So I'm watching Xena Warrior Princess this morning....

[h2co-pilot]

Originally Posted by frenzy1

I'm sure she does, cause she's a muffdiving lesbo !

Yeah, that's what I heard.

All the lesbians used to wear Xena shirts in school.

[CO Hummer]

Man the remote control, people. It starts in 6 minutes!!

[frenzy1]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

Man the remote control, people. It starts in 6 minutes!!

WANK TIME !!

[CO Hummer]

So once again Gabriel got them in trouble and Xena has to get them out. I'm thinking she should drop Gabriel as a sidekick. But then again....it appears that Gabriel completes Xena. She rescued Xena fromreaching rock bottom, so I guess Xena is compelled to stay with her. I'm not going to be able to watch again until next week, so I have several days to contemplate this.

[wpage]

Wait, these are reruns...

[KenP]

Lawless told O?Brien that it was watching this episode that made her alter ego?s sexual orientation finally clear to her:

"Actually, you know, there was always an element of doubt in my mind, it was ? it didn't matter to the way I played the role. So if the audience chose to see it or not ? but I saw it [the finale] for the first time last night and I went home and said to my husband [Xena Executive Producer Rob Tapert], "you've outed my character. I just ... I can't believe I'm saying this. I didn't run this by anybody, but I don't think there's any doubt in my mind anymore."

But something else soon appearedto distinguish Xena from the rest of the pack for lesbian and bisexual women. The writers, producers and actors began intentionally introducing sexual innuendo and dialog that lesbian audiences could read as desire between women, while the rest of the show?s viewing public wouldn?t necessarily notice a thing, such as this exchange in the second episode of Season 3:

Joxer (looking at Xena?s neck): ?Is that a hickey??

Gabrielle and Xena both turn away with guilty looks.

These hints at a romantic or sexual relationship between the two characters became known as ?subtext.?

Lesbian producer Liz Friedmanwas often interviewed in the gay press as the show?s popularity soared, and quite openly acknowledged the show?s lesbian subtext, as she did in 1996 on One in Ten:

"That's one of the best parts of the job, getting to throw in references that I know the fans who are interested in that will pick up on, but don't necessarily flash any irrevocable red lights. We opened up a show with the two of them fishing naked, and we're about to have a Halloween episode that will certainly have some nice moments for our queer fans, a little lesbian vampire show."

Here's a list of some of the sexual subtext:
http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/4580/frame.html

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

So once again Gabriel got them in trouble and Xena has to get them out. I'm thinking she should drop Gabriel as a sidekick. But then again....it appears that Gabriel completes Xena. She rescued Xena fromreaching rock bottom, so I guess Xena is compelled to stay with her. I'm not going to be able to watch again until next week, so I have several days to contemplate this.

OMG... you're going gay already.

[CO Hummer]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

OMG... you're going gay already.

No. I've just learned that you can't make snap judgements about a super hero combos. I'm mean, you wouldn't separate Batman from Robin. Likewise, you can't separate Xena from Gabriel. It just wouldn't be the same.

[bparker]

I smell a closet carpet muncher...

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

No. I've just learned that you can't make snap judgements about a super hero combos. I'm mean, you wouldn't separate Batman from Robin. Likewise, you can't separate Xena from Gabriel. It just wouldn't be the same.

[tower]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

No. I've just learned that you can't make snap judgements about a super hero combos. I'm mean, you wouldn't separate Batman from Robin. Likewise, you can't separate Xena from Gabriel. Likewise, you can't separate CO Hummer from his capris (not that any of us would want to). It just wouldn't be the same.

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