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Iolaus should have stayed dead after his death in Season 5. No "reset button" resurrections for him.

I'd say the opposite - Iolaus stayed dead far too long! I loved the episodes where he died and those immediately after, but I didn't like the way Iolaus II became his "replacement" for a while. I did like Iolaus II as a character, just not instead of Iolaus. I was glad when he eventually came back to life.

Bring Jason along on some adventures. He was a great character wasted tending to his garden.

I agree! I think the same could be said about Iphicles (well, except the gardening part).

Stop ignoring recurring characters. Salmoneous, Nebula, and Morrigan all disappeared off the face of the earth without a mention. Either kill 'em off, warp up their storylines or keep them involved in the story. Don't ignore them.

Wasn't there an episode that followed up with Morrigan , We'll Always Have Cyprus, - or did you mean that didn't "end" her character that well either? As far as I remember it was still quite open ended, in that Hercules and Morrigan parted with the idea that they may possibly meet again at some point. Since the series finished with Hercules and Iolaus still carrying on as ever, I thought it was ok to leave some characters with that kind of open ending, since then they're there for them to meet again in future adventures that we never saw.

Other things I think could have been done differently;
I think that much of the Twilight of the Gods would have worked better as a mainly Hercules storyline rather than a Xena storyline.
I think long episode arcs like we saw in Season 5 could have been featured in Seasons 3, and 4.
More continuity in Season 1 - it takes a while before the set up of Hercules and Iolaus travelling (rather than living at "home", and with Iolaus only sometimes there) to be established, which makes some of those early episodes seem odd in the context of how the show develops.
Out of all of Iolaus's girlfriends, I think I like Dirce the best so I would have liked to have seen more of her.
I would have liked more cross overs with Xena.
Another thing from Xena that could have been tried on Hercules is a musical episode. I know they did a music/dancing episode, but it would have been interesting to see them singing like in TBS.
And again something I've also said about Xena is I would have liked more Christmas/Solstice specials. I liked A Star To Guide Them.

We actually saw Morrigan once more,when Herc went to England for the 100th ep, in which he met Merlin and King Arthur. But yep, it was pretty much established that Morrigan understood why they couldn't be together - Herc couldn't leave Greece for good anymore than she could leave Eire. (Giving rise to the pet theory that Tigger and I have - he eventually did leave, leading to the dominance of Rome, decline of centaurs + Amazons, etc. while X+G slept for 25 yrs.)

I remember that now - Once Upon A Future King. I like that episode, I'd forgotten it came after WAHC. That's an interesting theory.