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Just finished watching the whole first series. As a newbie – I love the characters, storylines, CGI, sets, Zev (!), the dark humour….. But good grief! That duet with Kai & Zev in Supanova was so awful it was embarrassing! Should I try to convince myself that it was tongue in cheek?
Super Nova is, without a doubt, the worst Lexx movie. Watching it made me physically ill.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.
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Originally posted by Nick:
. But good grief! That duet with Kai & Zev in Supanova was so awful it was embarrassing! Should I try to convince myself that it was tongue in cheek
ummm, i hate to admit this, and rustie will give me a tonguelashing no doubt, but i always squirm during these sorts of musical fantasy scenes, but it seems to be a device that americans either like or despise enough to engender large scale response, so it’s used far too frequently in north american tv/film…i would like to hop e the canadians and germans are in fact making fun of that dreadful american devvice
I loved the Kai/Zev duet!! It was really touching and gave us more insight into Zev’s character. If you didn’t like that, you’ll probably hate Brigadoom.
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“Prick your finger it is done. The moon has now eclipsed the sun. The angel has spread it’s wings, the time has come for better things…”>Mercury
More singing?
Oh yes! Episode 2.18 “Brigadoom” is a…wait for it…….MUSICAL!…!!!!
It tells the story of Kai’s past (before he was killed by His Shadow) in song!!! I loved it and it was probably the most innovative episode of season 2.——————
“Prick your finger it is done. The moon has now eclipsed the sun. The angel has spread it’s wings, the time has come for better things…”I’ll watch out for that one!
Brigadoom is good! I was expecting it to be silly, but it was actually very well-executed. I love musicals (ones that make sense, that is
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Vaiyo a oh;
Vaiyo a oh, home vaah ray;
Vaiyo a rah, jerhume Brunnen-G.
Vaiyo a oh, home vaah ray;
Vaiyo a rah, jerhume Brunnen-G;
Vaiyo a rah, jerhume Brunnen-G.[This message has been edited by DalekTek790 (edited May 10, 2001).]
There are musicals that make sense???
The “Fantasy Dance” was one of my favorite scenes. It may appear “silly” or Kai and Zev’s voices “amaturish” but I think you have to forget that and take the scene for what it was – Zev’s fantasy before her “burst of life”. The man she loved, alive, colorful, and completing wanting her.
After all, she was to die after this so it was her one dream come true. And I was very moved and touched by it…. The singing and dancing were secondary to the dream coming true…..for our Zev
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Originally posted by NB 1:
The “Fantasy Dance” was one of my favorite scenes. Zev’s fantasy before her “burst of life”. The man she loved, alive, colorful, and completing wanting her.
After all, she was to die after this so it was her one dream come true. And I was very moved and touched by it…. The singing and dancing were secondary to the dream coming true…..for our Zev
a true romantic at heart! actually there are a lot of lexx fans that are romantics and love brigadoom…i guess i liked brigadoom despite the fact it was a musical because it was so well done and told a story (i am usually lost as to just what the story is when i try to watch a musical 
) anyway that’s what makes the show so fun, there is something for everyoneI felt “Brigadoom” was a very moving episode. Especially the songs sung by Xenia Seeberg and Michael McManus.
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“Prick your finger it is done. The moon has now eclipsed the sun. The angel has spread it’s wings, the time has come for better things…”Any time we get a glimpse of Alive Kai, I enjoy it. No, I don’t want him to become living again, but I sure enjoy the eps where he is. I wondered if anyone else noticed Kai’s jewel on his costume was ruby colored. It’s the only time so far that it wasn’t that orangish goldish color.
I have to admit, there I was, chewing my fingers off, stuffing the second tape of Lexx that I’d ever bought into the VCR. I was gratified to be viewing what I thought would be the movie that explained all of KAi to me… I figured it’d be a dark and dreary tale! First, Gigerotta’s fantasy?!
I sat up on my couch and blushed. Thank god hubbie’s not home, I thought!
Figures, tho’ – hubbie walks in two seconds later and sits down at his computer desk.
“What’s that, another Lexx tape?” He almost sounded interested.
On comes the fantasy dance. Hubbie gets up and says “WHAT is THAT?!” He looks disgusted. “Auugggghhh!!!” he cries as he runs from the TV set.
I didn’t even care. I stared, glued to the screen. For 5 seconds I was embarrassed. Then I realized, this was gratitude! The Beans were giving me something! Something I could giggle over, dream about, smile at. I did smile, although still burning in embarrassment. Whatever. If I enjoyed it, it’s because I’m a musician, and a musical interlude in the middle of a scifi show really flips my switches. I live in a musical… always dreaming that one day an unseen orchestra will strike up the right tune, and I’ll go singing and dancing happily into the sunset.——————
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars…” Oscar WildeYou’ve probably forgotten this topic is about supernova not brigadoom (that pile of garbage). anway supernova was excellent it contains the only nudity in lexx and i do agree that duet was awful.
Mr. Potato Head says:
Valid points should not be made invalid with the scratching voices of bad attitudes.
Yup – you were right! I hated Brigadoom! It was so awful that I fast forwarded though the whole thing. Not even a shower scene to cheer me up!
Ok… Mr. Potato head… please stop with the weird quotes!!! god it’s driving me batty!! And man! Raven STOP putting Briadoom down and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ! Stop taking about the nudity scene in Supernova!! God how many different topics can you talk about that in?!!?? Can you please just tone it down alittle?? Both of you?? I’m sure that other people on this board will agree with me that you are both a bit annoying!
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“to err is human” or is it “the air is human” ?? matt Gideon “Crusade”“Look for me by the moonlight-
Watch for me by moonlight-I’ll come to thee by the moonlight,
though Hell should bar the way”
——-The Highwayman
Mr. Potato Head says:
My dear lady Christine, my apoligies.
When Raven chooses to speak with the wisdom and respect the greater spirits have given all men, then Mr. Potato Head will go to his home.
Thanx Christine! “Brigadoom” was the
most original episode of season 2! I loved it and the duet in Supernova was great too.——————
“My world is unaffected, there is an exit here. I say it is and it’s true. There is a dream inside a dream, I’m wide awake the more I sleep. You’ll understand when I’m dead. I went to God just to see and I was looking at me. Saw Heaven and Hell were lies, when I’m God every one dies…”
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Originally posted by Mr. Potato Head:
Mr. Potato Head says:My dear lady Christine, my apoligies.
When Raven chooses to speak with the wisdom and respect the greater spirits have given all men, then Mr. Potato Head will go to his home.
ARGH! Stop that! The only people who should EVER talk in third person are wrestlers. Unless you’re the Rock, knock it off. It’s obnoxious… Sheesh. As to you, Raven, no I don’t think she did forget that it was about Supernova. Rust is talking about the Fantasy Dance scene from it, and Gigerotta’s fantasy about the Milk Fed Boys. Not Brigadoom.
FX! Quick, I need CHOCOLATE AND TWINKIES! Oh, and bring some ciggys while yer at it… I’m about to start seizing…
Supernova! Loved it! Loved the fantasy dance; so hokey I thought I was watching “Lexxlahoma!” I loved the Poetman, loved the Catwalk on the catwalk by Kai, loved Stan trying to be brave even with one hand, loved the brains getting bested by Blue Star, loved Giggerota getting laughed at by the Moth, loved Xev taking Stan’s hand and Kai putting his arm around Xev, loved it, loved it, loved it!
Sometimes the best thing about lexx is that it is not afraid to be bad.
Also, FX americans are to blame for a great deal of crappy culture, but I am not sure we invented the musical!
J’accuse mr. potato head of either being DT790 or my ex-boyfriend (they talk the same way!)
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Originally posted by elfkin:
ARGH! Stop that! The only people who should EVER talk in third person are wrestlers.or people suffering from acute psychosis…wait, that would be wrestlers right? all those steroids…
FX! Quick, I need CHOCOLATE AND TWINKIES! Oh, and bring some ciggys while yer at it… I’m about to start seizing…
oh sweetie, sorry you’re in finals mania…uhm what sort of twinks do you favor, dark with blue or green eyes, or blonde? as far as cigarettes, will merit ultimas do you (yes, i have slowly worked my way down to wussy cigs, which i smoke in pairs to try to regulate brain levels of nicotine…cheer up buckaroo,summer is around the corner…oh, regards chocolate, last night i actually shared a piece of my dark chocolate easter egg with murphy-dog…does that tell you the extent of my chocolate immunity
take care pookie, and let me know how everything went!
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Originally posted by Raven:
anway supernova was excellent it contains the only nudity in lexx and i do agree that duet was awful.
are you sure about that being the only nudity?i have only seen us scifi, but it seems the shower scene in season three contained a fair bit of upper female torso nudity? and does k-town count as nudity or strategically placed body paint and dairy queen ice cream boats? oh and i do not like the duet, but i did much to my surprise like brigadoom
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Originally posted by Lizard:
Sometimes the best thing about lexx is that it is not afraid to be bad.Also, FX americans are to blame for a great deal of crappy culture, but I am not sure we invented the musical!
hmmm, you may be right lizard, i guess i just assumed musicals are american because i think of all the big glitzy hollywood productions, and the majority of broadway stuff…is it poor man’s opera do you think? or a marriage of vaudeville and popular songs? i guess all the musicians out there could help with this one…anyway, i know that there is a lot of crappy american culture, but there is a lot of good stuff-blues, jazz, and all the stuff in between, as well as more recent stuff, although i guess i still love british invasion (cream, traffic, rolling stones early, et al)…and let us not forget movies and books!
J’accuse mr. potato head of either being DT790 or my ex-boyfriend (they talk the same way!)
amen
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Originally posted by Lizard:
J’accuse mr. potato head of either being DT790 or my ex-boyfriend (they talk the same way!)
“Mr. Potato Head” is not one of my aliases. I don’t know who it is (besides not being Aleck, BlackCloud, or F.X.).
I’d like to meet your boyfriend some time, Lizard. He sounds like a great guy.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.
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Originally posted by FX:
oh sweetie, sorry you’re in finals mania…uhm what sort of twinks do you favor, dark with blue or green eyes, or blonde? as far as cigarettes, will merit ultimas do you (yes, i have slowly worked my way down to wussy cigs, which i smoke in pairs to try to regulate brain levels of nicotine…cheer up buckaroo,summer is around the corner…oh, regards chocolate, last night i actually shared a piece of my dark chocolate easter egg with murphy-dog…does that tell you the extent of my chocolate immunity take care pookie, and let me know how everything went!
Finals are finished! Yay! Now I’m just having regular bouts of chocolate mania (you should have seen me at the wedding. Someone tried to swipe my choco-bar and I almost clocked him. Never try to take chocolate from a drunk elf).
As to your comment on the duet, I liked it even tho it was cheezy. It made me laugh and MM has a nice voice. I liked Brigadoom’s singing and dancing ten times better, tho. I think I need to go watch Gigashadow again. While Supernova is a favorite, Squish is my true love… hehehe
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Originally posted by elfkin:
Finals are finished! Yay! Now I’m just having regular bouts of chocolate mania (you should have seen me at the wedding. Someone tried to swipe my choco-bar and I almost clocked him. Never try to take chocolate from a drunk elf).yikes! a drunk elf, didja bite him on the shins?! i just glare at receding hairline (not really a choice at my 6′ height) which ususally sends them whimpering off in a frenzy of insecurity…congrats on the exams papers et al! whaddaya doin this summer? are you coming to the uncon?
While Supernova is a favorite, Squish is my true love… hehehe
yep, love squish, wish they would sell little squish furries to add to my collection…particularly like mm saying “good lizard”, how can you not love a man that treats cluster lizards so well?!
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Originally posted by FX:
whaddaya doin this summer? are you coming to the uncon?
I’m working this summer, as usual. No uncon for me. I couldn’t afford it this year. Maybe if there’s one next year… kind of bummed about it, really, but I may be in New Brunswick for a wedding while all of you are in Hali. But, I’m sure I can trust you to do a little drooling for me, right FX?
And yes, you have to love a man that’s so kind of a creature that only wants to gnaw on brains…
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Originally posted by FX:
…but i always squirm during these sorts of musical fantasy scenes, but it seems to be a device that americans either like or despise enough to engender large scale response, so it’s used far too frequently in north american tv/film…i would like to hop e the canadians and germans are in fact making fun of that dreadful american devvice
Welp, speaking as a Canadian, I really didn’t have a problem with the fantasy duet. I regard it as product of Zev’s delusional state at that point. Giggerota’s absurd fantasy of the milk-fed boys, on the other hand, is definitely played for laughs.
Think of all the Indian Bollywood movies, they burst into song at the drop of a hat, or consider the Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. Somebody must enjoy it, but I run from the room screaming. “Brigadoom” kept me in my chair (make of that what you will).
Randalt
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Originally posted by Randalt:
Think of all the Indian Bollywood movies, they burst into song at the drop of a hat, or consider the Gilbert & Sullivan musicals. Somebody must enjoy it, but I run from the room screaming. Randalt
exactly what i was referring to randalt, thank you for visuals and a good laugh after my long and disgusting day
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