After the Fallout, Your Opinions please
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
You hit the nail on the head. It befuddles my damn fool cracker mind when people go on and on about some mysterious epic saga in [i]LEXX[/i] that isn’t really there.
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Exactly. People keep looking for the “big” aspects of [i]LEXX[/i], when the show is almost always about the *little* things. Like I said before, the main thrust of the series has always been what most movies and series would consider subplot. Like in S2: most of the episodes were vehicles to expand the characters by putting them in odd situations and seeing how they’d react. Being human (well, mostly), they act erratically — sometimes admirably, sometimes not. Any other show or sci-fi movie would focus on the fact that [b]there’s an evil villain eating the entire universe.[/b] Yet it’s added almost mockingly: “Oh, yeah, by the way, there’s a right [i]*******[/i] out there destroying entire planets and star systems. We’ll deal with him in a bit, but until then, here’s some more zany episodes about sex and death, and we’ll throw in a few genre parodies as well. Thanks for watching!” Or how, in the middle of Season 3, there’s suddenly an entire episode about Stan trying to get Lyekka to teach some gardeners how to please him orally. It’s like the Beans are saying “Yeah, there are big things happening all around us, but when you get down to it, the most important things, sometimes, are those base desires and instincts that nag at us. They might get you into a pickle, but sometimes, when the universe is collapsing around your feet, the most important thing is finding your hat.”
–Aleck