Email from a non-SadGeezer
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
Bollocks dude! No way! Why would the Mandrid drones disguise themselves as a revolving carnival thingy when the only person there was some little scrawny kid in an antique spaceship!? Mandrid drones weren’t in the business of disguise, they were in the business of destruction!
Yes they are. Later in that apisode they disguise themselves as Norb, and in another episode one takes on 790’s form. It was a trap to get Norb, since Mantrid knew he could use him to get inside the Lexx undetected. It was part of his game. When Mantrid drones eat something, they swoop in and take it apart. At the beginning of [i]Norb[/i] the carnival just [i]becomes[/i] them all of a sudden, they’re in its shape only different colors. That is a different effect from when they disassemble things in other episodes.
As for the [i]Garden[/i] thing, I know we’ve discussed it before and it doesn’t really need to be brought up again. I was just curious. It is theoretically possible that that was the intent, but I find it unlikely. If it were deliberate symbolism it would be more apparent. The [i]possible[/i] symbolic significance of the watering cans is just too subtle for the normal viewer to notice.