#commentaries

I've noticed there's a lot of newbies wanting to watch 'Xena: Warrior Princess' and I couldn't be happier about that as a veteran fan but they're having trouble finding the TV show to download or stream.

I have great news for you. I have the entire show on my Google Drive account available to download or stream. Your preference. The video files are ripped directly from the Anchor Bay DVD deluxe edition box sets - which are the definitive way of watching the show but the box sets are extremely hard and expensive to get in new condition as they've been out of print since 2005. In addition to the TV show itself, I have also ripped and uploaded the featurettes from the box sets - these include the cast/crew interviews and the commentaries as well as other behind-the-scenes footage - again, ripped directly from the box sets. You can waste your money paying for a monthly subscription to a service that don't even include all the episodes due to copyright legislation or you can just download or stream them from Google Drive.

At this point in time I really couldn't care less about piracy like I used to because preserving art/entertainment media the way it's supposed to be seen/heard/engaged with means more to me now. So it's up to you.

All the links work. If they don't work, contact me and I will re-upload.

Also a quick suggestion: if you do happen to watch the end of the show titled 'A Friend In Need (Part 1)' and 'A Friend In Need (Part 2)', please do yourselves a favour and watch the DIRECTOR'S CUT that can be found in the featurettes folder. Both parts are combined together so it plays more like a movie and there is more scenes that explain things better. I won't say why this is important. You'll figure it out when you get there.

I'm just saying... if you truly want to watch the end - the director's cut.

Lastly, if you want a reason (or 10) to watch Xena, see my pinned post.

“Here comes the witch”

From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Neil: So, we're now in a Chinese restaurant.

Douglas: Now tell us about - are you going to tell us the story about you and Terry...

Neil: Yes, I will.

Douglas: I think that's important one.

Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we'd had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing... not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I'll sit and I'll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I'll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn't do it.

Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.