Soooo...Lexx...any opinions?

[Chuckles]

You have to love a show that has the cojones to spoof the Kennedy assassination!!!

 

[Kegg]

2 and 3 were great
4 was just dumb . . . but still fun

The second half of season 2 is probably my favourite stretch in the series. S2 is a little all over the place - it has some of the show's best episodes (particularly that crazy arc), but also some pretty terrible ones.

S3 is pretty good, though. S4... well I'd say the outstanding episode there was the one where Prince and Kai play a chess game, and I did like how it ended, but otherwise it is weaker then the previous two seasons.

And 'S1', the telemovies, is mostly pretty awful - especially the middle two.

The Lexx wasn't designed to look like a penis, it was designed to look like a butterfly without wings.

The correct answer is 'both'. It's a wingless-butterfly is also a penis.

 

[Sindatur]

Looks more like a Dragon Fly to me, Butterflies don't have big bulging eye "balls" like that

 

[backstept]

"Whatever you say, Staaaaann."

 

[Holdfast]

Censoring Lexx just seems like the most pointless, counterintuitive excerise imaginable.

Ignoring that the title spaceship is designed to look like a penis*, the series is pretty big on the sex stuff. What exactly is the point of censored Lexx? Who on earth is the audience who wants to watch a filthy-minded program cleaned up a little?

*Along with other things, I believe one of the shower-nozzles.

The Lexx wasn't designed to look like a penis, it was designed to look like a butterfly without wings. It was designed by the last of a race of giant insects.

I suspect Kegg meant real-world designed, not in-story designed. I refuse to believe any real-world designer sketched out Lexx and thought: "No phallic imagery there!"

 

[DWF]

This is from part 3 of the production of Lexx that I linked to upthread.

The only consistent look is organic--best reflected in the giant, living, breathing title "character." Fleming says the decision to have living spaceships was always in the script--though it eventually came to drive the plot. "The insect culture developed sometime during the writing and the early drafts of the script and when a few of the design concepts were being kicked around," said Fleming. "The LEXX ship was always this giant, biological form, but that organic idea seeped into other designs. The writers saw some of these designs, and took those ideas into the writing. Along the way, this back story about insect wars came out, and that worked its way into the story."
The insect wars--which precede story #1--involve the defeat of an insect culture by the humanoid Brunnen G. The Brunnen G have harnessed the defeated culture's ability to turn living insects into spaceships, and now sport flying dragonfly fighters capable of firing weapons out of their tails.
However, at the beginning of story #1, the Brunnen G are wiped out by the forces of the tyrannical His Shadow. Fast forward 2,000 years, and His Shadow is still attempting to master the technology of breeding insects to be spaceships. Several of his experiments are insect-inspired machines of various shapes and sizes. They look organic, but they are not.
The interior of the LEXX features the program's most elaborate sets, including the LEXX's bridge, galley, bathroom, and a cryogenic sleeping chamber. However, though the humans have grown and tamed the insect, they haven't exactly renovated its interior for comfortable habitation. The LEXX is a gooey mess of veined or ribbed walls (constructed using insulation foam, to give it that inconsistent, organic look), putrid swamps and chambers implanted painfully into the living tissue.
The Galley itself has the appearance of a stomach, a rounded room which spits out predigested food on demand from a set of thick clammy protrusions in the pinkish walls.
"Most science fiction has this modern architectural look, a particular style of architecture that's all octagonal doors, grey walls and hard angles," said Donovan. "I look at that and think--I don't know what the future will bring, but I don't need to follow a tradition. So our world is going to be organic in a design sense--the buildings, space craft and environment are all living material."
Nonetheless, you've got to be able to drive the darn ship. So for the LEXX's bridge, Fleming enlisted the help of stage designer Scott, who had some inside knowledge on what was needed "I'm the son of a surgeon, so I had a little knowledge to work with," said Scott. "In this show, it's not a friendly future. And the LEXX is not a friendly marriage of man and dragonfly. I compare it to that old high school experiment where you make the dead frogs legs move with a small battery. The interaction between man and insect is more like an incision. It's like living inside a monster that's not happy about it."

The idea that it looks like a penis comes from the viewers not the prodction staff of the original movies.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm also pretty sure the penisaurus in Flesh Gordon was based on a fossil from the Burgess Shale.

 

[Kegg]

I suspect Kegg meant real-world designed, not in-story designed. I refuse to believe any real-world designer sketched out Lexx and thought: "No phallic imagery there!"

Bingo.

This is from part 3 of the production of Lexx that I linked to upthread.

That's actually quite an interesting read, but there's nothing in it that which contradicts what I said. I'd be far more convinced if you could get me them saying somewhere 'No this is not a penis.'

 

[JD]

Does anyone know if Hulu has the edited or unedited versions?

 

[Anwar]

The Shadow deciding to create an insect based weapon was because of how Kai and his friends tried to stop him with Insect-Fighters at the very start of the show.

There's another reason why he's interested in Insects...but that'd be a spoiler for the show.

As an aside, I have to wonder why no one every complained over how the Shadow is basically Emperor Palpatine but even more evil and inhuman.

 

[Kegg]

As an aside, I have to wonder why no one every complained over how the Shadow is basically Emperor Palpatine but even more evil and inhuman.

Well the same reason people didn't complain about the Emperor being a warmed over Sauron. The whole malevolent dark sci-fi villain thing is a pretty common cliche.

 

[DWF]

The Shadow deciding to create an insect based weapon was because of how Kai and his friends tried to stop him with Insect-Fighters at the very start of the show.

There's another reason why he's interested in Insects...but that'd be a spoiler for the show.

As an aside, I have to wonder why no one every complained over how the Shadow is basically Emperor Palpatine but even more evil and inhuman.

He's interested in insects because he is one, His Divine Shadow is part of the Giga Shadow who was the last survivor of the war against Kai's people.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Just watched 'The Web', it's unedited on Netflix for those keeping track. AFAIK.

 

[DWF]

Just watched 'The Web', it's unedited on Netflix for those keeping track. AFAIK.

You'll either love or hate the next one then, you'll get a real sense of deja vu.

 

[Capn Flukie]

You were right about that. I thought I had accidentally restarted the episode.

edit: I keep worrying that Mantrid is going to turn our 'heroes' into a Humantrid Centipede.

 

[Kegg]

Even by Lexx standards, that's a weird two-parter.

I can't think of a single other example of a TV show blatantly reusing so much footage and me not minding, though.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Netflix has 791 after End of the Universe for some reason.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Wow, Boomtown is definitely uncensored.