Soooo...Lexx...any opinions?
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Lexxx is one of things you're either going to love or find way too odd.
That's the beauty of it - it's both.
I can understand why the world-destroying gun doesn't come out the other end, though, that might be a little much.
That was a story idea the Doctor Who novels writer Dave Stone wanted to pitch at them, where the Lexx crew actually save a planet, and then as they're leaving Lexx... well, if it eats, then there are other things it must have to do eventually...
I tried to watch it once. It was just too stupid to tolerate. I was also watching Farscape at the same time, which satisfied any appetite I might have for "weird space opera shit of highly variable quality." I did like the idea of a dead main character, tho... 
I can't remember where, but a review of some sort left it to the reader to decide on whether the show was worth watching by describing it as popular in Russia and Germany 
^ Well, Lexx was a Canadian/German co-production, so it's not surprising that it plays well to German sensibilities.
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That was only for three years though the Germans pulled out of the show after the third season.
You gotta really like weird for the sake of weird to love Lexx.
It's sort of anti-Trek in this way, because Trek fans always hate those weird Trek episodes. But Lexx is like a weird Trek episode on thousand different hallucinogenic drugs. And speed.
And it works great with them too.
And on top of it, it's a beautiful beautiful story...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbDRhsfbZU
I think it's really like Joss Whedon shows. Especially when Joss Whedon shows are doing musicals or puppet shows. It's that same sort of mindset. That episode where the clip is from was also a musical. Before the famous Buffy episode.
So.
Insanity is important. It will help you to enjoy this show. If you've ever enjoyed absurd shows before, like Buffy or Angel in their most absurd, then Lexx probably will be great for you too. But if not, then you and Lexx just aren't meant to be for each other.
It's sort of anti-Trek in this way, because Trek fans always hate those weird Trek episodes. But Lexx is like a weird Trek episode on thousand different hallucinogenic drugs. And speed.
And it works great with them too.
And on top of it, it's a beautiful beautiful story...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbDRhsfbZU
I think it's really like Joss Whedon shows. Especially when Joss Whedon shows are doing musicals or puppet shows. It's that same sort of mindset. That episode where the clip is from was also a musical. Before the famous Buffy episode.
So.
Insanity is important. It will help you to enjoy this show. If you've ever enjoyed absurd shows before, like Buffy or Angel in their most absurd, then Lexx probably will be great for you too. But if not, then you and Lexx just aren't meant to be for each other.
I love absurdity. But I also like relevance. Good shows that specialize in idiosyncracy, like Whedon's shows, or Farscape, also give their characters gravitas, the plots meaning and relevance. They treat them like people actually living lives, not just like props to push through absurd scenarios.
Red Dwarf is a comedy, so you expect absurdity for the sake of absurdity, but even then, the show doesn't entirely forget these ARE people.
I haven't seen enough Lexx yet to decide whether or not that show can pull it off. Like I said, still dancing around the edge.
Red Dwarf is a comedy, so you expect absurdity for the sake of absurdity, but even then, the show doesn't entirely forget these ARE people.
I haven't seen enough Lexx yet to decide whether or not that show can pull it off. Like I said, still dancing around the edge.
^^ Invest some time in it. The characters are solid and you'll come to care about them.
Except for TOS fans, who appreciate the surrealism and found that element lacking in latter-day Trek, which increasingly tried too hard to be mainstream (ultimately resulting in the execrable nuTrek).
Probably the most insightful comment about the difference between TOS and latter-day Trek I've ever read. I approve.
The characters are of course a trifle stock and similarly flatly defined - Xev Bellringer of B3K will always introduce herself as 'Xev Bellringer of B3K', for example, and I've already made clear that I hate 790.
However, does the series treat them like people? Well... yeah. They have pretty straightforward agendas, some of which occasionally have dramatic elements. I can probably see more of Stanley Tweedle in myself than I'd be willing to admit to, that's for sure.
I really liked this series. It's too bad it kind of went off the deep end near the end and got cancelled though. Most definitely not for everyone. I may pick the series up on DVD sometime if I can ever find it. I see the occasional individual sets or movies but not an entire series collection.
Lexx wasn't cancelled they simply stopped production after 65 hours since that's all they wanted to make.
I loved latter-day Trek right up until the end, but I definitely missed that mystical, exotic quality that the original had; I'd love to see a show that can recapture that sense of mysterious unknown (original Outer Limits had it, too).
Me, too, but I think we're supposed to.
Yeah, they're stock, or at least started out that way, but they're treated respectfully. Throughout the series, we may laugh at them, but we also laugh with them and feel their pain. I found the ending of the last episode, in particular, to be very touching.
Probably censored to some degree, but better than nothing.it's on hulu
Probably censored to some degree, but better than nothing.it's on hulu
[/QUOTE]as far as I know, only the first movie was censored (Zev in the shower)
the rest didn't seem to be (Boomtown in season 3 for instance)
I love it when a show doesn't take itself seriously, so in season 4 when they bring just about everybody back from previous seasons and the sortof surreal USA where they treat space shuttles like company cars . . . it's just so silly that I like it
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