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Remember where you were: 10/8/96?

Greetings:

Do you remember where you were on that date two years ago? Do you
recall the significance of it? No. Not Pearl Harbor, or the Alamo,
not the first time Clinton tweaked Monica's buns. I'm just kidding.
If you were alive on the planet and any kind of Xena fan two years
ago, you know exactly the significance of October 8, 1996.

A Tonight Show skit, coupled with a shod horse on wet pavement and
Lucy takes a spill that not only lands her in the hospital with pelvic
fractures, but also makes her the focus of just about every lightweight
media show on the tube -- from Entertainment Tonight to E! Lucy
herself has admitted that, in retrospect, it was serendipitous. No one
knew her from "Eve" before she took the spill. Hours later, our
Netforum is buzzing with get well messages, prayers, inquiries, and
we are simply mirroring what is happening with the media. Or is it
the other way around?

We hung on every clip, every report, every bone tossed our way. We
genuinely worried and fretted for this woman whom we knew was one-of-
a-kind long before the "media" even had an inkling. Perhaps only
Lucy's concerned family and friends could say such a thing. And
when she finally surfaced on the Tonight Show some three weeks later,
making a stylish entrance in the arms of two loin-cloth clad hunks,
we grinned from ear to ear. When she performed a little dance upon
being set on her feet: we winced! The word "trooper" gets attached
to people a little too easily nowadays, but if anyone merited the
superlative, it was Lucy. With her grit and determination, her need
to prove to herself, and to us, that she was going to come through
this experience better for it, she earned a whole new legion of fans
and admirers. She endured it all with style, wit and, on a personal
note, with more than a degree of compassion.

We were, as fans, at all surprised by this? Nope. We had, even before
the original Xena episodes aired, staked our claim on Lucy Lawless.
She was ours, our discovery. She was, and is, in turn, a champion,
an advocate, a sex symbol, an intellectual, a wit, a goofball...the
list goes on. She is something different to each of us. And we are
fortunate that she appears to be a human being deserving of the
attentions and affections we lavish upon her. Lucy, if you should
read this, you know that you have strong supporters, staunch defenders
and friends you haven't met yet!

Xenaphiles, Xenites, call us what you will...we do not give our loyalty
easily. We took Lucy Lawless on faith...at face value, without knowing
much about her true character. We looked at her and Xena and the show
and saw such potential. We were damned oracles! I don't know about
you, but I'M impressed.

Roo

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