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General Rumors about XWP Archive
SEPTEMBER 1997
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CONSIDER THIS A WARNING!
These babies cover September 1997 and before...that's why we call it an ARCHIVE!Last update: 04-01-98
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Here is the archive!!!
CONSIDER THIS A WARNING!
These babies cover September 1997 and before...that's why we call it an ARCHIVE!Last update: 04-01-98
RUMORS ABOUT RECURRING
CHARACTERS
09/97. Perdicus may return. Scott Garrison has been
signed to be in
an episode. He played Perdicus in GREEKS and RETURN OF
CALLISTO
-- where he died! But of course DEATH MEANS NOTHING in
the
Xenaverse...just ask the villagers in THE RECKONING,
Iolaus,
Toxeus, Gabrielle, Xena, Lyceus, and Callisto!
RUMORS ABOUT
ACTORS/PRODUCTION
09/97. Scott Garrison has been signed for an episode, so
should we
expect Perdicas/Perdicus to return? And how will he be
spelling
him name now?
09/97. Hudson Leick has been signed for two episodes
[MATERNAL
INSTINCT and BITTER SUITE].
09/97. Ted Raimi has been signed for eleven episodes
[BITTER SUITE;
KING OF ASSASSINS; WARRIOR PRIESTESS TRAMP; and 8
more]. See his
story at Laura Sue Dean's News Gossip
Rumors #04, under "Who's Signed and Who Isn't"
09/97. To date, Robert Trebor has been signed for
ZILCH!!!! (But he
will appear in one HERCULES episode which has already
been
filmed.
09/97. Michael Hurst has been signed to direct again and
Robert
Trebor is in negotiations to direct an episode. There
is a rumor
that Renee O'Connor may try her hand at directing an
episode
later this season (although she did do an implied
denial about
this in an on-line interview in late September 1997)
PLOT RUMORS
09/97.
Renee O'Connor in an on-line chat in late September
mentioned
that they are possibly working on another DAY IN THE
LIFE type
episode. She also mentioned that the costume change for
Gabrielle
would be slight and that her skirt would be pinned to
her
underwear. And she did an implied denial that she was
trying to
direct a show this third season.
09/97. Lucy Lawless was quoted as saying "We've got a
killer season
coming up. It's really daring -- not like anything I've
ever seen
on television... We are questioning a lot of our own
taboos and
the audience will be challenged like they've never been
before...There's a heavy dramatic arc coming up with my
costar,
Renee O'Conor, who's my favorite person in the world to
work
with. The relationship between our characters is put to
an
extreme test when one of us causes the death of someone
very
close to the other."
09/97. The above agrees with the TV Guide report that
Xena's
"relationship with Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) is
jeopardized when
one of them causes an accidental death." Rumor also has
it that
this may be one of the many reasons for the inevitable
RIFT. (See
below for Paul Robert Coyle's comments about Gabrielle
having to
finally kill someone in self-defense....now can
self-defense be
accidental? These are the clues, people, YOU figure
them out).
09/97. Joe DoLuca at the 08-17-97 Detroit Con said that
(1) there
will be another gratuitous mention of the Joxer song in
season
three (can we stand yet another rendition???), [WARRIOR
PRIESTESS
TRAMP] and (2) there will
be a scene where Joxer is in a brothel and the women
sing him
praises [same episode]!
09/97. More subtext is promised, along with more scenes
to make you
go "Hmmmmm". Perhaps along that theme, another slice of
life
episode like A DAY IN THE LIFE is in the works, and
another
alternative timeline episode either ala XENA SCROLLS
(an
adventure of the gals' descendents) or REMEMBER NOTHING
(a what
if scenario). However, this might be referring to the
HTLJ
episode STRANGER IN A STRANGE WORLD, which will
feature,
according to TV Guide, Xena as a 1930's style mobster
moll, and
will air during the November sweeps time.
09/97. We will find out about the first time Xena was
called
"warrior princess". My money is on THE DEBT. But it's
just a wild
hunch.
09/97. This is from a Chakram post in July 1997: Tonight
I attended
a chat at the Universal Studios page
(http://www.universalstudios.com) with Paul Robert
Coyle, a co-
producer on Xena's brother show Herc. Paul was mostly
talking
about issues related to HTLJ (not surprisingly), when
suddenly,
out of the blue came a rather unusual question: "When
will
Gabrielle kill in cold blood?" Now, Paul's first
response to this
was understandable: She'll never kill in cold blood,
that would
be out of character. But then he said something I think
will be
of great interest to us Xenites (assuming it's not
common
knowledge and I just don't get it). Let me just say
that the
following is NOT a paraphrase. It is exactly what he
said word
for word (I typed it up on IRC, so retrieving it is
just a matter
of searching my logs). Ok, that said, this was Paul's
second
response: "They have an upcoming episode where
Gabrielle deals
with killing the first person she's forced to kill in
self-defense".
Looks like when Xena and Gabrielle do their trial
separation,
that Gabrielle returns to the Amazons to rule them as
their
Queen.
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