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|epname = Remember Nothing | |epname = Remember Nothing | ||
|epdate = 1996-10-07 | |epdate = 1996-10-07 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-08-18 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = For a moment I thought they'd say her younger brother had somehow survived until she stabbed him at the beginning of this episode, but nope, they went a different way about bringing him onscreen. | ||
It's A Wonderful Life, warrior style. I feel like this concept had enough ways to play with it that this episode alone couldn't do it justice. Like, the limitation placed on Xena was that things would go back to the way they were if she spilled blood in rage. Now, that leaves a lot of room for possible technicalities and workarounds! If she calms her emotions so her blood-spilling is cool and collected, does that count? If she kills people by burning them to death, poisoning, strangling, or other ways that don't technically spill blood, does that count? | |||
It also only allowed a pretty shallow view of the differences. Basically she was able to see the difference it made on her immediate family and friends and decided that the "real" history was better. But we get no glimpse of the potential differences in the world due to Xena not being a warlord for a decade! Maybe hundreds of people are living happier healthier lives! Maybe other warlords just did the same damage! We don't know. We know some people like the centaurs and Amazons are worse off, but we still don't get the big picture. If the world was better for many people in this version, she could've found some other ways to positively influence things without returning the original history. She could take on the role of teacher, influencing others to do good in the world though she is by godly trickery unable to get involved. | |||
I'll also note that just an episode after introducing her son, she never had a moment of pause about "Oh, in this alternate history my son doesn't even exist."}} | |||
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|epnum = 203 | |epnum = 203 | ||