Re:Lexxian Boredom…?

Being a Lexxian is only one of the labels that defines me (or my interests anyway), and only one of the communities I belong to — though a VERY important one. In sci-fi shows which have forums at this board: I’m also a Prisoner; a Hitchhiker; a Smeghead/Dwarfer; a Whovian; a Babyler; a Gater, and some others too. So for me, generally, what I do as a person who is fond of Lexx when I’m bored is no different from what I do as a person who is fond of other shows…

By the way, I know your intention is to bring a little more of the lexx.com board to this forum, to humanise the forum, to learn more about each other, and generally just to create a vibrant thread, so excuse me if I go off on tangential territory and thereby broaden the scope of the discussion a bit.

When I’m bored I put on music and I love Pink Floyd, but I listened to that long before I was a Lexx fan, so it has nothing to do with me being a Lexxian specifically, or doesn’t it? I can correlate all of my interests to my interest in Lexx — I have a disposition towards certain things. For instance, I love black comedy generally, am cynical, I like surrealism, and I generally like shows that don’t take themselves too seriously.

Pink Floyd is quite Lexxy in many ways. Like I said, you made it clear that you’re really just asking about what Lexxians as a collection of individuals do when they’re bored, but I’ve often found that Lexxians share many of the same interests and attitudes. I wonder, okay I don’t really wonder this, if you asked this in the Andromeda forum, for instance, if you’d get a very different sense of how they deal with boredom — or perhaps how they tackle questions of boredom? We’re all sci-fi fans of course, and we’re all different… So not particularly…. Allthough, I guess we watch Lexx and go to Lexx forums when we’re bored and they go to Andromeda forums and watch Andromeda — to confuse matters, what about the Lexx fans who are also Andromeda fans?

I wonder if there is a Lexxian world-view we, generally, share in common that makes us different from other fan groups in how we deal with boredom and other issues?

Also, I wonder if you’ll find that the sadgeezer community will respond rather differently to the question than we would find in the existing lexx.com “Bored” thread? Of course we lexx.commers already know each other pretty well since we’ve had many similar discussions over there, but yeah, this is a good opportunity for cross-cultural comparison.

You’ll find that Lexxians here and at lexx.com (though many belong to both communities) do express themselves and interact differently — so one could say there’s more than one Lexx culture — at the same time we are all individuals. Here people tend to discuss the shows more, where as at lexx.com it’s very common to discuss eachother/oneself… More humanised. Nice to have both.

Anyway, I’m thinking now about what I do as a Lexx fan specifically when I’m bored, as opposed to what I do as a Monty Python fan, a Star Trek TOS fan, or as a Black Adder and Mr. Bean fan etc.

Okay, okay…

So… specific to my Lexxist side: When I’m bored I go to visit a Lexx forum and try to think of something to say to the Lexxian community, or I take out a Lexx DVD, and my boredom quickly disappears.

Sometimes when I’m bored and in a Lexxy mood my thoughts turn to grand and hideously evil Lexx inspired visions. For instance, my fancy takes me to imaginative worlds where I’m a Divine Predecessor’s brain discussing logic with Spock’s brain, or betting with the big brains from the Star Trek episode, “The Gamesters of Triskelion,” on how many seats the NDP will get at the forthcoming Canadian election (oops, I crossed over into the Trek universe — you can’t keep a good Trekkie down).

Sometimes I daydream that I’m Stan debating the merits of same-sex church blessings with Feppo and Smoor, but it’s a [i]fruitless[/i] discussion since the Lexx always ends up blowing up the church anyway.

As a general cult sci-fi buff, when I’m bored I often search out the latest sci-fi news hoping to find something that piques my interest enough to write a news article on it — but I rarely do.

Okay, I think the length answered your question: When I’m bored it amuses me to write funkin’ long and stupendously silly posts; just thinkin’ aloud really. 😀 Printed out, these posts make excellent toilet paper. Edit: And when I’m bored I like to inflict my rambling thoughts on others to bore them silly. Misery loves company. 😀