frow what was Lexx bred?
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
You made a good point witht the 3 and 7 segments. Yes I know that is the case but I (and 99.9% of the population) tend to group bugs,insects,aracnids etc in the same group: Creepy crawly things I don’t want touching me or my food or living in my house!
That may be true (though I’d think more like 60%), but I think it’s pretty safe to say the Supreme Beans and the [i]Lexx[/i] writing staff know much more about entomology (and science as a whole) than I do, and were applying that knowledge when creating the Insects.
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I was basing my assumptions that the nets were insects based on theire size, intelligence…
I think it’s likely they’re related, but I would think the Nets to be a group separate from, not to mention hostile to, the Insects.
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I wouldn’t say that the LEXX is programmed like a computer to be afraid of webs. That fear is natural to him. Much like how LEXX moths and terrestial moths are drawn to flame. And how every other lifeform (except for us) on the planet stays away from things with bright colors. i.e. bees, poison dart frogs, monarch butterflies etc. Bright colors are natures way of saying don’t touch. We make our bombs that way too. Unfortuanlty bright colors attract children, d’oh.
I don’t know if the Lexx’s thoughts and impulses are the result of computer-like programming, Insect instincts, or some combination of both. But regardless, some aspect of its mind made it want to turn away from the Net. This implies that the Insects were afraid of the Nets, and knew that some may still lurk in the Light Zone looking for Insect prey. The Lexx also seems familiar with the biology of the Nets (“where there is a Web, there could be a Spider!”). And (this isn’t really relevent) that second part isn’t exactly true. Hummingbirds are instinctively attracted to the colors yellow and red (an impulse that does not always work to their advantage).
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I’ve read about/seen ants with huge variantions within a species. Ranging from size, color, mandibles etc. But each one still looks like another ant. A moth, a dragon fly and a pill bug look nothing alike. That’s why I disagree witht the caste theory. Individual castes within the pill bugs isn’t such a bad idea though, too bad we’ll never get any back story to prove it one way or another.
Actually, pill bugs don’t have castes. They’re isopods, not insects (and I know I referred to them as uropods in a previous post, if you’re going to point that out; that was erroneous). I don’t think we’ve heard the last of the back story of the Insect civilization. There are still several more episodes for Insect reappearances and explanatory dialog, plus the possibility of a spinoff and future movies. Besides, I think the Beans devised all of the information about the Insect civilization that has been revealed and much more before they started writing the [i]Lexx[/i] movies, and are just revealing it to viewere on a need to know basis (much like Chris Carter with the [i]X-Files[/i] conspiracy and J. Michael Straczynski with the multilayered story arcs of [i]Babylon 5[/i]). I think somewhere, someone has the answer to all our questions.
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Originally posted by LexxLurker:
Ive always gone with what the plot says.Lexx plans were based from the Astral B, stored in Stans tooth. Probably the Heretics couldent build it.
However Brizon could, and did. Thus the Lexx was born.
How did the Heretics get that knowledge? Id have to guess that shortly before the Brunnin G were destroyed we learn they contacted the outside world(Brigadoom). But about what? This could be part of it, maybe they downloaded their knowledge to the heretics.
This is only one possibility, but I think the ability to create creature-machines like the Lexx and the moths was part of the knowledge the Insect inside the Cluster gave His Divine Shadow when he passed his essence to a human host. His Shadow gave a select group of bio-viziers this Insect arcana, and they used either the D.N.A. from Kai’s crashed stinger or secret samples extracted from the Cluster insect itself (or both) to bring these plans to fruition.
It is important to remember that, though Brizon said he built the Lexx, he is an ego-centric braggard with a tendancy to take credit for other peoples’ accomplishments. He may have really been the major force behind the Lexx’s creation, or he may have simply been one of dozens (or even hundreds) of brilliant minds who made the Lexx possible.