Now that I'm older, I realize why I hate the Xena finale so much.

It is the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen. I just finished going through the series so that I can write the Xena chapter of my thesis, and I am so completely disgusted with the finale. It is vile.

Xena betrays herself, her mission, and Gabrielle with her self-sacrificing bull shit. Yeah, 40K souls will be lost because they died in a fire Xena caused while trying to do something good. WTF? Were they really that dumb and slow-moving? They clearly were morons, so why should Xena have to die for them? Better yet - even though she does die for them, why the fuck does she have to stay dead? She's released their damn souls, she should be able to be happy with Gabrielle.

ARGH.

Okay, hopefully my anger will be more settled by the time I write about this. Because I am really, really going to tear this apart.