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14th May '13 8:00:48 PM Laudanum

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14th May '13 6:59:26 PM Laudanum

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* In ''{{Xena}}'' CharacterDerailment gets taken to the Nth degree when the ''TwilightOfTheGods'' arc comes into play, with all the Olympian Gods being so ridiculously out of character (''all'' of them except Aphrodite, who absolutely ''no one'' would be able to swallow turning evil) that it ''would'' be funny...if it wasn't actually just a ploy for the writers to completely write-off an entire spectrum of characters just for the sake of pushing forward the HijackedByJesus plot points: 
** when Ares first appeared, it was shown how the God of War fights. And that standard has basically stayed the same - with the exception that when he spars one-on-one with Xena in front of the Furies he doesn't use any godly powers - however, when the 'Twilight of the Gods' arc arrived, ''all Gods'' were reduced to idiotic morons with the God and Goddess of War (''and wisdom'') being taken down easier than the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Warlord Of The Week]]. Ares gets the WorfEffect and all the Gods' powers, abilities and intelligence is taken down to the proficiency of mortals with pyrotechnics who have no idea how to use their powers or how to fight so that Xena can [[spoiler:kill them all]]. Every single God gets villified, with their characters so skewed that everyone except [[spoiler:Athena, Aphrodite, and Ares]] becomes a stock moronic evil henchmen no matter ''who'' they are, so that Xena can retain the moral high-ground (y'know, so the audience can try to forget that she is committing what amounts to genocide and that if ''she'' was in the position where someone was trying to [[spoiler:kill her and everyone she loved]], she would have been much ''much'' worse. Lucky that in previous episodes the show hadn't demonstrated that the Gods embody different aspects of humanity and the loss of godhood results in humanity going insane...oh, wait.

27th Apr '13 7:02:08 PM chicagomel

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25th Apr '13 2:55:11 AM Silverblade2

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23rd Apr '13 6:18:33 AM Peteman

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I wasn't aware this was Law And Order, Special Mutants Unit.

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