I've been rewatching Xena. I watched some of the later seasons when I was a kid, but I never realized how much of Xena's redemption I missed by skipping the first season. Like, I feel like they did something with Xena that I haven't seen in any show before or since. They really made her into the kind of epic hero we read about in mythology; and I love that she's a feminist symbol whose pain and growth aren't gender-specific but mean so much more because women aren't given those stories.