Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia)
19 September 2000
Memory loss is terrible. Thank heavens for the remote and the off switch
Doug Anderson
From section: News And Features ENTERTAINMENT
Xena: Warrior Princess
Noon, 10: Today, Xena discovers the true identity of her baby's father. Memory loss is an appalling thing, is it not ... er ... doctor? This cartoon program is among those cited by an American study which reckons children are being exposed to too much mindless violence. In this instance, it's not so much the violence - which is the spontaneous solution to every problem devised by the scriptwriters - but the mindlessness of the stories and the woefully low standard of acting, direction and production which give cause for concern.