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As a subtexter, I didn´t like the end of FIN - I would have preferred X and G to sail away together after having found a way to save all the 40 000 souls in some clever way like they had spent the last few years saving a lot of other people.

But, even though i don´t like the ending I actually recently came to understand it better after watching Locked up and tied down in which Xena explains it all in the scene where she´s saying good-bye to G before being taken on the ship that´ll take her to the prison island. I can´t remember every word Xena says, but she basically explains that she just cannot forgive herself and that she´s ready to take any punishment they see fit. She also answers G´s questions that are very much like ours - watch it again, it´s very good.

FIN does make sense when remembering the start of SOTP where Xena has decided to give it all up but that decision gets interrupted and delayed because of Gabrielle and during the course of the next few years Xena learns a lot but still doesn´t change that much - it´s Gabrielle who changes the most.

Xena´s remorse is also what makes her human and easy for us to like and feel sorry for and to see ourselves in - if she didn´t feel that remorse we, or Gabrielle, probably wouldn´t love her so much. So, the way I see it - in order to avoid the ending of FIN with Xena dying, she would have had to fix the reason for her hatred and anger much sooner and then we wouldn´t have had any series at all, probably.

Still, personally I would much rather have X & G ride off into the sunset together and have Xena lived the rest of her life helping others fighting for good by Gabriells´s side and live happily ever after. So, I don´t agree with FIN, but I do understand it.