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I'm glad it's here, and that I had the time to read through it, finally. I am floored. I didn't even read everything as thoroughly as I wanted (although I'm now in the number who has a copy on my computer).

One thing especially stuck out to me--well, two. First, after all our wild theories about who was "real" in Illusia and who not, I guess we have the official answer that Ares was real, and Callisto wasn't. Cool. I don't mind being wrong on that (I can just make stuff up anyway, after all.) Second, the way Talmadeus described Xena's redemption. If she'd ever been trying to "redeem" the acts Evil Xena did, that would have meant EX was still alive, but in fact, she was dead...so Xena was doing the good she could in the present instead. I love that way of looking at it. There are some things where the guilt is just so great that it cannot be borne by one person, but if you look at the person who did it as dead, and you as a different person, that lets you defeat the old.