Musical episodes of TV shows are a very rare thing to see what's even rarer tho is seeing a good musical episode of a TV show. Heck you could even make the case the case for the episode that i'm about to review for you all today for being the one that made the musical episode as popular as it is today and so then join me as I review the episode that shows us what happens when you push a warrior princess to far with the episode in question being called simply just "The Bitter Suite" enjoy.
The plot of this episode after both suffering massive heartache Xena and Gabrielle blame each other for recent events and find themselves trapped in a land that's rules entirely by emotion. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that' actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good so good infact that out of the two or so episodes of this show that i've seen this episode is the one that has the best plot because that's just how good this episodes plot really is for me in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Lucy Lawless as Xena , Renée O'Connor as Gabrielle and Danielle Cormack as Ephiny. Also starring in this episode is Willa O'Neill as Lila , action film megastar Karl Urban as Julius Caesar , The Evil Dead , Evil Dead 2 , Army Of Darkness and Ash Vs. Evil Dead star Ted Raimi as Joxer , the late Kevin Tod Smith as Ares , Hudson Leick as Callisto , Marton Csokas as Khrafstar , Daniel Sing as Ming Tien , David Taylor as Solan.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episode cast turning in some really good performances with all of this episodes cast are quite clearly having fun playing their characters and that is something that really does show through in the performances that we got in this episode.
Try as I might I really cannot find out who did the CGI for this episode which is a shame since I really did like the CGI in this episode. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad taking into account that this show didn't have a big budget and thus couldn't afford the great looking CGI that we get in TV shows today but even so the CGI in this episode was really good.
What I really liked about this episode is the fact that it pushes this seasons storylines which is something that I think all good musical episodes should do. Since at the end of the day this is still a TV show and as such the seasons storylines still need to be advanced and the way that this episodes handles them and advances them is done in a way that felt totally organic and worked really well for the show and for the shows main cast of characters.
Also helping things is the fact that this episodes really does push the friendship between Xena and Gabrielle to it's limits. To the point where Xena actually tries to kill Gabrielle not once but twice because that's how far their friendship has been pushed and because of that we got alot of great drama out of it and it helps that both actors really do pull those scenes of since without these actors really nailing those scenes the whole episode or even perhaps the whole season really does just fall apart at the seems.
It's sadly not all good tho since the songs that are written by the shows composer Joseph LoDuca , Pamela Phillips Oland and Dennis Spiegel. Where all fairly weak with there not being any standout songs and with the songs that we got in this episode being at the very best OK and terrible at it's worst which is shame because thew singing for all of the songs was really good the bad songs wouldn't be that much of an issue if it wasn't for the fact that lot of this episode is done is song which does nothing more then make the issue of the bad songs seem really all of the more worse.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty four minuets and seventeen seconds. Which is pretty much the bog standard running time for this show and to this episodes credit this episode really does make the absolutely most of it's running time with every single scene and song in this episode being all about advancing the plot of the episode which meant that the episode had some really good pacing since the episode didn't feel like it was going by to fast nor to slow.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Since the action that we got in this episode was nothing more then campy fun that was filled to the brim with cool moments in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall I can see why this episode is as popular as it was but at the same time just because it's a popular episode doesn't mean that it's an episode that's faultless since there some issues in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review from the official Hercules and Xena fandom wiki page , the official Buffy The Vampire Slayer fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.