Hey, just catching up with this thread again. Prepare for some miscellaneous rambling.
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I wanna know if there was literally only one white, fringed bikini (that Lucy s-q-u-eezed into), or if there were two (particularly in light of the fact that LL was in that bikini on a magazine cover *last* year.
I believe that LL squeezed into ROC's stunt/body-double's bikini, not the actual one that ROC wore in Lyre, as the double was a bit bigger than ROC and Lucy wouldn't have fitted in it anyway. (Although Lucy did try to persuade ROC that it was her's). So there was certainly at least two bikinis at the time of filming, I've no idea where LL got the one she wore for the magazine cover.
Lucy certainly looks fine in the bikini, as does ROC, but I must say that for sexy dances in skimpy costumes, it's Gabby's dance in Who's Gurkhan that gets me every time. I usually stop breathing and pass out when watching that.
Moving swiftly on to fanfic, I'm currently reading as many Mel/Janice stories as I can get my hands on. I didn't really like the characters that much when I first saw the ep The Xena Scrolls but recently (and I can't even remember why) I started reading one or two and got hooked on them (I actually like M/J fanfic better than X/G at the moment). My favourite M/J authors being Vivian Darkbloom and Enginerd, as well as DJ Belt, Yellowjacket and Bat Morda, among others.
I've even gone back and viewed The Xena Scrolls a couple of times because of my interest in M/J fic, and I certainly like it a lot better now. I must say, if you want kick ass entrances just look at Dr Janice Covington's at the beginning of that ep. The sight of ROC in leather jacket, with whip and knee-high boots, chomping on a cigar just kills me.
I count Gabby's dance in Who's Gurkhan and Janice's entrance in The Xena Scrolls as two of my top ten sexy ROC moments in Xena.
On a side note, I've been trying to find any Annie/Mattie fanfic but I suppose as these uber characters weren't as popular as Mel/Janice, there hasn't been much written about them. Anyhoo, I decided to try writing one myself...still unfinished at the moment.
GG: Interesting essay about the Quest kiss and it's aftermath, I don't agree with you on a lot of your points but perhaps that's because I've watched the show from a different perspective. I was always about a year or two delayed while watching the show and I was never really involved in the online fandom. So, although I was vaguely aware there was stuff going on with TPTB and the fans, I was in a little Xena bubble and never got swept up in any controversies that arose at the time. I loved the kiss in the Quest (it was and still is one of the most powerful scenes in the entire series) but I was personally never that bothered that they didn't continue to show their physical relationship on screen after that. It was enough for me to spot the little sub/maintext moments and know that whatever they got up to together was off screen. Although, having said that (and if you'll pardon the expression) I was gagging for another kiss by S6.
As for S4, 5 and 6, I first watched them pretty much one after the other (after I'd bought the DVDs) so I didn't have months or even years to ponder over the intricacies of their relationship over the course of the three seasons. I just saw Xena and Gabrielle together, enjoying the good times and battling through the bad times. Although, I do agree that Season 5 was the worst for the relationship, it did have a lot of other things going for it, Gabby gaining her sais for one.
Anyhoo, after all that rambling, I'm not sure what my point was but I think there was one in there somewhere.
Please feel free to ignore.
And please keep posting, posting, posting, GG, as I always enjoy reading your little insights into the series.
I, too, have downloaded (what seems like) hundreds of music videos. Most are excellent, but I have split my favourites (that I would recommend) into categories, in no particular order:
DRAMATIC
Smack My Bitch Up by DJWP
Unity by Lethe River
Shaken Not Stirred by Lethe River
CHARACTERS
Gabrielle - Calendar Girl by Cruise and Let Me Entertain You by Masque
Xena - Bitch by Masque
Joxer - Skater Boy by Video Vixen and Pretty Fly by Masque
PEE PANTS FUNNY
Anything You Can Do by Jen Stamey
Camp by Video Vixen
SOULMATES
I'm With You by Masque
Beautiful by Warrior Princess Nerd
Wherever You Will Go by Linda/the Three Bards
One True Friend by DS Bauden
Touched by Warrior Princess Nerd
I Hope You Dance by Marilyn
My absolute favourite would have to be Beautiful 'cause it always makes me cry.
Unfortunately, I try to stay away from any with FIN content as I haven't yet seen those eps, so I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of great vids. One of them being Gladiators by DJWP which I watched once but couldn't again.
On to DVDs, we may have all 6 seasons out already in the UK but they have absolutely no extras, which is pretty crap IMHO. So I've been buying the Region 1 releases as well, simply to view the absolutely kick ass extras that are on them. I'm currently in Xena heaven with all the interviews, commentaries, extra scenes, etc, etc. included.
Lastly, although I said earlier in the thread that I would never watch FIN, I have decided that I will watch it...eventually.
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still hoping for a Xena movie
Gabrielle: "For once, Xena, I'd like to be the Roman noble and you be the slave."
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Yippie-ki-yay . . . I'm Recently Gay! 
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I'm particularly fond of the "I Hope You Dance" music video---listed above---for including that scene! 
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. and i really love the music during that dance.. 
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) I turn it up, but I can still never make it out (if only my music videos had Closed Captioning!) 
), as well as a terrific bath scene, in which you can see a lot more of RO'C than either she or the director intended.
), it's still a gorgeous ep to look at. Chakram has its moments (though Joxer's lovelorn-ness is constantly cringe-inducing, and there's more X/A than I'm really comfortable w/ either: though Kevin Smith is admittedly gorgeous. And I always crack up at the scene where Amnesia-Xena gets out of the tub "Hello, Ares, she---her face---is up there, NOT where your gaze is locked on!" 
), though admittedly, the plot is pretty thin on the XWP side. KS is more of a X&G snitfest through much of it . . . though again, they do "kiss&make-up" at the end (I also happen to think that "Eris," Morgan Reece Fairhead---seen next year as yet *another* "Cyane"---is tres cute . . . but that's just me 
). Just try to get into the epic spirit of the thing, and see how Lesbian Supermom Xena copes w/ her dual crises (remember, our grrlz get "their" daughter back at the end!)
than comedy 
), just that going through the darkness makes the brightness so much brighter (I was also profoundly affected by M. Scott Peck's book on community, 
