4-15 Between The Lines --- A Critique
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4-15 Between The Lines --- A Critique         


Author: David E. Milligan
Date: Nov 18, 2007 12:19

4-15 Between The Lines

First air date Feb. 15, 1999.

The episode starts out with Indian music and a quote from the Xena "Blue" Scroll, "What
we sow in this life / We reap in our future lives / This is our karma."

Xena and Gabrielle are wearing Indian clothes. They see a procession and check it out. A
wrapped body is thrown onto a funeral pyre, then the living wife of her dead husband is to be
thrown onto it also. Xena and Gabrielle interfere, they fight then take the woman and run away. The
go into a temple with only one door and no way out. They bar the door.

Xena and the woman, Naiyima, are in one room alone. She tells Xena she has to send her
into the future to save her karmic circle. She forms a blue ball between her hands, something that
looks like the sky with galaxies circling appears, then Xena is hit with it and disappears.

In the future, a woman warrior named Khindin is talking to an old, partially crippled
Indian woman named Arminestra, who is reincarnated Xena, about killing the men of the village and
capturing the women and children. Xena recognizes a spear she stuck in a stone urn years ago during
the fight to save Naiyima. When they face off, Khindin becomes Alti, who recognizes Arminestra as
Xena. A man named Shakti rescues Xena but is shot with a crossbow by Alti.
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Re: 4-15 Between The Lines --- A Critique         


Author: David E. Milligan
Date: Nov 19, 2007 18:44

"Florian Blaschke" wrote in message
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> David E. Milligan wrote:
>> They talk about their souls being intertwined. Xena paints a
>> cross on the top of one foot as a sign they will recognize each other
>> in future lives.
>
> If I remember right, the symbol looks like the symbol for "female", a
> circle with a cross attached.
>
> Not sure how this is supposed to work though if they have different
> bodies in future lives, then again it might be yet another magic body
> painting.
>
What happens when the present Xena takes a bath - she never washes that foot again?
>> I realize the title has something to do with Naiyima telling
>> Gabrielle that she and Xena were like two lines in the mendhi, but
>> what is supposed to be between these lines?
>
> The subtext...
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Re: 4-15 Between The Lines --- A Critique         


Author: David E. Milligan
Date: Nov 19, 2007 18:54

"poker88" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I don't have a problem with you not liking tatoos. I wouldn't
> have minded seeing them disappear in the 'magic' though, that would
> have been a cool effect. I didn't mind them in the ep but they seem
> like they would be very time consuming to o and that doesn't always
> play well in the plot.
>
> I didn't mind this episode the first time I watched it, although Alti
> still scares the crap out of me. I like it less now that I know how
> things end though. I think that it's possible to have people that you
> are "tied" to in life and that you would meet them again and again in
> various lifetimes but I consider that to be different from
> "soulmates"....
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Re: 4-15 Between The Lines --- A Critique         


Author: Florian Blaschke
Date: Nov 20, 2007 08:25

David E. Milligan wrote:
> Florian Blaschke wrote:
>> David E. Milligan wrote:
>>> They talk about their souls being intertwined. Xena paints
>>> a cross on the top of one foot as a sign they will recognize each
>>> other in future lives.
[...]
>> Not sure how this is supposed to work though if they have different
>> bodies in future lives, then again it might be yet another magic body
>> painting.
> What happens when the present Xena takes a bath - she never
> washes that foot again?

Yeah, another, even much more immediate problem.

As I said, the painting would have to be magic anyway.
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Re: 4-15 Between The Lines --- A Critique         


Author: David E. Milligan
Date: Nov 20, 2007 16:22

"Florian Blaschke" wrote in message
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> David E. Milligan wrote:
>> Florian Blaschke wrote:
>>> David E. Milligan wrote:
>>>> They talk about their souls being intertwined. Xena paints
>>>> a cross on the top of one foot as a sign they will recognize each
>>>> other in future lives.
> [...]
>>> Not sure how this is supposed to work though if they have different
>>> bodies in future lives, then again it might be yet another magic body
>>> painting.
>> What happens when the present Xena takes a bath - she never
>> washes that foot again?
>
> Yeah, another, even much more immediate problem.
>
> As I said, the painting would have to be magic anyway.
>
>>>> I really dislike the body painting. To me, it looks too much like ...
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