Xena

So, I’ve been watching Xena: Warrior Princess on the netflix for a little while now. 

I just saw an episode that had a disclaimer at the beginning: “The producers of the following episode took liberties with Hindu deities and historical timelines, but their sole intent was to illustrate the beauty and power of the Hindu religion.”

Well, first of all...bullshit. Their intent was to make an episode full of action and adventure and all that stuff they do in every episode, and that they did in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. 

After taking tons of liberties with Greek mythology and history, plus a bit of Egyptian, Roman, Britain, even a smattering of Chinese, they sent Xena and Gabriel to India, where they took the exact same kind of liberties. No big surprise there.

So, why not add a similar disclaimer to every episode?

Oh, I know. Because there are still tons of people who practice Hinduism. Not many folks around worshipping Zeus or Ares, not a lot of Celts around.

So the producers have no qualms about sweeping historical/mythological inaccuracies on a regular basis. But somebody, somewhere in the chain of command, decided they might not want to offend the Hindus. After all, they’re still around. And they have nukes.