Season 5 is just a mess

Perhaps I was too hard on season 4. I still thing it was a slump in quality after the first 3 seasons. But was if bad? Nah Takes One to Know One was a lot of fun, Locked up and tied down was a great deconstruction and reconstruction of the premise of a former war criminal trying to atone for her murderous crimes and Ides of March was in someways the most satisfying season finale yet (I know Deja Vu all over again was the aired final episode of season 4, but IOM was the true finale)


But season 5? Oh boy. I'm not against the idea of the Twilight of Gods it's an interesting idea. The fall of pagan Gods and rise of the Judeo Christian God is interesting and the Old Testament God would totally be down for the death of the "false Gods" but the problem is the execution is terrible. They're talking about the time when people would no longer need the Gods but then theyre just going to worship a new God. Uhh what? An episode is about fighting with love and not violence but Xena ends up becoming crusader for the one God killing the Olympians for him. Okay it's entirely in self defense but its still using violence! And this dichotomy could be justified that the bible talks about love while also justifying stoning people to death but somehow I don't think the Xenastaff was going for that.


I'm nearly finished and the only two episodes I truly loved where Lyre Lyres hearts on fire and God Fearing Child (which is really the Hercules series finale)


And I haven't got to season 6 yet but Lifeblood and Married with Fishsticks are pretty good contenders for worst episodes of Xena ever. Hell if I made a top 5 worst episodes of Xena the list would include those two episodes, the two Chin episodes of season 5, and Seeds of Faith.