Lexx

Post by **Ylva Kresh** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:47 am

Anyone seen Lexx? Anyone liked it?

I love the first 8 episodes! amusingly confusing...

Post by **Landwaster** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:53 am

Seen it advertised here all the time. Looks odd.

Post by **Zahir** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:57 am

I've seen most of it. At its best, Lexx is wonderful. At its worst, its barely tolerable.

Some one somewhere described it as "STAR WARS done by Monty Python," which pretty much sums it up. You've got a living starship that's also the most powerful weapon ever designed (really--like the Death Star, I mean it) but with barely more intelligence than a domestic cat and the personality of some puppies. The captain of the ship is Stanley Dweedle, a loser of the first order. Along for the ride is Kai--a handsome and honorable zombie who's very good at killing things (but can't be killed himself).

Then, there's Xev. Okay pay attention because her backstory is a tad weird. She was raised in a box. Really. A computer raised her, teaching her how to be a perfect little wife. When the time came for her to come out of said box and be married, she was ugly and fat and had so little life experience she decked her groom-to-be for calling her ugly and fat. For this offense she was sentenced to become a "Love Slave." She would be altered on a genetic level into a gorgeous example of feminine lusciousness, have her sex drive kicked up a few dozen notches (at least) and then brainwashed into complete lust/love/worship of the first person she saw--the cyborg doing this procedure, a computer head on a human body designated 790.

But a dangerous critter called a cluster lizard interrupted. As a result, Xev didn't get the brainwashing but 790 (just the head, its body got ate) did, falling madly in love with her. Xev did get the body makeover, and her DNA got mingled with that of the cluster lizard.

So here's this lonely girl, a virgin, who looks like a porn star and has the hormones of a nymphomaniac in heat, but also is part alien carnivore (this shows up in surprising and entertaining ways). She's aboard ship with (1) Stanley, whom she likes but finds physically repulsive (2) Kai, whom she pretty much loves but is dead so he can't do anything about it--doesn't want to really, being dead and all, and (3) 790, a brilliant computer head that worships the air she breathes but doesn't have a body with which to do anything else for her.

And these are the folks who have to save the universe.

Post by **Ryzel** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:15 am

That is season one, but what happens then? It was amusing some times, other times it was just silly.

Post by **[Syl]** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:14 am

L*xx s*xx... but keep in mind I'm a 'Scaper.

Post by **Zahir** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:48 pm

Well, Kai went crazy a few times (those episodes were great), the ship gained a new crewmember named Lyekka--a shapeshifting carnivorous plant who makes all her victims' deepest fantasies seem to come true while she ate them. We found out a lot more about Kai. Xev died, then was resurrected, the finally got laid on a planet without women, then later become a semi-zombie and ate some poor guy's brain. Stanley was put on trial for mass murder, and found guilty (which is fair, since he is). Then one of the two universes was destroyed, following a musical episode called "Brigadoom." Oh, and 790 tried to rape Stanley.

Then the Lexx found itself floating in between planets called Water and Fire, both filled with dead folks (the good ones at Water, the evil Fire). Eventually they both went bye-bye--but not before 790 transferred his affections to Kai.

Next the Lexx went to Earth, where Zev met Dave Lister and his wife Holly, then contended with an invasion of evil alien carrots. Of course, the Lexx died. So did Kai, after being made alive again.

Post by **Nav** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:19 am

Zahir wrote:
Next the Lexx went to Earth, where Zev met Dave Lister and his wife Holly,

Oh, I read about Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge being in an episode where they ran some kind of prison camp. Never saw it though. I watched the first series with Eva Habermann, but didn't see much of the rest.
Did anyone else recognise the mayor from Spin City in the pilot?

Post by **Ylva Kresh** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:10 am

Thank you Zahir. Now I don´t have to watch the rest...

(I think it is Tweedle by the way.)

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 3:22 am

Lexx is strange. It can be entertaining, but it can also be astoundingly not. I watched most of the second series and the start of the third, but I got bored of the Fire/Water stuff, so I stopped.

Post by **Skyweir** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 7:13 pm

i have watched a few lexx episodes .. and enjoyed all the ones I saw ..

sure its a little on the bizarre .. but I actually liked that

some episodes were brilliant and some a little silly ..
I really like the chess game episode .. anyone seen that??

whoa .. to play a game of chess like that ..

Post by **theDespiser** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:23 pm

there was a period of continuity in the show which lasted approximatley 7 episodes

Post by **FaTeke** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:00 pm

Loved the first season of Lexx, and the second. I love original scifi and this stuff was original with a capital O! LOL

But then the fire and water stuff started and just bored the sh*t out of me. I hated it.

Then they finally left there and ended up at earth and it still sucked. I finally just quit watching.

How much longer did it go on past that point?
Can anyone fill me in on what happened?

Ever seen the Lexx movies?

Take care,
Matthew

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:32 pm

A couple of weeks ago, out of the blue, I suddenly remembered Lexx and decided to buy it. I'd never seen the first season (seemingly comprised of four 90-minute films), so I was actually quite looking forward to that. Having just watched the first episode/film, I can say...I'd forgotten how strange and stupid Lexx is. But it's knowingly stupid - and, for all its ridiculousness and shameless innuendo, it's actually quite inventive. I'm not entirely sure about Zev, since I'm only familiar with the later Xev, but I'm eager to get back into the familiar routine now the set-up is established.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:12 pm

Incidentally, shouldn't this be in the TV forum?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:40 pm

I don't know what you're talking about.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:03 pm

Episode 4 of series 1 (final episode of this series). Vast in scope, high in drama, and simultaneously both the most serious and most amusing episode of the series.

I'm looking forward to series 2, even though I know how that one ends. Series 2 sees the arrival of Xev and should contain many familiar episodes.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:51 am

Hmm, now this is more how I remember Lexx: patchy. Series 2 contains far more 'humorous' episodes - many of which don't succeed fully - or at all (White Trash, I'm looking at you).

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:06 am

Series 3 complete. When I first watched it about ten years ago I really disliked it. I was accustomed to Lexx being more episodic and a lot more goofy. Now, a decade on and with the first series under my belt as well, I have a new appreciation for the relative sombreness and unprecedented continuity of series 3. Plus, I quite like the Mad Max-esque feel of the Fire cities. This series seems to revel in subverting everything we think Lexx is.

Post by **Sorus** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:16 pm

I liked it when I first saw it ten years ago, haven't seen it since, and am afraid it wouldn't be as good as I remember it being.

Helps that it was on at 2 AM. Everything is entertaining at 2 AM.

Did UK stations do that 'fuzzyvision' effect when they realized they couldn't show whole scenes or censor them out?

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:26 pm

No, no fuzzyvision. Our censorship seems less...rigorous...than the US.

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