This was one of the best episodes in the entire series. In this standout moment from an episode which was a standout for Season 1, Xena won’t \/ can’t let Gabrielle die. Lucy Lawless is simply OUTSTANDING in this episode and in this scene.\u00a0 Gabrielle is wounded and dies from her injuries. Xena refuses to give up in fighting for Gabrielle’s life. Even when all hope is gone, she continues to plead, yell, give CPR and in the end pounds on Gabrielle’s chest in order to get her to come back. It works. Gabrielle is revived.<\/p>\n
From the AUSXIP Review by SLK<\/p>\n
It is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen on television, the moment where Gabrielle sucks in her first breath after an interminable amount of angst, tears, threats and pleas of “don\u2019t die” from Xena \u2013 in the performance of Lucy Lawless\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
While everyone else around would have given up, only Xena, the one who loves her, hangs in there as she has nothing else to live for. Few of those gathered around watching would have come away with any other opinion that day than Xena the all-conquering Warrior Princess of Amphipolis loves Gabrielle the bard of Poteideia.<\/p>\n
The reason so many fans love this episode really comes down to just these few minutes. The payoff is so exceptional, and the performances so moving it puts the show just briefly into a whole other stratosphere.<\/p>\n
Read The Full Review<\/a><\/p>\n It’s a stunningly powerful scene showcasing Lucy’s acting. During a Xena Marathon hosted by Lucy she said:<\/p>\n This was one of my absolute favorites from the first series, and I\u2019m still very proud of it. This was one of the best episodes in the entire series. In this standout moment from an episode which was a standout for Season 1, Xena won’t \/ can’t let Gabrielle die. Lucy Lawless is simply OUTSTANDING in this episode and in this scene.\u00a0 Gabrielle is wounded and dies from her injuries. Xena refuses to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[412,132,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reneeoconnor.info\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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