Downer Ending for Everyone
[i]Has anyone else notice how Xena ultimately has a downer ending for everyone?
- The ancient pantheons that have built different human civilizations are all ultimately doomed and whether their replacement is better is questionable at best.
- The nonhuman races such as Centaurs and and Satyrs are doomed to extinction.
- The Amazons are all likely going to be eventually wiped out by Rome setting women's rights back till modern day.
- Ares is free to continue manipulating humanity with only Aphrodite and maybe a mortal Hercules to keep him in check.
- Pretty much every major supporting character came to a negative end. Joxer was murdered and his family left without him. Cycne, Xena's mother, was burned as a witch. Hercules had to kill his own father. A number of other supporting characters came to sad ends.
- And then there are Xena and Gabrielle. It is questionable if Xena ever found the redemption she sought and had to remain dead to give souls peace. Gabrielle is left wondering the world without her best friend and everyone she knew before pretty much dead.
Kind of a bummer ending all around isn't it?