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Motherhood

From Legendary Journeys

Motherhood
Series Xena: Warrior Princess
Season 5
Original Airdate 15th may 2000
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Eve has seen the good in her heart and it's the final showdown between Xena and the Olympians. She takes it upon herself to kill the Gods when Michael gives her the power to kill them.

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[edit] Disclaimer

All the gods were harmed during the production of this motion picture.

[edit] Background Information

  • The original title of this episode was "Twilight of the Gods".
  • This episode marks the deaths of 7 Olympian Gods. Poseidon, Discord, Hephaestus, Hades, Deimos, Artemis and Athena.
  • This episode marks the last appearance of Renee O'Connor playing Hope on the series.
  • Director Rick Jacobson cast himself in the role of Poseidon
  • This is the last appearance of Meighan Desmond (Discord) on the series.
  • Adrienne Wilkinson (Eve) explains that the production office had called her up prior to casting regarding any allergies or phobias she has with spiders since she had to do a spider scene at the end of the episode. She said that she doesn't like them, but it's not like she had any phobias. She was surprised, however, at the sheer number of crew members who just couldn't be anywhere near the set when they shot the spider scene.
  • This is only the second time that Artemis has appeared in person, along with the Hercules episode "The Apple" (her first appearance). In several episodes of Young Hercules, she was seen in a shimmering light form.
  • Joel Tobeck makes his first appearance on Xena, though he was a regular in Hercules past episodes as both Deimos and Strife. He would make one more appearance, but as a new character.
  • Karl Urban was originally supposed to appear in this episode as Cupid but was unavailable due to him filming Lord of the Rings at the time of production.
  • This episode was originally 57 minutes long. Scenes cut for time include two scenes involving the Furies, one with the gods discussing Aphrodite protecting Eve and Gabrielle and one of Xena/Ares on the beach in the end of the episode. In this final scene, Xena asks Ares where he will go now, and he responds that he will wander the earth. The scene of Xena attacking Gabrielle was also heavily edited; originally, Gabrielle was repeatedly stabbing Eve and Xena yelled at Gabrielle to stop and only attacked as a last resort. Because of this editing mishap, "Coming Home" had scenes added to it that would address some of these unresolved issues.
  • Renee O'Connor almost passed out several times during this episode due to inhaling carbon dioxide fumes while being dragged in the fog that was used to give Olympus a cloudy look.
  • They originally planned to have Xena, Gabrielle and Eve face the Gods together in the final showdown, but it was too expensive, so they changed it to Xena fighting alone. It would have more expensive because they would have had to film it outside to have enough room to work as well as requiring a great deal more shots to get all of the angles for the different characters.
  • The original script for the scene where Xena chakrams Gabrielle in the head had Xena just seeing the silhouette of someone stabbing Eve and her tossing the chakram before realizing that it was Gabrielle. But the location didn't have a window in the right place, and they were forced to improvise the scene as they did.
  • This episode marks the third time Ares has lost his immortality.  The other two being in "Ten Little Warlords" and "The Quill is Mightier...".
  • Missing Scenes: There was originally a kiss between Xena and Ares in this episode which was cut for time and can be seen in "Coming Home". Also, originally after the furies left Gabrielle's head, Xena killed them off. Had this happened, "Coming Home" would have been a lot different.

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