Xena: Warrior Princess
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Composer | Joseph LoDuca |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 134 (list of episodes) |
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Production location | New Zealand |
Running time | 45–48 minutes |
Production companies | Renaissance Pictures Universal Television |
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Network | Syndication |
Release | September 4, 1995 June 18, 2001 | –
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Xena: Warrior Princess is an American fantasy television series filmed on location in New Zealand, which aired in first-run syndication from September 4, 1995, to June 18, 2001.[1] Critics have praised the series for its strong female protagonist, and it has acquired a strong cult following, attention in fandom, parody, and academia, and has influenced the direction of other television series.[2]
Writer-director-producer
The show is a spin-off of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys;[6] the saga began with three episodes in Hercules in which Xena was a recurring character originally scheduled to die in her third appearance. Aware of the character's sudden popularity among the public, the producers of the series decided to launch a spin-off series based on her adventures. Xena became a successful show which has aired in more than 108 countries around the world since 1998. In 2004[7] and 2007, it ranked #9 and #10 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever[8] and the title character ranked #100 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters.[9] Xena's success has led to hundreds of tie-in products, including comics, books, video games and conventions, realized annually since 1998 in Pasadena, California and in London.[10]
The series overtook its predecessor in ratings and in popularity.
Shooting locations
"In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. The power, the passion, the danger. Her courage will change the world!"
- opening narration, read by Don LaFontaine.
Xena: Warrior Princess is set primarily in a fantasy version of
The Ancient Greece depicted in the show is largely derived from historical locations and customs, modifying known places and events – battles, trading routes, towns, and so on – to generate an attractive fictional world. The settlements are presented as a mixture of walled villages and rural hamlets set in a lush green, mountainous landscape. They are often seen under attack from warlords, and travelling between them involves frequent encounters with small bands of outlaws. All of the main towns are named after historic towns of Ancient Greece, and exhibit some of their essential characteristics –
As the show progressed, however, events took place throughout more modern times and places, from
Mythological and supernatural locations are presented as equally real, physical places, often accessed through physical portals hidden in the landscape such as lakes and caves. They include the
Production
Series format
Xena is a historical fantasy set primarily in ancient Greece, although the setting is flexible in both time and location and occasionally features Egyptian,[22] Indian, Chinese, Central Asian,[23] and Medieval European[24] elements. The flexible fantasy framework of the show accommodates a considerable range of theatrical styles, from high melodrama to slapstick comedy, from whimsical and musical[25] to all-out action and adventure. While the show is typically set in ancient times, its themes are essentially modern and it investigates the ideas of taking responsibility for past misdeeds, the value of human life, personal liberty and sacrifice, and friendship. The show often addresses ethical dilemmas, such as the morality of pacifism; however, the storylines rarely seek to provide unequivocal solutions.
Xena freely borrows names and themes from various
Competing religions are treated as compatible and co-existent in a
This quirky mix of timelines and the amalgamation of historical and mythological elements fueled the rise of the show to cult status during the 1990s and early 2000s. It was one of the first shows to tap into its Internet following, allowing fans from all over the world to discuss and suggest things related to the show. The Xena fandom is still an active community today.
Casting
Xena: Warrior Princess starred Lucy Lawless as Xena and Renee O'Connor as Gabrielle. The first choice for Xena was the British actress Vanessa Angel,[28] but an illness prevented her from travelling, and the role was offered to four other actresses before the relatively unknown Lawless. Sunny Doench was cast as Gabrielle, but she did not want to leave her boyfriend in the United States, so O'Connor, who had appeared in Hercules in another role, was chosen.
The show features a wide assortment of recurring characters, many of them portrayed by New Zealand actors.
Theme music
Composer
The musical score of Xena: Warrior Princess was critically well received and garnered seven
Characters
Character | Actor | Seasons | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||
Xena | Lucy Lawless | Main | ||||||
Gabrielle | Renee O'Connor | Main | ||||||
Joxer | Ted Raimi | Guest | Recurring | Guest | ||||
Ares
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Kevin Smith
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Recurring | Guest | Recurring | ||||
Callisto | Hudson Leick | Guest | Recurring | Guest | ||||
Julius Caesar | Karl Urban | Guest | Recurring | Guest | ||||
Eve
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Adrienne Wilkinson | Recurring | ||||||
Aphrodite
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Alexandra Tydings | Guest | Recurring | Guest | Recurring | |||
Borias | Marton Csokas | Recurring | Guest | |||||
Ephiny | Danielle Cormack | Recurring | Guest | Guest | ||||
Autolycus | Bruce Campbell | Guest | Recurring | |||||
Eli
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Timothy Omundson | Recurring | ||||||
Alti | Claire Stansfield | Recurring | ||||||
Amarice | Jennifer Sky | Recurring | ||||||
Virgil | William Gregory Lee | Recurring | ||||||
Varia | Tsianina Joelson | Recurring | ||||||
Athena | Paris Jefferson | Recurring |
Main
The series follows Xena and her traveling companion Gabrielle. Xena is on a quest to redeem herself for her dark past by using her formidable fighting skills to help people. In Hercules, during her two first episodes, Xena was a villain and a powerful warlord, but in her third appearance she joins
Others
In the first season, Xena and Gabrielle meet two of their greatest enemies:
Ares - suave, charming, witty, yet ruthless and amoral - often represents, especially in the early seasons, the seductive power of war and the dark side. He repeatedly attempts to lure Xena away from her quest for redemption, and tries to win her over as his Warrior Queen.[34] He offers her huge armies and historic victories, great wealth and great power, and in later seasons his love,[35] offers which she consistently rejects despite sometimes being tempted. Much of his relationship with Xena remains ambiguous, including whether he is at least partly redeemed by his love for Xena, and to what extent Xena reciprocates his feelings. He says several times that he "has a thing" for Xena, and he pursues her sexually and romantically. This seems to prevent him killing her, even when pitted against her in deadly combat.[36][37] Likewise, it is suggested that Xena has strong feelings for Ares, but throughout the series she is never seen to act on them.
Other major antagonists of the show include
Alti is an evil
Over the course of the series, viewers were also introduced to family members of both Xena and Gabrielle, but most notably featured their children. Xena gave her first child, a son named Solan, to a group of
During the episode "
Geography
The vast majority of locations in the series are fictional. However, a few locations in the plot are centered on real Ancient Greek towns, including:
Amphipolis
In the backstory of the show, ten years ago Xena had set out to become a warrior to protect Amphipolis from attacks by a warlord called Cortese. This was the journey that turned her into a fierce fighter with an evil reputation. When she was inspired to fight for good, she returned to Amphipolis, seeking a reunion with her mother. Along the way, she met Gabrielle in Potidaea.
In a fictionalized conversation between Julius Caesar and Xena in the "Destiny" episode in
Potidaea
Gabrielle was born in Potidaea in Chalkidiki, Greece, which features many times as a rural village, which should have been portrayed as a fishing village. Many pivotal episodes are based here, including the series premiere, "Sins of The Past", and "A Family Affair".
Athens
Cirra
, central Greece. Xena's army torched the village when Callisto was a child, killing most of her family. Xena and Gabrielle only visit Cirra once, although it is mentioned often.Countries
In addition to Greece, Xena and Gabrielle visit many countries during their travels, including Italy (usually referred to by its capital, Rome), China, (called Chin), Japan (known as Jappa, only seen in the finale, and mentioned in passing in "Who's Gurkhan"), Great Britain (known as Brittania), India, Siberia, Egypt (called 'The Land of the Pharaohs'), Sahara, Morocco (in "Who's Gurkhan" and "Legacy") and several Scandinavian countries (called 'Norseland').
To remain in keeping with the ancient world, and to avoid using modern names, the script often removed the last letter of a country's name, changing China to Chin, and Japan to Jappa.
Hercules–Xena Universe franchise media
There have been numerous Xena spin-offs into various media, including films, books, comics and video games.
Movies
Since the end of the series, rumors have circulated that a feature-length movie was in the works. In 2003, screenwriter Katherine Fugate was approached for the project, and was quoted saying that she expected the start of production to be three to five years away, which suggested a release sometime between 2006 and 2009.[50] Actress Lucy Lawless was quoted in several interviews saying she would be interested in participating in a Xena film as well.[51]
In April 2009, Robert Tapert stated there was no intention of a live-action Xena feature film. "It's something that just won't happen....In twenty years or ten years, in some amount of years, like McGyver, like Charlie's Angels, it [could] happen like that [with other actresses]."[52]
Following the continued online popularity of the show, a global campaign to directly bombard Universal Pictures with requests for a Xena movie was launched in April 2013. Over a few days, hundreds of thousands of messages were sent showing support for the production of a Xena film starring the original cast. After receiving acknowledgement from Universal Studios' offices in Australia, Finland, and Spain, campaign efforts were rewarded in May 2013 when Lucy Lawless stated on her Twitter account that she had been contacted by a "chap who wants to re-invigorate the #Xena brand", while warning fans that "there's a lot of red tape around #XWP so don't get your knickers in a twist. It may come back in a different form".[53][54][55] Since then, Lucy Lawless has appeared on multiple televised interviews showing her support of a potential revival of the Xena franchise, stating that talks are currently underway to resolve legal issues impeding the progress of a potential Xena movie project.
Literature
Many books have been released as
In 1998, XENA: All I Need to Know I Learned From the Warrior Princess,[58] was published, allegedly written by Gabrielle, Bard of Potidaea and "translated" by Josepha Sherman.[59][unreliable source?] In it, Gabrielle writes enthusiastically about many of the lessons that she learned. For example, in a chapter entitled "Anything can be a weapon- Anything!", she instructs the reader on fighting with unconventional weapons; in another, "Nobody Likes a Winer", she bemoans the perils of alcohol.
There have been a number of novelizations by authors such as Martin H. Greenberg, and fiction such as The Empty Throne, The Huntress and The Sphinx, The Thief of Hermes, and Prophecy of Darkness. The series has also figured in many doctoral theses, including a thesis by French/American scholar, Dr. Anne Sweet, Girl Power Interrogated in Xena Warrior Princess and Charmed, Social and Economic Issues at Play in the Politics of Gender.[60]
Comics
There have been a number of comic adaptations. The earliest ones were released by Topps Comics and Dark Horse Comics (written by Ian Edginton and John Wagner). More recently the license has moved to Dynamite Entertainment.[61]
Role-playing game
West End Games published the Hercules & Xena Roleplaying Game in 1998.
Collectible card game
Wizards of the Coast published the Xena: Warrior Princess collectible card game in May 1998.
Video games
- MMORPGunder license called Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes, based on both Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In subsequent years—after the two series left first run—Simutronics relinquished the license, removed trademarked material and rebranded the game as Alliance of Heroes. With a dwindling player base, the game was closed down on November 2, 2015.
- Electronic Arts published Xena: Warrior Princess video game for the PS1 in 1999. Played from a third-person perspective, the game play involves slashing, jumping, and kicking through a variety of primitive 3D environments. Xena can also find and use power-ups and her trademark chakram. Once thrown, the chakram becomes a first-person weapon to guide toward enemies.
- Saffire published Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate for the Nintendo 64 console in 1999.
- Xena: Warrior Princess for the Titus Softwarein 2000.
- Xena: Warrior Princess: Death in Chains, a multi-path video game for the PC adapted from and expanding upon the television episode of the same name, although none of the original actors provide their voices.
- Xena: Warrior Princess: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, another multi-path video game for the PC, again adapted from and expanding upon the television episode of the same name, again without the original voice actors.
- Xena: Warrior Princess for the PS2 only released in Europe.
VHS releases
DVD releases
Anchor Bay Entertainment released all 6 seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD in Region 1 between 2003 and 2005, with a wide range of extras. As of 2010, these releases have been discontinued.
On January 12, 2010, Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced plans to re-release Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD. They have subsequently re-released all six seasons. A complete series set was released on May 17, 2016.[68]
In Region 2 & 4, Universal Pictures released the entire series on DVD. In addition, a complete series collection was released on DVD in Region 2 on October 8, 2007.
Region 4 DVD:
- Season 1: Part 1 and Season 1: Part 2 on 4 February 2002 (Slipbox with 3 Amaray Cases)
- Season 2: Part 1 and Season 2: Part 2 on 3 October 2002 (Slipbox with 3 Amaray Cases)
- Season 3 on 27 June 2003 (Slipbox with 25mm Amaray Case)
- Season 4, Season 5 and Season 6 on 27 July 2004 (Slipbox with 25mm Amaray Case)
- On 10 October 2005, each season were reissued into Parts 1 & 2 in standard DVD cases
- Seasons 1-6 (Limited Edition Collector's Bag on 14 November 2006.
- The Ultimate Collection on 11 October 2018
Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has a rating of 89%, based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Lucy Lawless exudes steely charisma in Xena: Warrior Princess, a swashbuckling actioner that transcends its origin as a spinoff and becomes a fully realized saga in its own right."[69] Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly, giving the season a B+: "Xena is Wonder Woman on steroids, and Lawless — with her dark bangs, moon face, light blue eyes, and small, grim smiles — plays the warrior princess with barely concealed delight."[70]
Awards
Year | Association | Category | Nominated artist/work | Result |
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1997 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
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Most Performed Underscore | Joseph LoDuca | Won |
Primetime Emmy Awards[71]
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Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Joseph LoDuca ("Destiny") | Nominated | |
Saturn Awards | Best Genre TV Actress | Lucy Lawless | Nominated | |
1998 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Most Performed Underscore | Joseph LoDuca | Won |
New Zealand Film and TV Awards | Best Contribution to Design | Ngila Dickson (costume designer) | Won | |
Primetime Emmy Awards[71]
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Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | "The Love of Your Love" – Joseph LoDuca (composer/lyricist) | Nominated | |
"Hearts Are Hurting" – Joseph LoDuca (composer), Dennis Spiegel (lyricist) | Nominated | |||
1999 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Most Performed Underscore | Joseph LoDuca | Won |
Primetime Emmy Awards[71]
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Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Joseph LoDuca ("Devi") | Nominated | |
2000 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Most Performed Underscore | Joseph LoDuca | Won |
Primetime Emmy Awards[71]
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Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Joseph LoDuca ("Fallen Angel") | Won | |
2001 | ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Most Performed Underscore | Joseph LoDuca | Won |
Primetime Emmy Awards[71]
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Outstanding Music Composition for a Series | Joseph LoDuca ("The Rheingold") | Nominated | |
2002 | Joseph LoDuca ("A Friend in Need, Part II") | Nominated |
U.S. ratings
Season | Highest U.S. ratings | Network | Rank | |
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1 | 1995–1996 | 6.1 million | Syndication | #12 |
2 | 1996–1997 | 7.8 million | Syndication | #7 |
3 | 1997–1998 | 6.6 million | Syndication | #9 |
4 | 1998–1999 | 4.9 million | Syndication | #13 |
5 | 1999–2000 | 4.1 million | Syndication | #2 |
6 | 2000–2001 | 3.9 million | Syndication | #2[72] |
Influence on the lesbian community
Xena has enjoyed a particular cult status in the
A subject of much interest and debate among viewers is the question of whether Xena and Gabrielle are lovers.
Many fans felt that the sexual nature of Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was cemented by an interview given by Lucy Lawless to Lesbian News magazine in 2003. Lawless stated that after the series finale, where Gabrielle revives Xena with a mouth-to-mouth water transfer filmed to look like a full kiss, she had come to believe that Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was "definitely gay". "There was always a, 'Well, she might be or she might not be' but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the very final scene, that cemented it for me. Now it wasn't just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was 'Nope, they're married, man'."[77]
The Xena fandom also popularized the term altfic (from "alternative fiction") to refer to same-sex romantic fan fiction.[78]
Costume donation
In 2006, Lucy Lawless donated her personal Xena costume to the National Museum of American History.[79] In an interview the same year with Smithsonian magazine, she was asked the question "Was the Warrior Princess outfit comfortable?" and responded:
Not at first, because they would put boning in the corset. It would cover up those little floating ribs that are so important for breathing, so I'd feel like I was having panic attacks. But it just became a second skin after a while. It was very functional, once I got over the modesty factor. I admit to being a little bit embarrassed the first couple weeks because I'd never worn anything so short.[79]
Uber and Uberfic
Uberfic is a variety of fan fiction in which the characters live in an alternate universe. The characters and events are true to the original canon, but usually in a different time period, often as the ancestors, descendants, or reincarnations of canon characters. The term originated in Xena fandom. Uber was employed several times in the series, beginning with the second-season episode "The Xena Scrolls", in which the descendants of Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer meet up at an archeological dig in 1940 and unwittingly release Ares from his tomb.[80]
Cancelled reboot
On July 20, 2015, it was reported that
In a post on Tumblr, Grillo-Marxuach stated that they would be "fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s,"[83] which several websites such as The Guardian[84] and Newsweek[85] took to mean "Xena will be an out and proud lesbian."[85] These articles resulted in frustration from fans regarding the erasure of Xena's apparent bisexuality; Grillo-Marxuach said "it feels like - from a few sentences - everyone has already made up their mind about what it is I am doing. I would prefer people be surprised by the story."[86] In April 2017, Grillo-Marxuach announced that he had left the project because of "insurmountable creative differences."[87]
On August 21, 2017, NBC announced that it had cancelled its plans for the reboot. NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke said, "I'd never say never on that one because it's such a beloved title but the current incarnation of it is dead."[88][89]
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External links
- Xena: Warrior Princess at IMDb