Buyer for Spin Off Series
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Originally posted by infantonboard:
the simple answer: the people involved in making the show forgot how to tell a story.
You’re right. These shows I was watching on Friday nights were just a jumble of words and images that convey no information to the viewer. What was I thinking?
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Originally posted by infantonboard:
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.
Where was the romance in [i]Lexx[/i] in the first place? Are you talking about the non-existant romance between Zev/Xev and Kai? There was never [b]any[/b] romance between them. If there was any romance, then it was shallow and one-sided. Just Zev/Xev falling in love with Kai, getting nothing, and then facing the facts and getting over it! The little girl fantasy of a brave hero that loves her is unfulfilled. If only there were more stories like that.
But you are right. The candy-coated romance that floods mainstream television does sell. It’s really easy to sell romance when it rarely occurs in real life.
So which is better? Selling a lie or presenting thoughtful satire? I’m sure there are other options for a science-fiction show, but the Beans chose the path of comedy. ([i]Divine[/i] comedy, in the case of series III.)
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Originally posted by infantonboard:
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.
Although I disagree with your opinion that [b]all[/b] current [i]Lexx[/i] fans are bitter social outcasts, I agree that the vast majority of major blockbuster Hollywood movies rely on the romance formula. Either that or violent movies with gratuitous sex. It makes money. But does that make them good? Does it make it right?
The movie that won best movie at the Oscars, [i]A Beautiful Mind[/i], was that drenched in syrupy romance? Loaded down with car chases? Naked chicks acting stoopid? Gunfights on rooftops?
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Originally posted by infantonboard:
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.
Yet another fan whining about how the new shows don’t live up to the movies.
Did you ever consider that there are other newer fans who did not see the movies but loved the regular series? Or that new fans have started watching the show as recently as [i]A Midsummers Nightmare[/i]? I think what you are trying to convey is that the only “true fans” are the ones who watched the show from the beginning when there were only the four movies and no Xev. I’m waiting for some new fan who has fallen in love with ridiculous series IV to comment, “I just saw the movies! Gosh, were they boring and tedious! All that hero junk! My favorite one was [i]Eating Pattern[/i] because it was looney and had an interesting weave of ecological relationships.”
Mark my words. After the show runs it’s course, [i]Lexx[/i]’s cult following will grow. At the very least, it will be a regular staple at sci-fi conventions. There is no denying that there is no sci-fi show like [i]Lexx[/i]. Others will attempt it, but it will always be compared to the one that pioneered a new genre of science-fiction space opera.
And yes, it is still space opera.
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[ 31-03-2002: Message edited by: Flamegrape ]