After the Fallout, Your Opinions please
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Originally posted by Squishy:
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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Season 4 was brilliant. The Beans outdid themselves.
You’re conservative and just didn’t like the change. “Worked against the wishes of the fans”, indeed! How arrogant! How can you presume that you know the opinions of all the fans? I may have been one of the only people praising season 4 on this board (to the point of getting disgusted and boycotting) but as soon as the last episode aired, TONS of fans came crawling out of the woodwork over at Lexx.Com. And that means there had to have been hundreds of others who loved season four and just did not get as far as seeking out a message board.
LEXX has ALWAYS been about making fun of certain types of people, traditions, and unreasonable hang-ups. It’s just that in the fourth season they got to the point. The Earth sucks and if it came down to it, we would destroy ourselves.
And if people were introduced to LEXX via [i]Midsummer’s Nightmare[/i], how do YOU know they didn’t like it? There were probably tons of people who recognized Battersea power station from the Pink Floyd album cover or what it means to the English in general (a symbol of decay) or at the bery least the irony of it’s location used for a druid cerimony. You were probably just turned off by the homosexual antics or the stupid singing trees and can’t get over it.
That’s the beauty of LEXX. There are all these elements blended together. Fairy-stories, horror, space-opera, goth, porno, corruption, satire, etc., etc. There’s something there for everyone.
And from here on out it’s excelsior.
[ 30-04-2002: Message edited by: Flamegrape ]