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| Airdate = 1995 May 1 | | Airdate = 1995 May 1 | ||
| Production = #76612 | | Production = #76612 | ||
| Writer = | | Writer = Peter Bielak (writer); David Blewitt (editor) | ||
| Director = | | Director = Jack Perez | ||
| Guests = | | Guests = Lucy Lawless (Xena); Robert Trebor (Salmoneus); Matthew Chamberlain (Darphus) | ||
| Episode list = [[List of Xena episodes]] | | Episode list = [[List of Xena episodes]] | ||
| Prev Herc ep = The Vanishing Dead | | Prev Herc ep = The Vanishing Dead | ||
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| Next Xena ep = [[Unchained Heart]] | | Next Xena ep = [[Unchained Heart]] | ||
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We see Xena, previously from [[The Warrior Princess]]. Now we see her in her role as the troubled leader of a band of marauders. | |||
==Xena's character arc== | |||
We still haven't seen the Xena we could recognize from the history we're later given: she's not really tormented so much as a burdened with some kind of a conscience. Nor is she the mighty warrior princess with a long history of conquest and bloodshed. Rather, she is a leader of a large-ish band of marauders-cum-army. We see her as a leader of men, consistent with [[The Warrior Princess]], but with more demonstration of her warrior and leadership skills. Trying to reconcile this Xena with the skills and the past we are later shown for her is not easy. | |||
==Episode notes== | |||
Xena is sitting on a horse in a hill; two other warriors ride up. | |||
: Cretus: Darphus gave them your demands. Just enough crops to feed our men. Only the buildings needed to quarter them. | |||
: X: Their answer? | |||
: Darphus: They've decided to defend themselves. | |||
: X: Stupid. ... We'll give them the night to reconsider. | |||
: Darphus: Give them nothing! I say we attack now--wipe them all out! Let the gods sort out the women and children. | |||
: X: We are warriors, not barbarians. Cretus, you made it clear that anyone who raises a sword against us will die? | |||
: Cretus: They said they'd rather die defending the fruits of their labor than give it to renegades. | |||
: X: Then tomorrow they'll get their wish. | |||
Later, she leads her band of men into attacking a village. She encounters Salmoneus, a vendor disguised as a woman, who pleads for his life. She spares his life. Later, eating in a restaurant, she is amused by Salmoneus' babbling, and we see another human side to her. | |||
However, Hercules and his cousin find the men of the village murdered and hung on wooden circles. | |||
Xena and Darphus argue: He wants to wipe out the village; she wants her soldiers to be with her not for pillage and money but because they want to be soldiers. Behind her back, Darphus leads the men to the village, killing the women and children brutally. | |||
When Xena finds out, she is infuriated: "You killed women and children?" She hears a baby crying and finds it; her men would kill it, too, but she stops them. | |||
After bringing the baby back to the cave, Salmoneus has found a shepherdess to help take care of the baby. Xena is upset -- | |||
: X: "I've got no intention of taking care of this infant! I merely saved him." | |||
: S: "No, of course not." -- laughs nervously -- "If you had any maternal instinct, you wouldn't -- not that you don't have maternal instinct, but with all the fighting, it gets --" | |||
The shepherdess interrupts his nervous babbling. "I have some milk for the baby." | |||
Salmoneus tells her that Darphus scares him. Next scene, we see that indeed Darphus has turned her men against her; that her men are his. Although she doesn't believe him, it's true, and Darphus and his men force her to run the gauntlet. Salmoneus asks a nearby warrior, "Can she really make it through that?" "No one ever has" responds the warrior with a shake of his head. They strip Xena down to a leather brassiere and some lacy underpants. She makes it through the gauntlet, collapses; then rises. Darphus wants her killed but the men won't do it. Xena is proud and looks like Xena, Warrior Princess; she spits towards Darphus before leaving. | |||
Xena & Hercules meet, and briefly fight. She refuses to join him in the fight against Darphus. But then when he is at the village, outnumbered, she shows up at the last minute, kaiiing. | |||
Afterwards, Xena and Hercules decide to wander about together for a bit. | |||
... A skeletal death-like figure comes and raises the red-eyed spirit of Darphus, describing himself as an emissary of Ares. You must kill Hercules and then you have revenge against Xena. He gives him a hell-beast. | |||
==Intertextuality== | ==Intertextuality== | ||
* "[[The Bride With White Hair]]" (1993) | * "[[The Bride With White Hair]]" (1993) | ||
==Further reading== | |||
* [http://www.whoosh.org/epguide/trans/h112tran.html Transcript] at Whoosh! | |||
[[category:1995 publications]] | |||
[[Category:Xena episodes]] | [[Category:Xena episodes]] | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gauntlet, The}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Gauntlet, The}} | ||
Latest revision as of 19:24, 12 March 2009
| Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episode | |
|---|---|
| “The Gauntlet” | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 12 |
| Guest star(s) | Lucy Lawless (Xena); Robert Trebor (Salmoneus); Matthew Chamberlain (Darphus) |
| Writer(s) | Peter Bielak (writer); David Blewitt (editor) |
| Director | Jack Perez |
| Production no. | #76612 |
| Original airdate | 1995 May 1 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "The Vanishing Dead" (H) | "Unchained Heart" (H) |
| "The Warrior Princess" (X) | "Unchained Heart" (X) |
We see Xena, previously from The Warrior Princess. Now we see her in her role as the troubled leader of a band of marauders.
Xena's character arc
We still haven't seen the Xena we could recognize from the history we're later given: she's not really tormented so much as a burdened with some kind of a conscience. Nor is she the mighty warrior princess with a long history of conquest and bloodshed. Rather, she is a leader of a large-ish band of marauders-cum-army. We see her as a leader of men, consistent with The Warrior Princess, but with more demonstration of her warrior and leadership skills. Trying to reconcile this Xena with the skills and the past we are later shown for her is not easy.
Episode notes
Xena is sitting on a horse in a hill; two other warriors ride up.
- Cretus: Darphus gave them your demands. Just enough crops to feed our men. Only the buildings needed to quarter them.
- X: Their answer?
- Darphus: They've decided to defend themselves.
- X: Stupid. ... We'll give them the night to reconsider.
- Darphus: Give them nothing! I say we attack now--wipe them all out! Let the gods sort out the women and children.
- X: We are warriors, not barbarians. Cretus, you made it clear that anyone who raises a sword against us will die?
- Cretus: They said they'd rather die defending the fruits of their labor than give it to renegades.
- X: Then tomorrow they'll get their wish.
Later, she leads her band of men into attacking a village. She encounters Salmoneus, a vendor disguised as a woman, who pleads for his life. She spares his life. Later, eating in a restaurant, she is amused by Salmoneus' babbling, and we see another human side to her.
However, Hercules and his cousin find the men of the village murdered and hung on wooden circles.
Xena and Darphus argue: He wants to wipe out the village; she wants her soldiers to be with her not for pillage and money but because they want to be soldiers. Behind her back, Darphus leads the men to the village, killing the women and children brutally.
When Xena finds out, she is infuriated: "You killed women and children?" She hears a baby crying and finds it; her men would kill it, too, but she stops them.
After bringing the baby back to the cave, Salmoneus has found a shepherdess to help take care of the baby. Xena is upset --
- X: "I've got no intention of taking care of this infant! I merely saved him."
- S: "No, of course not." -- laughs nervously -- "If you had any maternal instinct, you wouldn't -- not that you don't have maternal instinct, but with all the fighting, it gets --"
The shepherdess interrupts his nervous babbling. "I have some milk for the baby."
Salmoneus tells her that Darphus scares him. Next scene, we see that indeed Darphus has turned her men against her; that her men are his. Although she doesn't believe him, it's true, and Darphus and his men force her to run the gauntlet. Salmoneus asks a nearby warrior, "Can she really make it through that?" "No one ever has" responds the warrior with a shake of his head. They strip Xena down to a leather brassiere and some lacy underpants. She makes it through the gauntlet, collapses; then rises. Darphus wants her killed but the men won't do it. Xena is proud and looks like Xena, Warrior Princess; she spits towards Darphus before leaving.
Xena & Hercules meet, and briefly fight. She refuses to join him in the fight against Darphus. But then when he is at the village, outnumbered, she shows up at the last minute, kaiiing.
Afterwards, Xena and Hercules decide to wander about together for a bit.
... A skeletal death-like figure comes and raises the red-eyed spirit of Darphus, describing himself as an emissary of Ares. You must kill Hercules and then you have revenge against Xena. He gives him a hell-beast.
Intertextuality
- "The Bride With White Hair" (1993)
Further reading
- Transcript at Whoosh!