Reviving Lexx from Midsummer’s Nightmare…
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Can you at least state the one big thing that you dislike about the fourth season?
I know Flamegrape addressed this to bonnee, but I would like to say what my beef is.
The past seasons have had a central thread, off which the stories of the episodes were hung (some rather tenuously). The fight
against HDS in Season 1, the fight against Mantrid in season 2, the fight against Prince in season 3. They established the villain and then went from there. Season for has yet to establish a main villain or theme. The only theme I get is that the earth is doomed. The writers have thrown up several possible scenarios for the earths demise, Lexx’s weapon, the H-B particle theory, Prince as ruler, Vlad as ruler. Of course, Vlad has been terminated, so that element has been removed. The writers create the ‘expectations’. They build up the story, but so far, I expect nothing. The season has not built up to anything yet. Who is the main villain? What are the crew trying to accomplish? So far the story is very scattered. Maybe the writers will pull all the elements together and it will make sense in the end…I hope!
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You guys want a science-fiction show and you feel you’re not getting one anymore. There was not that much “science” in the show in the first place! It’s always been about goofy sh|t that happens in space. Well, now it’s goofy sh|t that happens on Earth!
If the fourth season wasn’t on Earth and Oberon was, oh say for instance, Mentor the space wizard. And instead of turning Kai into a singing tree, he turns him into singing rock crystals. Same story, same lines (essentially), but different setting and characters. I bet you would have thought it was cool then… if only it was in outer space and not on Earth.
Jeese Flamegrape, gives us some credit. We all love Lexx for it’s goofy, cheesy stuff, it’s irreverence to classic scifi and fearlessness of being out on the edge. But Lexx, like all good writing, always had a solid, captivating story that drew you in. This season is weak in that area, the most important area.
Here’s a grain of salt to take with my 2 cents [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] I don’t take anything too serious, especially TV shows.