{"id":572,"date":"2023-11-22T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2023-11-22T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:38:21","slug":"xena-virtual-season-7-go-west-young-warrior-part-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/xena-virtual-season-7-go-west-young-warrior-part-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season 7: Go West Young Warrior part 1: 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9257.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9257.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9257.jpeg 391w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_9257-300x212.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Atlantic Ocean as seen by Xena Warrior Princess<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Go West Young Warrior, part 1, of the #Xena Virtual Season, here\u2019s a close-up of King Gabriel\u2019s map of the Atlantic ocean, based on the best data available to him. When designing this map, I imagined that he commissioned Hispanian cartographers, which is to say, Romans, since Rome\u00a0is ascendant at this point of in the show. Therefore the most important latitude is Circulus Romanus (a name I made up) which is the latitude that runs through the city of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also made up the Roman name for the Tropic of Cancer, Circulus Soltitialis, which was pointless, as it turned\u00a0 out, because they also called it the Tropic of Cancer! I chose map names like \u201cKhan\u201d to refer to the original pitch for #Xena, as a hero pursued by Khan the warlord. I included Higuchi, since Xena had been there, &amp; it was the easternmost city\u00a0they knew of.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lo Lang is imo the Korean equivalent of Japa (for Japan) &amp; Ch\u2019in, (for China). I was trying to plant the idea that #Xena might go there in a possible future episode. Of course, the show never used naps like this. Anything on a scroll was usually abstract in nature. You didn\u2019t see\u00a0readable words or recognizable maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only time I recall an accurate map was when #Xena traveled to Ch\u2019in in The Debt, &amp; that was an animated insert, not a physical prop Xena was reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you may ask: why is King Gabriel of all people in this episode? I have a theory, that we\u2019ll learn about in part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Go West Young Warrior, part 1, of the #Xena Virtual Season, here\u2019s a close-up of King Gabriel\u2019s map of the Atlantic ocean, based on the best data available to him. When designing this map, I imagined that he commissioned Hispanian cartographers, which is to say, Romans, since Rome\u00a0is ascendant at this point of in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-season","category-xena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}