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DVD Xena - Series Finale
High emotion and plenty of butt-kicking saturate this finale of one of the best action series of all time. Hardcore nutball Xena fans have doubtless already seen this episode and will want to revisit it, but casual viewers may want to get up to speed with the Xenaverse before watching (or else they'll miss out on a few seasons' worth of emotional resonance). In their final adventure, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renée O'Connor) travel to the Land of the Rising Sun to clear up a bit of Xena's dark past and defeat both personal and tangible demons. Their quest, packed with action sequences, of course focuses on Xena and Gabrielle's evolving relationship. Producer and series co-creator Rob Tapert directs, giving the show some eye-popping moments and a quick homage to his Evil Dead movies. The weighty finality of the show means that it's missing some of the series' trademark sense of humor, but some fun still sneaks in around the edges. Lawless and O'Connor give excellent performances, and Joseph LoDuca's music, as it should, sends us off. Whether or not you agree with the way the series ends, you'll want to own this one. --Ali Davis
I'm an avid Xena fan, like many of us, dissapointed with the series finale because of the consistency seeing in the whole series and such a brutal end to a hero who paid and repaid her past's sins. I bought director's cut to see what else there, there's not a lot of things but it helped to have a clearer idea of what's going on. Akemi and father little chat before Xena return, a little more chat of Xena and Akemi, why Xena cannot return to live and another dialogues and useless scenes. I'm a surprised that such a big studio as Universal didn't launch this and the other DVD set of Xena in Spanish, French, Korean, Chinese and other languages. Only in latin america, this show had big audience seeing it dubbed in spanish (me included), I speak english but many fans don't and it's a pity that the company do not release the dubbed versions in this CD and the other sets.
TV addition sucks
Not only is their commercials but because of some extreme and i mean extreme violence, they cut scenes or zoomed in shots so the violence wasn't fully shown. The directors cut on the recent Xena DVD's is amazing, now the directors cut is the real deal. Not only is there no commercials, thank god, but we get to see everything. This just proves, regular TV sucks. I would really like to see Xena in Theaters in a full length movie, because if they can put that same magic that the series had into a movie, that would be something to see.
XENA - THESIS OF SHOW AND THE SERIES FINALE
XENA THESIS OF SHOW AND THE SERIES FINALE
The Director's cut of "A Friend In Need" Series Finale. At the very least the aired versions "A Friend In Need" parts one and two.
I know a lot of people didn't like it. I thought Rob Tapert did an EXCELLENT job. After all Xena (Lucy Lawless) said (in I believe it was the first season) in response to Gabrielle's (Renee O'Connor) comment about being old and gray together that people like us don't get old and gray. Meaning that when one lives that kind of life style it tends to be short.
It was very realistic when Xena died. Let's face it given the life she led. It was Karma really. She took so many lives in her evil years. Sometimes the show didn't give enough weight to the fact that had someone really done the things she did, they would have been sentenced to capital punishment. I don't believe in the death sentence, but I would have committed her to life without the possibility of parole.
She was truly EVIL. She killed for sport for god sakes. Her motto was basically death to them all kind of deal. She had no regard for the miracle or sanctity of life She had a passion and lust for power and didn't care who she had to destroy to get it. She murdered all the Amazon leaders because Alti promised that she would become The Destroyer Of Nations. The fact that she wanted to wear that as a mantle says it all. She wanted to wipe the Centaurs off the map and would have had it not been for Borias stopping her. She liked that people feared her. Sounds very much like a female version of Hitler.
It's also why she was so very good at fighting evil, because she was it, she understood it. She knew how evil people thought and therefore was really almost better equipped to fight it than most. She knew just how far some people were willing to go to get what they wanted and understood the mind set that takes and how to get in it's way.
It is also what made her character so very interesting. She was not a female version of Hercules. He was goody, goody all the time and let's face it that gets boring entertainment wise, not in reality. Her character had many layers and probably made it more fun for the actors to play. That is why the character of Gabrielle wasn't as good at fighting evil as Xena, because she didn't have it in her to be evil and at times didn't believe what lengths a person would go to get what they wanted. It's not because she wasn't as good a fighter or could be, it was because she just did not have that much of a dark side to her.
I thought Renee played Gabrielle extremely well. As Lucy did Xena.
Do I believe she could redeem herself? In reality no. Nevertheless, this is TV and there were times even in her evil years that she did show some compassion. So given that it's TV, yes I believe she could, but not without paying the ultimate price and she did. Her life. It pretty much had to end that way to give any substance to the series. Especially the way she died. The violent nature of it. It was the ultimate self sacrifice and to redeem herself she had to die, and die violently so that others (souls) will be freed. Others that she herself had condemned to eternal suffering.
Honestly, I believe I could write a thesis on the finale and how it gave the entire show meaning. It enriched every episode. After seeing it and then watching the show again from the trilogy on Hercules to the very first and through to the last episode of Xena knowing how it would all end, well it just made everything that much better.
I know the show is all fantasy and entertainment and I myself enjoyed it very much when it aired and still on occasion watch the DVD's, but realistically it pretty much had to end that way.
I consider myself a person that likes good story telling, acting, directing, just art in general. I don't however label myself a fan. I don't go to conventions or any of it. However, I liked the way that it ended so well that I wanted to put my two cents in.
Some fans did not like Gabrielle going off alone in life without her.
Well people wake up and smell the coffins. People we love die all the time. It's a part of life. Why is it that we all know intellectually that we will die and some how are shocked when it happens. Do you ever notice how people say IF I should die. There is no IF people, just WHEN. Yet that's all we ever hear.
I guess having cheated death myself several times, I have a better grasp than most on my own mortality.
The real point being that "A Friend In Need" was Epic in it's own right. One need never see any episodes and still enjoy it as a movie by itself. She was directly responsible for the death of 40,000 innocent people. Given the artistic license of the soul theory, (I personally believe we have a soul but, not everyone does) it only made sense that if all she had been working to do was to help others and eventually redeem herself. This was the perfect opportunity for her to let's say put up or shut up.
It gave more meaning to her life with Gabrielle and everything that she had learned from her through out their time together. She knew that if she was ever going to save her own soul that she had to be willing to put it on the line in the end. It gave her years of searching for the greater good meaning. I really believe the character learned more from Gabrielle than the other way around.
Gabrielle learned that in the end one must fight for what they believe in for she already understood Love and self sacrifice. Xena on the other hand learned that if she was ever going to find the peace and redemption that craved so much that she had to learn that Love and self sacrifice was the only way to achieve that goal.
Xena is one of the main reasons that "LORD OF THE RINGS" was filmed in New Zealand. Quite a few actors as well as crew and the clothing designer that worked on Xena worked on "LORD OF THE RINGS", and were nominated for Oscars. That in and of itself says a lot. In closing I must say that this is most definitely watching a movie of EPIC proportions. There is nothing just television about it.
Xena season 6 is one of the top seasons of all. Effects, colors, action, suspense,..... everything!!!! Very sad to see it go when it did, but it seemed to cover all ground and end appropriately.In other words it ran a beautiful course.
The manner of ending the series was without a doubt, the best avenue of the times they were portraying and it was great to see an illustrated (yet fictional) view of how things may have went on back then. To be honest, this season started my path in Spirituality and the Paranormal.
As far as other negative reviews in regard to Christianty,... I feel it is probably very close to what really happened. Christianity wasnt always the top religion and scenes dipicting that seem to be in line with that. As a very spiritual person I found... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lucy Lawless DVD Release Date: Released the 08 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Xena is sexy, funny, dramatic, tragic, and fun. Season five gets more intense, with a powerful story line that's interspersed with one-off episodes. If you're a fan, you don't need to read this. Just buy it. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lucy Lawless DVD Release Date: Released the 19 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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At the end of Season Three, Gabrielle had jumped into an abyss to kill her evil child, Hope. Season Four opens with Xena undertaking a spiritual journey to recover her friend. I don't want to spoil anything major, so I'll just mention that the pair travels to India in search of Gabrielle's Way (path through life) and in the process Xena discovers her own Way. They bump into Pompey, Caesar, and Brutus repeatedly, and are instrumental in setting up the famous Ides of March incident at the Roman Forum. This sets up a big dramatic ending for the season, and there's a modern episode (about past life regression) in the final episode.
Season Four has important consequences for the Amazons, shows how Xena played a pivotal role in Roman history, dabbles in FOUR different spiritual... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lucy Lawless DVD Release Date: Released the 15 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This season of xena things tend to get darker with three characters of the show Xena gabrielle and callisto in the episode maternal instincts their is more drama in the show that I can't tell you about but just me you will be very satisfy of what you see. BUY THIS NOW. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lucy Lawless DVD Release Date: Released the 10 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This season of xena really pushes the greatness of the show to the max.You'll just love the episodes of "well" all of them seeing how this season of xena is fun to watch as well as the the drama goes farther with callisto xena gabrielle and joxer this season of xena is a must as well as a must have for every one. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lucy Lawless DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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