'Xena' reboot writer confirms: Xena and Gabrielle to be more than friends

Subtext finally becomes text, thanks to an upcoming reboot of Xena: Warrior Princess courtesy of NBC and writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, the architect behind the CW's The 100.

As much as the '90s syndicated classic was about a powerful woman who kicked evil butt alongside her spunky sidekick, Xena has gone down in popular culture as being full of homoerotic subtext between Xena and Gabrielle. The show often teased us with tantalizing hints that the two female warriors shared more than just battles.

But it's no longer the '90s. NBC has ordered a pilot for a Xena reboot, and writer Grillo-Marxuach said in a Tumblr Q&A that he intends to turn all that subtext into text. You heard that right, Xena and Gabrielle are going to be lovers.

"(I) am a very different person with a very different world view than my employer on the '100' - and my work on the 100 was to use my skills to bring that vision to life. Xena will be a very different show made for very different reasons. there is no reason to bring back Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s. it will also express my view of the world - which is only further informed by what is happening right now - and is not too difficult to know what that is if you do some digging."

Grillo-Marxuach was referring to a recent fan controversy in The 100, in which the fan-favorite character Lexa was killed right after she started a same-sex relationship with Clarke. With his new show, Grillo-Marxuach is apparently hoping to appease fans who called Lexa's death an erasure of LGBT characters on television.

We'll be appeased as long as we get hour-long episodes of the hug scenes.