Talk:Xena: Warrior Princess

message: Well, to be honest about the princess part... Fans have been discussing over this for a very long time and they still haven't found an answer. 
It would be interesting if the article explored the "Princess" part of the title - in the continuity, is Xena a princess at all?
:That has been the subject of much discussion indeed. There was never much evidence that she settled down to any kind of rule, certainly; but then, lots of princes and princesses never did (and lots of princes never seemed to do much more than wander around fighting, either — see Prince Rupert of the Rhine, for instance).
:My take was always a functional one: How does one get a royal title? Well, aside from inheriting it, you can get it by popular acclaim, or by hitting people repeatedly with a sword until they start calling you by your royal title (i.e., "popular acclaim"). Seems to me that she qualified under those two criteria, at least. --Ray Radlein 01:23, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
:Apparently, a producer said on a forum that Xena was called 'princess' by her army in her evil days, and it just kind of stuck. This is hearsay, but perhaps someone can validate it - Ref: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/xena-wp/Episodes/ . We know for sure that in 'The Debt, Part 2', Lao Ma tells her "You're going to help me run the Kingdom of Lao. You'll be my Warrior Princess.". Ref: http://amazonbon.tripod.com/debt23.html Bardsandwarriors 18:50, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's why Ares kept offering her the upgrade to "Warrior Queen" despite her disinterest in the title- her disinterest also suggesting it was given to her by several people constantly using it without any request or encouragement from herself. This is probably why Callisto took up the title of "Warrior Queen" as if she had reached heights Xena hadn't and insisted people call her that, without realizing that Xena didn't ask for or even care for any of it in the first place. There's also a noticeable trend of people who forcibly give themselves titles/nicknames who snuff it pretty often in the show as a consequence. (Tsukiakari (talk) 04:55, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: princess?

message: I think there could be more listed but I can't remember much myself. I do remember an episode of Men Behaving Badly where one of the actors was so anxiously wanting to watch Xena. --Dara 01:06, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  pop-culture reference 

message: Hi all. I recently tried to submit a format for a Xena infobox. I seen nice templates made for other series characters like Buffy and thought that Xena's characters deserved the same attention. I'm not sure how to make the template go through/live on the site and thus am sending out this message to those who might have more expertise in this area. I've supplied a few Xena characters with the infobox template. Here it is for those of you interested: Template:Infobox Xenaverse Character Artemisboy 17:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea how to make the infobox go through (I assume you can find the answer somewhere on Wikipedia's vast help pages). However, because the infobox is not working correctly, I am going to remove it from the various character pages for now. 209.51.77.64 00:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox Template 

message: The goofs section is ridiculously long, and much of it was written in an overly casual style.  I don't think an extensive list of goofs is appropriate for a general article on the television show anyway.  I have removed it.  If someone wants to bring it back, I would recommend setting up a new page for it. CKarnstein 06:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: goofs

message: As best as I can tell, everything added to the article by User:Imjusthappy was plagiarized.  I have removed the section titled "The beginning", which was lifted verbatim from http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/Xena/xena.html.  A quick Google suggests that at least some of the "goofs" material was plagiarized from the TVtome.com Xena: Warrior Princess - Goofs and Nitpicks Guide, but I can't access the originals.  We should all be on the lookout for future additions of plagiarized text. CKarnstein 06:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: plagiarism

message: Dark Horse Comics have Xena comics  and I was adding in the details to the entry for one of the writers, Ian Edginton, and noticed there wasn't an entry for them so I thought I'd flag the need for one and hopefully someone with a better knowledge of the series could get the entry going. (Emperor 17:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Following up but I'd suggest the comic would go here: Xena: Warrior Princess (comics). Worth noting that Dark Horse stopped publishing in 2000 and current titles are published by Dynamite Entertainment  (Emperor 23:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a quick note to say this has been started but needs expanding. (Emperor 11:17, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comics

message: Does anyone know who choreographed the fight scenes in the series? --Ixfd64 00:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  choreographer? 

message: The article says that Xena was responsible for the schism of the Amazon nation. When was this ever stated? SIN TRADE arc revealed that Xena scattered the Northern Amazons by killing Cyane and her leaders as part of her 10-yr past, but the one who scattered all the nations from the Greek valley where they started (PATH OF VENGEANCE) has never been known.
Xena has had exclusive involvement with the Northern Amazons with SIN TRADE, THEM BONES and LIFEBLOOD, but the AMAZON HIGH Stone Age segments belong to that tribe exclusively. Unofficially, the entire pilot that was screened at the Con revealed that the Tretomlecs were eager to return to their original valley, indicating that the tribes were already scattered at that time. Neither Otere or Yakut, nor either of the Cyanes from SIN TRADE or LIFEBLOOD accused Xena of destroying all of the Amazon tribes, merely the Northerns, and blamed Alti for their spiritual destruction.
Furthermore, Xena's involvement with the Greek Amazons only happened insofar as her recent life with Gabrielle and Melosa. She and Borias were only involved with the Centaurs during their Greek conquests. None of the Queens present at the reunion council in PATH OF VENGEANCE made reference to anything Xena did to them, rather they focused on what Xena and Gabrielle had done to aid them. No Greek queen from Melosa down to Varia ever showed any knowledge, or accused Xena, of the great schism.
Greatest speculation points to an enemy in the distant past responsible for beginning a war with the Amazons, possibly the Centaurs. But the Centaurs have never evidently been involved with any Amazons besides the Greeks. If the full AMAZON HIGH plot is to be accepted as canon, then the schism took place before the Stone Age. Otherwise, the exact time is indeterminable. But based on series episodes, the person or event responsible for the schism is unknown, and it was definitely not Xena. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.40.174 (talk) 18:02, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Amazon Schism

message: I watched through half of Season 1 and there was no lesbian subtext to be seen yet. When does it "begin"?--Sonjaaa 14:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: when does subtext begin?

message: New Zealand has been added to the infobox; I know that principal filming occurred in New Zealand, but I'm not aware of any New Zealand-based production company contributing to its financing.  Should NZ be listed there? -- JHunterJ 11:44, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think New Zealand should be listed as the country of origin is USA not New Zealand, although most of the series was filmed there it was created by an american company so its origin is America.--NeilEvans 18:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand's contributions to the production of Xena 

message: I feel the fandom section is far too long, surely there only needs to be brief mention of different fandoms.--NeilEvans 19:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fandom section 

message: Shouldn't the country of orgin be USA/New Zealand? It used to be that way on the imdb. It was produced in New Zealand. Neptunekh 14:21, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was filmed in New Zealand, but no NZ production company took part, as far as I know. See #New Zealand's contributions to the production of Xena above. -- JHunterJ 14:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Country Of Orgin

message: *Anyone remember the logo for "Renaissance Pictures" that came on at the end? It scared the crud outta me. WizardDuck 00:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Scary Stuff

message: How is it possible that Sam Raimi's name does not occur anywhere in the text of this article? --Saforrest 18:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You tell me. Runa27 23:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, but on IMDb, it lists 14 different producers on the series, and unfortunately the informaton there is so incomplete, it says, as of this writing that executive producers Raimi and Rob Tapert only produced one episode in 2000, obviously incorrect! 5Q5 14:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sam Raimi 

message: This was my original "Theme Music" information, submitted long ago-- I also submitted it to IMDB under Trivia...
"The theme song for 'Xena: Warrior Princess' was a modified version of "Kaval Sviri (The Flute Plays)" from 'Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares'. In the original 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys' episode where Xena was introduced, the original Kaval Sviri was the music used to announce Xena racing into battle. 
I had included links to the Yale Women's Slavic Chorus' website for verification, citing their version of Kaval Sviri (http://www.yale.edu/ysc/media.htm), which also includes a translation: the song is a young woman's declaration of love for a stranger playing pipes in a village. According to the YWSC, it's lyrics are translated as, 'A piper is playing in the village. Mother, if that piper is from our village, I will love him from today till tomorrow around noon. If he is from a neighboring village, though, I'll love him my whole life.'"
I came back here to find my entry greatly altered, and this... 
"The theme music, composed by Joseph LoDuca, who also co-wrote the lyrics for the songs in "The Bitter Suite", was developed from the traditional Bulgarian folk song 'Kaval Sviri', and was sung by Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares."  
I want to make certain no one has it on my offering that LMDVB provided vocals on the theme song.  I have seen the article where LoDuca references that he used Bulgarian singers, but I have never seen him state or credit that organization with supplying the vocals.  They were only mentioned as the likely source of the discovery; LMDVB Volume 2 was a best-selling 'World Music' CD and was released on the 4AD label.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.160.53.150 (talk) 19:29, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theme Music 

message: I had a message sent to me that said it was removed because of copyright reasons, although I specifically stated that it was a screen capture of my own. Can anyone explain? And if its fine, can I put it back up? --72.229.113.164 (talk) 16:24, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was main image deleted? 

message: What happened to the sexuality section?  It was part of the reason why the show was so successful, (the will-they-won't-they of a heterosexual romance was replaced with are-they-aren't-they?) so why isn't it still here? It could become a part of a "reception" section, which could talk about how successful Xena was.-Malkinann (talk) 06:59, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in Xena, the article specific to the character.--Father Goose (talk) 08:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems odd that it's not even mentioned here in a potential "Reception" section, given that it was part of the reason why the show was so successful. :/ -Malkinann (talk) 21:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Valid point.  A link to Xena's sexuality in a "reception" section sounds like a good idea.--Father Goose (talk) 22:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What happened to the sexuality section?

message: It cites 'Unchained Heart' as the episode Xena was introduced in Hercules the Legendary Journeys. This is false, that would be 'The Warrior Princess'. You'd think that'd be self explanatory.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by P4poetic (talk • contribs) 02:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You know, it could have just been been fixed without the snide remark. AnmaFinotera (talk) 03:08, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First episode 

message: I looked around forever just to find that Xena's weapon was called a chakram. I think there should be a section which talks about this, or a link to the Wiki article with them, as in the Chakram article, Xena is depicted under the Pop Culture section. 12.197.112.117 (talk) 23:06, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there should not be a section on it. It should be noted, but not as an entire section. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 00:19, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weapons / Other main objects of importance 

message: Under this section, theres a picture with the caption "Xena kissing Gabrielle." This is misleading. Xena's spirit was occupying Autolicus' body, and speaking through him to communicate with Gabrielle. At the end of their impassioned talk, Xena seems to kiss Gabrielle, but it clearly shows immediatly after that, Autolicus had actually used the situation to steal a kiss with Gabrielle, much to her surprise upon the realization.
74.128.141.121 (talk) 10:52, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influene on the Lesbian Community 

message: Xena was one of the first shows on TV to utilize the wire work usually seen (up to that point) in Hong Kong action movies. Shouldn't this be in here someplace? There is no section on the style of the show, which is where such a comment should go. Ideas?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by TEHodson (talk • contribs) 08:53, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wire work & Gabrielle's scrolls 

message: I don't know how to fix this but on the Google description of this article, it reads : "Xena : Warrior Ballsack".
http://www.google.ca/search?as_q=xena  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tullster025 (talk • contribs) 22:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballsack 

message: Isn't there any mention of Eris' former nickname here at all? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 09:21, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eris 

message: This article is a mess. It is about as disorganized as any I've seen, is poorly written and barely sourced beyond referring to episodes. It needs a major overhaul. Is there anyone else out there willing to take it on with me? Someone who can write, who has experience completely restructuring an article? If so, please leave a message here or on my Talk page, with ideas on how to attack it. I just spent half an hour on one paragraph, simply rewriting and removing bizarre wikilinks for practically every noun (there is no need to wikilink words like "warrior") and repeated wikilinks on the character's and actor's names. Generally, too, each main character gets her/his own paragraph. What we need are people who know the show well enough to write sensibly about it, but overzealous fans are discouraged due to the impulse to put in excess fancruft. I have just participated in taking two Buffy episode articles to GA status; that's the kind of work this article needs and deserves. Any takers? --TEHodson 08:29, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A mess in need of major overhaul 

message: I added a Relevant? tag to the section that discusses the Facebook movie campaign. After more than a year, there are only 14K supporters which appears to now just be an obscure "voice in the dark" that no one is listening to. Is this still a notable issue? I'm leaning towards deleting it as "not notable". Ckruschke (talk) 17:21, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2011 Movie Campaign 

message: Proposed by User:Andrewman327.
*Support Geography of... is not a notable topic in its own right. Boleyn (talk) 09:29, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal: [[Geography of Xena: Warrior Princess]] to [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] 

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message: Types of mythological or fantastic beings in contemporary fiction is a page of, well, fantasy series (movie, TV, written, whatever) and the assorted mythological and/or fantastic critters they contain.  This series would qualify.  Anyone care to add it?  I'd probably include the Hercules tv show, as well, since they're explicitly supposed to be in the same setting. Tamtrible (talk) 00:23, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone more familiar with the series than I care to add it to this list? 

message: A picture of her signature weapon (yin-yang chakram) would fit well in the article. It made chakram an it weapon for a time.Setenzatsu (talk) 22:17, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture