THe Web/Net explanation
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Originally posted by X:
And Jason.. nice summary but I grasped the concept. I’ve watched The Web
twice and it’s been ages since I’ve seen The Net. I guess I was wanting to know what was in The Web that wasn’t in the Net. Please edumacate my ass if you can. This will “bug” me until January. I suppose I will have to poor through Sad’s episode synopsis as well for comparison.
X, I don’t think I can answer your question any better than Aleck already has, but I’ll give you an example of a major difference between the two episodes that sets the entire tone for each. When the giant web first attacks and its tentacles penetrate inside the Lexx, we last see the crew on the bridge. The next scene in “Web” is of Xev waking up in bed wondering what happened to Stan and Kai, and the scenes after that are seen from her perspective as she locates them and tries to figure out what happened. In “Net”, we actually see what happens to each crewmember after the tentacles carry them from the bridge – the strands penetrate into Stan and Kai, but not Xev. Hence, while we might have suspected something was up with Stan in “Web”, we know he is actually possessed in “Net”. We also see the giant web stopped dead in its tracks when it penetrates Kai – that’s why it never penetrates or possesses Xev and in fact has to have Stan direct her to sever the chord before it can even move again. There are other obvious and more subtle differences, but I’m not sure I even want to try to remember any more until I get the V4 DVD (any day now) and watch them back to back again.