From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V1 #71 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Monday, December 17 2001 Volume 01 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Xena mention on SNL [KTL ] [chakram-refugees] <> ["Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Xena mention on SNL Ellen Degeneris was the host on Saturday Night Live and they were doing a skit where Ellen was getting an award from some group called something like, "Powerful Women In Hollywood Who Happen To Be Lesbians". And when she was introduced, the hostess apologized to her for the low turnout, explaining that "There's a special two-hour Xena on tonight". A director's cut of A Day In The Life, with the unedited, full 45 minute hot tub scene left intact no doubt. KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:22:15 -0500 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] <> # # # # # # # # # Will I just saw two of my favorite episodes today. The Greater Good is a deceptive episode. Starts out as a light hearted episode. Gabrielle having relationship problems with Argo and Salmoneus selling seltzer and chased by an irate warlord (played very well by Peter McCauley now starring in The Lost World one of my favorite shows). Really good comic scenes as Gabrielle has to impersonate a poisoned Xena - the miniature Xena is hysterical. Argo gets to display her heroic talents as she saves Gabrielle and Xena numerous times. Midway through the episode things make a dramatic turn. Xena appears dead and we get two wonderful scenes from ROC. Renee is heartbreaking as she silently mourns at Xena's bedside. The scene is shot a tight close-up as Gabrielle studies Xena face as if trying to memorize everything about the friend she lost. Then leaving Xena's bedside Gabrielle explodes in grief and anger and dissolves into tears. I that there was an unscripted moment during this scene - - as Renee sat crying under the tree Argo came up an began to nibble her hair as if to comfort her. Too bad that had to be cut it would have been a wonderful moment and would have fit perfectly with the secondary plot ( let's wish if DVD's are produced for season one some one held on to that scene). We also have the wonderful Tympani scene where Gabby tells Xena about how her pony died - the line about how things we love sometimes just leave us certainly in my mind foreshadowed Destiny and especially FIN. Gabrielle's character gets a major overhaul no longer the tag a long she is now becoming a hero in her own right - we see her steely resolve to fight on and her growing abilities as a warrior as she takes on an army to rescue Xena's body. Steven L. Sears wrote this one and you can tell he loved Gabrielle. Callisto of course introduces perhaps the best villain in television history. Callisto a psycho who is truly frightening and at the same time oddly vulnerable. Hudson Leick should not be believable as a warrior painfully thin and rather frail looking but she brings such power to the role you accept that she has supper strength and warrior skills because of her psychotic energy. Both Lucy and Renee give great performances. Lucy captures perfectly Xena's conflicted emotions - she wants to stop Callisto but she also wants to save her. Xena's evil past has become personified to bedevil her and the people she loves. That was a brilliant piece of plot development. (Sidebar - I know a lot of people disliked angel Callisto but I also felt that Xena saving Callisto's soul was what Xena always wanted and needed to do.) Gabrielle now becomes the voice of reason - she argues passionately for the cycle of hate to end but is just as adamant that Callisto be brought to justice. The campfire scene between Xena and Gabrielle is justifiably one of the great moments in the Xenaverse - the compassion and tenderness there is beautiful. Gabrielle's denunciation of vengeance is interesting because it contrasts so sharply with her reactions in Who's Gurkhan? I think in Callisto we see very idealistic Gabrielle, she truly believes that you can simply walk away from hate and violence. She never has really been hurt - even when Perdicus is killed she is not as devastated as when she learns her parents have been murdered and her niece violated. Now older and more cynical Gabrielle no longer believes that injustice or violence can be defeated with just a loving heart. While Gabrielle's plea for forgiveness in Callisto is touching in Gurkhan her refusal to take vengeance is more powerful because she now knows hate and the thirst for vengeance. Gabrielle has stated her philosophy in Callisto and in WG it is put to the test. That's it for now. CherylA ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. 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