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      |epname = The Xena Scrolls
      |epdate = 1997-01-13
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+     |firstwatched = 2025-09-19
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+     |thoughts = Over the years I have learned to generally dislike clip shows, but episodes like this make me think there should be further classification. If an episode is 80% clips and 20% uninteresting framing story, like how [[Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2|TNG season 2]] ended? That's bad. But an episode like this was probably a third or less reused clips, with a very fun framing story. Entirely different beast.
+The whole thing is unabashedly Indiana Jones pastiche, which... good! Closer to Indiana Jones movies than Young Indiana Jones got to be most of the time. That separated by thousands of years each of several notable characters has exactly 1 notable descendant is a trope that doesn't make much sense, but in a story not meant to be taken seriously at all I'll allow it. Even Joxer is at this point considered notable enough for his also-Ted-Raimi descendant to be important here.
+The bit at the very end where this stuff is being proposed for TV/movie is also a well-worn trope, but I liked the gag about how it didn't need to be big budget, they could produce it in some third world country for cheap!}}
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