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[pirateygoodness]

Dearest Livejournal:

I am seriously considering taking up watching Xena, as we did not get that TV channel when I was young and impressionable, and I feel like this is a television experience I would enjoy. I think I require advice, though? Like, if I start watching season one will I get it? Is there a point at which things suddenly get really awesome and gay that I should start from?

PLEASE TO ADVISE.

Love,
pirateygoodness

(Also public service announcement: there are like EIGHTY JILLION Lost Girl prompts at Porn Battle XIII (Lucky Thirteen), IF ANY OF YOU ARE BORED OR WHATEVER JUST SAYING.

Also also that Bo/Lauren prompt list is IMMENSE and giving me so many ideas that ultimately lead me to want to make super-inappropriate LJ polls to answer questions like WHO IS TOPPIER? etc. THESE TWO, STILL MY FAVOURITES.)

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[thatfangirl]

Ahh, it's like I have been TRAINING for this question.

I'm currently guiding my gf and roommate through an abbreviated first-time watch of Xena. There are a lot of bad episodes, but luckily there are a lot of standalone episodes, and sometimes those characteristics overlap. We've only gotten through the first two seasons, so the latter half of this is untested, but here's the preliminary The Full* Xena Experience *Without the Crap Bits. (+ indicates my personal favs; MG indicates episodes written by Melissa Good, which we would not be watching had they not read her ubers/lesbian romance novels.)

1x01 Sins of the Past
1x03 Dreamworker
1x10 Hooves and Harlots
1x19 Altared States +
1x21 The Greater Good
1x22 Callisto +

2x02 Remember Nothing
2x05 The Return of Callisto
2x07 Intimate Stranger
2x08 Ten Little Warlords
2x10 The Xena Scrolls +
2x12 Destiny
2x13 The Quest
2x14 A Necessary Evil
2x15 A Day in the Life
2x21 Lost Mariner +

3x02 Been There, Done That
3x04 The Deliverer
3x05 Gabrielle's Hope
3x06 The Debt, Part 1
3x07 The Debt, Part 2
3x11 Maternal Instincts
3x12 The Bitter Suite
3x13 One Against an Army ++
3x21 Sacrifice, Part 1
3x22 Sacrifice, Part 2

4x01 Adventures in the Sin Trade, Part 1
4x02 Adventures in the Sin Trade, Part 2
4x03 A Family Affair
4x15 Between the Lines +
4x20 Endgame
4x21 The Ides of March
4x22 Deja Vu All Over Again

6x01 Coming Home [MG]
6x05 Legacy [MG]
6x07 The Rheingold +
6x08 The Ring
6x09 Return of the Valkyrie
6x15 To Helicon and Back +
6x18 When Fates Collide +
6x21 A Friend in Need, Part 1
6x22 A Friend in Need, Part 2

...why, yes, I did skip the entire fifth season.