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Xena: The Warrior Princess
Episode Summary and Review
(Out of Five Stars)Season 1:
Sins of the past- Making her was back to Amphipolis, Xena saves Gabrielle,
a young bard who idolizes Xena. When Xena reaches home her mother tells
everyone about her bloody past warning the warlord Draco who attacks the small town.
Xena risks her life to defeat him and regains her mothers trust and making a
new start with her young friend.
Rating: ****Chariots of war- Xena is wounded while protecting settlers by an arrow and
awakes in the care of a single father named Darius who Xena is very drawn
to. Darius tries to persuade Xena to stay with him and live their lifes together
but Xena decides to stick with Gabrielle.
Rating: ***Dreamworker- Gabrielle is kidnapped and the only way Xena can save her
friend is to enter a dreamworld where Xena has to face her inner demon who appears
to be her evil twin. She must realize "the key" is to deal with the mistakes of
her past and make the best of her future.
Rating: ***1/2Cradle of hope- Xena and Gabrielle find a baby at the side of a riverbank
and decide to find the baby's mother. They travel to the nearest village
where they meet a lady named pandora who takes care of the baby as well as a box
that must remain closed or else all of mankinds hope would be lost. The box get
stolen and Xena must save it from the kings minister. Xena finds out the king is a
good man who is dwelling over the death of his wife and baby. They are unable to
locate the baby's real mother so Xena leaves the baby in the care of the king and
pandora.
Rating:**1/2The path not taken- A young princess is kidnapped and Xena must save her
before the two towns start a war. Xena infilterates Mezentius's people and reunites
with her former lover Marcus. When Marcus finds out that Xena is there to
save the princess he tells Mezentius who tries to kill the princess. Marcus
realizes the mistake he's made and jumps in front of the arrow intended for the
princess and is killed.
Rating: ***The reckoning- Xena is framed for murder by Ares who is diguised. He does
this in hope to bring Xena back to be his warrior Queen but Xena plays it smart
and returns to await her execution where Gabrielle has tried unsuccessfully to
prove Xena's innocense. The next morning she manages to trick Ares into
proving her right and he bids her fairwell "until next time"
Rating: ****The titans- Gabrielle accidentally frees three titans who want her to
release hundreds more and when Xena tries to fight them they threaten to wipe out
the entire town so Xena distracts the titans long enough for Gabrielle to resite
another poem to trap the titans in stone once again.
Rating:**Prometheus- Xena goes out to save Prometheus a titan whos powers were lost
after he is chained to a mountain by Hera. After meeting Hurcules Hera still
refuses to give them the sword of Hephaestus which is the only thing that can break
the chains because she knows that the person who breaks the chains will turn to
ashes. Iolaus Hurcules partner is harmed fighting Hera and Gabrielle stays behing
to tend to his wounds. Not wanted anything to happen to Hurcules Xena knocks him
unconscious but when Xena is carried away by a giant bird she throws the sword to
hurcules to finish their task. Hurcules deflects to sword to brake the chains and
catches Xena to end the day.
Rating:***Death in chains- When death arrives to take King Sisyphus he chains his
visitor and her eternal flame. The side effects are that noone can die now that
Celesta is chained and when Xena tries to kill the bandit Toxeus he later springs
back to life! Hades tells Xena about Celesta and she agrees to save her, aided by
a young friend of Gabrielle named Talus who suffers from an incurable desease.
Toxeus seizes Gabrielle but Xena saves her by freeing Celesta with her
Chakram. As Celsta passes Toxeus with her flame, he falls dead at her feet. Then to
Gabrielle's horror, Talus follows Celesta toward a blinding light as he bids his friends
farwell.
Rating:****1/2Hooves and harlots- Amazon Terreis is killed by an arrow but not before
Gabrielle risks her own life by lying in front of her trying to stop the
remainder of arrows from hitting her. Queen Melosa inducts Gabrielle into the amazon
nation Aided by a quick tempered but loyal Amazon Ephiny, Xena discovers the real
murderer is the warlord Krykus, who hoped to spark a war between the Amazons
and the Centaurs on order to steal both their lands. Xena stops the
forcoming war by saving the Centaur leader Tyldus.
Rating:****
posted by Karen V 4:44:42 PM
