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 ...

But around the tail end of its run (Xena ended in 2002), a culture of LGBT television grew—from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Willow Rosenberg coming out to the seminal Queer as Folk and The L Word.

Back in July, word leaked that NBC was looking to reboot Xena: Warrior Princess, but Lucy Lawless shot the news down as mere rumor. A couple months later, talk of Xena’s return again bubbled up .