Talk:Subtext/@comment-14250-20200124142754

I think we should possibly look at pre-TROC episodes for additional subtext. Though I'm not sure how we specifically draw the line on what is and isn't. in GJWHF (just 1 prior) for example when Xena is allowing Gab to bite her so she can become a Bacchi to kill Bacchus, that's... not without subtext?

I mean sure you can say "but there was a tactical reason for that" but there are tactical reasons to bathe together too (conserve water, save time) so you could in theory make excuses for pretty much everything. If you couldn't explain it away, it would just be overt rather than subtext. So I think maybe the fang bite perhaps should be acknowledged as subtext too?

I seem to remember some slightly suggestive dialogue too like when they finished defending Hippocrotes' medical temple? Do we have transcripts somewhere? Already deleted that off my PVR. Something along the lines of some 3rd party commenting on how important they were to each other... I definitely remember several pre-TROC gradual hints/nudges so it's weird to see it start there. I've been re-watching this and only just caught up to TROC and remember smiling a few times at stuff I probably wouldn't have noticed as a preteen in the 90s.