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. *_*
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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. *_*