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The Great Listening Catch Up Post!
Minisode 6: The Great Unpinning!
Hermes Mailbag 6! Part 1
Hermes Mailbag 6! Part 2
Minisode 7: Episode Commentary Shenanigans!
Minisode 8: The Amazon Wiggle!
Minisode 9: While You Were Sleeping!
Minisode 10: Reboot or Revival Extravaganza!
Minisode 11: Farscape!
Minisode 12: Greatest Gabisodes!
Minisode 13: Best Xena Eps of Xena!
Minisode 14: Modern AU Pitch-a-thon!
“you became the dark star and left me all alone”
A XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS FANVID [xena/gabrielle | ao3 dl + notes + streaming]
Includes spoilers for all six seasons, including AFIN I & II.
The end is the beginning is the end...
Ep 107! 6x21 “A Friend in Need Part I”
Ep 108! 6x22 "A Friend in Need Part II"
The challenge of endings, the long shadow of “Sins of the Past,” east vs. west, personal desire vs. the greater good, and move over TV CPR for the TV Water Transfer! Don’t forget, we aren’t finished discussing AFIN - there’s more to come in THE GREAT UNPINNING!
“I’ll love you forever” ‘When Fates Collide’ 6x18
ETA: Now with more links! Need to catch up on Xena: Warrior Podcast over the break? Check out all of our season six eps at the links below to listen, download, subscribe, etc. etc. all that stuff!
Past seasons all live here and also whenever you listen to podcasts, naturally.
Here’s Giles’ quick take on s6, the season of absolutely no fucks given.
This week on XENA: WARRIOR PODCAST, you’re looking good enough to eat! Vera, Katie, and Livy are hungering for some flesh with 6x06 “The Abyss,” which features three fantastic cave scenes surrounded by...cannibals and Virgil? We discuss the highs and lows: the shippiest shippiness to ever ship; the final, very satisfying return of the Rift; the greatest, most shivery hurt/comfort since One Against an Army; Gabrielle’s tendency to bare her soul only while delirious; the conclusion of Gabs’s violence arc (for now); Xena’s sad faces; and this episode as an incoherent follow-up to “The Price.” Plus: nibbling on Gabrielle’s thighs, Zoe Bell loses her wig, Marco Rubio, Xena presses Gabs to her neck chest area, and Vera finally has a Virgil meltdown.
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This week on XENA: WARRIOR PODCAST, we’ve got sand up the wazoo! Vera, Katie, and Livy discover strange beauty in the desert with 6x05 “Legacy.” We discuss this episode’s moral questioning as it returns to the wellspring of the show’s most potent ideas: the consequences of violence, the greater good vs. individual desire, justice vs. redemption, don’t venerate your heroes, hot tubs. Plus: Gabs’s long overdue identity crisis, what the scrolls left out, butts!, Missy Good’s salute to Conqueror fic, Neigh!, desert Melosa, and bad hats. I don’t like sand; it’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets EVERYWHERE.
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We’ll take “Let’s Fill Up the Problematic Jar for $1000,” Alex! This week on XENA: WARRIOR PODCAST, Vera, Katie, and Livy analyze 6x04 “Who’s Gurkhan?,” one of the show’s bloodiest outings thus far and the phenomenal kick-off to a Gabrielle-centric trilogy of eps that center around her ever-evolving relationship with violence. (And VENGEANCE! And very sexy dancing!) Plus: Michael Hurst’s amazing directorial choices, the Joxerification of Virgil, so many harem lewks, the progression of graphic violence on television, and fans on set!
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This week on XENA: WARRIOR PODCAST, we live to sin! Vera, Katie, and Livy wrangle with the infernal 6x03 “Heart of Darkness.” We discuss our problems with this episode, its wonky take on Xena’s character, its reductive moral determinism, and the total lack of chemistry between Xena and her new beau, Lucifer a.k.a. Lucy (?) a.k.a. Big L (???). Really? Him?? Plus: pegging, what’s in the box?, lazy angels, the male gaze, so many lewks, go away Virgil, and that dance, you know the one!
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Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of XENA: WARRIOR PODCAST! This week, Vera, Katie, and Livy ain’t afraid of no ghost in 6x02 “The Haunting of Amphipolis,” the show’s Halloweeniest Halloween episode. We discuss its many horror homages including Evil Dead, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, and The Haunting of Hill House; the effective use of sound design and editing to craft a freaky atmosphere; and the real darkness and psychological terrors underpinning the silly ghosts, the foremost being Cyrene’s truly awful ending. Justice for Cyrene! Plus: this ep as a thematic bookend with the series finale, Renée gets her Deadite on again, Eve does Dreamworker, blood innocence symbolism is totally there, everyone’s hair is blowing nicely in the hellwind; and Gabrielle learns half the Pinch!
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