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*EARLY ACCESS* Xena: Warrior Princess 3x01 - The Furies REACTION (Patreon)

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2026-06-30 21:00:02
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HELLLLLOOOOO SEASON 3!!!!!! 1/3 of the way through already :( This show really knows how to make a season premiere a fun time.

Sins of the Past. Orphan of War and now The Furies?! I really love how they have a balance of Xena babysitting Gabrielle and Gabrielle babysitting Xena. The God's stay torturing these two and I've HAD IT.

Also really appreciate the balance of this being a very serious situation with her almost killing those innocent villagers/her mother, mixed with a bit of comedy when she's playing with her airplane hand/fighting like a lunatic. Ugh, so so good. Season 3 is off to a GREAT start. Let's see how long that'll last LOL.

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XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS | S03E01 - The Furies

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Bribrirandomluv

Been waiting for the start of season 3. It is a fun but wild ride.

Will King

This is probably one of my favorite Xena season openers. Lucy as always shines when she goes back and forth between comedic scenes and dramatic scenes. I am curious if you think Ares is Xena's father?

2 Girls 1 Episode

It’s so confusing. If the story Gabrielle told is true about Ares, then it could be possible. But I think it’s all just horse poopoo. I mean that would have to be some weird weird stuff if he was considering how much he wants her. -Hunter

Girl4Music

'The Furies' was a very ambitious episode,... definitely. But since they were going where they were going in Season 3, it made a lot of sense to have this very ambitious episode as the opener to the whole thing because the questions that come up for the whole thing are 'did Xena really kill women and children?' 'Is Xena the daughter of Ares?' 'Did Cyrene kill her husband?' These are very heavy questions to ask and themes to explore, and showing the characters having to work them out and answer or maybe not answer them was, as I said,... very ambitious because they were going heavy as much as possible but still wanted and were determined to throw in the light just as much. I like 'The Furies' a lot for what it does in playing with the tones. In Xena's head - having been driven mad - that actually works a lot and gives real significance to the whiplashing tones of comedy vs drama and Lucy just nails it either way. So much range. So much versatility. You buy it completely that she's been driven to the edge of insanity but she's not so far over the edge that she cannot do what Xena can always do. Be three steps ahead of the game and defeat the villain. Not that I view Ares as a villain. But he still is a frequent antagonist. So they set up the precedent quite well with 'The Furies' for where they were going and what they would be doing with the entire season and I think it's probably the best opener to any of the seasons as far as setting it up tonally... because really... it stands out in that on it's own. You may not have known what you were going into, but you were at least aware that it could go either way at any point and that's great. Season 3 does go either way at any point. Dramatic as fuck or daft as a brush and when you go back and you watch 'The Furies', it does dawn on you that it was intentional that they did what they did with it and you're ready for the rollercoaster ride unlike in Season 2 where you're not prepared whatsoever for the emotional whiplash of it all. You see, Season 3 is successful in that it's going to hit you hard but when you look back on it, all the signs were there that it would and that's clever writing. Not just clever writing but also clever overall production execution. I love Season 3 of XENA with everything in me. I believe the way that they did this season in particular of the TV show is phenomenal television. It's up there with BUFFY Season 5 easily.

Girl4Music

And just like that Xena becomes a misbehaving but adorable puppy. If Gabrielle ever wants Xena to do anything… all she had to do was bribe or reward her with her dumplings. Why are these two so married? Jesus.

Rayve

Well, the Olympian gods aren’t exactly known for caring about that kind of thing 😂

Rayve

I was chuckling at the S2 wrap up when Hunter said she wanted to see more from Xena’s mom. Just one episode away!

Leslie M

One thing I love about this episode is its brilliant use of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, worked into Xena's story. So here's a way too long discussion of the mythology on which this episode is based, in case anyone is interested. The Furies were goddesses of vengeance whose job was to punish those who offended against the moral order, especially people who killed family members. They are at the center of The Oresteia, the only surviving complete trilogy of Greek tragedy, written by Aeschylus around 458 B.C. The main character is Orestes, who also appears in this Xena episode. Orestes' father was Agamemnon, the Greek king who was commanded by Zeus to lead the Greeks in the Trojan War. But the goddess Artemis was the patron of Troy, and knew that it would be destroyed. So she sent storms to stop the Greeks from leaving for Troy. Because it was the command of Zeus, she could not stop him forever, so she set a horrible condition. The storms would stop only if Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to her. He begged not to, but finally, because of Zeus' command, he did. His fleet sailed and eventually the Greeks won the war. So this was the first offense against the Furies, a father killing his daughter. Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, was understandably horrified and enraged by this. When Agamemnon returned home from the war 10 years later, she murdered him. It can be argued that this was her duty of vengeance against the killer of her daughter. But, of course, it was also the murder of her husband, which was another offense against the Furies. Orestes, who was their son, was then obligated to kill his mother as vengeance for her having killed his father, even though his mother had been obligated to kill her husband as vengeance for killing her daughter, even though her husband had been required to kill the daughter to fulfill the command of Zeus. Greek mythology LOVES putting people in absolutely impossible situations with only awful choices. With great reluctance, and after much persecution by the Furies, Orestes finally did kill his mother. But then the Furies drove him insane as punishment for having done so - the exact situation Xena is faced with. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. However, Orestes turned to Athena, the patron goddess of Athens for justice. Athena convinced the Furies to allow Orestes to be put on trial to determine his guilt. A jury in Athens, with Athena presiding, found him not guilty, by a one-vote margin. This was the mythological explanation for the system of trial by jury established in Athens. I think the Xena writers did a great job of adapting this mythology to their show. And, of course, unlike Orestes, Xena was smart enough to come up with a way of getting out of punishment by the Furies without having to kill her own mother. Even when insane, Xena is a genius!

André

The Furies is a fantastic episode and it was planned to be the season 2 finale. Been There, Done That was also a season 2 episode. Both were shot in the last block of episodes for season 2 in March and April of 1997. Season 3 shooting started at the end of May of 1997 and episode 3, Dirty Half Dozen, is the 7th episode filmed for the season but aired early than it should because Rob Tapert wanted The Deliverer, the 4th episode, to be the 50 episode of the show. You can catch some continuity error after watching those two episodes back to back.

Leslie M

By the way, there are other versions of this myth. The other two great writers of Greek tragedy both wrote plays called "Electra," in which it's Orestes' sister, Electra, who is either his partner in the murder of their father or the primary force causing the murder. And there is yet another play called "Iphigenia," in which it turns out that the daughter who was sacrificed to Artemis to start the whole cycle off wasn't killed after all. Years later Orestes finds and saves her, and this appeases the wrath of the Furies, who let all of them off the hook. Too bad about the killings mom and dad, I guess. It was all just a little misunderstanding...

MsMcGoo

Insert joker meme “ and here we go!!!”

Leslie M

There's a comment by producer Liz Friedman in the DVD audio commentary to this episode that I love. When Xena ties Gabrielle to a tree, Liz says something like, "Fulfilling the hopes of thousands of fans, Xena ties up Gabrielle. Then, disappointing them all, she leaves." LOL.

André

The original idea for this episode was to make Xena Ares daughter. I am very glad they gave up that idea early on in the development of the story. I think they wanted to make Xena a demigod to explain why Xena was able to inhabit peoples bodies and talk to them by being dead and also because by making her a demigod they tough that would elevate her status as a hero or something, making her more similar to Hercules. But they soon realized that Xena doing the amazing things she does by being a mortal woman is much more powerfull, because she didn't born with powers and stuff, she trained to achieve her skills and strength.

Amiee Stahlman

I love this episode. It is in my top ten. When I first saw the episode, I had had no experience with mental illness, and just loved the episode for the story, the acting, etc. Now I love the episode more because I have had to care for a loved one struggling with a TBI that caused psychosis. Lucy and Renee do a phenomenal job in the episode. It is still the most accurate depiction I have seen, from the funny/zany moments to the heartache, to the fear. Great episode and great reaction, as always. Thanks!

MsMcGoo

Are there still plans to watch the Hercules cross over episode/s this season?

HiCo

It's all fun and games until someone starts nakedly threatening to massacre women and children! 😱 Tash, I must compliment your poker face which is getting better all the time at hidin upcoming plot twists to surprise Hunter with! 😁