
Crassus, Ming T'ien, and Khrafstar The Deliverer

This season had an enormous amount of awesome episodes. There were some wasted comedic episodes, but disregarding those, some were exceptionally well made by story arc and morals were well demonstrated through the season. The most memorable moment of the season for me was in the episode "When in Rome..." which portrayed the execution of Crassus, who was an AWESOME AWESOME character. Crassus was one of the triumvirate trying to obtain control of the Roman Empire, the other two being Pompey the Magnus and Julius Caesar. The entire story arc revolving around him and Xena was magnificently done. Basically, Caesar captures Vircinix, who was the leader of his village, and prepares him for execution. Xena plans for a switch. She captures Crassus and allows Gabrielle to bring Crassus into the jail cell. They switch Crassus for Vircinix. This is where the awesome drama comes into play. If Gabrielle had left Crassus' royal ring on his finger, then Crassus would not have been executed. However, since Gabrielle was convinced that Crassus was a bad man, she removes the ring from his finger and allows Caesar to execute Crassus in the middle of the gladiator stadium with thousands of bloodthirsty people watching. Crassus was by far the most excellent character in the third season of Xena. The brutality of Xena and Gabrielle is well portrayed in this episode. Although Gabrielle didn't want to have him killed, she did what Xena told her. Another awesome part of the third season was the two part "The Debt" episodes. This whole saga between Ming T'ien who was also known as The Green Dragon and Xena was well played. What Ming did was basically kill his own mother and take over the Chin dynasty/empire. He had many people executed. And Xena travelled so very far just to kill Ming T'ien. However, Gabrielle betrayed Xena in order to stop her from killing Ming. This resulted in Xena being captured and placed in a dungeon. Gabrielle later proclaims to Xena that she did what she did in order to ensure that Xena doesn't kill someone in cold-blood. Again, Ming T'ien was later slain, exection style by Xena in the end of the arc when Xena escaped. Ming T'ien was so magnificently portrayed that the saga was legendary. The other awesome moment in this season was in the episode "The Deliverer" where Khrafstar, one of Dahak's secretive followers. Khrafstar disguises himself to be a friend of Gabrielle and Xena, but he doublecrosses them just so Gabrielle can be impregnated by Dahak's child. The way in which Khrafstar transforms himself into The Deliverer was extremely well made. He was another awesome part of this season. The last great bit about this season came in the episode "One Against And Army" where the character of Dorian pretended to be on Xena's side and he distracted them so Gabrielle could be shot with a poison arrow. This resulted in Xena and Gabrielle to take refuge in a barn, where they were attacked by an entire army and where Xena mercilessly did nothing but lay waste to them all. She even obtained vengeance by stabbing Dorian with the same type of poison arrow. Dorian was such a great character. Other than these excellent moments in this season with all these excellent villains who were brilliantly performed, this season also had the "Bitter Suite" a montage of singing-esque sequences, much like a stage performance. This episode was completely made for musical purposes, with all the characters singing. This season of Xena was definitely one of the best.
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