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Ok, so. The night before last, I was watching the Xena pilot. And I noticed three things:
1) it was horribly, horribly, awful in almost every regard, except for
2) Lucy Lawless, who was not awful, and was, in fact, good, and,
3) despite the not-good-ness of Gabrielle's actress*, the Xena/Gabrielle chemistry was damn straight already there, boy howdy, and, and, and how. Yo.
Given items 2 and 3, no wonder this show didn't die the horrible death at birth that no. 1 ought to have dictated.
And so, I was trying to watch the second episode just now, and thinking, glorioski, this is still really really bad, and it's going to be bad for awhile. There's 24 whole episodes in season 1 alone, and we've got six seasons to navigate, and I have no idea when the craptastic production values are going to ease up and the storytelling is going to....how to put it. Be somewhat less bad.
I know there is goodness ahead. I am not in doubt that Xena: Warrior Princess will bring me many moments of happiness. I just don't know how and when.**
So, the question is--no, not, "should I keep watching," as I know that there is stuff in Xena that is well worth watching, or at least, stuff I want to see--the question is, should I blog about Xena? Will the pain of early Xena be mitigated at all by complaining about it in enormous detail on LJ? Please keep in mind that my progress through any show, awesome or awful, is slowed by about 80% when I try to regularlysnark blog about it.
*I know that Gabrielle's actress gets better, so don't bother telling me. I'm not worried about that part.
**Please don't tell me to just OMG wait for Callisto! or to skip ahead to anything pertaining to Callisto. It's not gonna happen. I am not watching Xena for Hudson Leick. I will experience the agonies and ecstasies of Xena, whatever they are, as god intended, in the order that they aired.
1) it was horribly, horribly, awful in almost every regard, except for
2) Lucy Lawless, who was not awful, and was, in fact, good, and,
3) despite the not-good-ness of Gabrielle's actress*, the Xena/Gabrielle chemistry was damn straight already there, boy howdy, and, and, and how. Yo.
Given items 2 and 3, no wonder this show didn't die the horrible death at birth that no. 1 ought to have dictated.
And so, I was trying to watch the second episode just now, and thinking, glorioski, this is still really really bad, and it's going to be bad for awhile. There's 24 whole episodes in season 1 alone, and we've got six seasons to navigate, and I have no idea when the craptastic production values are going to ease up and the storytelling is going to....how to put it. Be somewhat less bad.
I know there is goodness ahead. I am not in doubt that Xena: Warrior Princess will bring me many moments of happiness. I just don't know how and when.**
So, the question is--no, not, "should I keep watching," as I know that there is stuff in Xena that is well worth watching, or at least, stuff I want to see--the question is, should I blog about Xena? Will the pain of early Xena be mitigated at all by complaining about it in enormous detail on LJ? Please keep in mind that my progress through any show, awesome or awful, is slowed by about 80% when I try to regularly
*I know that Gabrielle's actress gets better, so don't bother telling me. I'm not worried about that part.
**Please don't tell me to just OMG wait for Callisto! or to skip ahead to anything pertaining to Callisto. It's not gonna happen. I am not watching Xena for Hudson Leick. I will experience the agonies and ecstasies of Xena, whatever they are, as god intended, in the order that they aired.