Email from a non-SadGeezer
Well, for starters Squishums – its not me. not every person with a concern is the one and same person and/or me. If Sad were to post our most recent email exchange, you’d be ashamed of yourself for continuing to entertain such ‘thoughts’.
I have to confess though, Tony, that despite being a pedant and missing the point of your reviews, this person raises an interesting if belated concern. It should be stressed that you were amongst the first to publicly support (and chastise) the show, and deserve complete credit for your longstanding and hard work. However, as many pointed out to me in another thread, the sex ratio of Lexx fans has become disproprtionally female and/or gay over the years. There is even suggestion within the show of an increasing awareness of this ‘fact’ (assuming its true).
If so, the unabashed hetrosexual element of your reviews may have become increasingly anachronistic, and threatens to alienate newer (as well as older?) Lexx fans. Even more of a concern is the possibiity that sci fi is no longer a male dominated and/or post adolescent province per se, assuming it ever was (which I doubt).
I’m not suggesting you rewrite your old reviews of course – or indeed, change the way you write future reviews. I just wonder, though, if this complaint is symptomatic of something else – namely, a possible disparity between your perceived and actual readers. As someone has indicated to me many times, someone moved to write a letter is often an indication of many other people who might feel similarly, but haven’t bothered to get worked up – and have just gone elsewhere or turned off. So, whilst its probably best not to take her comments personally, I wouldn’t take them in your stride either.