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Yes ----

Full circle defined as "a series ending where it began" was exactly what FIN achieved.

I respectfully disagree FIN was about Xena getting redemption. In fact, the only claims of redemption isnt by Xena at all rather Akemi and the belief of the 40,000 souls. Therefore, Xena did not sacrafice her life thinking to gain redemption rather she put 40,000 souls above herself even above Gabrielle's plea she come back.

Sins of the Past set forth more than just Xena overcoming the thought of suicide and/or giving up when she saw Gabrielle's village under attack...but I remind what Xena heard Gabrielle say that caught Xena's attention to Gabrielle:

"Take me! Let the others go!" ---

Here's a young, innocent girl offering herself as a sacrafice basically to save many others. Thats exactly what Xena did in FIN that brought her full circle. She sacraficed herself to save others, to save those souls, a sacrafice that wasn't a trade for her own redemption but because it was the "right thing to do." Xena didn't weigh if it was right those souls believed they had to be avenged; not even if it was right she had to stay dead so they could walk in grace rather the main point being they would be lost forever unless she gave up her own life for their eternal peace.

What was the right thing to do ? Well... it was a choice in my view Xena made of putting others, 40,000 souls above herself. A heroic sacrafice of her life because it allowed those souls eternal peace just as if Xena had said, ---take me and let those souls go !

This series began like a written novel -the narration "in a time of turmoil" -episodes that were chapters of a book, basically chapters on scrolls. The chapters told of a journey, the travels of Xena and Gabrielle and like any good well-written book there is a beginning, adventurous middle chapters and there should be an end.

So yes --for 6 years I read this book enjoying the dramatic chapters, the comedic chapters and the many many great characters Xena and Gabrielle encountered along the way. I remember Xena set out first without Gabrielle after being reinspired by Gabrielle but planning to continue wearing her warrior outfit, deciding to go home hoping to "get it right."

Luckily Gabrielle followed and was persistant to join Xena, telling Lila --"I'm going to be a warrior, like her."

So in FIN when Xena credited learning from Gabrielle, the final and right thing to do it was the very same thing that captured Xena's attention to Gabrielle offering to sacrafice herself to save others in Sins of The Past. The key word being one's choice to offer to sacrafice their life in order to put others above all else. Oh yea ---that's full circle for both Xena and Gabrielle. Let's just say not only full circle but role reversal --Gabrielle becomes the warrior and Xena is who steps up saying -take me, let them go.

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