After the Fallout, Your Opinions please
What strikes me, reading through this thread, is how diverse the various opinions are. There’s no real consensus on what the favorite season or episode is, and I suspect that’s what the Beans were shooting for.
I think this is because one’s view of Lexx has a lot to do with two aspects:
1. How you were introduced to the series.
2. Personal taste.
I’ve noticed that the favorite season for quite a few folks tends to be whatever season was their first Lexx experience. There was something about what they were watching in that first experience that drew them in. Since each season has a distinct flavor of its own, it’s not surprising that they tend to like other seasons less. Part of what pulled them in was probably part of that season’s particular “flavor.” Other seasons are less to their taste.
Above and beyond this, it’s clear that we each have different things we like about Lexx. We could even identify different “camps;”
1. Dwarfers – These folks love sci-fi comedy, in the vein of Red Dwarf. They tend to list Season 4 as their favorite, for obvious reasons. They like episodes with humorous character interaction, and when it comes to comedy and parody, more is better. They think of Lexx as a fun, care-free, wacky, sexy ride.
2. Fivers – These folks like a serious story that continues from episode to episode, like Babylon 5. They tend to list Season 3 as their favorite, and enjoy episodes with tests of morality and serious confrontations between good and evil.
3. Cyclers – These are folks whose imagination was captured by IWHS and/or Brigadoom. They are particularly into specific aspects of the Cycle of Time, the Insect Wars, the Brunnen-G, the Divine Order, and the Ostrol-B Heretics. These are the folks who tend to use the word “epic” when describing Lexx, and tend to list Season 1 or 2 as their favorites. They long for the old days.
I know that simplifies things a LOT, but I feel like that’s the basic breakdown of different Lexx tastes. I reckon I’m closest to being a Cycler.
A few of you said that Lexx is not about the Xev/Kai relationship, or that Lexx is not an epic. Of course it is. Lexx is about those things, as well as many other things. Lexx is what we, the viewers, make of it. There are no limits, and there’s no need for anyone to try to impose limits. It’s all subjective.
And for the record, my favorite season is a tie between Season 1 and Season 2.
My favorite episode is a tie (more or less) between I Worship His Shadow, Brigadoom, and Yo Way Yo.
The worst episode (IMHO) is a tie between A Midsummers Nightmare and Mort.