Nerd alert: find writing/plot inconsistencies in Lexx!
*** Spoilers ***
1) The speed of Lexx / other objects.
The speed of objects in the Light Universe was always a bit … well, odd. How fast can the Lexx move at full speed? We don’t know, but we do know that they traversed to the centre of the universe from wherever in a fortnight. However, in 2.20 Mantrid’s drones were able to coalesce onto them from all over the universe in a few scant hours.
In the Dark Zone, however, it seems to take the Lexx nine months to get around the sun at its incapacitated pace and to Earth. When it’s at full speed it takes almost the entire length of “Haley’s Comet” to get out of the solar system. The Light Universe seems to have very different physics to that of the Dark Zone since the Lexx’s speed seems to be much more of an issue from Series 3 onwards.
2) As mentioned elsewhere on the boards… when Xev leaves in the moth for Earth at the end of 4.01 Priest has just been elected. By the time she arrives on Earth, he’s being inaugurated, a process that should have taken a couple of months.
3) Priest, Giggerota and certain others seem to be conscious of the fact that they “woke up” on Earth when reincarnated much like on Fire, with little or no memory of previous events on our planet. Bunny and Lorka, however, both seem to remember previous lives on Earth (Bunny believes herself to have family and remembers playing Truth or Dare in high-school) which they couldn’t possibly have had.
4) Lt. Eagle is shown as a ghost on Earth from Vietnam whom Bunny sees and interacts with. At the same time, his soul – as “Root” – was on Boomtown mucking around with Xev. Water was destroyed and so presumably his living soul returned to Earth … but Bunny still sees the ghost after this has taken place.
5) Prince puts on a faux American accent during his inital briefing of President Davison which he then loses in private, presumably for the benefit of the other Chiefs of Staff. However, he never bothers with the accent again no matter who he’s dealing with.
6) How and why did Lyekka’s family get out of the Light Zone before Mantrid’s drones dissolved all of the fractal cores? And why are they in a mechanically-altered asteroid now when they could outpace the Lexx before? (I realise that if we’d just seen the pods first off we would have known straight away who the carrot aliens were, but this IS nitpicking. 😛 )
7) Prince, as ruler of Fire, is given supernatural abilities. Others on the twin planets have different levels of understanding of the situation, such as Duke and Queen. Some, like Fifi, have no idea of their constant reincarnation at all.
May, however, seemingly has another ability. She can create the appearence of her own death and feign injuries that even robotic devices (790 and the protein regenerator) are fooled by. Even assuming she was a servant of Prince’s, what gave her this ability? It was never explained.
8) If Fire and Water have been destroyed then where do all of the dead people go? [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
9) Why does Kai’s protoblood change colour whenever it feels like it? In Gigashadow we saw brown and white-green varieties. Zev scooped up plenty of lime-green for Kai. In Nook and other episodes, it’s brown again.
And 10) In “The Key” 790 says, I believe, that the Key resides in the Medula Oblangada (spelling?) of the Captain’s brain, the part that also controls sexual desires. In “May”, Kai tells Xev that all parts of the brain unnecessary for the building of moths were removed from the moth-breeders. That being the case … how does the key reside in them?