I hear that basically the entire sixth season delivers on the Xena/Gabby front, but that it also got kind of weird, and not in the fun eccentric way that the early seasons were, but more like a WTF? kind of way. I haven't seen much of S6, so I can neither confirm nor deny. This episode did seem to maybe take itself more seriously than earlier ones? But that may be because I remember the comedies better than the melodramatic episodes.

(X/G were my first femslash pairing when I was a teenager, and they have a big, very special space in my heart. I fangirled Gabrielle LIEK WHOA, too.)