Mort
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I’ve got to take the OPPOSITE of Ydna’s view. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] I think Lexx is best when it is (mostly) serious, and builds on the sprawling epic story that has come before, with key episodes like:
I Worship His Shadow
Giga Shadow
Mantrid
Norb
Brigadoom
The End of the Universe
I want to put some Season 3 and 4 episodes on that list, but I just can’t think of any single episodes that quite rise to the level I’m talking about (though certain overall story elements have benefited the series).
I liked the serious overtones of Season 3, but it started to feel (to me) that we were stuck with the Fire and Water planets way longer than we wanted to be.
I haven’t actually gotten tired of our crew interacting with Earth in Season 4 yet, BUT I wish the episodes were more serious and less farcical. Watch Mort, then watch I Worship His Shadow. The tones of the two shows are so different from each other, it’s almost hard to believe it’s the same series. It pains me to say it (and I’m serious, Lexx is still my current favorite show, it pains me), but it seems like Lexx has become a parody of ITSELF!
Certain parts of Mort were good, some of the comedy was quite funny, the Mort character was well-acted, and certainly it entertained me… but overall it mostly felt like filler. As someone who can only afford to buy key episodes of the series, this one is obviously LOW on the totem pole.
Basically, having our crew stuck on three planets for basically half the entire series now, I guess it just feels like they aren’t accomplishing very much.
I also gotta say I didn’t like the Didi character. By which, I mean, I don’t think she was well-acted. Voice was too doofy.
I also gotta restate that Lexx seems to be getting cruder for no particular reason, unless they’re just trying to gross us out. The penis transplant in 769, the cripple phallatio and the extreme close-up of the guy urinating himself in Prime Ridge, the zombie wrapping her crotch around any available man in Mort… I could have done without that stuff. And it’s more stuff I can’t show my little half-brothers, both big Lexx fans. It’s just too mature for them (although I have a hard time saying “mature” in that sentence without sounding sarcastic!).
When Sci-Fi Channel first started showing Lexx, they only promoted the strangeness and the sexual content rather than the epic story elements. After I got to know the show, I thought this was a mistake. But dang it, it seems like those early promotions have become a self-fulfilling prophecy!
This has happened before… it’ll happen again.
NOTE: Had to edit the sentence about the guy ****ing on himself. I can’t say “****ing?” Hah! How about that. Let’s try it again:
****ing
****ing
****ing
Hmmm, interesting. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
[ 24-02-2002: Message edited by: sgtdraino ]