I started watching LEXX

[RoJoHen]

Netflix has LEXX available instantly, so I watched the first episode today. My only memories of the show are a few random episodes I watched back when the show was on The SciFi Channel. I remember thinking it was weird rip-off of Farscape. A band of criminals on a living ship? Come on.

Anyway, I watched the first episode this afternoon, and I was intrigued and semi-impressed. They definitely went all out and made a completely bizarre and foreign universe, and I'm interested to see where the story goes.

I honestly think, just from what I saw, that there is the potential here for a pretty stellar remake. The show's acting is pretty subpar, and the effects could definitely use some updating, but I think that in the right hands someone could turn into a very good show.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

You poor man.

Lexx's seasons are kind of interesting. The first season, if you will, were four movies shown on Showtime though they do tell one big story. The second season follows suit though isn't as ambitious. The next season gets kind of surreal and is more of a fantasy on the twin worlds of Fire and Water. It ends with a sort of twisted b-movie road trip of planet Earth.

So I think if you watch the whole thing you can have three distinct experiences.

The show is often vulgar, crude and stupid but there isn't much like it out there.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, I'm not exactly committed to it or anything, but it's interesting enough...so far.

 

[JD]

Are the versions on Netflix edited? I've watched a couple of them on Hulu, and I know those were the edited versions.

 

[backstept]

I watched it on Hulu and there was the occasional boobie, so they may not be the edited ones . . .

do you find yourself humming the Brunnen G song yet?
also if you get to the later seasons, who is your favorite: Zev or Xev?

 

[lennier1]

The miniseries was pretty entertaining. It's the TV series afterwards that develops into a train wreck within a rather short time.

 

[Trent Roman]

Found Lexx engrossing (and sometimes plain gross) when it first aired. Gleefully bizarre and irreverent. If I ever find the time, I would be curious to see how well it stands up to rewatching and years gone by.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Pemmer Harge]

I remember thinking it was weird rip-off of Farscape. A band of criminals on a living ship? Come on.

I think Lexx actually started before Farscape, didn't it?

 

[saturn5]

The mini-series is good, after that it just starts getting repetitive and sadistic

 

[DWF]

I remember thinking it was weird rip-off of Farscape. A band of criminals on a living ship? Come on.

I think Lexx actually started before Farscape, didn't it?

Yes it did two years before Farscape actually.

 

[Anwar]

I remember thinking it was weird rip-off of Farscape. A band of criminals on a living ship? Come on.

I think Lexx actually started before Farscape, didn't it?

It was 2 years before Farscape, actually.

And it's not like Farscape's premise was original either. It's Blakes' Seven with Australians.

 

[RoJoHen]

I remember thinking it was weird rip-off of Farscape. A band of criminals on a living ship? Come on.

I think Lexx actually started before Farscape, didn't it?

It was 2 years before Farscape, actually.

And it's not like Farscape's premise was original either. It's Blakes' Seven with Australians.

Well, whatever. I just remember SciFi playing both on the same night and me thinking that Farscape was definitely the better of the two.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I think at one point they has Stargate SG-1, Farscape, and Lexx all on Friday night together which was pretty cool.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Lexx is a great show, but you really need to have an offbeat sense of humor to appreciate it (and you can't be a prude ). But, beyond the bizarre and surreal storylines, they treat their characters respectfully, and it's not long before you become invested in what happens to them. There are actually many touching moments along the way and if you watch all the way to the end, the final episode should bring a tear to your eye. "Yo way yo...."

 

[Goliath]

I liked the first and second seasons. It's not often that you watch a show that's willing to go all the way...

Spoiler: Going all the way

...and destroy the entire frickin' universe. The way those robot arms kept coming along and destroying everything--that was surely one of the most gleefully nihilistic seasons of television ever filmed.

But I lost interest pretty quickly, after that. The third season did not appeal to me. I never watched the fourth.

 

[YARN]

The remastered folks should have considered the LEXX as a model for the DM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6Q-O32sbs

 

[Kegg]

I found the telefilms to be mostly a waste of time. I thought that the second half of the second season was the best stretch of the series, really. Lexx is frequently awful, but it's always very weird, and its willingness to be one of the strangest damn space operas around was something I did find vaguely appealing.

But yeah, Lexx is something that would lend itself fairly logically to a remake. I can't see them ever doing a version of the robot head that wasn't loathsome, however.

I liked the first and second seasons. It's not often that you watch a show that's willing to go all the way...

Spoiler: Going all the way

...and destroy the entire frickin' universe. The way those robot arms kept coming along and destroying everything--that was surely one of the most gleefully nihilistic seasons of television ever filmed.

Spoiler: Brigadoon

Not to mention: The universe is going to end so let's put on a musical about the annihilation of the Brunnen-G. That's... just weird.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The remastered folks should have considered the LEXX as a model for the DM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6Q-O32sbs

Though death would've surely come to the Rigel colonies had it been Lexx. Even if the Lexx was defeated.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I lasted about half a season. I think you have to have a certain frame of mind to enjoy it. I can see how it may appeal to some people it just wasn't for me.

 

[JD]

I'm actually about to start this over on Netflix. I watched the first 1 1/2 episodes of the first season on Hulu but never moved beyond that. It is certainly a unique show, but I did like what I saw.