Soul Possession Part 3

Back to the past: Joxer sees Xena in her wedding dress. He says she is beautiful. Since he knows of the contract then,and is such a blabbermouth anyway,why did he never slip up and tell Gabby about it in following years? He gives Xena a lock of Gab's hair.

At the Fates ceremony: Xena says "I do....NOT".She then runs to the lava shaft, wearing her wedding dress with stick-on breastplates. The Fates said the bond,if married,can never be broken by GODS or mortals.By Xena agreeing in the woods scene, the marriage was valid...the ceremony was just a formality, I believe.At the end Ares destroys the scroll,and he is a god. HUH?

Now,Xena jumps down the shaft...why? How does she know she will survive? She CLIMBED down before in Family Affair and needed water right away. Before jumping she looks down as if looking for Gabby.The flames gush up like in Sacrifice 2 when an object(a body) hits the lava...we see this after Xena hits bottom...what else could have happened?

Joxer screams at Ares that he has lost another friend...about 20 seconds pass as Joxer says this and rushes at Ares....then Ares disappears after Xena hits, but in reality(I guess) he catches her as Hercules did in Prometheus.

It is at the bottom of the pit,and is not hot or having any flames.HUH? He takes them both outside.

Xena now says that it was Ares who saved Gabby and Hope,who carried his "child",the Destroyer. WAIT! Ares didn't save Hope.She says in Family Affair that she was saved by Dahak's flame that bore her up to safety. Remember she said she was "daddy's little girl".Ares had no powers in Tartaras, we know, so how can he have power in Dakak's domain?

Xena says Ares saved Hope to save the spawn of Ares and Hope,and saved Gabby as a bargaining chip for a future deal with Xena.

Ares says he "made a deal with Gabrielle"...Gabby offered her soul to him if he saved Hope.Was there a scroll with Gabby's thumbprint on it,too? What about the fact that Gabby said she was at a hospice for a long time? That is a place for injuries,and she looked fine in the woods.Gawd! Where is this series going? Gab wanted Hope alive? Offered her own soul? Now Ares wants Xena's soul to bring Gab to her.

Ares says now that he "let Gabby live"...Xena must be his wife in the next life. NOTE: Per Between the Lines,Gabby and Xena will be together thru eternity chasing Alti.

They put their thumbprints on the bottom of the scroll...Ares asks if Xena would have agreed with no strings attached...she kisses him and says he will never know. She picks his pocket and makes off with the scroll. Ares said that Xena's soul is "pretty much mine." HUH? Her soul went to heaven and hell later on in the series.

Ares also said he let Gab go,and that Xena has to find her. Xena puts the scroll in a bottle and hides it under water.

Next is shown the Xena/Gab meeting in the woods in Family Affair...that poignant scene is serious, and is again trashed by the stupidity going on at the conference. Ares enters on his motorcycle.

Gabby can't decide whether to call the body looking like Joxer either Harry For Xena...she says both.

Why does Ares have to renew his "vows" with another thumbprint?

J/X:"over my dead spirit." HUH? Your spirit can DIE now?

Gabby: "Harry...Xena!"

Ares pulls the spirits out of the bodies so he will have a female-looking Xena. He switches the souls as he did in INTIMATE STRANGER with Xena and Callisto.

Again with the thumbprint.Annie is now Xena.The obligatory sword fight and fisticuffs follow, way too long in this scene. Joxer is thrown against a wall with his head sticking out the other side.

Gabby was punched and does not fight.Ares tosses inaccurate fireballs at Xena. Why try to kill her if he wants her so much?

Xena has the scroll,and Ares destroys it with a fireball.The fans complain about the cheesy special effects.Ares made it, Ares destroyed it. Didn't the Fates say no god or mortal could destroy the pact/scroll?

Ares vows a "next time"...Xena asks if he thinks there will be a next time.

Gabby,with something finally to say,tells Xena that nobody can ever "break them up" and walk off arm-in-arm,as lovers do.Xena says "I liked you as a blonde...I can get used to this".

The scene fades out with CHAKRAM meaning Center for Historical Accuracy of Key Research in Ancient Mythology.

My humble opinion: I was ashamed of this show because the long-awaited explanation of how Gabby got out of the lava pit went unanswered. We see contradictory words by Xena and Ares,as well as Family Affair scenes that refute this ep's explanation. What a travesty of a great series.It made Clones look great by comparison. I think that we will never know how Gab survived(if she did). I believe it was Artemis,as I have written in another review,who saved Gab for her part in saving the gods,world,and humanity from Dahak.

I was depressed by this ep.....what a poor collection of unrelated stuff...the fan club meeting, Whoosh reference, Delaney(as in Sharon Delaney) is a guy, the poignant scenes just trashed as in Clones...enough now.I am getting a headache.I was ashamed of the show and of the total waste of two fine actresses.

One last thing...the scroll had the agreement with Xena and Ares,right? Who wrote the back-story and put it on the scroll...Xena? Why do that,and for whom?

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