Place to post pics from old movies and discuss everything about it
Xena and Gabrielle were without a doubt my first "oh, I am a girl who likes girls" moment.
I remember my dad being so weird about me not liking the Hercules show that ran around that time and trying to be like, "Come on, he's so big and tough! Don't you wanna be that?" And all I could think about was whether or not I wanted to be Gabrielle or Xena more.
I'll also mention that today, Lucy Lawless is a badass and Sorbo is a whiney pissant.
Lucy wins. Then and now.
Edit: and have you seen her today?? She's stunning and an awesome person.
he held a grudge against her to this day. making shitty christian movies with other "nutty washed out actors isnt helping your image.
Meanwhile, all the manly straight men preferred Xena for the exact same reason you did.
I remember thinking Gabrielle was hotter, but after seeing this picture I can't imagine how
Personality? Changing type? You don't have to choose if you go the femslash way.
Hercules show was so dedicated to being meat and potatoes it forgot that it needs to go somewhere to keep viewers engaged. Xena show simply had more going for it and better narrative structure that maintained engagement long-term. Compare Xena and Gabrielle to Hercules and Iolaus dynamics - simple as that.
Xena quickly became way better than Hercules. The characters were just more interesting. Her outfit looks vaguely Japanese, but I never saw that season. It was hard to keep a steady watching schedule as a kid. I should go back and rewatch this! I hope it's not just nostalgia.
She also did a great job on Battlestar Galactica and Spartacus. And Parks and Rec! I'm glad she's the one that got more exposure instead of Kevin Sorbo. He chewed a lot of scenery in Hercules, and being a MAGA asshat didn't endear him to his old fans.
Battlestar Galactica! I was just thinking about how I loved her in another show and that was the one.
Kevin Sorbo is technically in many, many more movies... terrible Christian movies that no one heard of. Lol
Glad Lucy Lawless ended up being fairly normal.
Andromeda was fun enough until they decided to make kevin sorbo space jesus
Hercules series started off strong (the tv movies and season 1) and then kinda stuck in its ways and never really went anywhere. You get villain of the week, wham bam, thank you, next. In contrast, Xena had depth and they had all these storylines running throughout the show - it rewarded long time viewers a lot.
The katana thing is from the latter seasons when the show went beyond their basic cultural template.
SORBO was so jealous of her, he became a looney right winger after his strokes. he even fucked up his own show on andromeda.
DISAPPOINTED!!
She's so slim in this picture. In my memory of the show she is like a strong body builder body type like the female version of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules. Weird how wrong such a clear memory can be!
Looking at her standard outfit I think they use a few tricks to present that image: cuffs around the biceps, shoulder thingies (there more like epaulettes than pauldrons), and bracers all either hid the thinner parts or made them look larger.
That's interesting. I never would have thought to look at the clothes like that.
This is also an earlier picture. She deffo put on muscle as the series went on. Compare:
It is a god damn crime that we never got Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman. She would have absolutely killed it if the superhero boom came about 20 years earlier.
Here in Greece, the series along with Hercules used to play every evening at 2-3 o'clock when I was a kid. She is well known.
same in Ukraine.
It's been so long, I don't remember she had a fucking katana.
Looks like a normal katana to me but what do I know.
It's amazing how much higher the bar has been raised to be a "muscly woman".
She looks fantastic and athletic and sexy in this picture, but I remember seeing that in the 90s and thinking "wow strongk!"
And I don't think it's about gear, I think it's about aesthetics, I remember women being really careful not to exercises that could make their arms or shoulders bigger, and it just feels like women care about that a lot less now.
As a sapphic person I completely approve.
I never realized how much of a smoke show she was/is when I was younger. She's still great in the most recent stuff I've seen her on. Great counterpart to Ron on Parks and Rec and also great on Curb when she briefly dated Larry. Does the Xena show still hold up?
As Patton Oswalt said: "Two moon faced lesbians beating people with a stick? I can't tell ya how many times I conjugated the verb to that show."
You can't create a show with that much skin and ridiculously good-looking people, and not crack a few eggs.
I've saved this picture for later ...
yay
I was more of a Gabrielle guy.
Can I tell you something, Jerry? It's all crap on TV. The only thing I watch is Xena, the Warrior Princess. She must be about six-six.
