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Two Star General
Posts: 1759 (04/19/08 6:01 AM) |
Jolly, what did Thelma say? I don't remember. Neither do I to be perfectly honest. A friend pointed it out recently, that's how I remembered it  . But I think it was something more subtexty related
including dead lesbian ghosts (I guess the dead in that sentence was a bit overkill), Thelma said something about being like Xena, or some such.
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Two Star General
Posts: 2489 (04/20/08 1:08 AM) |
Kat, also EJ turned on his family for Sami and Ares turned on his family for Xena.
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Two Star General
Posts: 2754 (04/20/08 2:07 PM) |
Oh yea! Thanks, I'll go add that to the list.
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Mortal
Posts: 13 (04/21/08 3:27 PM) |
Okay, okay…so I have another one…as you can tell this is probably my favorite post…but a couple that reminds me of the X/A romance would undoubtedly be Ralph
and Meggie from The Thornbirds, if the roles were reversed. Meggie more or less reminds me of Ares (not so much their past) but because she wants the
relationship with Ralph and will do anything to get it. Not to be mistaken, Meggie is no where as vindictive as Ares (she doesn't drive Ralph crazy with
the furies or hit on his best friend) but she does tempt him and keep pursuing even when she knows there is no chance for a happy outcome. Of course, she's
not a god and therefore lacks the power that Ares possesses, but still in terms of the relationship, she tends to take the more aggressive role whereas Ralph,
who tends to be more like Xena, sacrificing what he could've had for the greater cause. He leaves Australia for the Vatican in hopes to forget Meggie and
resume his duties as a cardinal. He never quite forgets her, as Xena never quite forgets Ares, no matter what she does. They tend to lead separate lives but
fate manages to throw them together at random times. Ralph tends to take care of Meggie, too, much the way Xena takes care of Ares time after time as he
becomes mortal. Of course, Ralph and Meggie do succumb to their passions, something that we never really saw with Xena and Ares, even though there was plenty
of temptation.
I guess all in all The Thornbirds is another epic love story, and most epic love stories tend to end in tragedy. It was a monumental love story, just the way Ares and Xena's was. Both ended sadly and haunt the people who knew their stories so well. That's what makes it epic… the ability to make you remember all the details…and I think that everyone wants that kind of love…only maybe with a happier ending. |
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Commander
Posts: 879 (04/23/08 7:59 AM) |
Don't think there are any! For some reason, when it comes to Xena she creates this sort of energy in each of her relationships. All of which are different
and are special in there own way. Xena and Ares had there own thing going. I can't think of any other couples in or out the show that might have been
similar to X/A.
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Posts: 77112 (04/24/08 5:38 AM) Xena Studies Ph.D. |
Zaudeen wrote: So true, Zaudeen! 
(But still -- interesting "Thorn Birds" analogy, MeganRenee! I haven't read the book but saw the miniseries ages ago.)   "They have this love/hate, lust/hate relationship." -- Lucy Lawless     
See my artwork and fanfiction at The Muse's Corner * Visit Xena Online Community Keepership and sig script by Nutty, Avatars by Cila |
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Warrior-in-Training
Posts: 309 (04/25/08 12:38 PM) |
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Being both something of a literature (even "High Literature") geek and a LONGtime Ares/Xena 'Shipper (10+ years), I've kept track of the fact that Shakespeare used this trope of, let's call it mutually-attracted antagonism, or less-prosaically, "love at first punch" not once but notably twice, making it one of the oldest ones in the book. Beatrice and Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing) play it more toward comedy, to wit Leonato's remark: There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them. Later, their first exchange in the play goes something like this: BENEDICK: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Not to mention one of my favorite exchanges in all of the Bard, later nearer the end of the play: BENEDICK:...And, I pray thee now, tell me Need I mention I also {heart} The Taming of the Shrew, for much the same reasons, although Katherine and Petruchio play out the trope as more a straight mutual antagonism initially (see: slap, slap, kiss). Not to mention, there is a fair amount of dirty in many of their exchanges, to wit: PETRUCHIO: Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me. I don't seem to see as much of the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" factor with Our Couple, but maybe I just ill-recall. (Way I see it, their intentions would just have been too clear...Although there is the whole "fighting-as-elaborate-foreplay"/"fighting-as-sharing-sexual-intimacies"   metaphor to which I am particularly partial.
Ahem.  )
At any rate, this just goes to show that you can't beat the classics! 
edited to fix quote codes-LK63
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04/27/08 6:28 PM.
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Posts: 77233 (04/27/08 7:47 AM) Xena Studies Ph.D. |
Oh yeah, Aquila -- I've always thought a lot of X/A moments had a Beatrice-and-Benedick vibe to them.
The whole "banter-by-insult" thing --
"You say presence, I say stench," etc.
"They have this love/hate, lust/hate relationship." -- Lucy Lawless
See my artwork and fanfiction at The Muse's Corner * Visit Xena Online Community Keepership and sig script by Nutty, Avatars by Cila |
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Two Star General
Posts: 2491 (04/30/08 2:24 AM) |
Well, Ive never been a Buffy watcher, but I decided to watch clips of Spuffy and I definitely see why they are compared to Xena and Ares.
They have the love hate thing going on and they have some mad chemistry. |
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Aresbitch |
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One Star General
Posts: 1059 (04/30/08 2:53 AM) |
princessah wrote: Yep, right from their first scene! |
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