Originally Posted by
7-Love
Gabrielle's traveling with a woman who's list of evil deeds was far, far, far longer than Callisto's was when Xena & Gabrielle had met Callisto for the first time. If Xena (someone who's list of evil deeds looks like a vast ocean in comparison to Callisto's little lake of evil deeds (at that time when they had met her)) could change, why didn't Gabrielle believe that somewhere deep down inside there was a glimmer of hope for Callisto's redemption someday? The way that Gabrielle had acted in the episode "A Necessary Evil" towards Callisto (after Xena had confessed to a village what she had done to Callisto's life) is the way that she should've acted towards Callisto all along in Callisto's debut episode.