Why have S4 on Earth?
I’m convinced that they were really itching to blow up Earth, that’s why they had to send the crew here. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I’m not saying that totally facetiously–their approach all along has been to blast away at everything within reach, and wreak as much havoc as possible without moralizing or sentimentality. Here’s a bunch of guys who manage to get rid of a whole universe AND of the afterlife without too much handwringing, how could they possibly resist the Earth as a target? And S4 was an opportunity to satirize modern society, popular culture, and whatever else the Beans could find to mock, including a few jabs at the expectations of their own Lexx “cult”. It was too good to resist.
Satire tends to be hit and miss, but I thought showing the Earth from the point of view of the Lexx crew (who seem to think they’re normal) worked pretty well, and there were enough surprises and odd twists in the stories to keep a “Lexx” feeling in most of the episodes.
Money and schedule considerations aside, what struck me all along was that this group was making the show they wanted to make and that’s pretty unusual for four seasons of series TV.
elmey