WWXD?
Started: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 23:10
Finished: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 23:22
I just finished watching my VHS copy of Remember Nothing, from Season 2.
If only for a while
I recognize the changes
I feel like I did
Before the magic wore thin
And the baptism of stains began
Even when I'm not in an emotional state of unprectible flux, that episode can be enough to drive me to tears.
Looking back and I see
Someone else
This time, from right about at the point where the embittered slave Gabrielle appeard onward, the tears silently flowed down my cheeks. In quantity.
There's a path leading out to sea
And from somewhere deep in my mind
Sirens sang out loud
Songs of doubt
As only they know how
But one glance back reminds, and I see
Someone else, not me
In the past, I have read various fan interpretations of possible moral messages conveyed by that episode. As for myself, I'm not sure just what the intended message is supposed to be. I just know that everytime I watch it, the damn story leaves me in shards inside.
Xena... never fought, never battled, never killed. Never harmed or shed blood. Just what she had wanted her life, her past, to be. Untainted. But look at the result.
I'm breaking down again. I need sleep. Somehow, I'll manage to pull myself back together into the perfect model employee by morning. Somehow.