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Xena Warrior Princess - Season Two

Xena Warrior Princess - Season Two

List Price: $69.98
Your Price: $62.98
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic Xena for real fans
Review: This set is a major improvement over the 1st set. This one has audio and video commentary by LL, ROC, and Rob Tapert. The video commentary actually shows the stars talking about the episodes they are reviewing. It's very MST3K-like (but in a good way). Very funny stuff. They do tend to cut some of the episode during the video commentary, though (not too much, but minor scenes are missing). The 7th disc is for your PC and has mostly the same stuff as the 1st season's extra disc. It was a very good season and i think this DVD set does it justice.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Refuse to buy Season 2 series
Review: This time I wasn't too stupid for wasting my money on the second series. I double checked every description to see if it had closed captioning or subtitles and I didn't find anything. Although I can hear like most normal people with my hearing aids, I am hearing impaired and still miss out on things, so I rely heavily on CC or subtitles. Almost any other DVD I have ever bought automatically came with these features and yet I ended up making a bad purchase when I bought the first Xena series only to find there were none. Technology has come a long ways in filling in the void for Hearing Impaired and deaf people and yet Anchor Bay is still way behind.

I have been a dedicated fan of the Xena series and was very happy that the TV series had CC. The final episode that came out on DVD also had CC. So why did Anchor Bay choose to ignore this feature on the full season series? Anchor Bay could be making so much more money had they been more considerate. As I had stated in my previous review for the season one series, I absolutely refuse to purchase any more series without those features.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Review: WHAT A BRILLINT BRILLINT SEASONALTHOUGHT NOT THE BEST ITS AN AMAZING SEASON A GREAT SEASON PREMIRE WONDERFULY FOLLOWING THE SEASON FINALE AND A GREAT AND BRILLIANT EPISODE DESTINEY SHOWS XENAS DARKPAST AS WELL AS HER PART WITH CAESAR SHE LOVED HIM BUT HE BETRAYED HER AND HUNG HER AND ROKE HER LEGS AND THE PSYCHO BARBIE BABE CALLISTO IS BACKW WITH SOME OF HER BEST EPISODES.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: CLASSIC
Review: XENAS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER THE FINEST ACTION SERIES EVER GETS ON ITS FEET VERY HERIOCEPISODES CALLISTOS SHOWN THE MOST IN THIS SEASON THAN ANY OTHER SHES BAD TOI THE BONE

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Superb Quality, here's what's on each disc
Review: You can get info on other things in the other good reviews. Here's the info I always want and can never find:

D1: Orphan of War, Remember Nothing, The Giant Killer, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Photo Gallery (about 45 fairly HighRes photos, all apparently from the show footage)
D2: Return of Callisto (A/V Commentary by Lawless, O'Connor), Warrior ... Princess ... Tramp, Intimate Strangers, Ten Little Warlords
D3: The Solstice Carol, The Xena Scrolls, Here She Comes ... Miss Amphipolis, Destiny (A/V Commentary by Tapert)
D4: The Quest, A Necessary Evil, A Day in the Life (A/V Commentary by Lawless, O'Connor, Tapert), For Him the Bell Tolls
D5: The Execution, Blind Faith, Ulysses, The Price
D6: Lost Mariner, A Comedy Of Eros
D7: The Xena Chronicles, Trivia, Actor/Director Bios

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just the DVD facts (ma'am)
Review: [Summary: Just over 4.5 stars; a big step up from Season One's DVD collection]

Note: Just in case you haven't already watched X:WP Season Two, this review contains NO SPOILERS.

Xena: Warrior Princess Season Two DVD collection summary:
- 6 DVDs, with 4 episodes each except for 2 in the last; 22 total episodes.
- 1 CD-ROM, with largely useless content.
- Video: MUCH better than the grainy 16mm film transfer of Season One.
- Audio: Dolby Digital throughout (a big step up from the Dolby Stereo of Season Two).
- DVD Extras: Good-quality stills, plus audio and video commentary on three episodes. Season One included zip - nada - bupkus. MUCH better!
- CD-ROM: Same old junk as was included for Season One. Why?
- Price: Lower than Season One, for better quality. Yay!
- Episodes: 22. Season One had 24. The only comparative downside.

Season One rated just over 3.5 stars. Season Two is worth a bit over 4.5 stars -- a major step up.

Disc 1: Portrait of Gabrielle on label
- Orphan of War
- Remember Nothing
- The Giant Killer
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Disc Extras:
- Still Gallery
- Weblink to www.xenadvd.com

Disc 2: Portrait of Joxer on label
- Return of Callisto
"Return of Callisto" extras: Audio and video commentary by Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor
- Warrior ... Princess ... Tramp
- Intimate Strangers
- Ten Little Warlords

Disc 3: Picture of Xena on label
- A Solstice Carol
- The Xena Scrolls
- Here She Comes ... Miss Amphipolis
- Destiny
"Destiny" extras: Audio and video commentary by Rob Tapert

Disc 4: Picture of Xena (as "Miss Amphipolis") on label
- The Quest
- A Necessary Evil
- A Day in the Life
"A Day in the Life" extras: Audio and video commentary by Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, and Rob Tapert
- For Him the Bell Tolls

Disc 5: Picture of Xena and Draco on label
- The Execution
- Blind Faith
- Ulysses
- The Price
(No extras.)

Disc 6: Picture of Cupid on label
- Lost Mariner
- A Comedy of Eros
(No extras.)

Disc 7 (CD-ROM): Picture of Xena and Gabrielle on label
- Screensaver
- Cast & Director bios
- "Scrolls" - episode cast lists, guest stars ("mortals" and "gods"), search through the scrolls text
- Season Two trivia game

The audio commentaries are the usual option, easily available through the menu for each of the three episodes. The video commentaries are a subset (about 40% in each case) of the audio commentaries, with images of the commentators sitting in front of a wide-screen TV watching the episodes. The same set (except for number of chairs) is used in all three video commentaries.

X:WP Season Two contains performances by the following recurring characters from the Hercules/Xena world:
- Ted Raimi as Joxer, bumbling would-be warrior
- Hudson Leick as Callisto, nemesis extraordinaire
- Kevin Smith as Ares, God of War
- Robert Trebor as Salmoneus, mercurial merchant
- Bruce Campbell as Autolycus, King of Thieves
- Danielle Cormack as Ephiny, Amazon warrior
- Michael Hurst as Iolaus (Hercules' sidekick)
- Tim Thomerson as Meleager the Mighty
- Alexandra Tydings as Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
- Karl Urban as both Julius Caesar and Cupid (son of Aphrodite) ) (should actually be "Eros"; "Cupid" is his Roman name)
- Jay Laga'aia as Draco

More notable one-shot guest stars from Season Two included:
- Lisa Zane as Miss Skiros
- Mindy Clarke as Velasca
- Rachel Blakely as Penelope
- Tony Todd as Cecrops

More butt-kicking fun in the Hercules/Xena world. Get your copy, make some popcorn, and have a party!


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