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Xena's former bad taste in lovers and mentors comes back to haunt | Xena's former bad taste in lovers and mentors comes back to haunt her again in an alternate possibility in which Caesar and Xena rule Rome together. Although Caesar attempted to change his fate and make Xena be his empress as she originally desired, the true natures of Caesar, Alti, Xena, and Gabrielle, come out anyway: Caesar and Alti are traitorous vicious jerks, and Xena and Gabrielle have a deep attraction and connection to one another. | ||
[[Katherine Fugate]] said of the episode and the [[Xena-Gabrielle relationship]] that: | |||
: Paying attention to, and accepting, all of the bad things that you — or, actually the things that you call bad, and realizing they got you where you needed to be, and ultimately for Xena, where she needed to be, was a person who recognized Gabrielle. And that's how being the warrior princess got her to recognize Gabrielle when she saw her.<ref>Katherine Fugate, Interview on DVD commentary to "When Fates Collide".</ref> | |||
On this particular episode and the character of Alti, Fugate said: | |||
: I also started thinking about who was most interested in power in this show other than Caesar (who) was always about power, and Xena, of course, in certain incarnations, and Alti was the other person who actually sought power in every form. And that's how we got Alti. And I also realized Alti was a better conduit between the two worlds. She was our mystic and our shamaness in the series. And she's the only person who, through some sort of mystical power, could get you to see both images and both lifetimes, so that's how we used her. ... I think the thing about Alti that was interesting to me was everyone's lives were linked in this show. Caesar was going to crucify Xena in any lifetime, Xena was going to meet Gabrielle in any lifetime, and Alti was going to die because of Xena in any lifetime. This was a big surprise to her. She thought she'd finally won and she had conquered her own destiny, so to speak, just like Caesar thought he'd conquered his destiny by killing Brutus who'd killed him in the regular life, in the real life I guess we could say. And yet that didn't work because his destiny was to die by the unexpected hand. It was the irony of Caesar, Julius Caesar's life. So here comes Alti the trusted person he didn't suspect just like Brutus was. Well with Alti she was going to die by Xena's hand. This time she crucifies Xena and looks at her and thinks she finally won ... only to realize in the last second of her life that Gabrielle and Xena's love still was her demise just like it was always meant to be.<ref>Katherine Fugate, Interview on DVD commentary to "When Fates Collide".</ref> | |||
On "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]" and the portrayal of women, Fugate said: | |||
: I absolutely think "Xena" had an affect on the way shows were later portrayed with women, especially women action heroes. They're just all over the place now. Even "Tomb Raider", you know, came afterwards, "Alias" came afterwards", "Charmed" I think even came afterwards, I don't want to misquote something, but -- Certainly it's much more common now and accepted now and women are kicking ass all over the place. "... Her courage will change the world." (played from title credits) ... Xena, I think, later will be one of those retrospect shows that people realize how much, how groundbreaking it was, because I don't know that they quite get it yet.<ref>Katherine Fugate, Interview on DVD commentary to "When Fates Collide".</ref> | |||
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[[Category:Xena episodes]] | [[Category:Xena episodes]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:17, 24 April 2007
| Xena: Warrior Princess episode | |
|---|---|
| “When Fates Collide” | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 18 |
| Guest star(s) | Karl Urban (Julius Caesar); Claire Stansfield (Alti); Ted Raimi (Joxer); David Franklin (Brutus); Leah Mizrahi (Clotho); Elizabeth Pendergrast (Atropos); Chloe Jordan (Lachesis) |
| Writer(s) | Katherine Fugate |
| Director | John Fawcett |
| Production no. | #V1421 |
| Original airdate | 2001/5/7 |
| Episode chronology | |
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Xena's former bad taste in lovers and mentors comes back to haunt her again in an alternate possibility in which Caesar and Xena rule Rome together. Although Caesar attempted to change his fate and make Xena be his empress as she originally desired, the true natures of Caesar, Alti, Xena, and Gabrielle, come out anyway: Caesar and Alti are traitorous vicious jerks, and Xena and Gabrielle have a deep attraction and connection to one another.
Katherine Fugate said of the episode and the Xena-Gabrielle relationship that:
- Paying attention to, and accepting, all of the bad things that you — or, actually the things that you call bad, and realizing they got you where you needed to be, and ultimately for Xena, where she needed to be, was a person who recognized Gabrielle. And that's how being the warrior princess got her to recognize Gabrielle when she saw her.[1]
On this particular episode and the character of Alti, Fugate said:
- I also started thinking about who was most interested in power in this show other than Caesar (who) was always about power, and Xena, of course, in certain incarnations, and Alti was the other person who actually sought power in every form. And that's how we got Alti. And I also realized Alti was a better conduit between the two worlds. She was our mystic and our shamaness in the series. And she's the only person who, through some sort of mystical power, could get you to see both images and both lifetimes, so that's how we used her. ... I think the thing about Alti that was interesting to me was everyone's lives were linked in this show. Caesar was going to crucify Xena in any lifetime, Xena was going to meet Gabrielle in any lifetime, and Alti was going to die because of Xena in any lifetime. This was a big surprise to her. She thought she'd finally won and she had conquered her own destiny, so to speak, just like Caesar thought he'd conquered his destiny by killing Brutus who'd killed him in the regular life, in the real life I guess we could say. And yet that didn't work because his destiny was to die by the unexpected hand. It was the irony of Caesar, Julius Caesar's life. So here comes Alti the trusted person he didn't suspect just like Brutus was. Well with Alti she was going to die by Xena's hand. This time she crucifies Xena and looks at her and thinks she finally won ... only to realize in the last second of her life that Gabrielle and Xena's love still was her demise just like it was always meant to be.[2]
On "Xena: Warrior Princess" and the portrayal of women, Fugate said:
- I absolutely think "Xena" had an affect on the way shows were later portrayed with women, especially women action heroes. They're just all over the place now. Even "Tomb Raider", you know, came afterwards, "Alias" came afterwards", "Charmed" I think even came afterwards, I don't want to misquote something, but -- Certainly it's much more common now and accepted now and women are kicking ass all over the place. "... Her courage will change the world." (played from title credits) ... Xena, I think, later will be one of those retrospect shows that people realize how much, how groundbreaking it was, because I don't know that they quite get it yet.[3]