When asked by the fan if the backlash against that character's fate would, "have effect on your writing for future projects like Xena," Grillo-Marxuach wrote, "I am a very different person with a very different world view [sic] 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 [sic] 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."