Since this show is primarily about Xena seeking redemption for her past life of violence and wrong-doing, I think she should have a list of all the bad things she's done.
Posted by Sure-Jan-Zizka@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 32 comments
Every episode she'd pick a new item from her list and then try her best to make it up to the person that she wronged in the past.
Panzermensch911@reddit
LOL She probably has forgotten more faces she wronged than she remembers and if she did it'd cause a parchment and papyri crisis in Greece.
AuntyEmfromOz@reddit
Wouldn't it be better to list all the GOOD things she did - after all redemption's the name of the game.. And let's be honest here - she can't have been ALL bad, because she had quite a number of friends in her past.
stardustmelancholy@reddit
Her good friend Helen of Troy.
AuntyEmfromOz@reddit
And her good friends Lao Ma and M'Lila and her 'friend' Marcus.......
quillsonqueen@reddit
My Name is Earl (Xena)
Pwaise_Hestia@reddit
My thoughts exactly haha (but I couldn’t remember he name of the show)
Hour_Dog_4781@reddit
And how would she make it up to all the people she killed? Or those that her soldiers killed and that she will never even know about?
Wild_Lingonberry3365@reddit
Tough to say,but all the stuff she did to make it up with Gabrielle.And her dying the way she did.Sucks for Gabrielle’s life path and us,but made sense for her.Shame we didn’t see Gabrielle meet her in the afterlife,or something atleast.
Hour_Dog_4781@reddit
Her death sucked. They deserved a happy ending together. I still hate the show's finale, it was such a cowardly choice for the writers.
Wild_Lingonberry3365@reddit
I could see them pushing keeping Xena alive longer to repent more since she’d be doing more good and Gabrielle would have her literal soul mate,but yeah that’d be too gay & loving.Despite the crazy blunt gay stuff in the later seasons
Hour_Dog_4781@reddit
I wouldn't even mind if they ended the show there and then, but they should've let Xena live. I didn't even ship Xena/Gabrielle but I still would've been excited if they subverted the tired old Bury Your Gays trope.
summer_james2@reddit
My pookie did nothing wrong … 🥹😍
Wild_Lingonberry3365@reddit
Gabrielle we know it’s you
summer_james2@reddit
Damn, you caught me.
ZvsGrgs@reddit
This is XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, not MY NAME IS EARL, which was also a good TV series…
IseQween@reddit
I figure she could, in most cases, focus on estimating villages affected, rather than number of individuals hurt. This would include supplies, currency, horses, etc.. and cover places we know of like Cyrra, Thalassa's town, the northern Amazons, places suggested by victims, in DREAMWORKER and even Higuchi. That would be more doable, as it would be impossible to know exactly how many died, were injured, lost homes. If she couldn't do something positive for the affected town (like Higuchi), she could count towns helped post-Destroyer period. I actually think she made good progress by helping Greek and northern Amazons, Amphipolis, Poteidaia, the place where girls were kidnapped, etc.
I'm not sure about including the Centaurs or other battles like in Corinth, as those seemed more wars between equal armies over territory, loot, etc. As to the Norseland and Chin, she did return later to rectify ills she'd set in motion during the past.
AuntyEmfromOz@reddit
All good points.
PirateJen78@reddit
I miss My Name is Earl so much... 😭
EasyEntrepreneur666@reddit
Sowwy fow massacwing youw village.
EnzeruAnimeFan@reddit
OwO but the O's are her chakrams
ShondaVanda@reddit
The point is that Xena can never atone, no matter how much good she does she'll likely never balance the scales so having a list feels a bit redundant.
DanieXJ@reddit
But, the accompanying theme (well until AFIN, ugh), is also, what is atoning? Does loving purely count? Does self sacrifice count for more than bashing some "bad guy's" head in? She lost a child, that has to count extra right, she lost decades with another child, that too should count for more.
Does the change itself mean she has atoned?
So, to answer OOP's question, no, I think a literal list that gets checked off 1 to 1 would have sucked the life out of the show. Xena's change, redemption isn't straightforward, and that is what I loved about the show.
At its core when you stripped the gods, monsters, and fantasy, it was such a human based show that didn't shy away from complicated (and unansweable) questions. There is more than just good and evil in the real world, the Cena TV Show acknowledged that in its narrative.
Latte-Catte@reddit
Xena doesn't keep a list, Gabrielle keeps track of her past for her. Xena only ever bring up her sins when she needs to fix something. Unless consequence turn up, even Xena just forgets about them. Xena legit thought she burned down all of Cirra until Callisto showed up to punish her LMAO!!
AuntyEmfromOz@reddit
And in the alternate universe of Armageddon Now Part 2 (HTLJ episode), it appeared quite a few survived, including Callisto's uncle whom Iolaus gave her to, to look after.
Agent8699@reddit
In the premier episode, Xena rides through a destroyed / burnt village and is asked by an orphaned boy if she has any food to spare.
He then tells her that Xena destroyed his village. Xena didn’t even recognise it.
I don’t think Xena remembers or wants to remember a LOT of what she did.
Kooky_Wear_4909@reddit
Agreed! Also, I think so many evil things happened as a result of Xena being evil, like a chain reaction, that there’s no way to know everything she did. There’s also no way to know how much good she inspired in the world by doing good things. The point is that she tried really hard
Summer_1121@reddit
You know the kinda girl who does all kinds of bad things, and her life sucks?... My name is Xena.
summer_james2@reddit
Ahhhh we have the same name!!!! 🥰
Summer_1121@reddit
Heck yeah! Thanks for all the videos ❤️
summer_james2@reddit
My pleasure.
Sure-Jan-Zizka@reddit (OP)
You're goddamn right
Summer_1121@reddit