Xena reruns to air on the Heroes and Icons TV Network
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Xena: Warrior Princess
Ryden123 — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 09:42 PM)
http://www.heroesandiconstv.com/shows/xena-warrior-princess
It starts February 8th. -
Tjanssen411 — 9 years ago(July 27, 2016 06:04 PM)
as of July 25 they moved to primetime with Xena at 8/7c Hercules at 9/8c on weeknights
Not sure if Saturday is getting shuffled
as to the order of airing the 'On TV' tab from IMDb as well as Listing site zap2it are both off, citing season 3, when the Xena episodes airing have been from Season 6 -
mikeflw1 — 10 years ago(February 27, 2016 03:07 PM)
don't want anybody to be influenced by Xena's message of freedom. It's like they don't want their Gabrielles to be influenced by Xena
There is also a question in some people's minds about the violence of the show(s). While there may be debates about why,
7TH HEAVEN
had an episode where the youngest daughter, Ruthie, got in trouble at school for playing "Xena" in the school playground, complete with the war-cry and pretend sword.
In the Xena series, Gabrielle was always against killing, but had few objections to fighting using her wooden staff, and even a sword for defense and as a club - not a killing weapon. On the other hand, she orders her (Xena's) army into battle against the Romans, complete with killings. This was in the episode broadcast on Saturday Feb 27, with Xena tricking Ceasar's and Pompi's armies into fighting each other, and exterminating both armies. The Greek former soldier that helped Xena and Gabrielle was killed in the battle, and might have been saved by Gabrielle, if she had killed one of the Roman commanders with a javelin she picked up from the battlefield. She debated whether to do it, and did throw the javelin, but it did not hit the commander, just harmlessly stuck in the ground. It was not clear if she threw it in frustration knowing that the only way to save her new friend and ally was to kill someone, and deliberately missed. The commander killed her friend, and seconds later was struck down by an archer's arrow, and it is shown that a young man/boy fired that arrow, and this was the youngster Xena had tried to keep out of the fighting.
So, there is the obvious question put to the audience
Is killing ever justified, even to save another person's life? (i.e. Did Gabrielle "miss" out of frustration or because she was conflicted, or, was she unable to make her throw hit the commander?)
A secondary question is whether there is any real difference between personally killing, and ordering someone else to kill?
Do you think Xena would have hesitated if the javelin was the only way to save her friend's life?
(IMHO, probably not in that situation.)
(Yeah, yeah, Xena might have thrown the blunt end and knocked the guy down instead, but Gabrielle didn't try that either just sayin'.) -
remark-84769 — 9 years ago(April 07, 2016 05:22 PM)
I think it speaks volumes to the ever growing cost of cable, sat etc.. and to the rubbish we get nowadays in the form of reality TV. I've never seen a lot of the Xena series, so its like watching a new show for me. It beats reality TV anyday.
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Metafizzypop — 10 years ago(February 17, 2016 01:40 AM)
Yes, I caught this by accident! I was channel-flipping one day and I found Xena. What a nice surprise. I've caught a couple episodes now, and it sure is fun to see them again.
Hercules came back too, and runs the hour ahead of Xena. I can't believe these shows are 20 years old already. Amazing. -
mikeflw1 — 10 years ago(February 27, 2016 03:34 PM)
When the show was originally on, I found it the same way. I was drawn in by the well done sword fights initially, then started watching pretty regularly.
As an FYI,
Do not hold your breath for Xena or Hercules on BluRay, because both were filmed on 16mm film. The 35mm cameras were too heavy to use in the New Zeland wilderness, and so they contain less than 1/4 of the visible pixels of a 35mm image. That would make it really, really impractical to CGI enough pixels for the high def media.
(I have already seen one BluRay release of a movie that states on the case that it is the same resolution as the DVDs, 480p, not 1080p why bother with the BluRay then? Beware! That info was only included in the technical specs table, and not emphasized in any way.)
Also, the newer thin case releases of Xena and Hercules have only the 2.0 sound, while the original DVD releases of Xena and Hercules have 5.1 sound. -
Metafizzypop — 10 years ago(February 28, 2016 04:35 AM)
Ha ha, no, I wasn't holding my breath for BluRay releases, but that was very interesting trivia.
Those sword fights you mentioned have great sound effects, BTW. I always get a kick out of the blades ssssswwwwisssshing through the air.