Which Spin-Off would you prefer?
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
nononononononono…. I didn’t say “the Insect Wars were dreamed up by the fans”. I said, “the [i]idea[/i] of an Insect Wars [i]prequel[/i] was entirely dreamed up by fans”. Worlds of difference. And actually, that wasn’t entirely true anyway. Didn’t MM bring up the idea in an interview? (I hope I’m not starting a false rumor!)
About [i]Star Wars[/i]. Since 1977 when the first movie came, it was [i]designed[/i] to have prequels. It wasn’t something invented after [i]Return of the Jedi[/i] was released. In fact, as I dimly recall from my childhood, there were supposed to be [i]nine[/i] movies in all! But I haven’t heard talk of an Episode VII in… well, in decades, I guess.
In the case of [i]Lexx[/i], the Insect Wars were merely backstory for Kai’s character. Famous throughout the galaxies, the Brunnen-G saved the universe from the evil Insects. The fact that many fans wondered about the details of that war demostrates how effective Kai’s character was defined.
Look, if they did an Insect Wars prequel, that’s great! I’ll be glued to the tube every week. But it wouldn’t be the same show. Sort of in the same sense the [i]ST:TNG[/i] is not the same as [i]ST:TOS[/i]. The first one was campy and sometimes outrageous. The second one was a bit more stiff and serious. Both good shows, but very different in style.
But yeah, you’re right about my opinion of the later seasons of [i]Lexx[/i] over the first season. I really enjoyed the goofball stuff that happened with Xev and Stan. In my viewpoint, the Beans have laid a firm foundation for Stan and Xev’s characters. Both the writers and the actors are now very familiar with them. To shift focus to an Insect Wars prequel would require a huge shift in gears and an abandonment of everything that has been developed in the previous four seasons.
Hey! Why not have our cake and eat it? LOL! Why not produce BOTH show ideas? The Beans could turn over reins to some other group of writers, producers, directors, and actors to let them make a kick-butt Insect Wars prequel! The Beans could come in as consultants or be executive producers while they focus on the continuation of [i]Lexx[/i] and the story of Stan, Xev, Prince, Priest, and Bunny! In fact, the more I think about it, the better that sounds!
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Agreed, that sort of approach should appease both sets of fans, and I think that it would certainly make for an interesting story.
I guess I’m an FX nut, I just love eye candy, and I just feel that the insect wars would be an excellent vehicle for the superb FX crew to show off their ground-breaking talents.
As for the movies and series, well I guess you go from one extreme to the other, the movies were dark and sinister, whereas the latter part of the series was very light.
I guess I was getting concerned that Lexx was becoming a carry-on movie in space, I’m all for the laughs, but it’s just that sometimes it kinda overpowered the show.
I’m quite happy for the beans to do what they wanted, but then they knew their involvement with Lexx was to discontinue, so the last Lexx was more for them and the current fans than an attempt to bring in more fans for the show, so I guess they were not gonna be concerned on whether it was going to spark mass interest in Lexx.
But the fans wanted Lexx to show newbies what we saw in it, and I suppose we were asking too much, I just think that eps like Vlad and Yo-vay-Yo would have enticed new fans, but we’ve had a few, let’s say, not so good eps, which some might have felt had driven a new audience away.
The beans had obviously experimented with S4, as it would seem that they wanted to keep the show fresh, which is just so difficult when you’ve done something for so long, it’s kinda like writing a song, you wanna keep it fresh, but you have this nagging feeling that it sounds just like another record.
But I truly believe that a good mix of simply what the beans do best would result in the spin-off we want, i.e the creativity shown in the movies tempered with the laugh out loud humour of the series…and then everyone should be happy.
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P.S Thanx for the salty brain, in the words of the immortal Lyekka ‘It was yummy!!!’