"Xena: The Warrior Princess"

Xena is a TV series with a very popular mix of sex 
and violence intertwined. Lucy Lawless plays Xena 
and Kathryn Morris plays Najara in the episode 
reviewed here.

Episode eight of season four called "Crusader" 
absolutely proved that the directors have twisted 
ideological priorities. In that episode, a 
Christian "Najara" character takes a highly 
politically advanced stand in history thousands of 
years ago.

Najara starts a militant Christian movement. She 
wants to set up a hospice and she dispatches food 
speculators to their death.

Xena and sidekick Gabrielle catch up with Najara 
as she is about to rid a certain locale of 
slavery. Xena and Najara fight and the slave-
traders end up going free, thanks to Xena.

Najara struggled with goody-goody Gabrielle to see 
the light, but made no headway. "What if the local 
government supports slavery?  Probably not a 
problem, because Xena kills most of them in 
combat, anyway," says Najara. Najara has a good 
point. Militarist-Xena thinks she is doing well 
when she turns over surviving alleged criminals to 
"local authorities" to receive a "trial." Xena 
never checks the context, to see if slave-owners 
are in control of the local courts for example.

The episodes featuring Najara turn good and bad 
upside-down.

Notes: 
http://www.whoosh.org/epguide/trans/408trans.html 
http://www.xenaville.com/eps/s4/rev_crusader.html
http://members.tripod.com/~AmazonBon/crusader.html