Xena: Warrior Princess

[skittles]

It will return... I have faith....

skittles

Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.

under construction (looking for another quote).

[Gatito Grande]

I've been talking w/ MaryD (of the Numero Uno XWP site, AUSXIP). She's discovered that Oxygen is losing it's license to show Xena in January. Ergo, as it stands: XWP is off the air until further notice ("rested" until then).



I have no idea whether Oxygen could renew its Xena license if it chose to, or whether someone else has it, or what.



For now, I say go w/ the "action plan": email feedback@oxygen.com or (better still) call Oxygen (212-651-2000), and say Xena don't need no stinkin' "rest"!



Beyond that, stay tuned (I hope MaryD or somebody a heckuva lot better placed than me can find out what's going on vis-a-vis the license). Good googly-moogly, I'd love to see XWP on a network more widely available than farkin' Oxygen!



GG At which point, Oxygen can go "rest" in pieces. Out

[sam7777]

I'm past the point where I will fight to keep any show on the air or get any show off the air. I've got more important things to fight for now. That said, I think it's for the best that the exclusive licenses ends and Xena can be syndicated elsewhere. I remember when I could catch it on USA and my local WB affiliate. That would allow more folks to see the episodes and would be a good thing.

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Edited by: sam7777  at: 11/5/04 11:32 am

[Gatito Grande]

I'm there . . . only in spirit (as usual ). But Wire Image has some pics of Lucy and Renee at it yesterday, here



GG AUSXIP also has pics from Friday---will certainly have 'em from Saturday soon, too. Out



I'm so there in spirit: God, I loved/love this show.

[urnofosiris]

Judging from those teeny tiny pics they are looking better than ever.

[Hemiola]

Just one thing, though: I wish RO'C hadn't used all that eye makeup--she looks great without it.



In all other respects both women seem to be in VERY good shape! That seems to have been a really...um...interesting dance number.

[Gatito Grande]

I agree, Hemi: I remember questioning ROC's eye make-up choices as far back as the '98 Emmys, when she and Lucy attended together. Less is more, Ren! (I've never forgiven whoever the idiot interviewer---Joan Rivers, maybe?---who chose to interview mo'fo' Callista Flockhart as LL & ROC walked past, ignored. Grrr! )



But more importantly, AUSXIP now has some big, bee-auuu-tiful pics up: ausxip.com/conventions/20..._and_Renee



GG And speaking of Grrrr!, this news out of the con: "XWP movie, still in negotiations" Out

[Gatito Grande]

Now, sam might not be interested (because a certain FINale-which-shall-no-more-be-spoken-of is on it), but my favorite season, last-but-not-least Season Six, is now out on DVD.



Of course, Yours Truly is still too poor to afford it. However, I have entered my pathetically broke-ass self here to win one (you can do so, too---or just check out the DVDs features)



GG The Show That Lives On Forever in My Heart Out

[foreverpiper]

I bought it!! I was so excited!



I just got my friend obsessed with it so for the last 2 months we've been having marathons watching every season begining to end...



Then once we were done with THAT we re-watched what we've dubbed as "The Gayest Episodes"...



Season 6 is definatly my favorite...the episodes are so gay I can't stand it! (Well yes I can...) and I made a deal with my teacher that if she paid for half of it I'd be her servant till I graduate (1 and a half years but it's worth it!)



...plus it doesn't matter about the finale because I believe that the series continues into the Subtext Virtual Seasons 7, 8, 9 and now 10...



I'm off to start another marathon...let the 6th season marathon begin...

Galahad: What a strange person. French Dude: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Galahad: Is there someone else up their we could talk to? French Dude: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. - Monty Python

Edited by: foreverpiper at: 3/10/05 8:32 pm

[sam7777]

Well I'm not buying any TV series DVD sets so I'm not singling out Xena by any means. I spent my limited $ on on the LOTR extended editions instead.

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..plus it doesn't matter about the finale because I believe that the series continues into the Subtext Virtual Seasons 7, 8, 9 and now 10...

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Foreverpiper: And this may be fact rather than just virtual if they can ever get the Xena movie off the ground. I for one would love to see an older and wiser Gabrielle and Xena played by Lucy and Renee. For my part, they will never be too old for Xena and Gabrielle.

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Edited by: sam7777  at: 3/14/05 4:45 pm

[foreverpiper]

If there was a Xena movie...then I don't care where it was or what city it was playing in...I would HAVE to go see it. That movie...it would be a must-see....

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For my part, they will never be too old for Xena and Gabrielle.

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I agree wholeheartedly!

Galahad: What a strange person. French Dude: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Galahad: Is there someone else up their we could talk to? French Dude: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. - Monty Python

[Hemiola]

I don't know if this has been posted on any of the other boards, but since it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here, I thought I would let all the XWP fans that Renee O'Connor will be appearing in the movie "Alien Apocalypse", which will broadcast on the SciFi Channel tonight (Saturday, 3/26) at 9:00PM EST.



She is paired with her old "Xena" buddy Bruce Campbell.



For anyone who misses tonight's broadcast, it will be re-shown on Thursday (3/31), once again at 9:00PM EST.

[Gatito Grande]

She's 37 today (and still looking FABOO!)



Happy Birthday Lucy!!!



GG The best thing about Renee's movie "Alien Apocalypse"? Her amazing butt! Out



Check it out, here! reneeoconnor.info/photos/...mFilters=t (Shot 39: the format won't permit me to link directly to the image. Man, are webmasters getting more persnickety on these things! )



"Keeping hope alive (ahem!) for an XWP movie!"

[Hemiola]

Actually, GG, I quite enjoyed RO'C's performance in the film, which was better than the average SciFi Channel flick. I was particularly dismayed when they showed that she had lost a finger!



Anyhoo, I thought it was well worth watching, and it was good to see her again.



Incidentally, did you notice another "Xena" connection? The music was done by none other than Joe LoDuca!

[skittles]

GG noticed... believe me, GG noticed that & a few other X:WP connections & stuff....

skittles



"The problem with political jokes is how often they get elected."



"Closed minds always seem to be connected to open mouths"

[Kendahl897]

For all of the Xena fans out there, check out these art prints from Joy Argento..



www.artbyjoy.bigstep.com/category.html?UCIDs=1273536

[Warduke]

This has nothing to do with the show, or LL/ROC, but it's funny.

Out of this world: magazine launches name-the-planet initiative

PARIS (AFP) - Should it be named after a Greek or Roman god? A great scientist or artist? How about calling it after a character in the "Star Wars" film series? Or your best friend?

The British magazine New Scientist has called on readers to help suggest a name for the solar system's 10th planet, whose discovery was announced last week by a team led by US astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology.

The new world has been given the provisional designation of 2003 UB313.

But Brown has 10 years in which to think of a catchier name and have it approved by a panel of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Brown, a fan of TV's Warrior Princess, has given the informal name of Xena to 2003 UB313, a frozen orb some 15 billion kilometres (nine billion miles) from Earth, New Scientist said on its website (http://www.newscientistspace.com) on Tuesday.

"But that was our tongue-in-cheek internal name, never intended for public consumption," Brown told the magazine.

Under the IAU's nomenclature guidelines, names should be pronounceable, non-offensive, 16 characters or less in length and preferably one word.

Names should not be too similar to an existing name of a minor planet or natural planetary satellite.

In addition, names for persons or events known primarily for their military or political activities are acceptable only after 100 years have elapsed since the person died or the event occurred.

Commercial names are not allowed, and the names of pet animals are discouraged.

[xita]

Dude, they should keep the name xena, in previous articles they'd said they always wanted to name something after xena.

[urnofosiris]

I wonder how many times someone has discovered a 10th planet by now. I wish they would make up their minds already and why not call it Xena. That would be amusing, shows a sense of humour that would be most refreshing.

[Gatito Grande]

No matter what the BigWigs decide "officially" *I* am ALWAYS going to call it Planet Xena!

GG We can only hope that it has a "Moon Gabrielle", in close orbit Out

[Warduke]

From Sci-Fi Wire...

Lawless Open To Cameo Roles

Lucy Lawless told SCI FI Wire that she'd welcome future cameo roles in the upcoming Evil Dead movies or in the third Spider-Man movie, which are being produced by her husband, Rob Tapert, and family friend Sam Raimi, but added that nothing's set yet. The former Xena: Warrior Princess star made a brief cameo appearance in the first Spider-Man film as a punk rocker in a scene shot in New York City. "That was fun," Lawless said in an interview. "I threw on a wig and did it. Who knows if I'll get a chance to do it again?"

Spider-Man director Raimi was one of the executive producers of Xena during its six seasons, as was Lawless' husband, Tapert, who is still Raimi's business partner.

Tapert and Raimi are also producing two upcoming Evil Dead movies, based on their original 1970s films. "Well, who wouldn't want to be in an Evil Dead movie?" Lawless said. Even as a zombie, Lawless said she would make an appearance, but she added that she's not pushing her husband or lobbying her friend Raimi for a role.

"It doesn't even occur to me [to] think like that," Lawless said. "It's more like, 'What are we having for dinner, and where are the kids?' Also, people think that it's so easy, that you should be able to lean on your family and friends for jobs or whatever. Or they should be making things for you, and it just doesn't work like that. And to ensure the health of your relationship, you just stay away from that kind of thinking."

[aceivan]

I've almost finished watching the season 6 DVDs and I liked the interviews with the fans, particularly the woman that compared Xena and Gabrielle's relationship with the relationship she has with her boyfriend. It was really sweet but then she had to ruin it by confessing that she was a Joxer fan.

It didn't come as a huge surprise that most of the fans thought the way the show ended sucked.

While I'm waiting for the Xena movie (I still haven't given up hope that we'll get it one day) I think I'll watch The Bitter Suite and When Fates Collide again.

Len

[Gatito Grande]

It will return... I have faith....

Well, skittles, you were right: it took 10 months, but it did!

GG On Oxygen, M-F at (ye gods) 8AM Out

My favorite show. My favoritest show ever. Back. Mmmmmm!

ETA:

Len, and everyone else who wants a Xena movie??? Click here! http://www.universalstudios.com/homepage/html/contact_us/contact_form.cgi?email_id=9 (Universal Studios contact form: it takes about 15 seconds to tell 'em "We want a Xena movie!")

[emma peel]

Thanks, GG. i emailed them.
Did anyone else see the brief interview with Lucy the other day? Evidently she was filming in New Orleans and got out safely.

[Stroke of Luck]

I have seen that interview on MaryD´s side! thank god she made it safely out of that city.

[aceivan]

I e-mailed them too, GG. My fingers are crossed.

A word of warning in case anyone is thinking of renting/buying the 10th Anniversary DVD collection. I couldn't play 3 of the DVDs on my stand alone player but they played ok on my computer. I've no idea if this is widespread or if its just my set, but its strange that they played ok on one but not the other. They may not be compatible with all players.

Len

[Warduke]

From TV Guide...

Lucy Lawless Raids the Galactica

by Matt Webb Mitovich


Xena is back, and she's taking names. Well, OK, not exactly. Lucy Lawless is back in the fantasy/sci-fi fold, playing D'Anna Friel, a pesky investigative journalist on Friday night's episode of Battlestar Galactica (airing at 10 pm/ET on Sci Fi Channel). Not only will the former chakram-throwing warrior princess look a bit different in her outer-space existence — Xena gone blonde, yo! — but Lawless will be brandishing her native New Zealand accent for the first time ever on screen.

"I've always been hesitant to do that, because it felt kind of gimmicky," she says of going Kiwi with a character. "But because D'Anna is a journalist and has kind of, but not exactly, a tabloidy edge to her, I thought that going in with that kind of Australian tabloid/British-y thing was appropriate."

Besides, she says, "Why not do a Kiwi [accent]? Americans are starting to be able to understand me," she notes with a laugh, "so it just seemed the time and role were right for it. Everybody in the future is going to be talking that way!"

On Galactica, Lawless' lady journo will have the ship's crew on edge as she tries to get to what she believes is a cover-up regarding an on-board riot-turned-massacre. "She has been given carte blanche by the president (Mary McDonnell), and Adama (Edward James Olmos) has allowed it, begrudgingly," explains the actress, who added a subtext of her own — and maybe only her own — to her scenes with the ship's commanding officer. "I tried to play it that she's got the hots for Adama," Lawless reveals. "She likes the alpha male, so why not go right for the top? So maybe if I come back, we could see that relationship come to fruition!"

Then again, revisiting the "Xena yell" on the big screen may lay claim to Lawless' time instead — if (and it's a massive if) a considerable legal stalemate can be overcome. "The problem is, nobody knows who owns the rights, strictly speaking," she says with a sigh. "It would be a huge shemozzle to try to sort it out, as it wasn't clear in the initial deal that was drawn up. We could all own [the rights], which would be really nice.

"It would be great to just go ahead and say, 'It doesn't matter, the ownership,' but... it's out of my hands, let's put it that way. I reckon we could tell a really great [Xena] story," she concludes, citing the current climate of empowered women-driven shows and films. "I would love to do it."

[sam7777]

I love Lucy Lawless but Galactica give me hives. It's just awful. I'll wait for her bat movie to come out. I would love to see Lucy headline a new series with her kiwi accent and her natural hair color. I like her better with the light brown/sandy blond hair.

"It would be great to just go ahead and say, 'It doesn't matter, the ownership,' but... it's out of my hands, let's put it that way. I reckon we could tell a really great [Xena] story," she concludes, citing the current climate of empowered women-driven shows and films. "I would love to do it."

And I would love to see her do it to find out what happened in Egypt with her and Gabrielle. It would have to be post series because I want to see the older/wiser Xena/Gabrielle and what they are up to. Universal should just let the frigging license go since they aren't doing anything with it. I want to see the real ending to Xena on film.

[Gatito Grande]

. . . and to me, Galactica is awesome, and w/ LL on it: it's quite literally, chocolate icing on chocolate cake!

GG But what you said though, sam, about an XWP movie: please!!! Out

(Will always love Xena w/ black hair, but I think this blonde thing works nicely for the BG role)

[GayNow]

Thanks to meretricious for pointing this out to me

USA Today

Xena gets a Gabrielle: Moon orbiting so-called 10th planet
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The astronomers who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system have another intriguing announcement: It has a moon.
While observing the new, so-called planet from Hawaii last month, a team of astronomers led by Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology spotted a faint object trailing next to it. Because it was moving, astronomers ruled it was a moon and not a background star, which is stationary.

The moon discovery is important because it can help scientists determine the new planet's mass. In July, Brown announced the discovery of an icy, rocky object larger than Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies beyond Neptune. Brown labeled the object a planet and nicknamed it Xena after the lead character in the former TV series Xena: Warrior Princess. The moon was nicknamed Gabrielle, after Xena's faithful traveling sidekick.

By determining the moon's distance and orbit around Xena, scientists can calculate how heavy Xena is. For example, the faster a moon goes around a planet, the more massive a planet is.

But the discovery of the moon is not likely to quell debate about what exactly makes a planet. The problem is there is no official definition for a planet and setting standards like size limits potentially invites other objects to take the "planet" label.

Possessing a moon is not a criteria of planethood since Mercury and Venus are moonless planets. Brown said he expected to find a moon orbiting Xena because many Kuiper Belt objects are paired with moons.

The newly discovered moon is about 155 miles wide and 60 times fainter than Xena, the farthest-known object in the solar system. It is currently 9 billion miles away from the sun, or about three times Pluto's current distance from the sun.

Scientists believe Xena's moon was formed when Kuiper Belt objects collided with one another. The Earth's moon formed in a similar way when Earth crashed into an object the size of Mars.

The moon was first spotted by a 10-meter telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii on Sept. 10. Scientists expect to learn more about the moon's composition during further observations with the Hubble Space Telescope in November.

Brown planned to submit a paper describing the moon discovery to the Astrophysical Journal next week. The International Astronomical Union, a group of scientists responsible for naming planets, is deciding on formal names for Xena and Gabrielle.