Legendary Journeys

Re-experience Greek myths in ways the Greeks never intented

With due respect to the recent Clash of the Titans, we would have enjoyed that movie a lot more if they’d somehow worked in a Kevin Sorbo cameo, or if, instead of Perseus, Sam Worthington had played a Warrior Princess.

For a reminder of why, grab season one of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and of Xena: Warrior Princess, both of which emerge from out-of-print-ness to re-hit DVD today. The first season of Hercules found The Sorbo fighting his usual band of campy gods and mediocre special effects while also introducing Xena, in a three-episode arc, initially as an enemy. But soon everyone was fighting for the side of goodness and Xena was getting her own spin-off show along with her own sidekick, Gabrielle, to develop a sublimated lesbian relationship with.

Sadly, this DVD set doesn’t contain the very final Xena episode in which, during the very final scene, Gabrielle saves Xena with a little mouth-to-mouth action. It also doesn’t seem to include the scene in which Xena becomes the third Cylon. Maybe that’s in the bonus features.

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