First Memories of Lexx

Originally saw it back in the late ’90s (not sure of the year) when I was working at Tower Records. We’d just gotten in a pre-release screener of [i]I Worship His Shadow.[/i] Not having anything better to do, I took it home and watched it. At first (after my initial reaction of “What the f@ck???”), I thought it was too self-conciously weird. Tried too hard. The villain was too much like the Emperor in [i]Star Wars[/i]. Forced. Then I kept thinking about it, and watched it again, and thought it was much better. We kept getting pre-release screeners in, and I kept watching them, and liked it more and more. It was years after that that I finally caught up with [i]LEXX[/i] again (didn’t have SciFi Channel), and I didn’t know what it was at first as the videos didn’t have the name [i]LEXX[/i] on them anywhere except the spines, and I didn’t remember that. But upon tuning in, I was ecstatic. There was the guy with the hair!!! There was the guy in the red suit!!! There’s the robot head!!! Who’s the redheaded chick???

–Aleck