After the Fallout, Your Opinions please
Gotta agree with Addy on this one, there was huge potential for Lexx to begin with, the movies are classic, but seem so far removed form what Lexx had become.
The movies felt like movies, big and done with interest, the storyline was magnificent and reminiscent of Star Wars, they were truly groundbreaking.
Then we went into the series, and that feel from the movies was lost, but Lexx still had enough in it to make it interesting, but the movies was the hook for many.
S3 had some great moments, but they went hand in hand with some truly cheap looking and bizarrely written eps, but there was still a freshness in it and Lexx still had something to offer.
S4 had moved completely away from what we saw in the movies, choosing comedy over it’s initial nature, unfortunately for a sci-fi programme this format was doomed to failure.
If there is a spin-off then both the elements of the movies and the comedy needs to be combined seemlessly, if it can’t that then it also will be doomed to failure.
Although I admire the beans for doing what they wanted, it worked against the wishes of many fans who wanted Lexx to stand proud.
Newbies were obviously confused about what Lexx was, seeing a midsummers nights dream must have been awful for a newbie, I can imagine them thinking that if this was what Lexx had to offer then I’d rather give it a miss, but had they seen Vlad or IWHS, then they’d be hooked.
Trouble is, they wouldn’t stay hooked for long, as too many of S4’s eps were not for them, but for the die-hard Lexx fans that knew what to expect.
You have to have a deep understanding of the beans and Lexx to get it, too many new people to the show obviously lost patience, I know as my brother just gave up mid-season, where as I stuck with Lexx…but there were many eps that did make me cringe.
I’ll truly miss Lexx, but it comes as no surprise that it did not get the ratings, but I don’t think the beans really cared or worried about that, it would seem that they were happy to give the true Lexx fans one last serving.
So at the end of the day, we can only point the finger at the people who started it, but then they gave us so much to begin with, it’s difficult to criticise them.
All in all, they let the series go, they should have taken longer to do S4, do a bit of research to see where Lexx was at it’s strongest and return to that…but we all knew the answer, take us back to the movies and recapture the magic.
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