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The warden and his wife themselves commented that they didn’t remember ever conceiving Lomea. But, then, she’s here now so they MUST have had a daughter, it’s not like she just flew down to the planet, right? …right?
Perhaps the problem lies in that, over time, Lexx has given us a grand total of three reasons for bringing its actors back for additional roles. (Lex mentions on the 2.01 DVD commentary that Paul is fond of repeatedly asking back people he likes.) We’ve had the simple cases of actors filling in more than one role with no regard to the story (like Walter Borden as the voice of His Shadow, and Patricia Zentilli as a member of the troupe in Brigadoom). Then we’ve had the ‘archtypes’ Kai mentioned, Brud Parsnip being alive on Earth while Stan was galivanting around on Fire and Water, for example. And, finally, we have the problem of some of these people actually being the same “spirit”, from the Light Zone to the twin planets and now to Earth.
How can we tell the difference? Most of the time, we probably can’t. It’s safe to say that Bunny and Priest arrived from Water, along with Lomea and Giggerota. President Davidson? The clerics? Who knows.
There’s one other possibility I can think of. After seeing ‘eaven & Hell’, a friend of mine raised the point – why did Stan’s soul return to his body when Fire and Water were destroyed instead of heading around to Earth with the others? The only answer I could give as that since Stan’s body had been repaired by the protein regenerator, it was ready and willing to accept a wandering spirit.
If we had archetypes of Bunny, Lomea, Davidson and co. on the Earth already, it *might* be the case that the approaching souls from Fire and Water were able to find matches for their original bodies and simply take them over to varying degrees. This might explain how Bunny has seemingly lost 20 IQ points in the transition (she was niave on Water, certainly, but guileful enough to get Kai fondling her in the shower) and Lorka’s personality completely changed from a beleagured trucker to a self-serving First Lady.
Of course, this doesn’t explain why Earth now isn’t severely overpopulated to the point of immobility, or where people are going now after they die ….. perhaps, given that we’ve had talking suns and drone arms crossing a unvierse in around 15 minutes, we’re not meant to ask questions like this. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]