Warrior Women (2003) User Reviews

Warrior women... Powerful and nearly forgotten

[professorroundtree · 9/10 · 23 March 2019]

Interesting cases of similarly powerful and influential women warriors. Just look out if you kill off their male counterpart; be he brother, lover, or husband.. otherwise these women will seek vengeance. I really liked the archeologist talking about queen Boudicca of the Icenii and the "Boudicca destruction layer" beneath London. These women were warriors, strategists, generals, who were respected by their male followers and feared by their opponents.

First two episodes excellent

[rowmorg · 6/10 · 27 April 2016]

Lucy Lawless makes an excellent presenter in this documentary series about war-like women. I've seen the docs on Joan of Arc and on Grace O'Malley, a woman I regret I had never heard of. Lawless speaks clearly and looks great. The docs have irritating dramatisations that are not good enough to carry the stories, but they are adequate. I would have been quite happy with Lawless interviewing experts in order to tell the tales, but the producers feel the need to feed the crippled imaginations of their viewers. We barely glimpse the face of the woman playing Grace O'Malley, who lived a dramatic enough life, fighting as a pirate at sea and ruling her clan, and eventually visiting Queen Elizabeth the First at her palace in Greenwich and talking out a deal that took the brutal local governor off her shoulders, but not before she had lost at least two of her sons. Recommended.

Inaccurate history

[wtfedez · 1/10 · 3 January 2021]

Stopped watching after 4th minutes of the 2nd episode with Mulan, she was historically a 4th century character, there are poems written about her life from the 4th century in northern wei region of China. So how on earth is it a fact that she was born in 1777 during the Ching dynasty..... There's a 1300+ year discrepancy there. Plus the uniforms of the Chinese soldiers are from the wrong period. If they can't get any of the dates right, then there really is no credibility and point in watching this series.