I find it odd that nowhere in that petition is Rob Tapert mentioned:
To: Lucy Lawless, Reneé O'Conner, Various TV Networks including: SciFi Channel, The UPN, Fox, The WB, NBC and of course Sam Raimi and the original production company
I think this shows a lack of understanding as to who was chiefly responsible for the success of the series.
Personally, I wouldn't want to see Xena: Warrior Princess brought back as a TV show without Kevin Smith around to play Ares.
Each to their own.
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I do want Xena revived. But not with any of the original cast (unless they play a different character), directors, writers, etc.
I'd like to see the show with a new cast but with the same ingrediants that make the original series so great. If they went a second time around, reinvent & revamp the storylines, i think it would be easier to do things and go places the first series didn't. A great cast and great stories always work.
Bringing back the same folks as before- without Kevin Smith, of course- would make it, for me, seem nostalgic and not inventive. Maybe they could pull it off again but i'd rather not see them try. Just mho.
Posts: 12102 | Location: State of Insanity | Registered: 11 May 2004
or they could do what they did to classic cartoons in the 80's and make Xena Babies. Xena rights the wrongs of playground bully Ares with her barely-out-of-diapers side kick Gabby. watch out when that new girl Callisto moves to town...i hear she's a real brat!