No, I love redemption story lines. Rurouni Kenshin is a ultimately a redemption story and he eventually starts to move past the trope of struggling with himself, too. Redemption wasn't my issue with Xena. What bothered me about Xena was that it got preachy with religion...specifically with the use of Christian themes. It was set in ancient Greece, Christianity was entirely unnecessary for her redemption (and don't even get me started on what they did to Callisto).