(Xena first got me into classic mythology and stuff...hehe, helped a lot with allusions in all my English classes later on.)
OMG, exactly with me too. Especially because we did a bit of mythology in english class last year, and everybody was surprised that I knew everybody we covered. I was like "Yeah, most of them were on Xena. The ones that weren't were because I looked up the people on Xena and found out about them on the way."
I was poor and couldn't afford the DVDs
I shouldn't have afforded the DVDs, lol. It was the most expensive thing I've ever bought in my life. By probably a factor of 10. I'm uber cheap. I have no idea why I bought them, actually. It's weird that Xena DVDs got exempted from my normal "No! Will not pay more than $20 for anything ever!" thing.
I loved the first few seasons best, with Gabrielle's long hair and Callisto and Xena and Joxer!
Me too, before it got all major, long arching plotline and dark and monotheistic and such. When it was a bunch of friends (or, you know, more than that) traveling around. My favorite bit was when they retold myths and such. Like with Odysseus, when Xena had to help him restring his bow under the table? That sort of thing. Because it was mythology with a girl power twist, and they did it in such a way that made you want to go look up more about it.
Hee, I used to have a crush on Ares.
Mmm. I know exactly what you mean. He was kinda a sexpot.
I wanna pick it up in college again though!
That's cool. I almost dropped Spanish in 10th grade because my teacher that year sucked, but I didn't, which was fortunate because this year my teacher is pretty cool. I pick up the French on occasion just because my best mate takes it at school and we randomly jump into our respective languages without noticing sometimes. It works because her French makes it so that using cognates between both that and Spanish and English and Spanish, she can figure out the gist what I'm saying often, and vice versa.
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OMG, exactly with me too. Especially because we did a bit of mythology in english class last year, and everybody was surprised that I knew everybody we covered. I was like "Yeah, most of them were on Xena. The ones that weren't were because I looked up the people on Xena and found out about them on the way."
I was poor and couldn't afford the DVDs
I shouldn't have afforded the DVDs, lol. It was the most expensive thing I've ever bought in my life. By probably a factor of 10. I'm uber cheap. I have no idea why I bought them, actually. It's weird that Xena DVDs got exempted from my normal "No! Will not pay more than $20 for anything ever!" thing.
I loved the first few seasons best, with Gabrielle's long hair and Callisto and Xena and Joxer!
Me too, before it got all major, long arching plotline and dark and monotheistic and such. When it was a bunch of friends (or, you know, more than that) traveling around. My favorite bit was when they retold myths and such. Like with Odysseus, when Xena had to help him restring his bow under the table? That sort of thing. Because it was mythology with a girl power twist, and they did it in such a way that made you want to go look up more about it.
Hee, I used to have a crush on Ares.
Mmm. I know exactly what you mean. He was kinda a sexpot.
I wanna pick it up in college again though!
That's cool. I almost dropped Spanish in 10th grade because my teacher that year sucked, but I didn't, which was fortunate because this year my teacher is pretty cool. I pick up the French on occasion just because my best mate takes it at school and we randomly jump into our respective languages without noticing sometimes. It works because her French makes it so that using cognates between both that and Spanish and English and Spanish, she can figure out the gist what I'm saying often, and vice versa.