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*EARLY ACCESS* Xena: Warrior Princess 2x07: Intimate Stranger REACTION (Patreon)

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2026-02-12 22:00:07
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HUDSON AND KEVIN ARE BACK!!

And this episode was so much fun and was a great episode to allow phenomenal actors to stretch their acting chops and just play!

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XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS | S02E07 - Intimate Stranger

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Girl4Music

Okay… so here’s what happened. They were going to do the body swap episode regardless but Xena and Callisto were supposed to swap back at the end of the episode. It wasn’t supposed to continue on with Hudson as Xena into another episode. The ending was very different and there is an alternative deleted scene where they show you how it originally ended and I much preferred the dialogue due to how much it informs Gabrielle and her arc with having to think before she acts. But because of the accident, they really had no choice but to use Hudson as Xena for next episode and not show Lucy as Callisto in the sense that you don’t ever see her character until they swap back. Giving Lucy as much time as she needs to recover from her injury. They could have just done a few Gabrielle-centric episodes with Lucy in and out of the start and end of the episode like they do sometimes. But I think they wanted to see what Hudson could really do as an actress who could have been Xena because she did audition for the role. I think they have the alternative ending with Lucy as Xena in the Season 2 Anchor Bay Deluxe DVD set. But I can’t be sure. I only remember Renee goofing off a bit at the end so that’s why I think it’s in the bloopers.

Girl4Music

Just watched ‘Return Of Callisto’, ‘Warrior…Princess…Tramp’ and ‘Intimate Stranger’ in one sitting… Jesus what a whiplash. I always praise this show for the way it handles its episodic structure. But I have to admit that TV shows with more of the serialized storytelling handle the continuity with a character’s thoughts and emotions much better than TV shows that are more non-serialized. It’s like Gabrielle goes from full out guilt and anger and thrashing out at the loss of her husband, to absolutely not bothered at all, and then back to the mindset of feeling guilty again based on whether the episode is a drama or a comedy. It’s like you’re just supposed to completely forget about what happened the episode before in the comedy episode because it’s a comedy episode then 360 reverse because we’re back to a full-out drama. This kind of back and forth comedy-to-drama structure in Season 3 is intentional and works well but here… not so much. And it’s like the ‘whoosh’ sounds off loudly in my brain every time we spend any significant time with Gabrielle and a narrative that should be on-going and I don’t even feel the impact. I’m not sure I explained any of that well… But at least I know what I mean by it. 🤣 But guys… Just be aware of that if you’re going to binge watch Xena in one sitting because it’s a lot to take in at once and they make you wait to process it. It’s like “Is this character okay? I don’t think she’s okay… but we’re in a comedy so I guess we ignore it?” But then you’re back to a drama and they just go full on with the emotions... Like I said. It’s a whiplash. You just don’t know what you’re supposed to feel because obviously - in real life - that would continue. The order of the episodes don’t really help very well. But then not a lot of TV shows do both drama and comedy. Especially not if they’re the fantasy genre. But be aware of that. It just hits you out of nowhere when you’re just trying to follow with the narrative. Something significantly dramatic and traumatic just happened to Gabrielle but you’re supposed to forget that fact until the show is ready to address it again. And then you do,… so you’re not expecting to be hit with a barrage of that character’s emotional turmoil because you forgot all about it the episode before it. Tell me that whoosh effect doesn’t go off in your brain because you will not be prepared for engaging with it. That’s the bizarre experience in watching a TV show that’s primarily episodic and does comedy and drama. Where they place the episodes in air order makes a hell of difference to how you engage with the show. Season 3 doesn’t do this because they keep all the drama episodes together and all the comedy episodes together and they don’t do a swap in swap out thing. But Season 2 (especially this block of episodes) it doesn’t work like that and you just get whiplashed. I’m an emotional human being. Please have mercy. 🙏

Leslie M

Another hilarious reaction! I love it when Hunter goes insane. Lucy and Hudson both did such a great job of playing each other's characters, the changes in voice and tone, gestures, it's so much fun.

Leslie M

Regarding Lucy's injury (and just the words "fractured pelvis" make me cringe every time), I understand that filming on this episode was complete, and then when they got Hudson to come back for the next episode, they just re-did the ending of this one. Fortunately, they were ahead on filming and just starting a hiatus when she was hurt. Since she was out a long time, in addition to having Hudson, they also did a number of Lucy-light episodes, which could be filmed with everything except Lucy's bits, and then Lucy did those when she came back. And when she first came back, they did episodes where she didn't have to do action scenes. Then they aired the episodes out of the order they were shot, pushing several of the episodes that had been filmed before she was injured to later in the season, so there wouldn't be too many in a row that were Lucy-light. It was a really mad scramble for the producers and writers, and they did an amazing job, as season 2 is still really good.

mary smith

Lucy & Hudson did such a phenomenal job this episode. And great job of the writers thinking on their feet with Lucy's injury.

2 Girls 1 Episode

It’s the gestures that get me. It’s easy to imitate a pitch of voice, but the body, hand, even their smiles were just all on par. I think I say it in the next episode or two but Hudson does such a phenomenal job as Xena that it FELT like Lucy was just wearing Hudson’s skin the entire time. So incredible. -Hunter

2 Girls 1 Episode

The writers and producers thinking on their feet like that will always amaze me. -Hunter

Leslie M

Yes! The way they walk and move, facial expressions, everything was brilliant.

2 Girls 1 Episode

I, personally, don’t mind it honestly. It also felt like Intimate Stranger and WPT were switched in the order. Like IS was suppose to immediately follow ROC, but since Lucy got injured they had a way to write her off for a time to let her recover just because of how IS was written. So last minute they switched the order and reshot the ending of it so Hudson would stay. But it bothers me more when I’m watching something week to week in real time as opposed to binging it. And they ended up addressing her feelings anyway so I wasn’t upset by this shift. I appreciate the light episodes because I know they are going to become few and far between soon. -Hunter

Leslie M

At least it gave them all practice for the next year, when Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) had a stroke and missed a bunch of episodes. At one point they turned him into a pig (literally) for a couple of episodes. Which some might regard as type-casting...

Jordxelijah

Kevin smith with always have my heart 😩💗 he’s a beautiful man

Girl4Music

That’s a really good point and an insightful way of thinking about it. Thank you, Hunter. As for the comedy episodes being few and far between going forward. That is true but the comedy episodes themselves get wackier and wackier so I don’t think it’ll make that much of a difference. What you will notice is there isn’t really much half-an-half anymore once the episodic structure turns more serialized. But personally, I think it makes the show better, not worse. I think you will like the changes.

Girl4Music

Teamwork makes the dream work. We certainly wouldn’t have this level of dedication and innovativeness today. Like Tash said - they would just halt production entirely if any of their leading cast suddenly got injured and couldn’t perform. The Xena team truly were a family. Quite literally in the sense of Lucy Lawless and Rob Tapert actually since they got married.

Girl4Music

Hudson is honestly so good in the next episode that I always forget when thinking about the episode back that it wasn’t Lucy Lawless there and do a double-take when I watch it again. I’m always like “Oh… of course. it’s Hudson 🤭” ‘Ten Little Warlords’ is a pretty forgettable episode if not for that so it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t Lucy because Lucy does the boring episodes as well as the compelling ones. The only thing that stands out when you watch it is that it’s not her. Hudson Leick really is that incredible of an actress and it’s a shame she stopped altogether in order to pursue her yoga teaching dreams - which by the way she now films on YouTube for free. I’ve been watching them. They’re really good. She’s really good at it. Before now the only way to see her sessions was to either join one of her spiritual retreats or go to one of the Xena conventions where she puts them on for all the fans that go.

Girl4Music

I never knew that. 🎶Isn’t that ironic? Or maybe they just knew something we didn’t back then. Poor Hercules though. The good guy shouldn’t have to suffer because of the bad guy.

Leslie M

I had the same reaction when I re-watched the next episode not long ago. I remembered the plot pretty much, but had completely forgotten that it was the one with Hudson.

Girl4Music

I think what really gets me about ‘Intimate Stranger’ is that they actually intended to do a body swap episode anyway at some point in Season 2 and they thought “Actually, this might be our saving grace” for Lucy missing.

Girl4Music

Because you had thought about it as if Lucy was there. Yeah, I know. It’s a trip.

Jian Jal

Been WAITING for this episode and the next. Theyre some of my faves seeing how Hudson embodies Xena 🔥 A glimpse at "What if Calisto was a Hero instead"

HiCo

Tash, I do believe your poker face is improving! Your big old grin right before Argo got sliced! 😂 What a great ep though. Hudson and Lucy are so great at playing each other's parts. Who do you think wants Xena more though? Ares or Callisto?

HiCo

Hudson is incredible. The Aura she gives off is so powerful!

HiCo

Then the next year the production team had to deal with Kevin Sorbo having a stroke and needed to come up with a bunch of Hercules-lite episodes like Porkules where he gets turned into a pig. 💀 That's the season with the most crossovers with several appearances from some familiar faces to help the sister show along, including Hudson.

Girl4Music

Oh so there is a reason for me to watch it then. Good to know.

2 Girls 1 Episode

I’m trying, I’m trying hahaha I think the more serious the episodes get the easier the poker face though, no promises on the comedy and I think the beginning of 5 is going to test me hahaha Also I think Ares has Callisto beat at this point only cause putting her enemy in her body so you can …… is wild behaviour - Tash

Lea

... great job, ladies... as always you guys made this good episode more fun to watch. ... i am sure somebody has probably stated this already - i am late watching it due to bad weather causing my pain levels to rise to absolute Russian Roulette desires to stop it, instead of just my normal all day every day agony... not able to even hobble the last few days... so.. the point - late to the party... but.. .. if I remember right, Tash is correct in that this episode and the rest of the season, mostly, pat this episode, is in response to Lucy going on Jay Leno's show to promote XWP (October 1996, I think, cause I was gearing up for my then-5-month-old little tyke's first halloween, and i believe Lucy was 28 at the time) and he asked her to ride in on an unfamiliar horse, unless I remember wrong, and she agreed and did the stunt, riding the horse in their parking lot, I think... and it was slippery and the horse's shoes were not compatible with the pavement, it lost its footing and Lucy fell and fractured her pelvis in multiple places... that really hurts, which i'm sure you can imagine, with just ONE fracture... but multiple fractures are just hideously painful because you move to alleviate the pressure to one fracture and you CAUSE pressure somewhere else... just moving like turning over in bed, is a lesson of immense proportions, because you think nothing of doing it, then all of a sudden, WHAM, that pain hits and boom... I fell on just my floor and had 16 fractures/fizzures detectable when they did the CT scan... but Lucy hit hard pavement, falling from horse height - mine was just falling from MY 5'10" height and I just can not even start to understand her pain... ugh.. so anyway, the point is that she had ALREADY done the stunt once, but she was asked to do it again and she did not want to, but it was early in her career still and she said she did not want to be seen as uncooperative or some kind of diva, so she did the stunt for a second time and the rest is history... ... but they said she pushed herself to get back as soon as humanly possible but she literally had to re-learn how to even WALK, let alone run or do kicks or to set herself to swing her sword... but they had 10 episodes finished when she got hurt - episodes 1-7 and episodes 9, 10 and 12... the rest were done after she got healthy; though she re-injured herself when she was filming again after she was running on uneven ground ... luckily it was not bad, so she was able to push through it... ...they did a couple episodes that just did not have much fighting for her (11, 18 and 19) - and those, i must say, are some of my favorites - or easy to set up a fight but be able to film from far away and angles so the stunting could do most of the actual fighting... ... then there are the Xena-lite episodes (#s 16 and 17) and the Hudson Leick ones (#7 and #8)... I was fine with them adding more Joxer, even though the character annoys the hell outta me... but he has a good heart and is brave when it matters, so it is hard to truly dislike him.. but also, for me, knowing they were keeping him so Renee could have her character have some personal growth and not be the de-facto comedic relief ALL the time, I found myself trying to not dislike him because he was there to stay, and knowing the "why" helped.... but then episode 16 came along and I wanted to pull my hair out... and this is the season they started using full episodes to focus on just one character and I hate those... I like the show most when it involves Xena and Gabrielle together... but I like Autolycus and Ares the most as special guests - whew, Kevin Smith was a beautiful, beautiful man, and was kind on top of all that sexi-ness, if i gotta have the girls around other characters, he was not a bad choice 😆... I hated Ares for what he was always putting Xena through, but its hard to hate him when he looks like that and when you just KNOW he really loves Xena... .. anyway, I love your all's reactions - like, the ones you ALWAYS have... Like Tash always knowing the dialogue by heart and ya see her either mouthing along with the characters, or, more often, saying the words BEFORE the actors do 🤣 🤣... and c'mon with the dimples Tash 🤣 🤣 ya smile so big when ya know Hunter has said something that, miraculous as it may seem, is GOING to ACTUALLY happen 🤣 🤣 too much fun And Hunter - my favorite reactions are when she has her jaw drop in shock for like a minute, fully, then falls off her chair or leans really far back, just shocked into stunned cuteness 🤣 very funny... but, my second favorite Hunter reaction is when she puts her hands on both sides of her face like it allows her to hide from whatever is coming cause she just KNOWS or FEELS like something bad or confusing is coming... 🤣 🤣 🤣 so good when that happens.... ... and then when y'all talk over what is going on on screen, but you are asking questions about what is going on, where if ya just watch what you are talking over, you'd have the answer to your questions 🤣 🤣 🤣 makes me laugh every time ... and I'm pointing at my phone's screen (like y'all can actually see me pointing and saying, "Hey, HEY, see Argo is reticent about going near 'Xena', and then you guys are like, can't they tell it is not Xena??? and on the screen, Argo is having a fit and Gabrielle is questioning Xena about why she wants her to go on to Amphipolis without Xena)... ...and like 5 minutes later, yall are both like, Where is Gabrielle??? 🤣 🤣 and i'm like, again to my screen like yall can see and hear me, "'Xena' sent her to Amphipolis to protect her mama"... which shoulda been a huge red flag because 'Xena' would never send Gabrielle off ALONE to PROTECT her mama from an ARMY, while she stayed back to investigate something else... 🤣 🤣 anyway... and I am just like, See, they are explaining it right there!! But its funny, not a complaint... I am paying to watch y'all's reactions to one of my most favorite shows, not just re-watch the show... So, I, thusly, sit here and wait for Hunter to grab the sides of her face in confusion, shock or whatever other emotion she doesn't want to happen 🤣 or for her to fall off her seat when, well, when #11 comes along... I hope i see the reaction i am hoping for 🤣 🤣 And I am waiting to see if Tasha looks down or away, or if she smiles so hard all ya see are her dimples cause she is trying not to give away something she KNOWS is coming... and to see her say, with perfect intonation, the exact dialogue before the actors say it... can't wait to see if she does that when Xena says the title to episode 11 😅🥰🤭😉

HiCo

The first ep of S5 is one of my favourites. Will be very interested to see your angle on it!

Rayve

I haven’t been able to finish yet, sidelined with a headache, but I think the video seems a bit cropped / pushed off the top. Not sure if it’s the whole time! Great reaction so far :) hope to finish tomorrow

2 Girls 1 Episode

Love this comment!!! Every time I hear about her accident I get so upset because why was the star riding an unfamiliar horse on concrete 😭 like who’s idea was that?! Tash has been so good about not giving anything away. Poker face for sure. And episode 11 is a riotttttt hahah -Hunter

Lea

😆 since you already watched #11, and not to give away your reaction, I can not wait to see how you reacted to the end - your reaction to Gab's reaction is what I am waiting to see on that one... 😄 its one of my favorites to watch just as a fluff episode where Xena is cool and shows how she helps other women find their strength to help themselves, in a fun way, but with a few good moralistic moments too... love it, can not wait... or well I guess I will have to, but yeah... again, thanks to you both for the reactions... it's fun to escape a little bit, for a little while... thanks..

Rayve

“On Oct. 8, 1996, Lucy Lawless suffered multiple pelvic fractures while filming a skit for The Tonight Show. The horse she was riding fell outside the NBC Studios in Burbank, California. (The horse was uninjured.) Lucy returned to work at the end of November, a month earlier than originally expected. In a May 1, 1997, appearance on Good Morning, America, Lucy said she was 100 percent recovered.” When you’re done with season 2 I can share more info on how her injury shifted things :)