This is fan culture actually owning the product they’ve invested emotionally in and that’s a major thing. But I’m also scared. Because this could give Chris Carter ideas guys…

Five outstanding episodes of television so fannish, indulgent and fun that they’re basically produced fanfic.

Have we discussed CW’s plans to do for Wonder Woman what they’ve done for Green Arrow and Superman? Because they’re actually casting that Wonder Woman pilot from comic book scribe Allan Heinberg even though he’s not done writing the script. Of note is that the lead of “Amazon” isn’t Diana, but an original character, Iris. [...]

One of the biggest problems with Once Upon A Time has been Regina Mills, the Evil Queen. Every week Lana Parilla’s portrayal of the characters has been at odds with how she is written. Parilla takes a character that’s cartoonishly villainous (and a bit stupid) on the page and imbues her with a striking sense [...]

For about six months in 1997 I was obsessed with Xena. Not like its true fans of the day; I didn’t have posters or go to the internet to talk about it. I just recorded it and would come home on Monday afternoons and watch it. I would skip any episode that didn’t have Joxer [...]

Like any good episode this one begins with a fight between a bunch of dirty dudes with ill-advised tattoos. Xena wanders in and rather than force them all to bathe with fierce kicks she drops her sword, busts out a lisp and starts preaching against violence. Then she strips down and collapses into the arms [...]

In the Princess Series Jim C Hines explores a world where Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella have to continue beyond their happily ever afters. He’s got a very cool feminist twist on the stories and treats the original material as myths, finding hidden and dramatic horrors in between the words. Snow White wasn’t running [...]

Good old fashioned Xena. Bad wigs? Check. Bad set production value? Check. Fuzzy Kiwi accents? Check. Bizarre farcical humor? Check times a million. After two weeks of surprising ribeyes we’re back to a very solid meatloaf. And Xena, after interrogating a dude finds Joxer in the stock. Because he tried to steal a chicken. She [...]

This week begins with Gabrielle demanding to see the best friend she betrayed and we quickly learn that she was a monumentally naive woman and actually thought they’d capture Xena and then just let them leave. You can be mad at her but remember two things–she also thinks her devil baby can be good, and [...]

When last we saw Xena and Gabrielle there’d been the whole Hope debacle, and marking a turning point for the show when it comes to continuity, this begins kind of where that left off. Xena wakes up to find her boo bear sitting out in the darkness contemplating life. Valid after having a demon baby [...]