XENA THE WARRIOR PRINCESS

[cornhobble]

FLIST! How many of you have seen Xena: the Warrior Princess? I remember watching a couple episodes when I was a kid and being impressed by her badass-ery, but that was it until recently.

I watched the first 4 episodes yesterday, and OMG. I AM IN LOVE. IT IS SO CAMPY AND AMAZING. Xena is badass and hot and Gabrielle is funny and also hot. It has RIDICULOUS FIGHTSCENES where Xena kills like 5 guys with one throw of her magical sentient Frisbee. Xena can stop swords with her motherfucking BARE HANDS, because she is that much cooler than you.

She has a TORTURED PAST and is trying to be good now but everyone thinks she is still evil!warrior!Xena but in reality she is good!warrior!Xena, new and improved and still hot.

I love her outfit and I love the horses (yay horses \o/) and I love the Xena/Gabrielle scenes. Gabrielle! I love Gabrielle. At first I thought she was annoying but then I realized that no, she is just talkative and cute and compliments Xena's smirkyness perfectly.

She and Gabrielle ride around and fight crime and stuff and stuff. It's amazing, okay. I loooooooove it. The ridiculousness makes me lol a lot, but in a good way. It's fun! I wish I had someone to watch with me, but I don't know cool people irl. :(

Comments

[bertee.livejournal.com]

YES OMG I LOVED THAT SHOW SO MUCH WHEN I WAS A KID. I would srsly record it every week on little labeled VHS tapes and watch it over and over again with my little sister. If I'd been a couple of years older, I would totally have got into fandom for it. Xena/Gabrielle was an awesome femslash ship and Xena/Ares was the first super unhealthy ship that I absolutely loved. I rewatched it all a few months ago and I still love the ridiculousness of it all, cheesy 90s special effects included. XD

so yeah, I am super on board with Xena!squee and will not judge you for your love of enjoyably terrible TV shows. :DDD

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

:D OMG, I'M SO SAD I MISSED OUT ON IT WHEN I WAS LITTLE. I remember watching a little bit and being really interested in her outfit (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, Y/Y), but then my dad changed the channel. I haven't seen Ares yet because I'm not that far in but I've hear about him! I am excite.

\o/!! I AM TRYING TO CONVINCE MY FRIENDS TO ENJOY IT WITH ME! Sadly I do not think they appreciate terrible tv shows and cheesy 90s special effects (but the cheesy 90s special effects are the BEST PART).

[bertee.livejournal.com]

IT WAS AWESOME. I don't think I can overstate how much I loved that show when I was little and it was just as delightful on the rewatch. I'm so jealous that you get to see it all for the first time!

It starts hitting its stride towards the end of S1/start of S2 (Callisto/Xena = fantastic femslash hate!sex ship), S2 is AMAZING, S3 is angsty, season 4 is shit but again with an pretty blatant new femslash ship going on, season 5 was apparently unpopular but I loved it, and S6 was weird but decent. Ares shows up pretty soon, iirc, but he gets more involved as the series goes on - I shipped him and Xena like it was my job when I was younger (and still kind of do even though it's appallingly unhealthy.) Oh, and then you have characters like Joxer and Autolycus and Caesar (unf, Karl Urban) and Aphrodite and I LOVE IT. Your friends clearly have no taste but I will totally squee with you at every available opportunity since I'm now all nostalgic and happy. *_*

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

(late reply is late, srry. i was distracted by food~~)The fun thing about watching older tv shows is that you don't have to worry about them being canceled. No new episodes, unfortunately, but you get marathons and everything is so new and shiny~

Ooh, I saw a few pictures of Callisto, and now I can't wait for her to show up. SRSLY. HATE!SEX SHIPS ARE MY FAAAAAVORITE. Now you've made me excited for Ares as well, lol. Appallingly unhealthy relationships are so much fun to ship, omg. :DD For thanksgiving break I plan to do nothing but watch Xena episodes all day. IT WILL BE GLORIOUS \o/

yay! \:D/! ia, ia, they obviously have no taste. I'm going to do my best to convert at least one of them to the glory that is Xena, but idk, they're pretty stubborn. Sigh. Some people, man.

[strawberrytatoo.livejournal.com]

Oh crap, you just made me want to watch this!! I remember seeing a few episodes back in the day, and like you I just thought she was badass, and that it was a cool show to have on tv, and never really thought much about it.

But it came to my attention recently that Karl Urban is in at least a few shows, as Cupid, and have been curious to see it since.

Now, I really really need this in my life!

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSSSSSSS WATCH IT. As long as you appreciate camp and lulzy fight scenes, you should be fine. If you decide to be awesome, xena_eps is a useful comm. :D

See? I'm not very familiar with Karl Urban, but there you go. EVEN MORE REASON TO WATCH. :DD

YES, YES YOU DO. I feel like my life has improved 1000000% since being introduced to Xena and her smirky face. \o/

[rellan.livejournal.com]

OMG XENA HAD A GROUNDHOG DAY EPISODE WHERE ONE OF THE GODS MADE HER DO THE DAY OVER AND OVER UNTIL SHE GOT IT RIGHT. TiredandPissy!Xena was tired and pissy.

I miss Xena. Come back, Xena, come back!

Oh, look. Xena DVD. I am saved!

Badass people only wish they were half as badass as her.

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

OOOH, REALLY? YES I LOVE GROUNDHOG DAY EPISODES

oh good I was worried for a second. Xena dvds \o/

Exactly. My sister was lol'ing at me for watching the show, but it's obvious she was trying to cover up her secret jealousy/love for all things Xena. IT'S OKAY SIS, I WANT TO BE XENA WHEN I GROW UP TOO ♥_♥

[mesmorizee.livejournal.com]

I have been meaning to make a post about my recently discoveredlove for this show. But I thought I was going to wait until I've watched all season. But it's taking me an unusually long time to watch all of them since me and a friend are watching the episodes together and we're sort of bad at making time to watch them. So we haven't even finished season four (also for some reason she decided that she had to watch Hercules the Legendary Journeys too and I got sucked into that and every other episode we watch is now a Hercules episode where we mock it and complain about how bad it is in comparision to Xena... I have no idea why we're watching it... Although I think it's because we love all the characters except Hercules). ANYWAY!

I love this show! God! I love it so much! It's without a doubt my favorite show and I regret never having watched it before and even if it's kind of annoying that after six months we haven't even finished season four it means that it won't end too soon which is great because I am going to be so heart broken when it's over!

I love Xena she is absoulutely amazing and so gorgeous! And I love Gabby! I have the biggest crush on her! And horses!!! And! AAAHHH! There is so much I love about this show and I love finding it now instead of when I was a kid because I think I can appreciate it more. And it is so amazing and fuck I love it so much! And now I'm going to have to hope my friend has time to watch it today because now I want to! (This is the problem with living several miles from each other and having to watch them at the same time and talking over msn while doing it. And I need to find a replacement for msn. But that is completely irrelevant to this comment. XD)

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

omg yay, that's awesome you're watching it too! \o/

I'm already worrying that I'm going to finish it too soon. Which is ridiculous because I'm not even halfway through season 1 but I NEVER WANT IT TO ENDDDDDDDDD

'AAAHHH!' sums up my feelings perfectly, lol. I LOVE EVERYTHING SO MUCH. :D Sometimes Xena just smirks at Gabby and I have to pause to flail around a bit. (On a more shallow note, I really like leather. THERE IS A LOT OF LEATHER IN THIS SHOW. A+)

[mesmorizee.livejournal.com]

YES! \o/

It makes me sad to think that it will end at some point. It is too good to end!

YES! I there is so much about this show that is amazing and great and there are so many times when I just want to make posts flailing about this show because why have I never been told before how great it is! And Xena and Gabby's relationship! Seriously it is, wow just wow! And it gets so much much better and more awesome and just. AAAAHH! I love it!
(Yes, A+ for the amount of leather. There's leather everywhere! It's amazing!)

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

omg, I will be so sad on the day I finish the series :'(

Nooo, you should make flaily posts! THIS SHOW DESERVES FLAILING POSTS, OKAY. (I'm vegetarian! I should not like leather! But yet... /guilt)

[mesmorizee.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too. We should stop talking about it ending. :/

I wanted to make one big once I've watched the whole thing, about how much I love the show and how everyone should watch it! But I might make a flaily post sooner than that. IDK. I love this show! It is so awesome! (It is hard not to like leather.,, I understand your problem.)

[sentinelsoul.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I used to watch that a lot back when it was originally on, along with Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Loved that show so much. Haven't really seen it years, though. Is it on DVD? I should check that out.

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

I think so! I checked Amazon and you can totally buy the first season for 20 bucks (complete series for around 100$). So tempted...

[blueleopard87.livejournal.com]

I've actually downloaded xena with plans to watch it but I haven't started it yet! I feel like as a lover of all things fantasy, sci-fi and general camp it's something I have to watch eventually~

[cornhobble.livejournal.com]

you definitely should! :D I still haven't finished season 1 because my computer crashed and I lost half my episodes (nooooooo D:) but what I did watch was super fun.