How did Xena work when other "strong" females failed?

How did Xena work when other "strong" females failed?

Because Lucy Lawless is based.

Lucy Lawless has a strong face so it's easy for people to think of her as badass. Actresses like Scarlett Johanson and Gal Gadot are too feminine to be taken seriously.

lesbomancy

Because people weren't so thin skinned back then.

Nowadays both the left and right lose their collective shits at the slightest hint of a provocation.

Thankfully I'm up to my eyeballs on medication that makes me pretty much incapable of getting upset.

Because Xena was fun

most shows get cancelled, 'stronk wymen' or not

Because people were generally more confident and secure in the 90s and didn't feel emasculated by watching female protagonists. There were no "western masculinity is under attack!" Because western men felt secure in their masculinity. Then 9/11, the Great Recession and internet porn addiction ruined everything.

The internet ruined everything.

This.
Xena give a "oh shit she's going to kick my ass" vibe, when nowadays actress give us "oh shit guys i think she's pouting".

Tv would sperg about white genocide if it came out today

how so?

she kinda failed though, as the show leaned really hard on eyecandy. Even if lucy lawless is disgusting. But that is also part of it. As women hate watching attractive women.

Also during the height of syndication a show basically didn't need anyone watching it to keep running.

>white genocite
>all that homoerotic undertones between xena and gabrielle
nah mon, you just retarded

>the most attractive woman on the show is a villian and xena constantly kicks her ass.

>all men are either retards are total assholes, only other equally unattractive women are trustworthy

>Gal Gadot
>a fucking twig
>too feminine

Shes got all the weakness and frailty that is commonly associated with femininity, with none of the other feminine characteristics.

Weakness and incompetence = Feminine

Being a girl is used as an insult.

It was campy.

I can't agree with any of that.

She worked because she was an interesting character who had multiple traits besides stronk wimminz.

Should I watch xena? I remember watching a few episodes here and there of xena and hercules and it's kinda nostalgic, but i'm afraid of downloading 45 gigs of episodes only to remember how low budget it all were

You didn't let retards on Sup Forums fill your head with bitterness and le redpills when it was on because you were young and not bitter and not constantly looking for "agendas" to take your shit out on

because you could jerk off to every episode without much problem

It was before anonymous mongolian throat singing forums gave sad angry betas a safe space.

The show wasn't afraid to have fun or take a swing at itself. It wasn't a constant litany of feminist talking points. Lucy Lawless is both attractive enough and built enough to make her believable as a warrior princess.

Excuse me I'd like to interject a moment, Gabrielle was the most attractive

The actress is better.
Her character doesn't revolve around being anti-male.
She fails sometimes
She admits she's a cunt sometimes.

Those pits

HNNNNG

This and Hercules were both really fucking weird shows.

>Thankfully I'm up to my eyeballs on medication that makes me pretty much incapable of getting upset.

???

Lucy Lawless is pretty cool. And people back then didn't had a stick up their asses or dicks. A lot less SJW.
And this. She's human, but also a demi-god, and the show very oftenly, very clearly depict this.

Is the reboot not happening anymore?

Because Sam Raimi isn't a man hating feminist. Xena was strong, hot, sexy and showed a lot of skin. Like the original Wonder Woman, the original Lara Croft, etc, etc. Raimi knows what men want and delivered.

The problem with today's "strong" female characters is that misandrist Hollywood keeps trying to turn women into feminist role models, aka cunts. Just look at feminist Ghostbusters.

>demi-god

What god was her parent?

Lucy Lawless is cool and she started out with Hercules first.

Genuinely entertaining and made for entertainment, not weird ham fisted social propaganda.

This, she's a 5'10" and both very athletic as well as attractive and charismatic. She was great for the role and it was an overall fun raimi show.

because lucy lawless is actually a good actress

Does it make you fat? If not, name pls

>Even if lucy lawless is disgusting.
wat

She often had a stern look, but she has a great body.

Didn't try to make a "Strong" female character

They made a cool/interesting character that happened to be Strong.

Hollywood is more concerned with satisfying feminist dogma then it is with writing good characters.

You see better written female characters in fucking anime nowadays.

She was jacked and actually acted like a strong woman, she wasn't some idealized infallible feminist she was actually a person

Compare that to Jew Woods JewWoman

>lesbian cult series
>worked

choose one.

it spawned basically every female lead action tv show like buffy

...

As a side, I've been watching Buffy and Angel and Buffy is a huge fucking cunt.

More like Lucy Flawless, amirite?

She really is. At the time I didn't think so, but a more recent rewatch just underscores how narcissistic and shitty she is.

Shit like nugostbusters is created in a context of white men are evil oh could you guys go see our movie anyway?

>Buffy
>strong woman
>suffers under the burden of leadership
>she's narcissistic
There's the complaint about how males view females with power, but not other males, right there.

She literally makes every single problem about herself, though.
She is honestly just an enormous fucking bitch.

>implying
Admiral Helena Cain did nothing wrong, Ripley did what a cucked academy graduate lieutenant couldn't, and I'm planning on campaigning for Tulsi Gabbard in '20.

Get fucked, Anita. Go find another TVTropes page to rip off.

>ywn give a mustache ride to an uncomfortable lucy lawless

My friend had the biggest crush on Xena when we were kids. I never understood it, I always thought Gabrielle was way cuter.

Your friend is a patrician.

Lawless manages to strike the perfect balance between handsome and strong without being an ugly dyke. She's both beautiful and masculine at the same time.

It was just the right amount of moe

oh also, long straight black hair and bangs is absolutely the most patrician taste.

There are people who preferred Xena?

Test

Because Robert Tapert didn't force a character in just to say they are inclusive. She was a throwaway character in Hercules that got spun off. She had flaws, and could and did fuck up. Her and Gabby weren't just "Women are funny and good actresses, unless you're a shit lord". It was ok if you thought the show was campy and hot.

Hope so

life will never be this good again.

>lucy lawless is disgusting
What's it like having such shit taste in everything? I really can't imagine it.

i wish when i die lucy lawless and polly walker take turns between beating the fuck out of me and fucking me

just one big sweaty fuck all

don't know what polly walker has to do with this she's in there

>tfw you never saw any ep when she had this armour/setting

was this pure promotional?

she was written as a hero first, woman second now it's the other way around

What?

gabrielle was hot

fucking kek

Like what?

Ok...okay...what's that going on in the background?

Victoria Pratt

Because everyone wasn't such a fucking crybaby back then.

such a good flick show

It's interesting how Xena the character is still remembered and became part of pop-culture, but show itself is pretty much forgotten, despite having crazy ratings in 90s

None of the strong female shit ever worked up until the psychic slut from Dredd or the Elsa from Frozen.

Leia could also be considered.

what exactly are you trying to say?

>the psychic slut from Dredd
She did a good job and that movie deserved so much more than it got

Lalalel la la la lel lalalalel

What the hell are you talking about? Are you aware of the fact that you contradicted yourself in just one sentence?

Did it pass the bechdel test?

>bechdel test
#Fake Test
Sad!

>implying Sup Forums doesn't REEEEEEEEEE about every random media that has something vaguely lesbian in it

Xena didn't really work all the time. It was kind of a dumb show for most episodes.

My God, yes. She was scary. She really inhabited that role.

>didn't really work
>ran for umpteen years

>My God, yes. She was scary.

...

Because it was a good show.

A fully gender-swapped Xena with the same writing would have been just as good.

jerk off material before the internet.

In the 90s you could be pretty, white and athletic and still be a stronk woman.

Now, I'm sorry, but where are my black asian, trans, disabled strong women?

Dude, it was literally a Saturday afternoon fap for most people.

This was before internet porn, friend. We had to take what we could get.

If you showed people a picture of Xena most would correctly name her. Try and get those same people to give a brief sypnosis of their favourite episode and they would struggle.

Because Lucy Lawless issmoking and is now
Mommy tier

ya'll know, Callisto is where it's at!

No heterosexual or even asexual male disagrees

Lucy aged so well.

Babby want MILKY!!!

>no one ever brings up qt Aphrodite
why