"Yo Way Yo" Out with a Bang!
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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
But he sounded exactly like His Divine Shadow.
No, HDS, the Wozard and Longbore all happen to sound exactly like Walter Borden. They all have the same voice, because Walter Borden’s voice is pretty damned distinctive. And, if you want to get technical about it, only *one* of the Divine Shadows sounded anything like Walter Borden.
quote[quote]The makers would have realized that, if they used Walter Borden’s voice with he same electronic modulations as season one and [i]Mantrid[/i], and attached it to a character that appears to be a cult leader, viewers who had seen the first two seasons would think he was some incarnation of His Divine Shadow.[/quote]
The only electronic modulations used on Borden’s voice in S4 are the result of him speaking into a microphone, and his voice being amplified through speakers. For the record, the Wozard was a cult leader as well.
quote[quote]I rewatched [i]Gondola[/i], and Duke’s speech now doesn’t seem that Insectoid, and even subtly hints the upcoming revelation. But, going entirely on what we knew about the [i]Lexx[/i] universe at that point(before seeing [i]The Beach[/i] and [i]Heaven and Hell[/i]), that Duke was an Insect essence inhabiting human hosts was the most apparent explanation.[/quote]
Not after it had been established that people who had died were reappearing. And that Prince had the ability to die and return many times. The most apparant explanation to his “Death is not the end” speech was that when he died, he would return much as Prince does. While it’s not really explicitly said until “Girltown” that Prince is the only person with the ability to die and return in another form, the most apparant explanation for his speech is the literal one: that he will die and return. The insects don’t die and pass on, they pass from a dying host to another body, with no actual “death” of the insect itself taking place.
quote[quote]It was never specifically stated that the very insect-like probes in season four were not built using Insect technology.[/quote]
It was never specifically stated because it’s a ridiculous notion to begin with. It’s like saying that because it has never been explicitly stated that the internal combustion engine was *not* developed with the assistance of a wily gnome named Gerald that this remains a very distinct possibility. It’s just not something that could or should need explanation. The probes are not insectile: they’re vegetative. They’re [b][i]carrots on mechanical legs.[/i][/b] That much has *definitively* and *explicitly* been stated. There’s nothing about them, or the threat that Lyekka’s “family” present, that is reminsicent of the insects. Every aspect of their threat is related to plant-based lifeforms with access to their own developed technology.
–Aleck