was this a promo because I don't recall the outfit looking like that or her having that suicide sword.
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it is from the later seasons when the show started to branch out
Not only my first crush, but what made me realize I'm attracted to dark-haired women who might kill me.
Lucy Flawlese
statement of fact
It's amazing how much higher the bar has been raised to be a "muscly woman".
She looks fantastic and athletic and sexy in this picture, but I remember seeing that in the 90s and thinking "wow strongk!"
And I don't think it's about gear, I think it's about aesthetics, I remember women being really careful not to exercises that could make their arms or shoulders bigger, and it just feels like women care about that a lot less now.
As a sapphic person I completely approve.
its before hollywood, required the hollywood face and body. aka plastic surgeries, botox. and roids/peds for the men to be ripped at thier 40+yo. isaip, rob mac(cringey name change) and kaitlyn were totally unrecognizable as of recently.
PE sexism galore.
I used to hate the show as a little kid, made me feel like I needed to pee but then when I went to the bathroom, I didn't need to pee anymore.. Yet I couldn't stop watching. Later on I turned out to be gay.
happens to the best of us

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SORBO was so jealous of her, he became a looney right winger after his strokes. he even fucked up his own show on andromeda.
DISAPPOINTED!!
the takeover of Andromeda was really-really stupid.
he tried to make trance to be more slutty for some reason. while shes a useful OP character in the show.
one of many questionable decisions that tanked the show. it started off well and then just kept falling off a cliff
Xena quickly became way better than Hercules. The characters were just more interesting. Her outfit looks vaguely Japanese, but I never saw that season. It was hard to keep a steady watching schedule as a kid. I should go back and rewatch this! I hope it's not just nostalgia.
She also did a great job on Battlestar Galactica and Spartacus. And Parks and Rec! I'm glad she's the one that got more exposure instead of Kevin Sorbo. He chewed a lot of scenery in Hercules, and being a MAGA asshat didn't endear him to his old fans.
Kevin Sorbo is technically in many, many more movies... terrible Christian movies that no one heard of. Lol
Glad Lucy Lawless ended up being fairly normal.
Battlestar Galactica! I was just thinking about how I loved her in another show and that was the one.
Hercules series started off strong (the tv movies and season 1) and then kinda stuck in its ways and never really went anywhere. You get villain of the week, wham bam, thank you, next. In contrast, Xena had depth and they had all these storylines running throughout the show - it rewarded long time viewers a lot.
The katana thing is from the latter seasons when the show went beyond their basic cultural template.
Xena and Gabrielle were without a doubt my first "oh, I am a girl who likes girls" moment.
I remember my dad being so weird about me not liking the Hercules show that ran around that time and trying to be like, "Come on, he's so big and tough! Don't you wanna be that?" And all I could think about was whether or not I wanted to be Gabrielle or Xena more.
I'll also mention that today, Lucy Lawless is a badass and Sorbo is a whiney pissant.
Lucy wins. Then and now.
he held a grudge against her to this day. making shitty christian movies with other "nutty washed out actors isnt helping your image.
Meanwhile, all the manly straight men preferred Xena for the exact same reason you did.
It is a god damn crime that we never got Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman. She would have absolutely killed it if the superhero boom came about 20 years earlier.
I never realized how much of a smoke show she was/is when I was younger. She's still great in the most recent stuff I've seen her on. Great counterpart to Ron on Parks and Rec and also great on Curb when she briefly dated Larry. Does the Xena show still hold up?
She was actually smoking hot in both Spartacus and Ash vs The Evil Dead. I think she even looked better older than younger, dressed as Xena.
Here in Greece, the series along with Hercules used to play every evening at 2-3 o'clock when I was a kid. She is well known.
As Patton Oswalt said: "Two moon faced lesbians beating people with a stick? I can't tell ya how many times I conjugated the verb to that show."
She's so slim in this picture. In my memory of the show she is like a strong body builder body type like the female version of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules. Weird how wrong such a clear memory can be!
This is also an earlier picture. She deffo put on muscle as the series went on. Compare:

Looking at her standard outfit I think they use a few tricks to present that image: cuffs around the biceps, shoulder thingies (there more like epaulettes than pauldrons), and bracers all either hid the thinner parts or made them look larger.
A wizard did it.
yup