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Although it starts out as a return to the lighter more humorous episodes, and certainly contains a great deal of humor, "Forgiven" actually is a continuation of the darker tone that Season 3 of [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] generally took, focusing on "The Deliverer", "Gabrielle's Hope", "The Debt" parts 1 & 2, "Maternal Instincts", "The Bitter Suite", and "One Against an Army". | Although it starts out as a return to the lighter more humorous episodes, and certainly contains a great deal of humor, "Forgiven" actually is a continuation of the darker tone that Season 3 of [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] generally took, focusing on "The Deliverer", "Gabrielle's Hope", "The Debt" parts 1 & 2, "Maternal Instincts", "The Bitter Suite", and "One Against an Army". The tone is created by several references to Gabrielle's own guilt, as well as by the kid's own repeated slipsliding in her efforst to reform. The ending is key, though, when Gabrielle and Tara seek priestly or divine forgiveness to help them forgive themselves, and Xena turns her back on them. "What's Xena doing? Doesn't she wanna be forgiven?" Tara asks. Although the writers left it ambiguous, and as a likely harbinger of future episodes and arcs, it can also be read as an affirmation of Xena's stance in [[Warrior... Priestess... Tramp]], that the gods don't forgive us, and we have to take matters in our own hands. | ||
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Revision as of 10:29, 14 March 2007
| Xena: Warrior Princess episode | |
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| “Forgiven” | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 14 |
| Guest star(s) | Shiri Appleby (Tara) |
| Writer(s) | R.J. Stewart; Jim Prior (editor) |
| Director | Garth Maxwell |
| Production no. | #V0415 |
| Original airdate | 1998 Feb. 16 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "One Against an Army" | "King Con" |
An obnoxious kid (Tara) who keeps saying she's bad and wants to be redeemed is trying to work with Xena, but she's driving Gabrielle nuts.
Disclaimer
"No street-talking, cat-fighting, barroom-brawling juvenile delinquents were harmed during the production of this motion picture."
Commentary
Although it starts out as a return to the lighter more humorous episodes, and certainly contains a great deal of humor, "Forgiven" actually is a continuation of the darker tone that Season 3 of Xena: Warrior Princess generally took, focusing on "The Deliverer", "Gabrielle's Hope", "The Debt" parts 1 & 2, "Maternal Instincts", "The Bitter Suite", and "One Against an Army". The tone is created by several references to Gabrielle's own guilt, as well as by the kid's own repeated slipsliding in her efforst to reform. The ending is key, though, when Gabrielle and Tara seek priestly or divine forgiveness to help them forgive themselves, and Xena turns her back on them. "What's Xena doing? Doesn't she wanna be forgiven?" Tara asks. Although the writers left it ambiguous, and as a likely harbinger of future episodes and arcs, it can also be read as an affirmation of Xena's stance in Warrior... Priestess... Tramp, that the gods don't forgive us, and we have to take matters in our own hands.