowulf's coaching she shows NO sign of recognition before taking his leave.

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That bitch of a sister in law walks up to Beowulf after the happy couple depart.

Hildegyth: "How intriguing. When you saw my sister-in-law this evening you looked as if you'd seen a ghost and now, she looked right through you as if you were one.
Beowulf: [Sighs] "It's kind of a long story."
Hildegyth: "Perhaps if you told if to the right audience you'd get the happy ending you seek."

Meanwhile, back at the eternal flame, the Valkyrie are cleaning up the bodies after the latest assault upon its barrier. That Head Valkyrie, Weltraute, is taking exception with one of her minions.

Weltraute: "If they died in pursuit of the ring, I'd understand. But to spill their blood for the ordinary woman who lays entrapped beside it. "
Sieglinda: "Our sister Brunhilda turned herself to flame to protect that Gabrielle. Perhaps she's not so ordinary. And Xena... Xena seems to care a great deal for her, too."
Weltraute: "You speak the name of that conniving bitch in the presence of heroes? Thank the gods she's dead and fed to the fishes. Now hurry it up! Odin wants the best of these in Valhalla by nightfall."

Back in Denmark, "Wealthea" is in her bedchambers, brushing her hair without relish. There is a knock at the door, and a man enters wearing the chainmail helmet that Hrothgar wore at the start of the betrothal scene.

"Wealthea": "Come in, my lord."(She turns to stand, disheartened, and sees the helmet with the chainmail mask) "You wish to play a game... master? (The man removes his cloak and then the mask, and we see Beowulf standing there as "Wealthea" grabs a HAIRBRUSH to defend herself) ) You're a lunatic. Stay away from me."
Beowulf: "Xena, your life is in danger. When Odin learns you are alive, he will kill you... and Gabrielle will never be saved."
"Wealthea" [Whispers without comprehension] "Gabrielle?"

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Beowulf: (Walks forward to touch her...) "Please try to... "
"Wealthea": "Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!" (She temporarily channels a Warrior and grabs his arm and flips him across the room. Unfortunately for both of them, he lands in her bed as a Raven lands on the open window sill.)
Beowulf: "Odin's raven... he already knows you are here."

(Suddenly the door opens and a crowd enter the room to see Beowulf in the bed. Alone, fully clothed, but STILL in Hrothgar's matrimonial bed.)

Hilldegyth: "You see, Brother? It's as I said. She cannot give you her heart because she's too busy giving it to your old friend."

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JanewayRulz! · Apr 20, 2011

Had to work tonight, so couldn't get to act 2...

So sorry.

In reparations, may I offer a 2 part "documentary" with several directors etc from XWP.

Part 1
Part 2
DVD interview with Lucy Lawless Re: her stunt woman, Zoe Bell

ETA: Lets try that again, shall we? An even LONGER clip of Zoe Bell, Lucy's stunt woman, from the Documentary Double Dare... includes comments from Linda Carter on Xena.

Part 1 of 11 2001 Xena convention with Renee and Lucy.
One word of explanation re: the name of the convention, "Last Dance". According to Whoosh.org, there was to be another musical in season 6, and "The Last Dance" song was to figure prominently in it, but they couldn't get the rights to all the music and so the idea was shelved. (Go to whoosh to learn more specifics. IIRC it was called "The Sappho" musical.)

Actually, its a pretty good Q&A session, over all. When one watches it, one realizes what a toll this show did take on these women and their psyches/bodies and how fortunate we were they stuck with it/"us" for 6 years.

Before you ask why Lucy looks so distracted at times, we "will" discover in an ET interview a year or two later that she's just miscarried her pregnancy but didn't want to bail on her appearence with Renee for this convention celebrating the last season of their show. Now that, my friends, is a dedicated friend to Renee and supporter of her show.

By the way, the finale has been shot "by now" but not aired yet for these 2001 fans.

I haven't seen "all" of the youtube cons, but this one from 2001 and the 2010 LA con with its "play reading" are my youtube favs. :bolian:

JanewayRulz! · Apr 20, 2011

Episode 121 season 6 #9 "Return of the Valkyrie"

Previously in ROTV's: Xena thinks she's Wealthea and is betrothed to Hrothgar, a Viking Lord. http://mikes-images.com/eps/rotv/images/rotv_mq_056sd.jpg

Beowulf is shocked to find Xena alive, but is not shocked to find her without her memory of her past life. How else could he explain why Xena has forsaken her soulmate who's sleeping in the Eastwyn Bog, across the North sea from Denmark?

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He's gone to Xena's room to convince her to join him on his quest to save Gabrielle, but they are discovered in the matrimonial suite by Hrothgar and his meanspirited sister.

ACT II:

"Wealthea": (Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Hildegyth!) "Hrothgar, this madman has mistaken me... "
Hildegyth: "Enough. My brother has heard too many of your false words. Seize them." (The soldiers pull Beouwulf out of the bed)
Hrothgar: (He's owned!) "Are you absolutely certain?"
Hildegyth: (She's a bitch!) "Yes."
Hrothgar: (To Beowulf) "We were as brothers, Beowulf." (He slaps the hero before turning to his despondant bride) "I would have loved you until the end of my lifetime. Now it seems it'll only be until the end of yours." (To the wicked sister, as Wealthea protests and Odin's Raven takes flight from the window sill for Valhalla) "Dispose of them as you choose."
"Wealthea": "Hrothgar. Hrothgar!"

The two innocents are lead from the bedchamber by 5 (?) Viking guards as Xena decries Beowulf's silence.

"Wealthea": "Why did you not tell him the truth?!"
Beowulf: "Because I need you to help me save Gabrielle."
"Wealthea": "What for?!"

[Fight! What's awesome about this fight is that our hero Beowulf IS the hero, fighting what appeared to be 5 vikings successfully as Xena stood in the background as still as set dressing, doing NOTHING. Nothing until Beowulf turned his back on the wrong Viking as he looked to her standing against the wall. WHOOSHHHH went "Wealthea" as she spun herself with a leg out-stretched, literally cutting BEOWULF down by the ankles. As he fell the SWORD being swung by the Viking BEHIND him went harmlessly over Beowulf's head. "Wealthea" then grabs the viking and flips him into next week, while she's kneeling next to Beowulf. The former Betrothed to Hrothgar is shocked at what she's just done, and remains kneeling as Beowulf stands up and looks around, before smiling at the woman next to him.]

Beowulf: "You see? I told you I needed you. Please?" (He stretches his hand out to a kneeling Xena, but when she looks again she sees a strange blonde woman...)
Vision of Gabrielle: (...stretching out her right hand to a kneeling Xena) "I'm lost without you, Xena." (Xena reaches out to take the hand of Beowulf, and he pulls her upright.)

Xena is now on Beowulf's boat, heading across the North Sea to find Gabrielle, a woman she's never heard of. Luckily for her, Beowulf was kind enough to stop somewhere and outfit her in a striking white fur coat and hat for the voyage. As she and Wiglaf come out of the weather, under the tarp that covers the rowers, the men all stop and stare.

(Well, wouldn't YOU if you just saw Xena IN the "flesh"!)

Xena: (Enters via the stern) "What's the matter with your men? They look like they've seen a ghost."
Wiglaf: "No, not a ghost, a legend. All these men can talk of is a chance to see you in action. To tell you the truth, I'm... "
Beowulf: (Enters from the bow) "... about to go and polish your blade. Is that right, Wiglaf?"
Wiglaf: (Mopes as he exits to the bow... WELL wouldn't you?) "Fine send me away."
Beowulf: (To an overly quiet Xena) "You feeling seasick?"
Xena: (She looks away) "No, but I am uneasy. I was betrothed for life and condemned to death on the same day by the same man. "
Beowulf: (Disgusted by the unnecessary duplicity) "Hrothgar. He's not the man that I knew. He rescued a beautiful woman who had lost her memory, gave her a new name and then some lame story about being the sole survivor of a shipwreck."
Xena: (She just can't wrap her head around what she doesn't know and what she thought she knew.) "I thought he loved me, and now you tell me that this name `Wealthea' is not even my own."
Beowulf: (Warming up to his subject) "You are Xena."
Xena: (Turns to him, almost tearful!) "I could have done so much good for the Viking people."
Beowulf: (He steps back and draws his sword to hold before her.) "The Xena I remember could do more good with this sword than a hundred Viking queens could ever do. And the Xena I remember could never forget what happened in that swamp, the face of Gabrielle, the most loyal friend in the world."
Xena: (Tears dropping) "I remember none of these things."
(Beowulf appears to sigh as he starts to turn away from her to his right, then as QUICK AS LIGHTNING he swings that sword back as if to take her head OFF! Xena reacts instinctively and blocks his blow, deflecting the sword into the tarp behind her as her face is one of SHOCK at what he's done/and what SHE'S done.)
Beowulf: (He smiles, that self satisfying smile of one who's ruse worked to perfection) "You may not remember them... but they are inside you."

And the screen clip that captured my imagination the most when watching these youtube vids BEFORE i saw a single ep, occurs next. Xena in the white fur coat/hat, turns to stare at her own reflection in that highly polished sword... and those piercing blue eyes just LOOK back at her. Time index 2:08 of the next video!

Beautiful things:
Oh, remember that damned Raven that was sitting on the window sill, listening to Beowulf and "Wealthea" and the Denmark brother/sister act? He finally made it to Valhalla and ratted out Xena to Odin. He's sending his head Bitch along with a squad of Valkyries to intercept Xena & Beowulf.

The travelers have reached the coast, and have set up camp as Xena walks to the ocean to stare into its depths. While there, memories tease at her... a flash of the Rheinmaidens... a flash of Grinhilda right after she put the ring on... and a flash of Gabrielle. All just brief glimpses, which just confuse her further so she turns away from the surf and walks back toward camp.

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Wiglaf decides to meet her with a ladel of water, which she appreciates greatly... unfortunately a fellow Viking objects. Not to the water, but to Wiglaf getting the honor and he and Wiglaf start fighting as Xena stands by impotently "asking" others to stop the brawl.

Xena: "Why don't you stop them? That's enough! Stop! Stop this!" (Inserts self between the brawlers) "This madness! Must you seek the merest excuse to fight?!"
Wiglaf: (The joys of innocence) "That's what Vikings do! Fighting gives our lives meaning!"
Xena: "Fighting gives your lives meaning. Do you have any idea how stupid that is?!"
Beowulf: (Comes through the crowd to join the discussion) "Yeah? Well, it didn't sound stupid when it came from you."
Xena: (She's TIRED of being "shocked") "From me?"
Beowulf: "Long ago it was Xena who first taught Odin to embrace violence and bloodlust." (SEE, she IS responsible for EVERYTHING, good and bad in this world!)
Xena: (You GO girl!) "Well, if that is true then I know I am not this Xena." (No, you are NOT evil Xena, nor have you been for the last 26 years.)
Valkyries: (Flying around the point of land in the distance) "Yah-h-h-h! Yah! Yah! Yah!"
Beowulf: (He nods at the women as they approach) "They know who you are... and they want you dead."

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JanewayRulz! · Apr 22, 2011

Episode 121 season 6 #9 "Return of the Valkyrie"

ACT III

The Valkyries are coming in for a landing on the beach, as Beowulf readies his men to do battle. Xena, however, will have nothing to do with the idea of battle, and for the first time we SEE her assert herself rather than just instinctual defense when a sword is coming at her.

Beowulf: (Shouts) "Ready your weapons, men!"
Xena: Beowulf... I won't have this resolved by violent means."
Beowulf: "It's the only means they know, or would you rather die?"
Xena: "Have your men put down their weapons!"
Beowulf: (He's exasperated!) "Xena... "
Xena: (Her volume is rachetting up!) "If you want me to help you save your friend Gabrielle, then you'll do as I say!"
Beowulf: (Turns back to his soldiers) "Put your weapons down. Put them down!"
Xena: (Straightens up and walks forward to meet the Valkyries) "Right." (To the Valkyries) "There will be no blood shed here today!"

Weltraute is unimpressed, and steps forward to kill Xena.

Weltraute/Waltraute who knows? She's the one in the center with a snear! http://www.xena.nu/valkyries.jpg

But lets get real... this IS Xena, afterall. As Gabrielle said "2 eps ago", she's HARD to kill, even if she's been mind-wiped. She gets knocked down a few times...

(and I'll note this women in the white dress rolling around on the wet sand manages to defend herself AND get the upper hand without a single dirt stain spoiling her gown!)

...until her INNER XENA comes out as she STARES down the Valkyrie before she goes on the offensive. Lucky for Weltraute, ODIN shows up to put a stop to the fight. I loved how all of Beowulf's men knelt while Odin walked up to Xena, except Beowulf, and he simply grabbed Wiglaf's collar to stand him back up as he stared at Odin. What a statement to Odin, the KING of the Norse gods!

Xena: "You can kill me if you want, but I am not the warrior princess you seek."
Weltraute: "You heard the woman, Odin! Kill her!"
Odin: "Silence, Waltraute! If you're not Xena, who are you?"
Xena: (She looks like she's trying to be brave with a quiver to her lower lip) "I don't know."
Odin: "Do you know who I am?"
Xena: "She said your name is Odin, but I don't know you from your horse." (Again, what a statement for the "King" of the Norse gods.)

Beowulf, Xena on the beach: http://www.xenaville.com/cast/renato.jpg

Odin didn't get to be King because he's a dummy, and he sends the Valkyrie away and lets Xena and Beowulf continue their quest. Xena gets a little full of herself that her "peaceful" plan worked.. while Beowulf is more realistic that Odin "wants" something" and expects them to get it. For those who can't figure out what "that" is, the next scene spells it out. He wants the ring, and expects Xena to get it. In her current state, it will be easier for Odin to take it from her. What Odin isn't taking into account, however, is his Head Valkyrie wants the ring for herself.

Silly god. :rolleyes:

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Xena is resting on the edge of a bed in Beowulf's tent, contemplating her wedding ring. She slowly removes it and drops it on the floor. The lights dim and suddenly Gabrielle is sitting next to her. Xena recognizes her from her previous hallucinations/visions.

Xena: (Asks fearfully) "Are you a demon? Or my own mind made mad?"
Vision of Gabrielle: "I am the truth of who you are. Our souls are united, Xena."
(She reaches up to brush her hand against Xena's cheek, which cause Xena to jump up and away from the vision which winks away.)

Beowulf: (He enters and looks around for Xena who looks frightened) "Xena? Xena, are you all right?"
Xena: (She comes to sit down) "Yes. This Gabrielle truly loved Xena, didn't she?"
Beowulf: (I Love how unlike Brunhilda, Beowulf's love for Gabrielle didn't blind him to anyone else's feelings, nor turned him into a spoilsport.) "And will till the end of time. Gabrielle saved you from what you were as you must now save her."

Xena: "I've heard the men talking. They say that Xena created this monster that awaits us."
Beowulf: "Grinhilda."
Xena: "It's true, then?"
Beowulf: "I have waited a long time to return this to you." (He hands the chakram to Xena who just stares at it)
Xena: (Suspicious) "What's it for?"
Beowulf: (He smiles, knowingly) "You'll know. When the time comes, you'll know."
(She reaches up and takes it by the central ying yang handle.)

Beowulf is leading Xena and Wiglaf to the eternal flame and Gabrielle sleeping within. Xena is intrigued by the sleeping woman, but has doubts.

Beowulf: (Puts up his hand as they approach, and whispers) "We're in Grinhilda's domain."
Xena: (Xena tilts her head to look at the sleeping blonde who has been appearing to her in her visions, then turns back to Beowulf) "Beowulf...if I'm not the one. "
Beowulf: (He scoffs!) "You are. Brunhilda's flame will recognize you as Gabrielle's soulmate."
(Xena turns back and walks up to the flame. Suddenly a face is formed within the flame, and a voice speaks to the amnestic warrior to reassure her.)
Brunhilda's voice: "Xena, Xena the love in your heart burns stronger than any flame. You belong together, Xena."

Gabrielle: http://i50.tinypic.com/n2l6iv.jpg

Xena dares to put her hand up to the wall of flame, and is about to push through, when that "word that rhymes with rich" Valkyrie shows up and jumps her!

Needless to say... a BIG FIGHT erupts, with Weltraute taking on the Warrior Princess, a Valkyrie taking on Wiglaf, and the remaining 3 Valkyrie taking on Beowulf.

What did I like about this fight?

AGAIN TPTB let Beowulf BE the hero of legend, as he battled successfully with his "three" Valkyrie. They even let Wiglaf hold his own for a while, until he unselfishly threw HIS sword to Xena so she could defend herself from Weltraute. Poor Wiglaf, for all his heroics he still caught a dagger to the chest from a Valkyrie, but worry not. Beowulf sommersaulted by her, grabbed up his fallen axe and "finished" her off in GRAND style! (As Saturn5 always says... "And THIS is supposed to be a kid's show???)

Naturally, I also love it BECAUSE for nearly the first time in the hour we really see someone who "LOOKS" like OUR Xena as she battles Weltraute with both pithy words AND deadly deeds.

Waltraute: (She manages to get a blade on Xena's right shoulder to cut it) "It makes me sick to see you've grown so soft."
Xena: (Holding her shoulder as she objects!) "Softness and weakness are two different things. I have no quarrel with you. I'm here only for Gabrielle!"
Waltraute: "You sound like one of those pathetic lovesick boys who burned themselves to a crisp."
Wig: "Xena!" (He throws his sword, only to catch that dagger to his torso)
Xena: "Wiglaf!" (Before she can reach him, Waltraute attacks)
Beo: "Wiglaf!" (He runs to the boy, then takes an axe to his would be murderer)
Waltraute: (She has Xena down on the ground, with her blade inches from Xena's neck, forcing Xena's own blade down) "I've waited a long time for this."
Xena: (The pithy princess growls!) "Wait longer." (And gets her leg up to push the Valkyrie OFF her and INTO the flames behind Waltraute.)
Waltraute: [Screams as she's turned into yet another crispy critter before Xena's terrified eyes]

Beowulf runs up to Xena and redirects her from the freshly fried Valkyrie to her quest.

Beowulf: "Xena, you must go now. Go... or all this is for... "

THWACK!!!!

Something has just perforated the legendary warrior. His eyes go wide as his face grimaces and we see the "something" sticking out from his left chest/shoulder. It looks like a tree limb, and suddenly Beowulf's whole body is levitating as the 15 foot tall monster behind him "picks' him up by the wound and dangles him before an even more horrified Xena.

ACT ENDS:

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Episode 121 season 6 #9 "Return of the Valkyrie"

ACT IV

Grindl, the 15 foot she monster has impaled Beowulf through the chest/shoulder, and is dangling him high above the ground in front of her Nemesis.

Xena's face is a study in ABSOLUTE HORROR!

We've never seen her like this before, and yet... although she LOOKS like our Xena, and SOUNDS like our Xena... and in truth can KICK Valkyrie BUTT like our Xena... she ISN't our Xena... at least not yet.

This woman still thinks of Gabrielle as "Beowulf's friend", and despite her recent relevation that their souls were united... what she later asked Beowulf was "This Gabrielle truly loved Xena..." NOT whether "thisXena truly loved Gabrielle".

Xena is frozen before the torture and sure to be death of the man who took her from her newly betrothed Lord and brought her on this quest to save a woman she doesn't remember from a monster she can't recall.

Lucky for her, that man IS himself a HERO of legend, and despite the pain he has kept his wits about him.

Beowulf: "Xena, go. Gabrielle needs you. Xena, go-o-o-o-o!" [Groans]

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Xena backs up a step as he cries out to her then suddenly drops her sword and turns to LEAP through the flames. As she makes that LEAP of FAITH... we see 4 scenes faintly through the flames...

Gabrielle kneeling before Xena as she's about to give birth...

Gabrielle lying in Xena's left arm as the warrior sniffs a poisoned arrow she just pulled from her friend...

Gabrielle and Xena hanging over the side of a ship as they sail back from Rome after liberating the Gaul, Verkinex... (sp?)

And finally, a badly beaten Xena being cradled by Gabrielle.

That leap of faith ends in a sommersault and Xena still clad in that full length white gown stands quickly within the eternal flames before the sleeping Gabrielle, still bound by the dried vines that have grown over her these last 12 months.

Gabrielle: http://i50.tinypic.com/n2l6iv.jpg

Beowulf had promised Xena that she would know what to do with the chakram "when the time came", but I doubt even he suspected it would be used this way... to cut Gabrielle free.

But that wasn't enough to wake the sleeping woman, and slowly Xena bent to do what has likely has been foretold by folklore for eons.

She kisses her.

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As Xena chastely kisses Gabrielle, her memories are no longer faint and obscured by flames... she hears voices from her past and sees in living bold color scenes of great important from their lives together as the kiss continues.

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Xena's Voice: "You're my best friend, my family."
Gabrielle's Voice: "Hey, I just saved your life!
Gabrielle's Voice: I'm not the little girl that my parents wanted me to be."
Xena's Voice: "It's hard to be alone."
Gabrielle's Voice: "You're not alone."

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As Xena slowly pulls away from the kiss, you realize something's different.

The gown is gone, and the brown leather warrior dress with breast armor and a huge honking sword is back where it should be in that scabbard over her right shoulder. And as we look down upon Gabrielle, we see her open her eyes, and we realize the golden crown is gone, replaced by a braided hairpiece, and her necklace is back. Oh and by the way... her HAIR has grown about 10 inches in the last year!

Gabrielle: "Xena." (She sits up to hug her "best friend", and we see she is back in her usual red velvet/silver 2 piece outfit)
Xena: (SHE'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!) "Oh, Gabrielle."
Gabrielle: (Now that's FAITH!) "I dreamed you'd come back for me."
Xena: (Xena is still reeling from the recovery of her own memories, and meshing them with those belonging to "Wealthea") "It was like I was in a dream, too. I forgot everything. But even though I didn't remember you, I felt your presence, and knew that I would never be complete unless those shadows were brought into the light.

Okay... time enough for catchup later, girls... or have we forgotten the hero being hung up to dry by the monster Grindl/Grinhilda???? Grinhilda doesn't like being forgotten, and makes a statement by throwing Beowulf across the Bog with a roar, as the poor man groans in response.

Xena: "Beowulf!"
Brunhilda of the eternal flame: (Whispers a clue to her rival in love) "Xena, the ring."
(Gabrielle looks down and picks up the ring that has lain with her these many months, and hands it to Xena.)
Gabrielle: "The ring." (After handing it to her firend, she then takes Xena's hand in hers to beg...) Xena, don't put it on again."

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The eternal flame is dying out and the walls of fire that once dwarfed Grindl, are themselves dwarfed by the monster that stands outside of them. Xena raises the ring high in her hand as the remaining flames leap INTO it as she turns to face the monster she created 36 years ago.

Xena: "I forged this ring. Now I have to use it to undo the evil it has caused."

And suddenly we hear that trademarked WAR CRY and Xena leaps to vault over Grindl, but is instead batted like an errant tennis ball into the opening of Grindl's cave that stands 20 feet away.

Xena: (She stands up to face Grindl who has just entered the cave.) "Grinhilda, listen to me. You weren't always this way."

(Grindl keeps batting away at Xena, but misses as Xena keeps flipping just out of reach oR lands neatly on her feet anyway)

Xena: "It was my actions that turned you into this beast. Grinhilda, I put the evil into this ring. "

(And suddenly the hand holding the ring up high, starts to glow as if containing a small sun).

Xena: "I can undo it, too, if only... !" (Another swipe at the WP by the former Valkyrie, which she sidesteps with ease) "Grinhilda, you must listen to me."

The monster HAS HER! With both claw hands it has grasped Xena and is lifting her high off the ground, so that they can truly see each other eye to eye as Xena continues to exhort.

Xena: Grinhilda, look inside your heart. Find the woman you once were. Forgive me... Forgive me... Forgive me."

(Everyone knows Xena would give up her life for Gabrielle... but did you ever suspect she would just as readily give it up for GRINDL?)

The sun held within Xena's right hand goes into supernova. Outside the cave, Gabrielle has reached Beowulf and has helped him to stand when she realizes the cave is glowing unnaturally. She cries for Xena while pushing Beowulf to run to safety as the cave mouth suddenly explodes outward!

As the flames shooting from the cave mouth die down, Gabrielle stands up to see Xena walk out, whole, healthy and with a chagrined look as she shows what's in her right hand. Not the ring of power... but that large nugget of Rheingold stolen 36 years ago by a troubled young woman. As Gabrielle runs for Xena, Beowulf sees signs of life from Wiglaf who's just struggled to sit up. Before either woman can acknowledge that miracle, Gabrielle sees an even greater one walk out of the cave... whole and healthy with a look of innocence.

Gabrielle: (To Xena) "Grinhilda?"
Xena: (Smiles as only one can who's been given a chance to redeem a wrong) "That's right."

As happy as Xena is, she doesn't for a minute forget HOW she got to this moment.

Xena: (Walks up the the very tired, very dirty, very bloody man who loves Gabrielle as much as she does) "Beowulf, I'll always be indebted to you for bringing me back here."
Beowulf: (Shrugs, like it was no big deal) "Hey, I needed the best." (Then he turns serious for a moment... one warrior to another.) "The legends didn't lie, Xena,
you are the greatest warrior I've ever known."
Xena: (Grimaces at the praise) "Thank you, friend."
Xena: (Turning to the Valkyrie, Grinhilda beside her...) "Let's take you home." (And Xena walks Grinhilda to where two black steeds await to carry them to Valhalla.)

Gabrielle turns to look at the man who kept the faith and succeeded in bringing about her rescue.

Gabrielle: (Heartfelt) "Thank you."
Beowulf: (Honest) "I'll miss you."
Gabrielle: (She smiles sweetly) "You have a good heart, Beowulf. If it weren't for you, I'd still be in Brunhilda's flame."
Beowulf: "I think we both know, Xena would have found you eventually."
(And the hero takes her hand in his and kisses it before releasing her once more. Wiglaf, mercifully, is keeping his mouth shut and his eyes on the ground as his mentor says his goodbyes)

Gabrielle walks over towards the horses that Grinhilda and Xena have mounted, before remembering one other person who needed to be thanked. Turning to the empty forest, she says quietly with yet another sweet smile...

Gabrielle: "Thank you, Brunhilda."
Brunhilda's Voice: "Godspeed, Gabrielle."

Xena & Gabrielle: You can still be free:
Gabrielle turns back to climb a boulder so she can mount the humongous steed Xena has chose to fly her to Valhalla. The digital effect back then were "okay", though I much prefer the closeups of our three women as they fly. I loved the way Gabrielle seemed to lunge forward when their mount went into a dive. Do you think she'll EVER complain about how high Argo junior is, compared to the ground after this???

XENA, Warrior Princess walks alone into the great hall of Valhalla like she owns it until she's finally stopped by two guards.
Xena: "Things haven't changed much around here, have they?"
Odin: (Turns from a Valkyrie to address his former lover) "Xena? It seems as though you've found yourself again."
Xena: "Odin."
Odin: "Perhaps you've decided to return to me that which belongs in Valhalla, the ring?"
Xena: "I have brought something back that belongs here, yes." (She turns to show Gabrielle escorting Grinhilda down the hall.)
Odin: (Turns from Xena to address his former lover) "Grinhilda?"
Xena: "Grinhilda was the best thing that ever happened to Valhalla, Odin before it was poisoned by my bloodlust."
Odin: "What do you want?"
Grinhilda: (Not shy) "Return me to my position as chief of the Valkyries."
Xena: "She'll teach them a nobler use for their powers, Odin."
Odin: "I'll think about it."
Xena: "Don't think too long."
Odin: (Waits 5 seconds, then agrees) "Welcome back, Grinhilda."

(And as we see Gabrielle and Xena walk out of the great hall, we also see Grinhilda and Odin hug for the first time in 36 years.)

Xena: (Hey, she's been in a trance for a year, she can be forgiven for screwing up the dates) "35 years ago, the shame of it makes if feel like it was yesterday."
Gabrielle: "Memories are powerful, Xena. I'm so thankful that yours brought you back to me."
Xena: (Once again she grimaces) "But there's one that's still troubling me."

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Beautiful shot of the Rhinevalley and the river.. and of a warrior princess diving deep within the water to find the maidens of legend. She surfaces near the rock where we once saw them frolicking. The blonde recognizes her immediately and warns her away.

Blonde Rhine Maiden: "Stay back, Xena! You took all we had years ago!"
Xena: "I know. I came to apologize and to bring you this. " (She presents the large golden nuggest of rheingold) "It belongs to you."
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Blonde Rhine Maiden: "What magic has made Xena into such a noble creature,
that she would give up the power of the Rheingold?"
Xena: "It wasn't magic." (And a very chagrinned WP turns to look up the riverbank to where Gabrielle is standing... and smiling.)

JanewayRulz! · Apr 24, 2011

Believe it or not, there are a couple of things I forgot to mention re: this trilogy.

IIRC there are dvd interviews on part 1 & 2. RJ Stewart, who wrote part 1 (The Rheingold), discusses "the kiss" in part 3 (The Return of the Valkyries) as something that was just "right" for the story in a mythical sense and also just right for where the characters "were" in their journey.

He doesn't "say" where they were,

just that it was "right".

Joel Metzger wrote part 2 (The Ring). He was new to Xena, in season 6, having rewritten "Haunting Of Amphipolis" as a freelancer, before joining as a fulltime staff writer. He talked about how both Brunhilda AND Beowulf fell hard for "our" dear Gabrielle, and how interesting it was that there was "no discussion" behind the scenes about one woman falling for another.

Although he seemed to reason it was due to the fanbase's familiarity with the main X-G subtexted pairing, he also seemed to forget that we fans have seen it overtly in at least 3 eps with 2 other women by this time in the series.

Thelassa in "Locked up, Tied Down" http://www.asherasarchive.com/gabthalassalock.jpg

and Najara in "Crusader" and "Convert". http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/1/1f/Najara_Gab.jpg

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One of the things I like about this series is the over arching theme of choice.

Xena frequently talks about the choices she has... off the top of my head I recall Brutus TELLING her in season 4's "Endgame" she had no choice but to turn him over to his enemy, Pompey, and she immediately shot him down.

Xena: "That's where you're wrong. I do have choices. I've had choices since we first captured you. No, I think I'd rather give you back to Caesar."

The choices aren't always palatable, but they exist.

That was what she proved to Grinhilda in this trilogy. The Valkyrie had a choice, keep her hate and stay the monster, or forgive the woman who helped make her this way and become human once more.

Being human again won't be easy, as Xena and her daughter Eve can attest... but ultimately it beats the status quo.

One of the things that always strikes me about that scene, with Xena in the Monster's clutches (literally) and Xena BEGGING the Monster to "FORGIVE ME!" is the memory of her young friend asking the Warrior Princess about that very subject, at the end of "Locked up, Tied Down" .

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Gabrielle: "So, how about it?"
Xena: "How about what?"
Gabrielle: "Forgiving yourself."
Xena: "Gabrielle, that's not for me. But I won't let that monster that I used to be, the one that's sleeping so close to my heart, destroy all the good I can do now."
Gabrielle: "Not as long as I'm around."

Xena has a choice, to forgive herself or not... and she chooses to "not". Its NOT for her to decide if and when she's done enough to atone for all the ill she's committed in this world.

Its for people like Callisto, and Grinhilda to forgive her for what she's done.

The sad thing is... as Quentin Tarantino said in his interview for the Double Dare Documentary...

"...She doesn't deserve any mercy. She's paying a debt that can never be paid, and she's always paying 10 cents on the dollar."

She has a choice.

Give up a losing battle... or keep paying that 10 cents.

This series exists because Xena chose to save a child from her troops... and because after exposure to Hercules she chose to stop being the villian and start being the hero.

The series continued because she chose dig up her weapons and to save the unknown Gabrielle and her fellow villagers. More importantly, she chose to allow the young woman to accompany her on her journey of redemption.

What's hardest for we fans who watch this character try her damnedest, is to remember that aweful truth over the last 12 hours of this series.

10 cents on the dollar.

JanewayRulz! · Apr 25, 2011

I could use a break, after the last 3 eps... couldn't you?

What am I saying? :wtf:

After the last SIXTEEN eps! :eek:

Do you realize that the last time we had a "comedy", it was season 5's "Married with Fishsticks!" which was #15 out of 22 that year????

And, to be frank... although better than "The Play's the Thing".. :censored:

it was, well, "not for everyone". (Excuse me one moment :brickwall:

)

And this year... after Xena dying in "Coming Home", and Cyrene dead in "Haunting of Amphipolis", and Xena, Gabrielle, and Virgil succumbing to "The Heart Of Darkness", and Xena's beating in "Who's Gurkhan", not to mention Gabrielle's accidental killing and near execution in "Legacy" and knifing and near barbecueing in "Abyss",.... well...

all's I'm saying is that we can be forgiven for feeling just a trifle trampled upon, or just plain worn out after traipsing through the "Norse/Ring" trilogy. :sigh:

Fear not.

For I bring you glad tidings of great joy.

"Old Ares Had a Farm" is NOT another MWFS or another TPTT!

HALLELUJAH!

And to prove it... just a sample of the "good times, yet to come".

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JanewayRulz! · Apr 25, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

Do you remember the good old days, http://pericat.ca/llr/images/tpnt011.jpg when innocent Gabrielle would lead Xena into dives, promising good food if not great atmosphere?

Well, after 5 years, suffice to say our girl has learned a thing or two about "hole in the wall" taverns.

TEASER OPENS:

Gabrielle: (Walking down the stairs into the tavern, she notices the less than reputable clientele within...) "Xena, I'm beginning to lose my appetite."
Xena: "Well, let's give it a try. Sometimes, these places have great food." (The girls sit down and Xena looks around checking out her fellow diners when she notices something odd. She turns to Gabrielle to reassure her as she stands up and walks to another table...) "Won't be a sec... Pardon me, didn't you used to ride with Ahab the lame?"
Ahab's Comrade: (Laughs at the description) "Yeah, but I've moved on to better things."
Xena: (She smiles that... "I really don't like you" smile of hers and turns to his tablemate) "You look like the self-improvement type. And aren't those Attila's colors you're wearing? Some company." (She looks at the guys at the next table who are listening intently) "And you, I could swear you're Turkestan's boy. What is this? A scum-bag convention?" (She obviously never finished that correspondence course on "How to Win friends and Influence People"!) "What brings you cutthroats together?"
Ahab's Comrade: "Huh! I don't have to tell you that."
Xena: "Oh, but you do." (And she jabs his neck on either side, cutting the flow of blood to his brain.)
Warlord's Voice: "Get her!"

(HUZZAH!!!! http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1186920000/254/65254.jpgA fight erupts, with Xena taking on the majority of scum bags as Gabrielle deals with her own "losers". Lucky for Ahab's friend/former friend, she's able to get back to him before he actually croaks!)

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Xena: (She's back into his face as soon as the last scumbag succumbs) "All right, you got seconds to live, so spit it out."
Ahab's Comrade: "The warlords of Greece, Macedonia, and Thrace have put a price on his head. We've united under Gasgar the Terrible, to hunt him down and split the bounty." (Xena jabs his neck again, releasing the pinch so he won't die before she gets the whole story!) "Ow! Oh!"
Xena: "All right... hunt down who?"
Ahab's Comrade: "The god of war, Ares. He's mortal... and now the warlords that he crossed when he was a god are having their revenge."

(So, you see, Ares... its true what "they" say.

What goes around... comes around. Poor shmuck!)

Ares, the former Olympian God of War is walking down a dirt trail, trying to stetch the kinks out of his back as he goes, when he runs into someone he doesn't expect.

Ares: [Moans as he walks]
Sikki: (Jumping out from the side of the trail is a little man with a sword pointing at our "friend".) "Ares, prepare to die! (Just as suddenly, Xena steps out from the brush and takes up position to Ares' left) "Who are you?"
Xena: (Mocks the wannabe) "Who are you?"
Sikki: "They call me Battling Siki." (PLEASE don't let him start singing, "Sikki, the Mighty...")
Xena: (The Doubting Princess) "Nobody ever called you that. You just made that up. But if you don't wanna be known as dead Siki, you'll be movin' on." (Oh, Gabrielle has also arrived and is standing to Ares' right, making the trio look even more imposing to the hapless bounty hunter.)
Sikki: "All right. But the gold is mine, Ares." (And he turns to run away. A VERY wise man!)
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Ares: "I've been gettin' a lot of that, lately. So, what brings you here? Animal magnetism?"
Xena: "I'm here to save your butt. The word is out that you're mortal, Ares. There's a price on your head and every scum-bag in the world is lookin' to cash in." (Man, is he ever lucky she owes him for saving Eve and Gabrielle "last season" which is actually well over a year ago by now.)
Gabrielle: "Gasgar the Terrible, Lombar, the Howl Brothers, Mosher."
Xena: "Attila."
Gabrielle: "The beast of Turkestan."
Ares: (Without his godlike powers, he's not really all too quick on the uptake, is he!) "It'll be great fighting by your side. We'll take no
prisoners."
Xena: "No, we're not here to participate in a blood bath. We're here to offer you a new life."
Ares: (Huh? He just noticed???) "You're a little ahead of me."
Xena: (The X:WP witness protection plan) "Ares, you're gonna spend the rest of your mortal life a hunted man, unless you assume a new identity."
Gabrielle: "You need to go undercover as someone else."
Ares: (HEY! He could get "into this" if given half a chance!) "Reinvent myself. Well, I'm not opposed to the idea. I've given a lot of thought to how I'm gonna live the rest of my mortal life, a-a-a-a-- king-- a priest-- if the cult was sexy enough." (THAT's my boy!)

Xena: (She knows JUST how to PLAY him, as she leans in to whisper her plan.) "Ares, you've gotta do something that no one would ever suspect of you."
Ares: (FINALLY those hairs on the back of his neck are getting a clue and standing straight up!) "Like what?"
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Xena: (She now lets lose that SMILE that means she's about to have a LOT of fun at someone else's expense!) "How are you at shovelin' sh--network bleep--t?"

TEASER ENDS

"Movie" posters for the ep: http://www.pixena.com/images/S6/OAHAF.jpg

and

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Xena promo to the "Three's Company" theme song!

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JanewayRulz! · Apr 26, 2011

Was just cruising the Australian website devoted to all things Xena/Lucy/Renee related... and came across an interesting tidbit for our UK fans.

Something called "The Horror Channel" is re-running Xena: Warrior Princess starting today (which is already yesterday for you guys... so sorry).

http://reneeoconnor.info/2011/03/xena-back-on-uk-tv---the-horror-channel.html

Xena Back on UK TV - The Horror Channel

Xena is heading back to UK TV starting 25 April on the Horror Channel.

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS Certificate:
Genre: Series / Action Action-packed fantasy adventure starring Lucy Lawless.

Xena gives up her warlord past, but must soon take up arms once more to stop a village being sold into slavery.

S1, ep1/24 Starring: Lucy Lawless, Renée OConnor Airs next on Horror Channel on:

Monday 25 April 2011 @ 14:00 - S1, Ep1
Monday 25 April 2011 @ 19:00 - S1, Ep1
Tuesday 26 April 2011 @ 14:00 - S1, Ep2
Tuesday 26 April 2011 @ 19:00 - S1, Ep2

Sooooo, if you haven't seen it, and don't want to buy those dvds withOUT the extras, then try the telly.

I know, I know.. its old fashioned (watching ON the television) but think of it THIS way. You can pretend its 1995 and first run all over again. :bolian:

JanewayRulz! · Apr 27, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

ACT I:

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Gabrielle: "Ares, what's wrong with being a farmer?"
Ares: (Heck even JOXER refused to be a farmer!) "For a rube, nothing. But for the god of war-- "
Xena: (She takes exception!) "Former god of war."
Ares: (Tries a little warrior/blood lust seduction) "Xena, let's you and I go crazy on Gasgar and his boys. I am talkin' about slaughter and mayhem."
Xena: (Yeah, like she's been into that ever since Herc and Gabby came into her life!) "Ares, do you really wanna fight every warrior who wants to
make a fortune?"
Ares: (A moment of sanity) "OK, it's getting to be a chore."
Gabrielle: (She still doesn't realize she can't tempt him the way Xena can.) "If we set you up as a farmer, you can come and go as you
please."
Ares: (Sarcasm becomes him!) "Really?!"
Gabrielle: "No one would suspect the god of war would be living on a
country farm."
Xena: (Now the SERIOUS bargaining begins) "Gabrielle and I'll stay with you, just until you get the swing of things."
Ares: (Suddenly, new vistas open up for the man formerly known as the god of war) "Yeah, a plantation, some slaves, half a dozen flute-playing girls." (His step quickens and soon he's outwalking the two women)
Xena: (Sarcasm becomes her as well. ) "Just what I was thinkin'." :rolleyes:

Soon we see Xena riding Argo Junior, leading Gabby and Ares in a wagon to Ares new home.

Oh... have I told you where they're going yet?

Xena: "There it is-- just as I remember it."
Gabrielle: (To the horse pulling her wagon) "And whoo."
Xena: "The Elysian fields on Earth. Come on, come on. Well, this is it."
Ares: (ONE of the differences between the two people who love Xena is showcased here...) "What? The outhouse?"
Gabrielle: (And you really believe her.) "It's beautiful."
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Ares: "Hello!"
Xena: (She hops down and runs for the porch) "Oo-oo-ooh!"
Ares: (Standing next to the wagon as Gabrielle runs after Xena) "We're looking at a hovel!"
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Xena: (Pointing to a pole holding up the porch roof) "Look... here... I carved my initial in this pole... here."
Gabrielle: (Just as excited as her friend) "Let's see. Huh! It's still there." (And we see the "X" with its one extralong leg carved into the pole)
Xena: (Puts upright the remains of an old chair on the porch as she recalls with great fondness) "My grandma used to sit in this chair. She'd rock and she'd tell us stories of the Olympian gods."
Ares: (TOTALLY not seeing an opportunity to bond with his former Warrior Princess!) "Bet you never thought you'd grow up to kill most of them, didya?"
Xena: (She's too far gone in her trip down nostalgia lane to give his catty remark a second thought) "But wait, the best is yet to come." (And she runs into the hovel... er... house.)
Gabrielle: (Turns to Ares, still standing in the "dooryard".) "Come on." [She chuckles as she turns to follow Xena]
Ares:http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/e/e0/AresCostume.jpg

The inside is in about as good a shape as the outside, which doesn't please Ares one bit.

Gabrielle: (Looking through the eyes of love.) "Xena, it's charming."
Xena: (And obviously "smelling" that way too!) "It even smells the way I remember it."
Ares: (The VOICE of reason) "I don't wanna spoil your waltz down memory lane, but Ares ain't living here. Now you can tell us all about your pastoral childhood on the way back to civilization."
Xena: "Ares, it's a little run-down, but we can fix it."
Ares: (One of the best lines of the night!) "When I was a god, I couldn't have fixed this place."
Gabrielle: "It's nothing that a little hard work can't put right."
Ares: (To his rival) "See, now you're scaring me."
Xena: "More than a band of cutthroats who are out for your blood?" (As she runs into the next room, the door she opens just falls off its hinges)
Ares: (Raising his voice so she can hear) "Do I hafta answer right away?"
Xena: (Pokes her head back into the main room to reveal her newest discovery!) "Gabrielle, come check out the stove."

Meanwhile... back in the B-storyline... Gasgar the terrible or whatever he's called finds "Battling Sikki" bragging about defeating Ares with his bare hands. He gets the Joxer wannabe to admit that he did no such thing, and to tell him where he saw the man fitting Ares' description. He instructs his 2nd in command to make ready to move his army towards the Lackawan Valley.

Ares: [Sighs as he sits on the porch, resting against the pole, taking a long pull off the wine skin as he realizes all can be right with the world... Have I mentioned he's shirtless and wearing a pair of particularly well fitted leather pants???? http://lh3.ggpht.com/_h2xKwiLoXBU/SxCjXu5cNfI/AAAAAAAABtY/KwmY_OYBZFs/smith kt shirtless1.jpg ]
Xena: (Off camera) "Ares, hurry up with those rags!"
Ares: "You know what?" (He picks up the rags and hides them below a loose board in the porch) " I, uh... I just can't seem to find 'em anywhere."
Xena: (Comes out onto the porch, removing her apron.) "Well, that doesn't make sense. Come on, then. We'll do somethin' else."
(Have I mentioned how these two women are DRESSED in this ep????

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Ares: "Aw! I was doing a thing!"
Gabrielle: "Has anyone seen that saw I left out here?"
Ares: "Well, don't look at me. I try to touch tools of common labor as little as possible."
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Xena: "Well, that's going to change. Come on." (And she grabs him by the ear) "Let's go." (Once he's up, she starts using her apron as a whip to keep him moving into the house)
Ares: "Not the butt. If that leaves a mark-- "
Xena: (Yeah, there are worse things she could threaten.

) "Don't turn around."
Ares: "Don't you..."
Gabrielle: (Looking puzzled around the porch) "I know I left the saw on the railing."
(She has MANY skills... :lol:

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Xena: (Once she has him inside, she gives him his new intructions.) "All right, Ares, I want you to get up here on the mantelpiece and nail those boards to the ceiling."
Ares: (Enjoying the "view" of Xena's backside up on the stepladder) "After you."
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Xena: (Turns around and catches the lecherous smile) "Ares... come on."
Ares: "All right." [Sighs as he lays his head on the mantelpiece] "What did you want me to do with the
rags?"
Xena: "I wanted you to stuff 'em in the holes in the outside wall to stop the wind coming through."
Ares: (Straightens up with a purpose) "I'd rather do that." (And turns to run back out to the porch)
Xena: "All right. What are you looking for?"
Ares: "OK, I hid the rags. I thought you were gonna get me to mop the floor or some other demeaning job I'd rather die than do, but now, they're gone."
Xena: (She ISN'T a believer!) "Ah-h-h."
Gabrielle: "This is strange, I left both my boots out here and one of them's gone."
Ares: "OK... where's my wineskin?"
Xena: "Something is out there."
Greba: (The welcome wagon has arrived!) "Excuse me. Hello. My name is Greba. I'm your neighbor."
Xena: "Oh, hi."
Ares: "Hello."
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Greba: "I've just come from Ipieros. There's an army moving toward the valley, led by the warlord Gasgar."
Gabrielle: "Thanks for the warning."
Greba: [Sighs] "That Gasgar-- he's a bad one. You know what they say his favorite sport is? It's to take a young, beautiful, helpless maiden and despoil her of her chastity again and again and again and again!"
Ares: (The poor guy is holding onto the porch pole with all his might) "Oh, the beast."
Xena: "Thanks, Greba."
Grebar: "It makes me shudder, just thinking about it being a young widow on my own without a man to take care of my
wants and needs alone in my house, just over the fence, just
there."
(Ares steps off the porch to walk closer to the young widow, taking care to flex his pects as he does... http://usuarios.multimania.es/anghelgabrielle/S10.jpg )
Gabrielle and Xena: "Thank you, Greba."(I swear Xena touched Gabby in the "jinx you owe me a beer" game!)
Ares: "Hey, uh drop by again, when the news is better. We'll have a glass of wine, swap tips on raising root vegetables."
Greba: "Well, goodbye."
(Exit the young widow. Do you wonder if Ares is wondering whether she'd like to be one of his flute playing ladies???)
Xena: (She steps into the house to don her warrior gear in like 3 seconds!) "All right, you two take care of the thief. I'm gonna see to Gasgar."
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Ares: "Oh! Oh! Oh-ho-ho-ho, so you still get to be warrior!"
Xena: "Uh-huh, but believe me, I would much rather stay here and work on the house."
Ares: (He's NOT impressed!) "You know the sad thing? I believe you!" http://i48.tinypic.com/2diogvk.jpg (He looks about the porch...) "Where's my belt?!"
Xena: (Aboard Argo II, she still worries about the thief) "Definitely take care of that one."

Meanwhile, back at the B storyline...

Demetrius: (enters his commander's tent) "Gasgar? Xena's here."
Gasgar: "Xena?"
Xena: (follows close behind) "Gasgar-- I've come to present you with a little gift."
Gasgar: (suspicious warlords live longer, usually) "What is it?"
Xena: "Ares' head on a platter."

ACT ENDS:

The simple life (lots of act II)

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JanewayRulz! · Apr 28, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

ACT II:

Warlord Gasgar: http://www.shipperseasons.com/season8/images/8.13/s11.jpg

Xena convinces Gasgar that she's not after Ares for the money... just for the vengence. She also leaves a kernal of doubt with the warlord... what if Ares ISN'T mortal... then he'll need Xena and her gods killing ability as insurance. Finally, she tells him where she thinks Ares is...

What a friend.

Gabrielle and Ares "bonding" before the fireplace as they wait for the love of their lives to come home: http://i47.tinypic.com/25ezaxx.jpg

Gabrielle: "Ares, when you gave up your immortality to save me and Eve, that was that was quite a sacrifice. Thank you."
Ares: (Eating a sandwich as he replies... honestly) "If Eve had died, and Xena lost her power to kill gods then Athena would have killed Xena..." (Gabrielle nods knowingly) "...so I was saving Eve to save Xena. You were anafterthought."
Gabrielle: (Smiles reluctantly at the former god of war and his honesty) "Thanks, anyway. (Suddenly the door opens and Xena walks in. Oh, its thundering and lightning outside, and its late evening.)How'd it go?"
Xena: [Sighs] "So far, so good. You cleared the chimney."
Gabrielle: (Why she's lying, I have no clue... unless Ares is right!) "Ares did the heavy work."
Ares: (He quickly squelches the hope flaring in Xena's eyes) "She's exaggerating. She just doesn't want to admit she couldn't get me to work any better than you could."
Gabrielle: (the Bard eyes him cruelly) "A lot of truth in that."
Xena: (FINALLY she acknowledges her living brother DOES exist... if not by name!) "You know, my brothers and I used to sit by the fire, here and tell ghost stories. My brothers... I miss them sometimes."
Ares: (He's really not into this nostalgia stuff, is he.) "Xena... the thief is still here. He got my gauntlet this afternoon. Whoever it is is good, I mean, very, very good. We didn't see a thing."
Gabrielle: (Ooooooo... ) "What if there's nothing to see?"
Ares: (Pretends to play along before he snears) "Like... a ghost?"
Gabrielle: "Yeah."
Xena: [Snickers]
Ares: (Hey buddy... that's "we" mortals!) "You mortals go to the most incredible places just to rationalize unexplained phenomena."
Xena: "You know what's wonderful?"

Xena & Gabby at the fireplace: http://amazonbon.tripod.com/olda12.jpg

Gabrielle: (Smiles at Xena's tone) "What?"
Xena: "It's wonderful that we're sitting here together in front of this cozy fire."
Gabrielle: "That's right. Life on a farm is so peaceful"
Xena: "Mm-m-m-m-m."
Ares: (The former god just HASN'T got a clue on how to woo Xena!) "Are you two insane? The life is incredibly dull. It-it-it-it's-- it's horribly uncomfortable, and, it-- it-- it's hard."
Xena: "Oh, you'll change your tune when you get a few... calluses on
your hands."
(They look up at the ceiling and suddenly it begins to leak under the weight of the rain which began in earnest a few minutes ago. MOST of it is coming down right on top of Ares' head.)
Ares: "Let me guess. This is your favorite part."
(He keeps chewing his bread as the rain pours down, not even getting up to move as the two girls search for a drier room.
Xena: "Split up. There's gotta be one dry room in the house."
G's Voice: "The kitchen's worse."
Xena: (She enters a bedroom off the fireplace room, and opens a window to air it out) "Hey, it's dry in here. This was my room. Grandpa must have fortified the roof. It's the only dry room in the house."
(Ares and Gabrielle follow her inside.)
Ares: (Channeling the male fandom's not so secret fantasy 5 years in the making) "That's a big bed. The three of us can sleep in there."
Gabrielle: "Three of us in one bed?"
Ares: "Sure." (Smiling)
Xena: "Well, I suppose. We are all grown-ups." (Lawless is the only one I know who can make that word into THREE syllables!)
Ares: (Smile broadens even further) "We certainly are."

Old Ares Commentary with Rob Tapert & the costumer.

I LOVE Rob Tapert's take on this scene...

Everything from "Why do Gabby & Xena go to bed every night fully clothed WITH their boots on (Gabby even did it in RHEINGOLD when they slept in that Tavern/Inn!) but once they're with Ares... they're stripped down to their sexy undies!!!

To...how hard it was for the three actors to get through this scene without laughing.

Watch Renee when Lucy removes her hand and places it in a "safer" spot... you can see her doing a belly laugh... her torso/thighs are shaking. Kevin Smith mentioned they had to use "this" clip since all the other ones were even more affected by their inability to keep a straight face. And how can the producer maintain there's nothing going on between Xena and Gabby.. and then suggest Xena was jealous of Gabby "two timing" her??? :rofl:

Three in a bed: http://i48.tinypic.com/3443yhe.jpg

Xena: (She rolls over and ends up in Ares face, and wakes up "nose to nose") "I think a change of positions is in order."

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(She rolls to her right, nearly hanging off the bed, and Ares moves up to spoon with her. She looks over her shoulder and says...)

Xena: "I meant we should both change positions."
Ares: "All right."

(Ares complies and ends up on his back between the two women. THAT'S when Gabrielle rolls to HER right, and her left arm comes flinging and lands in his crotch. Oh... did I mention he's changed his tight leather pants for a pair of sleeping sweats?)

Ares: (He squeaks with Gabrielle's "impact"!)

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As Xena looks over her shoulder she sees Gabby sleeping on Ares left shoulder, her right hand on his forehead, her left hand down with the Olympian's Jewels, and she's HORRIFIED! She reaches down, and carefully picks up Gabby's hand and places it back on the bed, off Ares' body entirely. As she lays back down the FORMER God of war has only ONE comment.

Ares: "I'm in Tartarus."

Act continues this evening!

JanewayRulz! · Apr 28, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

Act II continues:

I just love this "shot". We're above that famous bed again, but this time Ares is the only one in it. I think its late morning and SOMEONE (Who's initals are XWP!) who's hollering outside is already having a bad day.

Xena's Voice: "Gabrielle! I don't care if it is a ghost, if I can kill gods, maybe I can kill ghosts, too!"
Ares: (Ares is on his belly when he reaches to his right to grab his sword from the chelf/chest over there. What I love is what ELSE in on that chest... Gabby's sais, Xena's warrior dress and bracers and chakram. With sword in hand, he crawls out of the bed) "Oh, thank God I'm a country boy."

He's found that balcony we saw in 1 shot of the hovel, er, house... and looks down to see Gabrielle following Xena around the house.

Xena: "Wait a minute... drag marks. Look."
Gabrielle: (Looks up at Ares on the balcony) "The ghost stole her breastplate."
Ares: "It couldn't carry her breastplate. Had to drag it. An ample breastplate, to be sure, but... " (and he hops over the railing and drops down to the ground. Barefoot, Barechested and Still in his sleeping sweatpants.)
Xena: "This way! Come on!"
Ares: (He's hopping through the field with sword in hand) "Oop!"
Xena: (Comes upon a fresh mound of dirt) "Something buried our stuff."
Gabrielle: "What is this?"

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Xena: "Look. Oh! Oh-h-h!" (And she unearths those "ample breast plates.)
Gabrielle: (Gabby unearths Ares scabbard and belt, but not what SHE'S looking for!) "Strange. Where are my boots?"
(Suddenly there's a low growling nearby, and Ares gets down on his hands and knees to look within the hollow log emitting the sounds)
Ares: (He turns back to the women) "Sh-h-- it's a wolf."

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Gabrielle: (Kneeling next to Ares and Xena to look in herself, she protests) "It's not a wolf, it's a dog. Don't they have dogs on Olympus?"
Ares: (I LOVE this line!!!!!) "Not one-headed ones." (Suddenly the dog BOLTS out of the log and straight for Ares!) "Oh-h! Get it off me!"
Xena: "Hey, he's not attacking you. He's trying to be affectionate."
Ares: (As Xena rescues him from the dog's many kisses...) "Well, I am not interested in that kind of relationship."

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Gabrielle and Xena's Voice: (The girls melt over the dog, and give him a total body scratch that makes him tremble and Ares cringe) "O-h-h-h-h. Aw, come here, pooch."
Ares: "Oh, now, don't-don't-don't do that. Now we'll never get rid of it."
Gabrielle: (Smiles) "Maybe we don't wanna get rid of him."
(AND NOW.... the best 13 second snippet in the entire ep!!!)
Ares: "Is there anything you and I agree on?" (Gabby looks up at Xena, and smiles)

"What" they agree on!

Ares: Oh, yeah...anything else?" (And Gabby just silently smiles at Ares.)

After Joxer's obliviousness, and Thelassa's hatred of her rival for Gabrielle's attentions, and Najara's jealousy of their love, not to mention Brunhilda's early desires to Kill Xena "for" love... its nice to see Ares easy acceptance of the rivalry and the occasional challenges" he throws at Gabby because of it.
Xena: "All right, Ares, you can stay here with your furry little friend and fix the roof. Gabrielle and I are off to town for some supplies."
Ares: (Ares is still laying on the ground, bemoaning Xena's plan to GET HIM to do manual labor!) "Can it get any worse?"

Ares: http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/1/11/ImgAresGOW2.jpg

Ares actually crawls up on top the roof with bundles of straw to fix into place. While he's up there... (still shirtless but now back in those "well fitted" leather pants) the welcome wagon "comes back".

Ares on the roof: http://static2.dmcdn.net/static/video/324/890/16098423:jpeg_preview_large.jpg?20100731211450

Greba: "Hello, again!"
Ares: "Neighbor lady... hello." (He climbs down the ladder, where he's beset by the dog and mutters under his breath) "You filthy mongrel."
Greba: "Dogs make me go all cuddly."
(The Dog! http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/7/75/Horace.jpg )
Ares: (The DOG and ARES both do a double take at the "neighbor lady and Ares quickly changes his tune!) "See the lady? Say hello to the lady. Say hello!" (And the dog runs over for some "loving". Surprisingly, she ignores him once he's there)
Greba: "My husband and I had a dog. But then he died three years ago in the battles, my husband, that is, not the dog. And then the dog was run over by the funeral wagon that was carrying his body home." (I am NOT surprised! What an air head.) " There's been a great gaping hole in my heart ever since that day. Isn't war just terrible?"
Ares: (He fakes empathy poorly, but she's an airhead, so she doesn't notice.) "A crime against humanity."
Greba: (Is this RJ Stewart's homage to "Tootsie"?) "I don't know why people can't be more like animals. I mean, animals don't go to war or lie or cheat or betray each other. Take this little guy right here. I mean when he likes you he just comes up and starts licking you. Why can't we be more like that?"
Ares: (I am so proud he didn't start licking her right then and there!) "A very, very good question. Maybe we can take him for a long walk sometime, huh?"
Greba: "They wouldn't mind us borrowing their dog? Your daughters?"
Ares: (He has a cow!) "You mean, slave girls."
Greba: "No... they don't act like slaves."
Ares: (He turns his back on her to pet the dog before coming back to his newest nemesis) "Well, I spoil them. So, uh what made you think they were my daughters?"
Greba: "Oh, well I mean, you being an older man and everything. Oh, don't get me wrong, I mean, you're... you're in great shape, (And Xena is above average in looks!) and you hold yourself so well. You know, good posture's so very imporant. It's just that you're... you're so much more sophistocated than what I'm used to, an- well with the gray hair, it's just... "
Ares: [he laughs because he's too old to cry] "Gray gray-gray hair. Gray hair."
Greba: (reaches for his right temple) "Oh you have that patch of gray just there."
Ares: (The ROOF is calling him back to work!) "Was that rain? I... fix the roof."
Greba: "Oh. Well goodbye." (She turns to leave, when she turns back he gives her a fake smile and a cutsy wave before turning to vent on the dog yipping at his heels)
Ares: "Bye." (To the dog) "Think that's funny? Yuk it up." (He climbs back to the peak of the roof, and as he's standing up there he hears a telltale sound of wood cracking) Oh! Of course." (The roof gives way and he falls to the floor of the fireplace room, and is covered in debris.) Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!"

Xena comes back from her shopping trip to find Ares on the floor, covering in debris from the roof, with the dog licking his face.

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Xena: (Enters the house with a basket full of supplies) "Ares-- "
Ares: [Moans from the middle of the floor]
Xena: "What are you doing?"
Ares: "Oh I'm just lying here, smelling my mortality-- " (Was THAT what that was?)
Xena: "Oh."
Ares: "... every muscle in my body aching. I have gray hair and the dog has its tongue in my mouth."
Xena: "Well ha-ha enough of that." (To the dog licking the former god) " Scat. Go on."
Ares: "All due respect, Xena... this is the worst idea you've ever had." (She pulls him upright) " Oh! Oh! Oh-h. I'll never make a convincing farmer."
Xena: (She brushes the dust out of his hair) "Nonsense. You just need to know how to accessorize. Come on."
Ares: "Oh?"
(Outside we see Gabrielle drive a wagon full of chickens and at least 1 pig up to the front yard. A cow and calf are following behind.)
Ares: "I'm guessing these are the accessories."
Gabrielle: "Hey look what I found." [Chuckles]

In the kitchen Gabby is putting supplies away, XENA is cooking, and Ares is sitting on the floor looking very handsome without his shirt/vest. The dog is sitting with his head in Ares' lap.

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Xena: [Humming Xena Theme Song]
Ares: "This dog is incredibly needy."
Gabrielle: (The ever practical) "Why don't you pet it? Then maybe it won't be so needy." [Chuckles at how robotic Ares is when "petting" the dog]
Xena: (Smiles at his attempt and takes pity on him) "Ares, I got a job you might like."
Ares: "Really?" (He really distrusts what "great" idea she has up her sleeve THIS time)
Xena: (Eyes him seriously) "Why don't you go kill a chicken for dinner?"
Ares: "All right! Now you're talkin'!" (He grabs the sword leaning against the bench, and jumps up to run outside.)
G: "Only one chicken."

Fowl Play encore!:
While I love the fun of watching Ares try to kill a chicken... I found this next conversation between our two friends to be so sweet.

Gabrielle: (Listening to Ares run outside to do battle with a chicken) "Do you think he'll ever get used to this?"
Xena: "He just has to convince them once. After that, he can hire in some help or get his dancing girls, for all I care. But once he is set up you and I are out of here."
Gabrielle: (She's purposefully NOT looking at Xena as she goes about her task of putting supplies away in front of the WP) "Mm-hmm."
Ares' Voice: [Yells/outside]
Xena: (Eyes narrow as she stares at the "best friend"'s subtle jibe) "What?"

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Gabrielle: (Proving once again, she's not just a pretty face) "Xena, I know you wanna help Ares but you're here to relive your childhood memories."
Xena: (leans against the wall to challenge the bard) "You think so?"
Gabrielle: (walks up to face down "that" famous stare) "Yeah."
Xena: (She drops her gaze to admit the truth) "Maybe you're right. I was happy here. It was a peaceful and I f-- felt safe."
Gabrielle: "Hm-m."
Xena: "Ever since... my life has been anything but."
Gabrielle: (Smiles at the lives she and the WP lead) "I'll say. Let's enjoy it while we can."

As the two friends share a laugh at the antics of the former god of war in the pen with the chickens... Xena decides its time to let him in on part of her plan.

Kitchen window: http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/images/oahaf_mq_0785rcd.jpg

Ares: "Come on. Come on. Come on. [Yells at the chickens escaping their pen] Come on. Come on. Come to Papa!" (He falls in the dirt, and the dog comes to lick his face again) " Uh, careful, I'm beginning to like that."
Xena: (From the kitchen window) "Uh, Ares my plan's working perfectly."
Ares: (He slowly stands up and faces the house) "You planned to drive me insane?"
Xena: "No, my plan to deal with Gasgar."
Ares: (he starts to walk towards the house) "Are they leaving the valley?"
Xena: "Nope, they're comin' right toward us." (And we see a contingent of horsemen coming over the rise of the hill behind Ares' left shoulder.)

ACT ENDS

Old Ares “Poster” http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3900000/Ares-ares-3984816-800-600.jpg

Human on the inside:

saturn5 · Apr 28, 2011

And I'm back. And setting my TV to tape Xena on the horror channel :techman:

Although I'm not sure how it qualifies as horror, just like Highlander and Firefly didn't?

Ok, The Ring trilogy, great stuff, truly great and not just an excuse to use all the expensive costumes from Hercules' dealing with the Norse gods, the sight of Xena as a Valkyrie is wonderful and once again we see bad old Xena and she's very bad indeed, especially her seduction of the Rhinemaiden (subtext ahoy!) before giving her a bloody nose. Their making up in the end is nice.
I know they're great girls but people do seem fall head over heals in love with Xena and Gabby very easily. It also strikes me that Xena and Gabby are gone for a year but no one comes looking for them, not Eve or Virgil?
Still, brilliant stuff and I'm happy we'll see these characters again in You Are There

JanewayRulz! · Apr 29, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

Ares: http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/hi/78/77942/xena_042_6.jpg

Gabby: http://rodan657.ro.funpic.de/pages/various/styles/rear_renee.jpg

Not from the ep per se.. but a really fun publicity still for the ep. http://img1.tvloop.com/img/showpics/e4/4c/l36e0393a0000_1_21212.jpg

ACT III:
Xena: (She is getting dressed in her warrior garb with Gabrielle's help) "All right, Ares if you can pull this one off and convince them that you're a farmer they'll leave and you'll have your cover."
Ares: (Worried about this "plan") "But Gasgar and Attila know what I look like."
Xena: "Oh, that's the beauty of it. I've asked around. They're the only ones who know what you look like and they won't be part of the search party."
Demertius's Voice: "You inside! Show yourselves!"
Xena: "OK the official story... Ares passed by here a couple of days ago."
Gabrielle: (SOMEBODY has been eating too much while playing peasant farm girl) "Suck it in." (Xena complies as Gabrielle laces up the back of the leather bodice)
Xena: "And when he left he was headed for the Hurata Pass."
Demetrius's Voice: "I said get out here!"
Xena: "All right you're on." (She throws him some old clothes) "I'll be waiting out back. Wouldn't do to find the warrior princess hanging out on a farm."
Demetrius: "If you don't come out here... "
(Half naked Ares and Peasant Gabrielle are left alone to here the warlord's threats.)
Dem's Voice: "... things are going to get ugly."
Gabrielle: (To Ares) "OK... go out there."
Ares: (Gets very method actor... think Chris Bale) "No-no-no-no-- I'm gonna need a moment. Well... stall!"
Gabrielle: "Stall?"
Demetrius: "Torch the place."
(Gabrielle whips her scarf off her head, musses her hair "convincingly", rips open her very skimpy blouse to expose her very skimpy floral bra, and puts on her game face to confront the warlord's men. Ares APPROVES!)
Warrior's Voice: (When he sees Gabrielle flounce out onto the porch, obviously agrees with Ares!) "Yeah!"

Trust me... this wasn't buttoned in the episode! http://img1.tvloop.com/img/showpics/84/58/l36f520560000_1_10336.jpg

And although the buttons were right in this one... she wasn't "quite" so salacious in the ep. (More airhead... "you're interrupting us"... than seductoress) http://www.rocnet.us/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/s6-oahaf-gab01.jpg

As Gabby vamps in front to the soldiers... Ares has dressed himself, added a pillow for a paunch AND blackened his front teeth to appear as a "farmer".

He just forgot to leave his attitude at the door.

Ares: "Josa! What are you doin'? Get back on in the house, woman." (Must correct the transcript here, sorry Whoosh but you left out Ares best line... he says it as Gabby walks back to the house and passes him.) "Harlot!" (Gabby jumps a little then smiles this great smile at him as she keeps walking and Ares addresses the soldiers) "All right! What do you want?"

Repeating the publicity still: http://img1.tvloop.com/img/showpics/e4/4c/l36e0393a0000_1_21212.jpg

Needless to say, the Soldiers don't take kindly to Ares' attitude and knock him to the ground. The former god of war doesn't take kindly to THAT and picks of a long piece of wood to brain the dude, but is disarmed before he can do it. The soldier is about to use the wood to knock Ares out, when out of no-where, a princess arrives to save him.

Xena: "Wait a minute! If he's out cold, how can we question him?"
Dem: "He's pretty feisty for a farmer. How do we know he's not Ares himself?"
Ares: [Laughs as he looks up at Xena]
Xena: "Are you kidding? Ares is a much younger man than this." (LOVED Ares face at this!!!)

The soldier suggests Xena "put the pinch" on the farmer to force the information, and after much coaxing from the soldier and much pleading from Ares face NOT to do so, Xena smiles and jabs his neck twice, causing him to fall back down to his knees.

SOMEONE, however, doesn't appreciate this technique, and soon comes tearing across the yard, STRAIGHT at Xena... and BITES her on the a$$!!!!

http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/7/75/Horace.jpg

Xena: (Channeling the wicked witch of the west!!!)"O-o-oh! You you are going to be dead in 30 seconds you and your little dog, too, if you don't tell me... have you seen Ares, the god of war?"
Ares: (Gasping) "He stayed here a coupl 'a nights ago and went to the Hurata Pass."

The soldiers are satisfied and mount up to return to Gasgar with the news as Xena pronounces herself ready to head directly for the Hurata Pass. Loved how it looked like she was going to leave without releasing the pinch, and even though he shouldn't have been able to move his arms, I loved how Ares kept pointing to his neck, like he HAD to remind her to do it!

As Xena and the soldiers leave, Gabrielle comes back out of the house to critique Ares' performance, as he psychoanalyzes hers!

Gabrielle: "Ares-- you shouldn't have come out with such an attitude."
Ares [Chuckles at the thought of Gabrielle playing...] "My woman... "
Gabrielle: "Yeah?" (She's not too happy with the role either, as he pulls cotton from his mouth)
Ares: (Keeps pulling cotton from his mouth.. I guess he was channeling Brando's Godfather?) "... was about to take on an entire army."
Gabrielle: "Oh."
Ares: "I think even a farmer would just have a little bit of attitude about that, don't you?"
Gabrielle: (Becomes just a little bit of the diva here...) "I was playing with my character. I just used the first thing that popped into my head."
Ares: (Judge not, lest you yourself be judged... big boy!) "I think that says a lot about you."

The looks that fly between these two are NOT complimentary, so its a good thing Xena comes riding back at that moment with good news.

Xena: "Well done, Ares. You fooled 'em. They're gone." (She then notices the dog sitting on top of Gabrielle's horse/saddle and unlooses her chakram at him!) Get down from there. Hey!" (The dog jumps down and the chakram hits harmlessly the horn of the saddle before coming back at the princess.)
Ares: "Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey,,, do not be throwing things at my dog!"
Xena: "What do you mean?! He bit me! It... did you say your dog?"
Ares: "He is the only one that stood up for me just now. I think I'll call you Horace. Come, Horace, let's go kill some chickens."
(They watch Ares walk back to the chicken pen with Horace in his arms)
Gabrielle: "It's amazing, he's bonded with the dog."
Xena: "Well, that dog worships him. That's a relationship Ares can understand.

ACT THREE continues later tonight.

The cowboy song:

JanewayRulz! · Apr 29, 2011

saturn5 said:
And I'm back. And setting my TV to tape Xena on the horror channel Although I'm not sure how it qualifies as horror, just like Highlander and Firefly didn't?

Ok, The Ring trilogy, great stuff, truly great and not just an excuse to use all the expensive costumes from Hercules' dealing with the Norse gods, the sight of Xena as a Valkyrie is wonderful and once again we see bad old Xena and she's very bad indeed, especially her seduction of the Rhinemaiden (subtext ahoy!) before giving her a bloody nose. Their making up in the end is nice.
I know they're great girls but people do seem fall head over heals in love with Xena and Gabby very easily. It also strikes me that Xena and Gabby are gone for a year but no one comes looking for them, not Eve or Virgil?
Still, brilliant stuff and I'm happy we'll see these characters again in You Are There

Welcome back! :techman:

I think these women take off so frequently, that they'd have to be missing a few years before someone came looking.

Also... IIRC from a commentary with Tapert...Virgil (the actor) left XenaWP to go play in another show (Dark Angel?) so he wasn't avail anymore.

Could only manage part of act three this am, the rest will go up tonight.

JanewayRulz! · Apr 29, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

Ahhh, the airheaded one... see, not salacious "at all".

http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/images/oahaf_mq_0837cd.jpg

Speaking of sexy Gabrielle: http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm27/chesleykirk/My%20Art/SexyBack.png Yowza! What's Ares complaining about?

ACT III continues:

The "girls" doing what farm girls do.

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Gabrielle: "I see you use the pull and squeeze method. I prefer the double squeeze."
Xena: "Double squeeze takes too long."
Gabrielle: "No, you get more milk that way. It's easier on the cow." (Xena takes this opportunity to shoot a squirt of the milk over at Gabby and the calf she's petting) "Ha-ha-ha."
Ares: [Laughs at this scene from his comfortable position on the hay pile, with his dog by his side] "The warrior princess and the battling bard discussing the correct technique for milking a cow. Absurd and yet, at the same time... ridiculous."
Horace and his god. http://www.xwpshrine.com/ConventionPics/Ares_with_Horace.jpg
Xena: (Smiles as she points her finger at the kibbitzer) "It's important."

Into this idyllic scene, only bad things can come. :scream:

Salesman: "Hello? Anyone there?"
(Suddenly Horace jumps up and runs out a hole in the back wall of the barn)
Ares: "Horace! Where you goin', buddy?!"
Gabrielle: "In here!"
Salesman: "I'm sorry to bother you, but I was just wondering if anyone had seen my dog."
Ares: "Your dog."
Salesman: "Mm-m. Uh, I'm a traveling salesman. I was passing through here a couple of weeks ago, and my dog ran off during a thunderstorm. I was just trying to find him. Y-you can't miss him. He's, he's got two different colored eyes."
Ares: (Looking down at his feet) "One gray, one blue?"
Salesman: "Yes!"
Ares: "I've never seen him."
Salesman: (da da dum!) "Shame." (Hears the sound of a dog barking) "That's him. That's him! Ha-ha. Tha-- tha...that's him!"
(they run to the door of the barn, to see Horace er.. Jake hightailing it across the field into the woods)
Ares: "That's not a dog. It's a horse. We breed 'em small around here."
Salesman: "No, it's- no, it's really him! Jake! Jake, come back! Here you go! Jake, come back to Daddy!"
Ares: (under his breath, he exhorts his friend) "Run, Horace, run."
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Salesman: "Back! Come back!"

The salesman takes off after Horace as Ares seems more deflated than when he first lost his godhood. Xena pats him on the shoulder before turning back to her milking.

For reasons I don't understand, Gasgar and his lieutenant come up to the salesman's cart as he's trying to make a sale. Naturally, they run off the customer and start looking at the wares... when they notice the man's dog is chewing on something that looks familiar. A Gauntlet that looks a lot like Ares'. The salesman admits that it was found on a farm by his dog.

ACT III ENDS:

(Congrats, :bolian:

William & Catherine... AKA Wills & Kate :luvlove:

)

saturn5 · Apr 30, 2011

(Congrats, :bolian:

William & Catherine... AKA Wills & Kate :luvlove:

)[/QUOTE]

Absolutely, god save the (future) king!

Old Ares has a Farm, stunning ep, good to see that Xena can still do pure dumb comedy and still produce a winner. Especially like neighbour lady ('Over and over and over again!') who may be a parody of all the drooling Kevin Smith fans. Speaking of whom they must be delighted with this ep as he's shirtless the whole time more ripped than my cat's scratching post. Such a shame he died so tragically young. One thing though, where do Xena and Gabby get the elastic for their bras? The three in the bed scene must have set the fanfic writers imaginations ablaze. Interesting though that the neighbour thinks Xena (and Gabby) is Ares' daughter

Good point about Virgil, do we ever see him again?

Just watched my first ep of Xena from the Horror channel (which seems to be screening very little horror these days) 'The Path not Taken', very early days, so weird to see Xena and Marcus, the subtext not creeping in yet and Gabby still in her peasant dress phase. Lots to look forwards too.

JanewayRulz! · Apr 30, 2011

saturn5 said:
JanewayRulz! wrote:
(Congrats, William & Catherine... AKA Wills & Kate )

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Absolutely, god save the (future) king!

Old Ares has a Farm, stunning ep, good to see that Xena can still do pure dumb comedy and still produce a winner. Especially like neighbour lady ('Over and over and over again!') who may be a parody of all the drooling Kevin Smith fans. Speaking of whom they must be delighted with this ep as he's shirtless the whole time more ripped than my cat's scratching post. Such a shame he died so tragically young. One thing though, where do Xena and Gabby get the elastic for their bras? The three in the bed scene must have set the fanfic writers imaginations ablaze. Interesting though that the neighbour thinks Xena (and Gabby) is Ares' daughter

Good point about Virgil, do we ever see him again?

Just watched my first ep of Xena from the Horror channel (which seems to be screening very little horror these days) 'The Path not Taken', very early days, so weird to see Xena and Marcus, the subtext not creeping in yet and Gabby still in her peasant dress phase. Lots to look forwards too.

TRUST me... if she was a parody of us (drooling :drool:

Kevin Smith fans) she would NOT be refusing a walk along a country lane with his holiness and the dog. :lol:

And yes... "we" (using the "Royal" we here...

) ARE delighted with the shirtless wonder. And.. as the costumer said in the dvd interview, those "particularly well fitted" leather pants. :bolian:

As for those "modern" clothes on the ladies... WHO'S LOOKING AT THEM WHEN KEVIN SMITH IS SHIRTLESS 90% OF THE TIME?!?!?!?!?!

Oh, right... you are.

Well... to each his own. :guffaw:

ETA: http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3900000/Ares-ares-3984816-800-600.jpg

This did reaffirm that XWP COULD do comedy, and do it quite well, THANK-YOU very much!

All that drama, all that angst can be wearing on one's soul, and this little break reminds one that life ISN'T just one fight after another. There are times when you can just sit back and smell the roses, dream of the past, think about the future and not worry that every breath you take might just be your last.

Where's the fun in that?

Speaking of subtext in the first season... I went to whoosh.org to remind myself which one was "The Path Not Taken"... and they were nice enough to POINT OUT the subtext for those of us too blind to see it. Granted... as far as the first 1 1/4 seasons go... its pretty much a "glass half empty/half full" POV kind of thing as far as I'm concerned.

I do have to admit that the subtexters POV started to win their argument with me after "Return of Callisto" and more especially after "The Quest".

(Gee... I "wonder" why? :rommie:

)

JanewayRulz! · Apr 30, 2011

Episode 122 Season 6 # 10 "Old Ares Had a Farm"

ACT IV:

Ares, Xena & Gabby are searching the back paddock for Ares' missing gauntlet without success.

Gabrielle: "Maybe he buried it in the field."
Ares: "Oh you are so quick to blame Horace."
Xena: "Well, who else would steal your gauntlet?"

http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_0332cd.htm

Greba: (Neighbor lady returns, and Ares jauntily runs over to her!) "Hello! Bad news Gasgar's army has turned around and is heading back down the valley. A soldier from his army was drunk in a tavern at Ipieros last night and he says that Gasgar is heading for this farm. Somehow, Gasgar's got it in his head that Ares is here. Goodness aren't people just the funniest thing?"

(She stands there... so proud of herself as Ares looks on with a sick smile. http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/happy-boy-old-ares-had-a-farm-orig-photoart-1 )

Xena: (Resigned, she tries to shut down the welcome wagon with the simple...) "Thank you, Greba."
Greba: (She's so happy to have someone who will listen, she doesn't take the hint from Xena very well) "Oh, and I also heard that... "
Xena: (She realizes more force is required to derail the gossiper...) "Greba... go away."
Greba: (SEE, she CAN take a hint if its OBVIOUS!) "Well... goodbye."

I think this next scene is my fav scene... AFTER the three in a bed one! Its when the WOMEN purposefully have fun with everyone else's perception of their relationship!

Gasgar is chewing on a chicken leg, in his tent, when his minion announces the arrival of one Warrior Princess. He spits out the chicken and leans back, ready to "have fun" with the one he thinks is screwing him over.

Demetrius: (Peeks his head into the tent) "Gasgar... Xena's here.."
Gasgar: (Spits out the chicken) "Oh. Good... send her in." (Enter one very stern looking XWP) "I thought you were headed for the Hurata Pass, Xena."
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1052cd.htm

Xena: "And I heard you turned your army around. I didn't want you to waste your time. Ares headed through here a few days... "
Gasgar: "That's not gonna play." (he throws something on the table before him) "Ares' gauntlet, a dog found it on a farm... a farm you happened to ride up to when Demetrius was in the middle of an interrogation. Why are you tryin' to hide
Ares, Xena?
Gabrielle's Voice: (From outside the tent) "I'll tell you why."
Xena: (Turns to see a pissed off Gabrielle enter the tent) "Gabrielle, what are you doing here?"
Gabrielle: (VERY "in your face"!!!) "I'm tired of being used by you, Xena."
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1071cd.htm
Xena: (She plays indignant soooo well! ) "Gabrielle, this is not the time for one of your little spats."
Gabrielle: (Turns towards Gasgar, seated behind the table, while still keeping one eye on Xena) "You wanna know where Ares is?"
Gasgar: (He can't believe his good fortune!) "Yeah."
Xena: (A hint of desperation creeps into the WP's voice!) "Don't listen to her. She's insane."
Gabrielle: "I'll tell you who's insane... you. If you think you can walk away from me. You've fallen in love with Ares, and suddenly I'm nothin'?"
Gasgar: (AGHAST!) "You fell in love with Ares? After all he's done to ya?
That's pathetic."
Xena: (She whips around to pounce on the table separating them, with a frightening challenge!) "You want a piece of me, Gasgar?"
Gasgar: (He leans back in his chair, to put room between himself and the "she demon" facing him) "None of my business, really."
Xena: "Damn straight."
Gasgar: (But he's not ready to give up on Gabrielle's sudden defection.) "You were about to tell me... where Ares is."
Gabrielle: "Yeah."
Xena: (She gives her "friend" a final warning) "Wouldn't do that if I were you, Gabrielle."
Gabrielle: "Xena, you taught me how to fight."
(She then does something we've NEVER seen her do in 6 years of Xena. Gabrielle "Chest butts" the larger/armored Xena and pushes her back in the process! http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1084cd.htm )
Gabrielle: "I may be tougher than you think." (To Gasgar) "Ares is headed to Pultruis. He's gonna hide in the Naughton Cave."
Xena: (Anger boils over) "Why, I oughtta... "
Gabrielle: (Gabby gives her the "bring it on' wave) "Come on, warrior princess. Let's see what ya got. Come on." (And Xena SPITS in her hands before she starts swinging!)

FIGHT! http://images.wikia.com/hercxena/images/f/fa/610_03.jpg

A great fight ensues between the two warriors. It starts with a wonderful VOLLEY of blows/blocks which suggests Gabrielle WAS telling the truth that she and Xena have practiced fighting (stands to reason) all these years.
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1091cd.htm

Gabrielle: (Xena bends her left arm behind her back before slamming her into a tent pole that cracks!) "Ow!"
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1094cd.htm
Gabby ends up next to a crate of "something"? Bottles which she starts throwing at Xena one after another after a third, fourth, fifth all of which Xena dodges easily and they break harmlessly behind her... before the warlord (who IS enjoying the fight) decides he should speak up while he has some possessions left intact.

Gasgar: "Whoa. Whoa. Can we take this outside?" (The women ignore him and Xena picks up a large sculpture of a head to heave at Gabrielle) OK I'll leave. (He walks across the tent to Demetrius to ask, as Gabrielle throws the sculpture back at Xena and it breaks..) How far to Pultruis?"
Demetrius: "It's a day's ride."
(Both men run out of the tent as Gabrielle draws her sais from her boots and Xena her sword from the scabbard. As they realize they are "alone", Gabby smiles like the cat who ate the canary and Xena playfully hits Gabrielle's sais with her sword, before exclaiming...)
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1116cd.htm
Xena: "All right. Nice moves."

Meanwhile... back on the farm...

http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1120cd.htm

Ares is sitting alone, on the front porch, bemoaning his solitary state... when WHAT to his wondering eyes/ears do appear but a hairy fourlegged creature with a singular devotion in mad dash towards the former god of war!
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1128cd.htm

As Horace jumps into Ares lap to kiss him, our two friends ride up with news.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3900000/Ares-ares-3984830-800-600.jpg

Ares: (Sees the dog racing across the fields towards him) "Horace! Oh, yeah. Come on, come on. Yeah. Oh-h-h-h."
Gabrielle: (Smiles at the sight of Horace kissing the former Olympian) "I guess you don't need the flute girls anymore."
Ares: "Hey, I like his company. It's not like he takes care of all my problems."
Xena: (She throws him his missing gauntlet as she dismounts) "Here."
Ares: (He stands to get the good or bad news) "So, what happened to Gasgar?"
Xena: "Oh, he headed with the others towards the Pultruis Caves. He thought you were hiding out there for some reason."
Ares: "That would be the Pultruis where the beast of the 7 heads makes his lair?"
Gabrielle: (Smiles broadly) "Eight heads... and not one of them is friendly."
Xena: "So you can stay here as long as you want. No one'll bother you here."
http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1138cd.htm
Ares: (He shrugs) "Thanks, Xena... but to be honest... once I'm out of chickens I might just move on."
Xena: (She moves in close to offer some "advice") "Well, you should drag it out. You know, you might find a kind of peace here that you won't find afterwards." (And to tease him with future possibilities) "And who knows? Maybe I'll come and visit ya sometime."

http://mikes-images.com/eps/oahaf/pages/oahaf_mq_1157cd.htm

Ares: (KaChing! He changes his mind faster than a casino cashier can make change for a 20) "Or... I could give this whole rural thing a good try."
(He leans in for a kiss like he did at the end of the season 6 premiere... "Coming Home", as Gabrielle drops her eyes with embarrassment just before Xena reaches up and squeezes his cheek like an old grandmother...
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/polls/147000/147756_1228052380455_full.jpg
Xena: "Good boy. Have fun."

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[ In my mind, I see Xena "thinking' of Ares and that "Coming Home" goodbye from 4 months ago as she leaves her grandparent's homestead. Remember what they said (without Gabrielle listening at the time) way back then?
Xena: "You never give up, do you?" (She and a very bruised Ares kiss. A very sweet kiss)
Ares: (I said he was bruised!) "Ow. I guess I'm finally gettin' to ya."
Xena: "You always got to me, but you were bad for me, Ares. You still are."

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But that was back then, and this is now, as Gabrielle and Xena ride away from the farm where Xena's grandparents lived and where she and her brothers would visit.

If you look in the far background of this scene. you will see Ares and Horace playing in the front yard of the farmhouse.

Xena no longer is channeling the Wicked Witch of the West.

Now she's channeling Dorothy Gale.

Gabrielle: "How are you feeling?"
Xena: "I've learned something since coming back here. You can't look for peace in the world around you. You've gotta find it in your own heart. I was happy when I was a kid here 'cause I was loved and I felt like I belonged. I was lucky then and I'm lucky now."
Gabrielle: (Smiles) "Me, too."

Somewhere:

:bolian:

THE END

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