Instead of a Xena reboot…
Posted by ednaemode@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 51 comments
I’m not a fan of reboots and the industry loves to do them. I don’t want someone else to play Xena. Instead I like a spinoff. What spinoff would you like to see in the Xenaverse?
Emica12@reddit
Sometimes I think a series in a alternate universe where Xena is still a villain and Callisto is trying to take her down would make for a good 10 part mini series. Not sure how to bring Gabrielle into it though... maybe helping Callisto but then sees more potential in Xena? Could work. I would have to hammer that one out.
Anyway! I'd like to see Gabrielle bring back Xena in Egypt after a year or two of her death. That would be neat.
demonita@reddit
I’ll take anything that ignores the 6th season for lore.
I wish Kevin Smith was still here. That would’ve been a prime spin off back then.
pastajewelry@reddit
It'd like to see a medieval England version of Xena & Gabrielle that weaves in Irish, Scottish, and English folklore and Arthurian legends.
CarnyMAXIMOS_3_N7@reddit
Sounds like a grand plan to me!
Popular-One-7051@reddit
Absolutely! There are tons of Celtic Gods and Goddesses. You could also time warp her forward in time to see the Irish queen/pirate Grace O'Malley in the 1500s. If you've ever watched Lucy's show Warrior Women (you should) there's a segment on her
Duskfall@reddit
ooooh I LOVE this
ednaemode@reddit (OP)
I like this idea!
Simple-Ceasar@reddit
Callisto, her journey to becoming a psychopath. Just showing how she went from being an innocent child to the Callisto we would all love to NOT meet. How did she become as good as Xena? I don't think she was evil from the day her village burned down. It was a slow process. Maybe she even did some heroic things in her past and I would love to see that.
EBJ1990@reddit
I would like a proper reboot, while also letting Big Finish do a season (or multiple) of "what if" stories.
invisiblebyday@reddit
What became of the modern clones? That's the spin off I'd want.
TheCuri0usWatcher@reddit
Or the modern Xena/Gabby clones finally meeting themselves in their "real" bodies Annie & Mattie (Soul Posession) 🤣, during a random mission to save the world. That'd be an interesting reunion. Like watching 2 Captain Americas fight eachother 💀.
Persistent_Parkie@reddit
That's what I want, Lucy and Renee portraying what the clones are up to now.
Agent8699@reddit
Amazons!
But, I’d prefer a revival or reboot to a spinoff.
timthemajestic@reddit
The Misadventures of Joxer Autolycus: King of Thieves
TheGreatMonk@reddit
There’s so much potential to do Xena stories in any point past, present, or future since they are soulmates who will always find each other.
TheGreatMonk@reddit
My vision (since I’m a sci-fi nerd) was essentially a tribute to Xena without specifically saying it was in any way related to the originally story, but set in space in the very far future.
Xena - is a space bounty hunter, and overall do gooder, lands on Gabrielle’s home planet and it plays out similar to the original episode. Gabrielle sneaks into the ship and isn’t discovered until days later, but she convinces her to let her stay because she offers to cook and keep the ship tidy, and if maybe makes her an awesome meal or something.
She trains Gabrielle because she has many space skills and They proceed to go on fun space adventures…fall in love. Etc etc…
Mrblorg@reddit
'Xena' has become a name an Amazon can inherit like "Cyane" so she's Xena but not really Xena
BasicDurgeanomics@reddit
I would like to see the now veteran warrior Gabrielle find an apprentice to travel and have adventures with. Xena could still show up in spirit form to be with Gabrielle from time to time, but have the focus be on Gabrielle training thd new warrior with the wisdom and teachings from her time with Xena.
SabrinaEdwina@reddit
Let's just hand them a TARDIS and see what happens!
BasicDurgeanomics@reddit
I like the way you think 😁👍
Duskfall@reddit
I had this idea once upon a time, where we cut to Xena and Gabrielle in their advanced years (so that current them could play those roles, but they would necessarily be the main characters this time.)
and they've settled in with an Amazon tribe. they have a daughter together that isn't great at fighting, nor weapons, and can't seem to find her place.
So they send her out on a "quest" to find herself and also recover a lost ceremonial mask. It looks like an Amazonian version of a unicorn mask, and is meant for the Princess of the tribe, which hasn't been named yet.
She picks up her own partner, maybe her own Joxer, but it refocuses the story on the Amazons and maybe the dwindling tribes. More over, the daughter is now the main character and Xena and Gabrielle show up on occasion to help or move the plot along.
nellystar5@reddit
Lets be real, characters came back from the dead all of the time lol.
Popular-One-7051@reddit
Especially in Xena lol
Jahon_Dony@reddit
I thought of one that would have been Legendary! How about a spinoff with Iolas and Gabrielle reuniting and traveling together, bonded through their shared griefs and history? It would also be cool giving the two sidekicks a starry vehicle of their own together. And Michael and Renne have really palpable chemistry together. I think it could have done well honestly.
Popular-One-7051@reddit
I would have hated if they had them fall in love. X/G were epic. I'm not saying Gabby should never fall in love again, but they're too tied to Hercules and XWP. Gabby falling in love with someone outside the current universe would be nice. Xena may have been the love of her life, but people do get in relationships more than once in their lives. Besides, I just don't like Iolas. Maybe its his attachment to Hercules. I didn't like that show at all even before we all heard what a jerk Kevin is.
SabrinaEdwina@reddit
I too grow weary of forced cishet romance and would like more gay shit.
It's in literally everything else and gets boring. I want more happy, capable, not-tragic gay content. I want to see femme characters so strong they don't have to play bi to be allowed, flourishing with their happy, capable families.
Jahon_Dony@reddit
What a shame, you're missing half the fun!
And I didn't mention them "falling in love."
Popular-One-7051@reddit
Shame on me for assuming. I guess im so used to networks putting men and women anywhere near each other and falling in love.
Let's hope he can play sidekick again because she's a much stronger character.
Jahon_Dony@reddit
Can't agree with your paragraph 2, but I hope they would explore other unique mythologies like Egypt... I heard they were in need of a girl with a chakram.
Popular-One-7051@reddit
Dont agree with Gabby falling in love with someone else? Not arguing, just asking.
I definitely agree with taking it out of Greece. Definitely dont take her back to Japan. Too many awful memories. Besides, would that slimy Akemi still be around?
You could always have her stop in Ireland or Scotland. Plenty of gods and goddesses there too.
Jahon_Dony@reddit
Don't agree with Iolas being worse than Gabi... like him a lot, probably more.
Akemi died ~ 35 years before this hypothetical series. It doesn't really work with Iolas being so much older, but maybe they could explain it away with a "fountain of youth" quip or storyline.
Competitive-Put1047@reddit
I feel like if we were to have a spin off, it would absolutely have to be about Eve. No other character holds the kind of complexity and unmined potential that she does. The writers really didn't know what to do wth her but if she was given her own space, I believe she could blossom into as complex a character as her mother
MusicIsLife81@reddit
If you follow Adrienne Wilkinson on Tik Tok she does kind of a little spinoff with a Xena cutout and she does some fun stuff with it. Sometimes Alexandra Tydings pops up on there and Renee O'Connor has popped up on there 3 or 4 times as well. They have given me a good laugh on my bad days.
Musical_Xena@reddit
The character definitely had squandered potential. I really struggled to watch her in scenes where she is sort of cringing and hiding behind her mom. It equated pacifism to, idk, outward weakness. Even within the same show, there were lots of examples of pacifists who appeared strong and confident. Maybe the spinoff could have had the character evolve in that direction, but I would still struggle with the first couple seasons.
SabrinaEdwina@reddit
Perhaps she will secretly align the handoff of whatever weapon, book, or artifact makes the successor realize their ancestry and purpose. It would fit the passive qualities but show she could be heroic despite that.
Wayne47@reddit
I did not care for Eve. I never felt like she really fit into the show and was just kind of there.
reo_reborn@reddit
100%.
She felt so tacked on and I didn't enjoy her adult arc at all. I'd have rather they have killed her as a baby (maybe that would have been what lead Xena to kill the gods) or maybe as an adult in a sacrifice kind of way.
Seed0fDiscord@reddit
If we got a spin-off, like to see another warrior in a later era who’s in the line of succession of the traveling warrior of Xena to Gabrielle, whoever takes up the mantle from Gabrielle, and so forth
SabrinaEdwina@reddit
That's what I was thinking, too! I'd love to see their successors of choice--especially if they didn't know until they found a revealing artifact and then their life suddenly makes sense.
Just like I keep rooting for a female-led Indiana Jones in which she takes the shit from museums back to the cultures it belongs to. I can hope.
nellystar5@reddit
Najara or Alti "origins" story line would be really cool.
Ok_Kangaroo_2160@reddit
I wouldn't mind one about a young Callisto and her years as a warlord after Cirra.
CaptainQueen1701@reddit
I think a ‘The Crown’ style retelling of her life with a new actress for each era. The show would finish just before we see Xena in Hercules.
Seed0fDiscord@reddit
Didn’t we already get a good lengthy look at her back story as she tracked the known the world?
Jahon_Dony@reddit
We didn't ever really get Ares flashbacks! I'd love to see more of their history. Just attribute the "never saw you in person" to early writer's mistake.
Ok-Jackfruit-6873@reddit
yes and it evolved confusingly as the show went on, too ;)
Byanychance@reddit
True. But if you ignore season 5 and 6 its not too hard to follow
WerewolfWild1323@reddit
💯 I would absolutely love this! I want to see warlord xena! And chin Xena!
AlphaSistersOfBattle@reddit
Fuck spinoff. I want empresses Xena and Gabriella. (I dont know how the show ended and dont know where to watch it).
Paper-Octopus@reddit
Solans unseen adventures in the non-earthly realms.
TheoreticalResearch@reddit
I wanna see Joxer and Meg but shot like “Kevin Can Fuck Himself” where it feels like a goofy sitcom until you’re alone with Meg and see how she feels not being the one that Joxer actually loved. Points of she’s the one that actually burns down the tavern.
DanieXJ@reddit
Xena/Gab descendent in the Middle Ages. It was another time of Kings, Queens, Etc. Etc. and God and complicated storylines that they could do interesting things with.