[fandom] Did I really need another one?

[escritoireazul]

Last weekend, I discovered this fun, cheesy show. Via Netflix's Movie Viewer, I watched a few episodes and enjoyed them. Today, I sat down to watch one more, and haven't been able to stop. We're talking hours here, time I should have been packing.

The show? This little thing some of you have probably heard of called Xena: Warrior Princess.

Talk about late to the game.

I'm about to start the season one episode "The Black Wolf" and I have some very general things to say.

Amazons = love
Xena + Gabrielle = love
Cheesy shows + Carla = love

I've not been hit with the desire to write anything (yet, and probably because I have been thinking so much about my femgenficathon story) but I think I'm going to want to read some fic soon.

(I had always intended to watch this show someday, because Victoria Pratt has a small role in it, and I'll watch lots of crappy things for her. House of the Dead 2? Oh yeah. However, I didn't expect to enjoy it so much, but I probably should have known. Women fighting, gods, swords, leather, cheesiness -- why didn't I think I'd love this?)

It does leave me with the urge to watch Cleopatra 2525 again.

ETA: I just found out Jennifer Sky was also in Xena, so that's two of the three from Cleopatra 2525. No wonder I want to watch the two shows together!

Comments

[idyll.livejournal.com]

There's a good chance that Gina Torres is in Xena. I mean, she shows up in Hercules, for certain, and the casts/characters are so incestuous between the two.

Husband and I have been watching various Herc and Xena eps in the last few months via Netflix.

And, oh, Victoria Pratt! She makes me wish my Once a Thief tapes weren't so warped as to be unviewable. *pouts*

[ter369.livejournal.com]

There's a good chance that Gina Torres is in Xena. I mean, she shows up in Hercules, for certain, and the casts/characters are so incestuous between the two.

Doesn't she play Cleopatra on Xena? She's great as the pirate character on Hercules.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Once a Thief, though I do want to watch it for her. She's just marvelous.

Per some other comments below, Gina Torres does have a role in one episode of Xena, which makes me just giddy.

Apparently Jennifer Sky's role on Xena was pretty big, and only ended because she got the role on Cleopatra 2525. I found that interesting.