Which Spin-Off would you prefer?

An Insect Wars prequel is something entire dreamed up by fans and will never happen. It would mean writing a story that is serious, straightforward, epic, and not resembling Lexx in the slightest!

Come off it Flamegrape, the above statement pretty much sums up what you think of earlier Lexx compared to what it is now.
The insect wars were not dreamt up by fans, the fact that they were not played out in the series does not mean they didn’t happen.
As we’ve seen with Star Wars, prequels can be an interesting and integral part of the Lexx history, an area that has never truly been explored.
Like or not, there are fans who want to see Lexx return to the way it was during the movies, equally there are fans who want to see Lexx continue in the way it has recently.
But ask yourself, will any new fan choose the bewildering storylines of late to the original movies.
If Lexx is to continue it needs to attract new blood, many newbies just can’t get their heads around the humour, and it’s selfish of the current fans to expect they do so.
I say go back to the trend the movies set because they were easier to understand, and I say that so Lexx can become stronger, if it sticks with the madcap humour, then we only alienate a potential audience for Lexx.
I want to see Lexx become a giant in Sci-fi, sure it will be remembered by us, but others will just class it as being a sci-fi programme that only appealed to it’s hardcore fans.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed all of Lexx, but when you truly look on what it needs to continue, you soon realise that it needs a broader audience, for that it needs to find the right balance of the seriousness of the movies with the humour of the series…otherwise it’s unlikely that investors will look at it as a viable investment.
Fact is, if we have a repeat of S4’s non-stop comedy, then it will not gather anymore fans, because they will still be left scratching their heads as to what is going on.
The seriousness, straightforward, epic feel as you call it, was what was present in the movies, the movies got the ball rolling for Lexx, without them you would not have seen Lexx develop into a series, and for many of us, those movies were the reason we loved Lexx to begin with.
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