LEXX: Hated by many, enjoyed by few
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No, Lexx doesn't have as much sex as you'd expect from the way people talk-- but we live in a world where people freak out about "catsuits" on Star Trek. 
And she was always the dominant personality, as well. 
Hmm, I wonder if maybe that's why it's missing from Joost? Is there nudity in more than just that episode? The only reason I ask is I'm wondering if maybe that is why the two episodes are missing.
EDIT: I was just on Amazon and apparently they just released season 1 on DVD on the 7th of this month, does anyone know if they are releasing the rest of the series?
EDIT: I was just on Amazon and apparently they just released season 1 on DVD on the 7th of this month, does anyone know if they are releasing the rest of the series?
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The whole series has been released on dvd. There were rights issues. See, for the first "season" Paramount owned the home video rights in the US, but only the US. They held off, releasing them only as separate video tapes. They were released in Canada, and are easily bought via the internet from Canadian stores and/or ebay.
This new release is just those four movies, it seems like the rights have reverted, or been sorted out, so they can be released in the US now, like the other three seasons have been.
LEXX always did have some funny quotes. I particularly liked the last episode when LEXX is getting a bit senile.
790: Lexx?
Lexx: What?
790: Nothing. Lexx?
Lexx: What?
790: Nothing. Lexx?
Lexx: Yes Captain?
790: Please blow up the earth.
790: Lexx?
Lexx: What?
790: Nothing. Lexx?
Lexx: What?
790: Nothing. Lexx?
Lexx: Yes Captain?
790: Please blow up the earth.
even by SCI FI standards.
Yeah, there was very little nudity in the regular series, sadly. Two episodes is probably about right.
Well, the show was never about pushing the Skinemax envelope...more about satirizing governments (His Divine Shadow's, Mantrid's vision, Prince's domination over Water and Fire, or Prince and Priest chewing up the USA) and (usually by extension) societal mores.
Of course, if you dilute it down to that, there's nothing fun about it...! No wonder they used the sex angle to sell the show, despite the ultimate TEASE of it all.
Ultimately, if you're interested in the show, the sex aspect is only a marginal element. If it's a hook that catches viewer interest, fine. But enjoy the show for its satire and wicked humor more than that and you WILL be rewarded.
Of course, if you dilute it down to that, there's nothing fun about it...! No wonder they used the sex angle to sell the show, despite the ultimate TEASE of it all.
Ultimately, if you're interested in the show, the sex aspect is only a marginal element. If it's a hook that catches viewer interest, fine. But enjoy the show for its satire and wicked humor more than that and you WILL be rewarded.
I'm really not that concerned with the sex and nudity, I'm just tyring to find out what to expect. If anything I'm actually glad there's not alot of that stuff in it, since it means that there is an actual story there instead of just that sex for the sake of sex, because that can just be annoying sometimes.
I actually really liked LEXX: I stumbled on a marathon one afternoon in 1999 of the first season of TV movies, aka "Tales from a Parallel Universe"
it's a bit of dark, sex, and naughty, but it felt like thats because it was just for a mature SNL-age audience; i.e. it was treating us the audience as adults and didn't assume children were scifi's major demographic.
Yeah, some episodes were bad, but when they got it right, it was amazing.
I like it that the characters were all flawed and lonely (sort of like Futurama) in that (as TV guide put it) "they're homeless and can't find a home, the dead can't find life, and the sex crazed can't find sex")
As for Zev/Xev, I thought it was a cool idea: she's this overweight unnattractive girl raised in basically a cattle farm for producing loyal wives, who gets rejected and is going to be turned into a sex-crazed mindless love slave with a kick-ass body. But they interupt the process right before she gets her mind wiped, so basically she's done the whole She-Ra thing and transformed (I think they should have played that up more; that she's not used to being attractive; instead she's too sex-crazed to notice much; she's going on instinct).....I kind of thought it was funny though, that in that cheesy scifi way now and again another woman would offer herself to Xev but she'd proclaim "I'm only interested in "studly" men!"
Kai was just a badass character (hair notwithstanding) and simply, the opening of the entire series really hooks you, with the death run of the Brunnen-G on His Shadow's command ship while singing their dirge, but then taking Kai's body and turning it into a loyal assassin and skipping ahead 2,000 years.
As for Stanlee, as the down on his luck loser resistance messenger-turned-janitor-turned-captain, I felt he was pretty sympathetic as the flawed everyman guy.
There was stuff they could have done better, i.e. the explanation that His Shadow was really a survivor of the Insect Civilization the Brunnen-G defeated was done kind of quickly.
Plus they tend to blow up the universe kind of quickly; space remains big and lonely, as it were; they don't have their own version of the Klingons and other races so much as occassionally running into pirates etc.
And the ending was pretty sad but it felt nice that "and the journey continues"
it's a bit of dark, sex, and naughty, but it felt like thats because it was just for a mature SNL-age audience; i.e. it was treating us the audience as adults and didn't assume children were scifi's major demographic.
Yeah, some episodes were bad, but when they got it right, it was amazing.
I like it that the characters were all flawed and lonely (sort of like Futurama) in that (as TV guide put it) "they're homeless and can't find a home, the dead can't find life, and the sex crazed can't find sex")
As for Zev/Xev, I thought it was a cool idea: she's this overweight unnattractive girl raised in basically a cattle farm for producing loyal wives, who gets rejected and is going to be turned into a sex-crazed mindless love slave with a kick-ass body. But they interupt the process right before she gets her mind wiped, so basically she's done the whole She-Ra thing and transformed (I think they should have played that up more; that she's not used to being attractive; instead she's too sex-crazed to notice much; she's going on instinct).....I kind of thought it was funny though, that in that cheesy scifi way now and again another woman would offer herself to Xev but she'd proclaim "I'm only interested in "studly" men!"
Kai was just a badass character (hair notwithstanding) and simply, the opening of the entire series really hooks you, with the death run of the Brunnen-G on His Shadow's command ship while singing their dirge, but then taking Kai's body and turning it into a loyal assassin and skipping ahead 2,000 years.
As for Stanlee, as the down on his luck loser resistance messenger-turned-janitor-turned-captain, I felt he was pretty sympathetic as the flawed everyman guy.
There was stuff they could have done better, i.e. the explanation that His Shadow was really a survivor of the Insect Civilization the Brunnen-G defeated was done kind of quickly.
Plus they tend to blow up the universe kind of quickly; space remains big and lonely, as it were; they don't have their own version of the Klingons and other races so much as occassionally running into pirates etc.
And the ending was pretty sad but it felt nice that "and the journey continues"
You mean Kai's "loaf of bread" haircut? Yeah, 'tis a puzzler...but then again, the same can be said of many of the aesthetic choices made by the production team.I could never get over his horrible haircut. It just looked so silly and impractical. Why would anyone have such a silly haircut?!!
I still like the show, nonetheless.
^^ Yeah, the show definitely had its own aesthetic.
But there should have been more nudity.
Absolutely. Lexx works on many levels from pure character and story to satire to sex to just plain weirdness. Good stuff.Ultimately, if you're interested in the show, the sex aspect is only a marginal element. If it's a hook that catches viewer interest, fine. But enjoy the show for its satire and wicked humor more than that and you WILL be rewarded.
But there should have been more nudity.
It's simple. Kai comes from a decadent and stagnant society, just look at how colourful his outfit was before His Shadow had him carbonised.You mean Kai's "loaf of bread" haircut? Yeah, 'tis a puzzler...but then again, the same can be said of many of the aesthetic choices made by the production team.
I still like the show, nonetheless.
I could never get over his horrible haircut. It just looked so silly and impractical. Why would anyone have such a silly haircut?!!
It's more of an updo rather than a haircut andI think it was down a couple of times.
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