Xena and Gabrielle were without a doubt my first "oh, I am a girl who likes girls" moment.
I remember my dad being so weird about me not liking the Hercules show that ran around that time and trying to be like, "Come on, he's so big and tough! Don't you wanna be that?" And all I could think about was whether or not I wanted to be Gabrielle or Xena more.
Xena quickly became way better than Hercules. The characters were just more interesting. Her outfit looks vaguely Japanese, but I never saw that season. It was hard to keep a steady watching schedule as a kid. I should go back and rewatch this! I hope it's not just nostalgia.
She also did a great job on Battlestar Galactica and Spartacus. And Parks and Rec! I'm glad she's the one that got more exposure instead of Kevin Sorbo. He chewed a lot of scenery in Hercules, and being a MAGA asshat didn't endear him to his old fans.
SORBO was so jealous of her, he became a looney right winger after his strokes. he even fucked up his own show on andromeda.
She's so slim in this picture. In my memory of the show she is like a strong body builder body type like the female version of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules. Weird how wrong such a clear memory can be!
Goddamn
It is a god damn crime that we never got Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman. She would have absolutely killed it if the superhero boom came about 20 years earlier.
Here in Greece, the series along with Hercules used to play every evening at 2-3 o'clock when I was a kid. She is well known.
It's amazing how much higher the bar has been raised to be a "muscly woman".
She looks fantastic and athletic and sexy in this picture, but I remember seeing that in the 90s and thinking "wow strongk!"
And I don't think it's about gear, I think it's about aesthetics, I remember women being really careful not to exercises that could make their arms or shoulders bigger, and it just feels like women care about that a lot less now.
As a sapphic person I completely approve.
That was such a good show at the time.
I never realized how much of a smoke show she was/is when I was younger. She's still great in the most recent stuff I've seen her on. Great counterpart to Ron on Parks and Rec and also great on Curb when she briefly dated Larry. Does the Xena show still hold up?
As Patton Oswalt said: "Two moon faced lesbians beating people with a stick? I can't tell ya how many times I conjugated the verb to that show."
I was more of a Gabrielle guy.
Can I tell you something, Jerry? It's all crap on TV. The only thing I watch is Xena, the Warrior Princess. She must be about six-six.
Lucy Flawless
That's the female "Atlas", but someone stole the globe she was holding up.
I used to hate the show as a little kid, made me feel like I needed to pee but then when I went to the bathroom, I didn't need to pee anymore.. Yet I couldn't stop watching. Later on I turned out to be gay.
was this a promo because I don't recall the outfit looking like that or her having that suicide sword.
would!
A wizard did it.
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