I just read the official site's news update on Episode II casting. They discuss the new Australian talent they've been hiring. One of them is Jay Laga'aia.

Exactly. Who?

Well, by cosmic coincidence, I was flipping channels just a couple of days ago and there was an episode of Xena on. Some Xena episodes are decent (some even good), some are very very bad -- ESPECIALLY the slapstick humor ones. And this one was one of those. Here Xena's enemy is some ancient heavy metal rock group. And the whole episode is basically a really bad music video.
Wait. Really bad just doesn't cut it. It was SO putrid it made me shudder. And I've had the misfortune to bump into re-runs of it over the past couple of days on various cable channels.

Who was this RIDICULOUS (not to mention ridiculous-looking) villain? Jay Laga'aia.

I weep for Episode II (You would too if you saw that Xena episode)