Worst Episode of Lexx

My least favorite episode is 2.8 [i]White Trash[/i]. It’s not a bad episode, actually. It’s just that it’s a depressing reminder of the dumb rednecks that live near me. The personality of Paw was right on target. There are way to many rednecks that are stupid, self-centered, and wife-beaters. The inbred part is not really true, but sexual assult upon their own children has been known to occur. One element that was left out of the portrait was religious fundamentalism, e.g. the southern baptists. Another element missing was the idiotic worship of football (american football, that is).

BTW, Sad, I was looking at your episode review of [i]White Trash[/i]. I beleive the planet Vermil’s name is actually spelled Vrml. This is what I concluded when I first saw the episode on SciFi Channel several years ago.

In the mid-’90s, there was a new form of webpage design called Virtual Reality Markup Language, or VRML for short. Everyone just called it “vermil” instead of pronouncing the letters V.R.M.L., like we usually do for HTML (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language, which is used for almost all webpages). Myself and a few others experimented with it at art school. The results were stupid and cumbersome. And I think the language died, as far as I know.

In any case, the language did not catch on. And I have always suspected that the writers of [i]Lexx[/i] were poking fun at VRML because “vermil” sounds like something someone with Grizzled Old Prospector’s Syndrome would say (c.f. MST3K episode [i]The Final Sacrifice[/i]). Or maybe like Yosemite Sam saying to Bugs Bunny, “I’ll get you, you vermil!”

The following is IMHO, I don’t mean to offend anyone.

I’d have to agree with you on Tunnels. With the exception of the few scenes of Kai with the Commision, it seemed like it was a bad extension of K Town.
I thought than Stan Down was just digusting horrible, it was long, boring and basically done in poor taste. The Rock also seemed like a waste of an episode for me.

I haven’t seen Bad Carrot yet, but from what I’ve heard it’s full of scat humor. I hope Lexx doesn’t fall to the South Park level of potty-jokes.

Terminal.

I hate this episode.

I’d have to say the worst eps were:
Woz, truly disgusting scene with Xev’s liver being punctured.
White Trash…could have been better..
alot of S4 ( I actually loved Fluffdaddy, if for no other reason than to watch MM go stark raving nutso and spaz out with his Shakespeare and Faust interpretations, in 2 languages I might add)and Xev got to eat Kai, but not in a GOOD way…ahem..
Patches in the sky…kind of boring…except for the return of Gigerotta
Tunnels, the only redeeming part was Kai’s classic “Assassin” line with the added punch.
Battle, just missed somehow… [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

Interesting to see people’s choices.

My favorite one to hate is White Trash. Ignorant, inbred white southern trash has been done to the point of nausea.

Didn’t much care for S3’s Garden either. Those gardeners and their floating flowers were creepy. And I never did figure out if Kai just decided to decompose on his own, or if he was under the influence of the gardeners, like Stan and Xev were.

Hmmm…..I’d have to say White Trash, for many of the reasons already given. Garden because it was just kinda boring, and what was with Kai just wanting to decompose? (The watering cans were kinda cool though!) [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] Patches in the Sky and Tunnels were both fairly low on action, although I did like Kai’s speech. Oh, and Brizon, though that was only the second episode I had ever seen of Lexx, and I haven’t seen it since. Maybe I’d like it better now…though the liver-puncturing was pretty gross.

Hmmmm . . . let’s see. . .
Luvliner- I found it pointless
Fluffdaddy- It didn’t flow well at all
and I was disappointed that some of the storylines didn’t carry over (Xev/Cluster Lizard mating, and living Kai just seemed thrown in there as did Lyekka)

There are other eps. but not ones that warrent “Worst Episode”

Luvliner; though it was the first episode I saw, luckily I did keep watching.

Garden; just seemed like filler. Stan was exceptionally irritating and Kai totally out of character for no good reason. Xev just wafted around and Lyekka was completely wasted. The parrot did a good job though!

elmey

Luvliner I hated. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
The only thing I didn’t like about [i]White Trash[/i] was the scene where Stan takes advantage of Sissy. I’m surprised Prince didn’t bring that up in [i]The Beach[/i], since it’s about the worst thing he’s done. But I suppose it was necessary to the plot so we could get to the lasergun wedding scene.

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Actually, this kind of thing is all too common with redneck families. The incest part is, in fact, quite rare (just as rare as any other part of the world). But fathers are protective of their daughters to an extreme degree with dumb hillbillies (or any other group of uneducated lower-class). This is sometime the cause of a major motivation on the part of the daughter to [i]get the hell out of the house and away from dad.[/i] Redneck women are always on the lookout for men who can get them out of whatever horrible situation they are in (physical or sexual abuse, alcoholism-drenched poverty, whatever). Why don’t they just take charge and strike out on their own? Well, there’s this problem with abuse towards women which is very common with rednecks. A cycle of fear that I try to break whenever I witness it. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

To get back to what Stan did with Sissy Gollean, I don’t think Stan did anything wrong. For her, anything is better than life with the Gollean clan. It was the other way around, DT790. Sissy took advantage of Stan.

What Sissy really should have done is moved to Atlanta, go to business school, and marry a performance artist from Canada.

This episode was yet another grim insight of the mentality of the post-Reconstruction Era southern United States. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

quote[quote]The only thing I didn’t like about White Trash was the scene where Stan takes advantage of Sissy. I’m surprised Prince didn’t bring that up in The Beach, since it’s about the worst thing he’s done.[/quote]

Prince didn’t bring it up because it wasn’t a *bad* thing. He had sex with a woman who seemed perfectly in control and happy with the situation. I don’t remember Stan taking “advantage” of her…..

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Originally posted by T3:
Can’t we have dead sexy men on Lexx (besides Kai).Like,can we have Antonio Sabato Jr or Jensen Ackles on the friggin show!!?Excuse me,while I blow some steam. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

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Here are the episodes most hated by Lexxians on this board (with reasons and occasional commentary):

1. White Trash-6 votes (4 for bad, 2 for worst) What in tarnation is wrong with you people?!? Too silly.
2. Luvliner- 5 votes (3 for bad, 2 for worst) Ick.
3. Tunnels-5 votes Filler.
4. Garden-5 votes Good idea gone bad/filler.
5. The Beach-4 votes (3 for bad, 1 for worst) Stupid premise/filler.
6. Brizon-3 votes Ick.
7. Lafftrak-3 votes Good idea gone bad/too silly.
8. Battle-3 votes People just hate these fourth season episodes. Filler.
9. Lexx 1.2: Super Nova-2 The only movie to be blacklisted. Ick.
10. Stan Down-2 votes Filler.
11. Love Grows-2 votes Ick.
12. The Rock-2 votes Filler.
13. Fluff Daddy-2 votes Ick.
14. Magic Baby-2 votes Good idea gone bad.
15. Patches in the Sky-2 votes Too silly.
16. Woz-2 votes No appreciation for subtle satire, these people. Ick.
17. Terminal-1 vote (1 for worst) Stupid premise.
18. Heaven and Hell-1 vote Stupid premise.
19. Girltown-1 vote Stupid premise.
20. Xevivor-1 vote Good idea gone bad.
21. Nook-1 vote Ick.
22. Mantrid-1 vote Ick.

White Trash made my skin crawl. Fire & Water was too slow.