ZylonBane on 8/8/2009 at 16:49
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
Not knowing who Lucy Lawless is is eminently forgivable, Xena wasn't hugely popular or hugely memorable even ten years ago.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xena:_Warrior_Princess_in_popular_culture) Actually, no. The Xena television show was in fact hugely popular, far outstripping the success of Hercules, the show it spun off from. In the US market, it was in the top 10 of syndicated series for 4 of its 6 seasons. It spawned an animated movie, video games, comic books, novels, action figures, and legions of cosplayers.
Go go gadget Wikipedia.
D'Juhn Keep on 8/8/2009 at 17:15
Xena: Warrior Princess in contemporary culture
Literature
One of the runnings jokes in the Animorphs series of books is Marco's continual comparison of Rachel to Xena, referring to her daredevil nature and her lust for battle.
Astronomy
In 2005, the team that discovered the dwarf planet 2003 UB313 nicknamed it "Xena" in honor of the TV character. On October 1, 2005, the team announced that 2003 UB313 had a moon, which they had nicknamed "Gabrielle". The objects were officially named Eris and Dysnomia by the International Astronomical Union on September 13, 2006. Although the official names have legitimate roots in Greek mythology, Dysnomia is also Greek for "lawlessness", perpetuating the link with Lucy Lawless.
Costume donation
In 2006, Lucy Lawless donated her personal Xena costume to the Museum of American History
Fandom and Unofficial Sequences
If you think fanfic and shipping proves Xena's contribution to pop culture you should kill yourself now (citation needed)
ZylonBane on 8/8/2009 at 17:58
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
If you think fanfic and shipping proves Xena's contribution to pop culture you should kill yourself now (citation needed)
Oh boy, it's
Milquetoast Moderators Attack Weekend!
If YOU think that you've proven any sort of point by cherry-picking four lines from a three-page supporting article, and ignoring the main article entirely, then... well... wow.
D'Juhn Keep on 8/8/2009 at 20:56
I'm sure wikipedia has a list of suicide methods you can try out
SubJeff on 8/8/2009 at 21:17
F'ing lol.
Iggles brings the funnies.
Xylon got served.
june gloom on 8/8/2009 at 22:28
I can't believe this thread took 11 pages to turn awesome.
Zygoptera on 9/8/2009 at 00:12
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
..it was in the top 10 of syndicated series for 4 of its 6 seasons. It spawned an animated movie, video games, comic books, novels, action figures, and legions of cosplayers.
Wow,
top 10 syndication for a whole 2/3 of its run? Citing
cosplayers?
From anyone else I'd suspect irony.
Muzman on 9/8/2009 at 03:52
Xena was pretty popular though (just to get back to the point). Maybe not in England, but definitely here and the US.
I guess it depends what you call popular. Battlestar itself isn't exactly what you'd call a monster hit compared to just about any of the big names on TV. Anything with CSI in the title crushes it like a bug.
Xena had that popularity spot that things like Smallville and Supernatural do now; the cheesy comic book show that's on about 7:30 that all the kids (and ironically detatched undergrads) watch. (Buffy would probably have occupied the same niche but was cursed with Channel 9 owning the rights and therefore being dumped irregularly at 11 at night like most everything vaguely sci-fi they get. I swear they consider themselves guardians of traditional Aussieness and must buy up the big name science fiction shows and do their best not to air them)
DaBeast on 9/8/2009 at 07:03
Xena/Hercules dominated the 6pm time slot on tv over here. The UK didn't pick up on it for a while after and by it was on Channel 5 which kind of explains why it might not have have come across as popular.
I'm tempted to call Xena/Herc the A-Team of the mid nineties.
SubJeff on 9/8/2009 at 07:58
Maybe it didn't come across as popular because it was poor. The only people I knew who were into it were largely social lepers and the only thing I really know about it was it had Lucy Lawless in it but that there was a blonde woman, who seemed to be a baddie, who was much hotter. It seemed to be one of those really bad, yet popular shows that some people watched for the cheese. There were those that took it deadly serious though, probably the same bunch that loved Alien 4.
I don't think you can compare it to the A Team.
Was BSG even on terrestrial TV here?
