Buyer for Spin Off Series
the simple answer: the people involved in making the show forgot how to tell a story. they knew the basics once. they have attractive stars. but they began to leave out the romance occasionally, then all the time (season IV). without romance, you don’t got ratings. all you got are the freaks who hate romance. there are good reasons a Stephen Spillberg and a George Lucas film get high ratings. film geeks and critics do not fill up theatres, audiences do. and mass audiences want romance. this show started out as an alternative space opera, but still a space opera. it has devolved into prat falls and ridiculous unfunny skits with no wit and no story. either way, whether you personally may prefer the juvenile scatology or the pseudo intellectual social commmentary, the original mass audience will go away. they began to watch Lexx because of the original space opera movies. the lead into the series was not the Monty Python show, as the series IV plots suggests, but the ever popular hero myths of the season I movies.