After the Fallout, Your Opinions please
WoW!
What ACE comments! I dissagreed with about half of them and was enthralled by all of them.
For me, the best episode was IWHS, worst that ****ing farty Bad Carrot. Best season would be season 3 for me (season 2 for NewKate) (I’ve not seen the last 8 episodes yet) but the best so far are Patches in the Sky (Season 2 – only because Gubby reminds me of me [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ). Gondola was one of the greats of graphical regressive sci fi, it was poetry on the eyes and although the story was kinda weak, the whole show had me glued to the screen.
Brigadoom was nutty and wonderful and lots and lots of shows made me feel good and bad (sometimes at the same time). And I guess that’s why I liked LEXX so much. It broke a lot of the taboos, it didn’t seem to matter if you thought the subject matter crappy – at the end of the day no other TV sci fi show could have pulled off most of the episodes! (Can you imagine Star Trek NG pulling off Girltown!?)
Lex Gigeroff once emailed me and said said that he was pleased that the fans seemed to like their little ‘fringe show’. It made me chuckle at the time, but I can’t help feeling that that’s what they have done with LEXX, they managed to get a fringe sci fi show syndicated!
We get so much crap Sci Fi on TV nowadays and we look back at other classic cult shows like Red Dwarf, Hitch Hikers and Babylon 5 and see that they had all the same comments about their episodes and they too had such a hard time finding the funding to produce them.
I’m really pleased that the show became so popular, they broke the rules and gave others in the future something to aim at. It’s a show that can’t be immitated because like other classic Sci Fi shows, it dealt with real issues (love sex, farting, homosexuality etc. etc.) when no other sci fi show would have a go. As Aleck so elloquently concluded, “We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” (Oscar Wilde)
[i]Nice one Salter Street![/i]
LEXX was raw sci fi!
[ 01-05-2002: Message edited by: SadGeezer ]