From: Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net
Neil said
though I find the whole idea of Xena ideologically repellent
Please explain? Perhaps you're taking the 'warrior princess' as a literal description?
Obviously. Remember, I've never seen so much as an episode, and even if I had a telly that wouldn't help because we can't, or couldn't last I heard, get Channel 5 in the fag end of England (that's a British fag end, not what you Americans might think!).
Still, one of the values of making outrageously presumptuous statements is the way it prompts swift clarification, engendering a positive transfer of information transmission of a corrective nature in the direction of an individual who misguidedly pertains to the notion that deployment of gratuitous polysyllables in a complex predicate statement might make him look less of a complete idiot.
Though I still have reservations about Xena, largely related to the vast expanses of tanned flesh she puts on show. I prefer my amazon heroines covered in chainmail and cuirboilli, and one of those helmets that looks like a perforated bucket turned upside down. And not a trace of an American accent, which I wouldn't be surprised if Xena's got. And definitely no chickadees singing in the background.
Neil the Picky