Stanley Tweedle
In a science fiction series, there are generally a number of non-human (alien, robot, mutant, cyborg, etc.) characters, but the makers always feel an obligation to make the main character human. In other words, the person we’re supposed to be sympathizing with and rooting for that most of the plots center around is just a boring, average guy like you we see every day in real life without any neat biomechanical implants or telapathic powers or alien symbionts or anything else that makes us watch sci-fi.
Rather than try to counter this, the makers of [i]Lexx[/i] have taken it to the extreme, making Stanley Tweedle [b]the ultimate average guy[/b], overemphasizing his mundanity to the point of actually making him interesting, even though the character is, by his constitutional definition, un-interesting.
Stan is a great character [b]because[/b] he’s a boring average guy like the kind that exists in real life. He doesn’t always see a situation from all angles, he doesn’t always consider the consequences of his actions, and he doesn’t solve every problem that comes up. In other words, he’s human. That’s what makes him a good main character for a show that, in all other facets, is anything but mundane. I know everybody is going to disagree with this, but that’s what I believe.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.