Death of a hero

I was fairly upset this weekend.

Why, you ask?

Well, for one thing, I finally reached the very last episode of the very last season of Xena: Warrior Princess and they killed her!

After everything that's happened and everything the characters went through, the writers and producers (in their infinite f*cked-up wisdom) decides to kill Xena. How crappy is that??? I haven't felt as sad and crappy as that since I had to watch Buffy jump to her death to save the world and her sister at the end of Season 5! And at least there I knew she would come back. Not sure how, but I knew she would come back. With Xena she was just dead! And I cried.

It hurt, you know?

And then I go on the internet and I'm Googling all the stars of the show to see what happened to them and I had to find out that Kevin Smith (who played Ares in the show) died in 2004. He had an accident while in China and died. He was 38 and left behind a wife and 3 little kids. That really messed me up. I was so sad! He was a great actor and a great guy and he's lost to us.

I'm very sad today.

RIP Kevin Smith and Xena. Maybe angels carry you to your rest.