LOVE THE SERIES, HATED THE END
3
By France de Atlántida
I won't spoilt for you, if you're someone who has NEVER watched Xena Warrior Pricess before but I will rate this season vs the series as a whole.
Storywise, I believe that the show should had ended on season 5, pretty much we came full circle with Xena, Gabrielle and pretty much the message of the series, which is about redeeming yourself by helping those you wronged in your past. Season 6... Either the network or the production decided that Xena was a cash cow they weren't going to let go so easily, even if Lucy Lawless had a newborn to take care of and pretty much Renee couldn't wait to move on and take her career in a different direction.
Although season 6 had several amazing episodes, such as, Who's Ghurkan? (which was better suited to be included in season 5 narrative) and Path of Vengeance, where Xena had emotional and combative challenges. However, there was no direction, the writers or the producers were starting to throw stuff at the wall to see what stick... such as getting into Norse mythology, only to be underplayed in a mockery-episode later in the season. The whole season was just a BAD JOKE, the show I've been avidly watching and buying (I spend hundreds on merchandise over the years) was ruined and to add salt to the wound, Rob Tapert decided to screw pretty much every fan with that finale that didn't had any logical or series-wise sense. Grillo-Marxuach was doing a Xena reboot but unfortuneately NBC Jennifer Salke decided to kill it.