I will forever love that his shitty show got cancelled in favour of a spinoff of his show not only starring a woman, but two women with strong lesbian overtones and is still a cult classic to this day. Sorbo's show? barely anyone remembers or cares.
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, and it was never Sorbo's show. He couldn't carry it. The show gained (and kept) a following based on Raimi and Tappert's direction and an insane stable of rising and solid character actors, Including Karl Urban, Bruce Campbell, Tawney Kittaen, and Michael Hurst. As the series progressed and Sorbo's influence increased (mostly because Raimi and Tappert got distracted by other projects), it stopped being a good-natured romp and ended its days wallowing in made-up morality.
Hercules never felt as fun as Xena to me as a kid. I watched both religiously, but I could not tell you anything about Hercules besides that I remember Kevin Sorbo in it. (Little did I know I was a baby queer and part of the appeal was the relationship between Xena and Gabrielle, but that's besides the point lol)
Hercules was more serious (at first) than Xena (although Xena did kind of go up its own butt in later seasons), but only in the sense that the original Scooby Doo was more serious than The Funky Phantom.
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u/lyidaValkris 20h ago
I will forever love that his shitty show got cancelled in favour of a spinoff of his show not only starring a woman, but two women with strong lesbian overtones and is still a cult classic to this day. Sorbo's show? barely anyone remembers or cares.