And now for something completely frivolous

[sunnyskywalker]

I was doing homework or restricted from watching such horrible violent television or something back when Xena: Warrior Princess came out, so I decided to watch a couple of episodes. Only 20 years behind!

I can already see how the Xena/Gabrielle relationship could get really compelling quickly, but it is so hard to focus on that when the show keeps throwing hugely distracting questions at me.

• Terrible armor or worst armor? It's like she designed it to protect as few vital areas as possible.
  
• A circle is a different shape from a boomerang, yes? And circles do not behave like boomerangs under our laws of physics?
  
• Did the same people choreograph the fights in this show and Power Rangers? Because I am having vivid, visceral memories of watching Power Rangers for the first time in 20 years.
  
• Gabrielle has regular access to maps and the time and literacy to study them for fun? Is she secretly not a peasant at all but a princess in disguise? Or a time-traveling scholar?
  
• Maybe it's my low-resolution TV, but it looks like they have doors and scaffolding made of bamboo. What part of Greece is this?

I'm torn, you guys. One the one hand, it's a female buddy road trip with swordfights! On the other hand, so much WTF that I can barely listen to two sentences together without my suspension of disbelief snapping and plummeting into one of those Star Wars-style bottomless pits! What to do?

Comments

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

I think once you accept that this is a series where Gilgamesh and Julius Caesar coexist, all other questions of logic, history, and realism become less relevant. :P

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Just treat it like crackfic. It doesn't obey reality's laws, and it was never intended to.

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Now that you have seen some of this immortal show, you really have to read (or sing!) this!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.html

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

I tried to leave you a comment that was marked as spam, perhaps because it included a link? The link is to a Gilbert and Sullivan parody of Xena which I'm sure you'd enjoy, if you haven't seen it already.