what happens to Gabrielle after Xena’s death. How does she cope with it all…. “I want your things in my room I miss you all of the time”
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Consistent_Cake_6927@reddit
I think she would struggle with something to live for because even though they are both strong women the co dependency was real. They lived for each other and evethough they proclaimed for the greater good, they'd give it all up in a heartbeat for each other. Then Gabrielle has like zero support, well if she can find Eve, or Virgil, or Lila? No one has really been through what she's been through and she's displaced from time( time jump). Maybe Aphrodite can help because she has lost a lot of mortal friends but there was no one like Xena. She I bet most likely starts teaching at a school. That way she can help train warriors as well as scholars.
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
The co-dependency was soo real. So real in fact that I don’t think she makes it long without Xena. I think she tries and in like the video I show her looking and Xena touching hair and then Xena disappears.. she is hallucinating her …. I feel she would go further and further into depression …
Just like idk if Xena would want to make it long without Gabrielle. They both needed each other in the end. And so much so that in one draft of the finale they both die together… but they didn’t go with that bc they felt them dying together wasn’t a true enough sacrifice for Xena and that Gabrielle dying would show that Xena’s lessons taught to Gabrielle would be for nothing.
MaryW1965@reddit
I’m bawling again watching that scene. I think it’s tragic and I can’t believe Gabrielle has to feel that pain everyday
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
Every. Single . Day 💔
Evilbuffy14@reddit
That look Gabrielle gives as she falls into the pit. 💔
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
Right 💔
IseQween@reddit
Wow. I don't think it was that easy for Xena to leave everything behind, but this certainly makes me understand how Gabs would see/feel it that way. Not just in AFIN, but at so many other times Xena took on seemingly suicidal missions. True, they both accepted that as the price of the WP's warrior way. Just hadn't hit me how much Gabs might pay that price every day -- imagining, preparing for, coping with the loss.
I don't compare that to Gabs' leap into Dahak's pit, but I'd be curious to see what you came up with, if you explored the GabDive, especially from Xena's perspective. Amazing the different slants your song choices give to the same event. Oh, and a special thanks for including a quality version of one of my favorite shots -- Xena riding Argo on the beach.
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
The beginning is meant as a little trick. Listen to the lyrics. It’s her perspective saying “I’d slit my own throat to see if you’d mourn me” like how much do you love me. And Xena shows her the depths of her love and the sacrifices that love at the end bc of the final mission.
I’m not comparing the two at all. And no it’s definitely not easy for Xena to leave… but for Gabrielle this is her grieving and going through all the stages of grief. Also make sure you look at the clips as a new clip not in the content of the episodes they were introduced in except the AFIN stuff and the beginning up until the start of Xena’s death.
You are seeing Gabrielle seeing Xena as she was after being killed in AFIN. Also, the shot of Gabrielle seeing Xena lying next to her and playing with her hair.. then the next shot of Xena gone.. she is hallucinating her…
IseQween@reddit
Sorry, we go off on our own tangents, regardless of your intent. I got the Gabs perspective and that she cherished Xena's love for her regardless of the sacrifices. I also got a different slant on Gabs' feelings, making them more poignant, layered, leading me to imagine what might lie beneath her "glass half full" nature.
One of the reasons it took me so long to be really interested in Gabs was that she was usually portrayed as finding it "so easy to stay," despite her pushbacks and the rifts between them. As a Xena girl, I took for granted Gabs understood at a practical level what it meant loving a warrior, that Xena's putting herself in harm's way did not minimize her deep desire to be with Gabs.
What surprised me about this vid was realizing I didn't appreciate what it took on an emotional level for someone like Gabs to put a positive spin on this "reality" on a daily basis. I imagined her having more "you love someone/some debt so much" questioning moments than we saw on TV. See, while I'm impressed by the synchronicity in the visuals and lyrics you put together, I love when they inspire my "a ha" tangents that go beyond. OK? ☺
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
I love your “tangents! don’t never stop !
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
Thank you soooo much!!! I really appreciate the commentary as always! You always give great feedback!’
summer_james2@reddit (OP)
The beginning is meant as a little trick. Listen to the lyrics. It’s her perspective saying “I’d slit my own throat to see if you’d mourn me” like how much do you love me. And Xena shows her the depths of her love and the sacrifices that love at the end bc of the final mission.