{"id":612,"date":"2023-12-06T04:31:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2023-12-06T04:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T04:31:46","slug":"xena-virtual-season-7-war-cries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/06\/xena-virtual-season-7-war-cries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xena Virtual Season 7: War Cries 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Falls\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35fCH5gqvVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The final ep of the Xena Virtual Season, War Cries, was the only one I wrote for: the script was powerful, but the ending needed altering to match the 1st ep of season 8. Since season 7 began with a ritual (to bring Xena back), it made sense to end it with a ritual. I had done a lot of research into South America\u2019s Amazon tribes, &amp; took a shot at depicting how the ancient Chibcha might have resolved Gab\u2019s spiritual dilemma of killing an innocent man. I mention before using Shakira for inspiration, but for this episode, I listened to the elegiac soundtrack to The\u00a0Mission by Ennio Morricone,\u00a0 which uses the same panpipe sound to tell a story of loss &amp; redemption, also set in historical South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final ep of the Xena Virtual Season, War Cries, was the only one I wrote for: the script was powerful, but the ending needed altering to match the 1st ep of season 8. Since season 7 began with a ritual (to bring Xena back), it made sense to end it with a ritual. I [&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-612","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\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}