The Rheingold (Xena episode)
| Xena: Warrior Princess episode | |
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| “The Rheingold” | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 7 |
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| "The Abyss" | "The Ring" |
Notes
- Lesbian subtext galore with Xena and Gabrielle both talking to other people about their relationship. Plus Xena's past with the Valkyrie, when she played with the Rhein maidens, effectively seducing one to get to the Rheingold.
- "It was the idea of doing all those Norse things in one great story. And by the way I recently read something about Beowulf, that it was, that the author of Beowulf, ... the anonymous author of Beowulf, actually used historical characters from different eras and mythical characters, all together, ... working at the same time. Sound familiar?" -- R. J. Stewart, DVD commentary to "The Rheingold", starting at 00:00:35
- "The kiss was, you know, ideal for Xena: Warrior Princess, the series, because first of all it was mythically correct. But also, it, you know, fit our characters and our characters' needs and desires so perfectly, so it was a great way, a great summation of that trilogy, you know; it was the perfect way to end it. So that was the great out of it; that story presented that to us." (R.J. Stewart) "In its own way, a great romantic, a great love story, even though we didn't want to play any of the love, lovey-dove stuff out of it, we just wanted the character to encounter that and act in a certain way that told us that they had those feelings. ... The fact that they never, um, dwelled on the sweeter aspects of those, on the romance of it, I actually really enjoyed and thought it played great." (Rob Tapert) DVD commentary to "The Rheingold", starting at 00:10:00
- "Everything we did is documented in the Xena scrolls, so we were always just telling it like it is. We were correcting the impression that centuries of sexism has created by taking credit away from Xena and giving it to all these pretender males." -- R. J. Stewart, DVD commentary to "The Rheingold", starting at 00:11:45