LEXX Episode 4-11 posted.

I reckon this is the first time I’ve disagreed with you, Sad; generally your reviews have been gospel to me, but I think you were a little unfair in this case. I thought this episode was hilarious to begin with…true, it had tailed off badly towards the end. Maybe it’s because you’re less, er, gay as well. Might have tainted your opinion. I certainly don’t think that this was the worst ep so far – that honour falls squarely in the lap of Xevivor. AND: how can you not find McManus funny when he’s doing ‘Happy Kai’? That always cracks me up! Admittedly it was exactly the same performance as in ‘Twilight’ but it was still hilarious.(not to mention the look he gave Stan when asked who the puppet was supposed to be)

Anyway, my main gripe is that you seem to think they got the main concept wrong; in your review you say:

quote[quote][b]Oberon is from Shakespeare’s play “A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream”. He is the king of a race of elves.[/b][/quote]
Urm. I hate to correct you, but that’s not quite true. Oberon was indeed in Midsummer Night’s Dream, but Shakespeare didn’t invent him, and neither is he supposed to me from a race of elves. Oberon really [i]is[/i] the King of the Fairies; this is an ancient legend in Europe. And as far as the technicalities in the episode went they got most of it right; Fairies are immortal, magical beings identical in appearance to humans (only much later was all that 6-inch-high with wings nonsense added). Though they live forever they have difficulty reproducing, and when they do conceive their babies usually die quite soon; this was why they always doing that ‘changeling’ thing, where they exchanged human babies for theirs. Fairies are indeed very powerful; the reason they didn’t take over the world is due to their strange demeanour; they are incredibly vague and dreamlike, and take little interest in most affairs of man( where Tolkien got all the ideas for his elves I’m sure you’ll agree). Plus of course they have their own realm, as was shown on Lexx. People who have ‘been’ there have claimed that it is [i]our[/i] afterlife, or that our world is merely the scientific, focused tip of something much bigger that we cannot perceive (I once read that Earth would be likened to an island in the middle of a vast ocean, or just the part of an iceberg showing above water), or that they simply have a bog-standard magic realm of their own (this was the one Lexx plumped for unfortunately). So as you can see they were quite accurate; obviously they added the rather clumsy pun that fairies are actually [i]fairies[/i]. And these fairies weren’t all that nasty either; the Medieval ones were – people were absolutely terrified of them, and we still have many customs now relating to the fears people had back then.

Anyhoo, just thought that needed sayin’. I’m glad you also think that the quality of this series isn’t just down to the new writers; somebody (sorry, can’t remember who) summed it up perfectly here earlier, saying that the quality was mostly the same, it’s the budget that’s gone down, leaving us with some rather uninspiring visuals. Besides, I can’t wait for ‘Lyekka vs. Japan’ and ‘Apocalexx Now’. They can’t fail with promising titles like that!

P.s. that dwarf feller played Jack Large in Blackadder many years ago!