in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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“A true friend stabs you from the front” -Oscar Wilde

what a silly and fun video, thanks!

just so you know: kevin sorbo, in real life, is a Total Asshole, an egoist, and idiot to boot. at first i really hated the herc/xena franchise; i’m an historian professionally so of course i could barely stomach the mangling of it in those shows. but then i got into the whole dyke-y campy aspect and decided that as long as i was stoned i could deal. anyway, sorbo is a big part of the reason one of the best, women-owned, written by women, franchises on teevee got tanked/changed/destroyed. and it’s all because of his ego, and i quote, “more explosions, more shots of me hitting people. that’s what people really want, not all this serious feminst crap.” i hope his dick falls off, asshole.

and let me just refer you to Rob Weisbrot’s two books on the series.

Also, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert (who married Lucy Lawless) are comic/movie geniuses, but their production company owned (and yes, wrecked) H:TLJ/X:WP — and in my book they’re not, and weren’t since their founding, an HUB.

and I finally found that damnable quote from Tapert:

Rob: (regarding the studio’s reaction to the decision to kill off Xena) They got the first draft of the script and I got a call from the head of syndication asking me about whether this was a good idea and if it would affect the reruns. I told him we’ve killed Xena five times and Gabrielle three times, Iolaus eight times and Herc a couple of times. My feeling is it sets up the franchise in such a way that there’ll be a “want to see” as to what happened after this. I think it’s opening a door as well as closing one.

Apparently MCA (the financing studio) had a lot more worries about the subtext on X:WP than did Tapert & Co.