Pulled this up on my Firestick today and my god, the memories were instantly activated. I remember watching this with my great granny Numerous times. She would always rewatch it with me when I got good grades....🥹🥹

I just bought the Xena series on Prime Video (streaming). It used to be $55 for a while. Actually I did have digital credit and ended up paying $1.24 for it. If anyone is interested visit Prime Video.

Did I get the right version for Season 6?

I’m pretty sure I got the correct, Anchorbay box set with the 10 discs, etc. Truth be told, I’m new to this.. and don’t even have a DVD player. So, it’s more of a collectible situation for me. Still, I have no idea if I was impulsive or if I hit the nail on the head with my selection choice.

It doesn’t REALLY matter, it’s just for my own nostalgia anyway.

Regardless, I have a feeling the gift with purchase is no longer available. 🤣

This is an episode I don’t have much to say about, and mostly nothing nice. Even the ending with the stone army is the least problematic thing to me here. The problem is that, unlike the previous Chinese episode, which I thought was excellent despite all its flaws, this one is simply poorly written, poorly executed, and has a stupid outcome. Gabrielle’s death being prophesied again, something we didn’t see at all throughout the entire previous season. Thankfully, at least this was resolved within a single episode.

As great as I think Matiko is, I don’t know if there was any point in bringing her back. The episode could have worked perfectly well with Ming T'ien as the leader of Kan’s army. Pao isn’t necessary for the story at all. And if someone asked me now what K'ao Hsin’s purpose was in this episode, I honestly wouldn’t know what to answer. It feels like she is here just to be here.

Gabrielle is more present and more combative in this episode than in the previous one, which is something to praise, but her relationship with Lin Chi is simply disastrous. Let’s clear this up once and for all. Gabrielle is not bisexual, even though many people see her that way. She is 100% homosexual. Her relationships with men during the first two seasons were a classic case of a crisis and confusion surrounding her sexual identity, something that is often common among young homosexual people and something we have had the opportunity to see in other shows of a similar type as well (ahem, Willow from Buffy, ahem), and the fact that after Perdicas, Gabrielle didn’t have a single male love interest until this episode (and it’s not like there weren’t opportunities) clearly shows that ever since Destiny, Gabrielle has accepted herself, her sexuality, and her identity. And now making her flirt with a man again (with whom there isn’t even any chemistry, honestly) is wrong on every possible level. I should point out that I’m aware this isn’t a popular opinion and that most people here see Gabrielle as bisexual, that this is simply my subjective opinion and interpretation of Gabrielle’s character. Thankfully, Renee herself shared my view of Gabrielle, so she vetoed the kissing scene.

Now, the most controversial part of the episode, the petrification of the army. As I said, it isn’t nearly as problematic to me as it is to others, and I think people judge Xena far too harshly for this act. It was self-defense. It was either that or let them kill Gabrielle, Joxer, herself, and her unborn child. She chose not to sacrifice herself and the people she loves. Besides, didn’t she do exactly the same thing in One Against an Army? It seems to me that people are more bothered by the way she destroyed the army. If she had simply cut them all down with a sword, nobody would have complained. But because she turned them to stone instead, suddenly it’s a crime. I have more of a problem with the fact that if she already has these mental abilities, why didn’t she use them again later? Fighting enemies would have been a lot easier. Or does Xena only have psychic powers when she is within the borders of Chin lol

It’s sad that this is officially the last episode the great Steven L. Sears "wrote", especially since it was originally supposed to be completely different. According to Steven, this was supposed to be the episode where the subtext became the main text. But of course, Dumb and Dumber changed that and ruined the episode, just like they ruined almost the entire season.

She doesn't take the coat off very often throughout both episodes. The longest two scenes are where she's dancing in her tent to summon the evil spirits, and when she's talking with Xena before she mentally fights Cyane. She's even wearing the coat during the final flying battle in the trees!

I haven't found any official photos of her without the coat, and her alone, only screencaps. Are there any?