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There’s an episode in the 2nd series called “Woz” and there has always been a really irritating little bit in it which annoys me quite a lot.
When Xev gets strapped into the “lustacon” by the “Wozard” and gets changed back to her former self, I always find it to be really dumb that not only her body changes but the colour and material of her clothes changes.
It also just occurred to me that the original Xev was a bowl of protein or something and that Xev was “designed” by the plant woman (who’s name I can’t spell at the moment for the life of me) so really Xev’s inner self should either be the same as her outer self and would probably bear no relation to the inner self of the first Zev, and her old clothes were vaporised on “Terminal” which would make them difficult to recreate.
Obviously the episode was written long before Eva had left and they probably had concerns regarding Lexx’s budget at the time. In fact as I recall most of Series two’s effects looked pretty shoddy, I’ll always cringe at that moment in “terminal” when that crazy bald doctor pulls out a Nintendo 64 controller pad to open an airlock in the middle of an operating room.
I can honestly say that when I watched the first few episodes of series two I did wonder aloud. “Why on earth am I watching this?”——————
“O God ah petition Thee! Hear mah cry and make haste mah respite for ah am tired of this day and it’s most earnest work. Gather up thy servant and bring me home. Lord, there is no place upon this ground of men for me. Ah have seen complete the matter of thy command. It is done. She is shut down.”From the lamentations of Euchrid the mute
That bothers us all. But if there were no expiration date on Zev, there would be no episode, so the scientific flaw is justified by dramatic license.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vodka:
[b]proteins and amino acids present in Lyekka’s pod, resulting in different hair colour, for example. (Notice her hair gets blonder later on; do you think there’s hair dye on the Lexx?)good point, except i think you mean dna, proteins are expressions of dna formed from amino acids, and dna has the variability of expression you pointed out…regards hair dye, i am more curious about the as yet unseen hairextension drones [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
“How could this happen” instead of “How should this happen”.
yup!!
But if that bit in “Woz” still annoys you think of this: would you rather see the “over-weight” Zev in clothes too small for her or, worse, naked? (shudder)
So what’s dumb now? [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]exactly! and very well put ptarg! (echoes shudder and thinks of fat man at beach wearing thong on saturday [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img] )
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Not more to be said about your comments, Vodka, since you pretty much nailed it all yourself. It kinda “bugs” me too, but what are ya gonna do? I thought it was otherwise a great episode, just not much Xev in it.
Good to see I wasn’t the only one to catch that N64 controller, I thought it was funny personally. Terminal is one of my favorite episodes, so is Mantird and Lyekka. The only episodes I never really cared for were “Stan’s Trial” and “The Web/The Net”.
Yes I even enjoyed “White Trash”. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
I think that “Woz” was a great episode beside my whinging about Xev’s transformation. Fogive me about the scientific flaws that I made about DNA and all that but I’m not very scientifically minded to be honest.
I did like “Mantrid” a lot, it was quite a good start to the series, but episodes like “Terminal” “Luvliner” and “White Trash” sort of made me wonder sometimes. I have to say that even in these bad episodes I thought that the acting from the main characters was brilliant. The first episode of Lexx that I really really enjoyed was “Lafftrack”, I really loved the satirical side to that one. The episode I found the most disapointing from that series was “The end of the universe”, I know that an entire universe was destroyed but I somehow felt that it was a bit of an anti climax to the Mantrid plotline.
The third series was more or less perfect though, if a bit too serious, good twist towards the end.
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“O God ah petition Thee! Hear mah cry and make haste mah respite for ah am tired of this day and it’s most earnest work. Gather up thy servant and bring me home. Lord, there is no place upon this ground of men for me. Ah have seen complete the matter of thy command. It is done. She is shut down.”From the lamentations of Euchrid the mute
I agree. [i]Woz[/i] was the last great [i]Lexx[/i] episode. I hope shows of that caliber are coming in the fourth season.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.Is it just me, or does “Woz” seem out of place in the continuity of [i]LEXX[/i]? In “Patches in the Sky,” they found out that the universe was being converted into Mantrid drone arms, there’s “Woz,” and in “The Net” they’re on their way to the center of the universe, and the universe’s destruction is weighing heavily on their minds. In “Woz,” which takes place after “Patches,” there’s no mention of the universe falling apart and there’s no rush to do anything except fix Xev’s expiry date. It throws off the momentum of the series set up in “Patches” and lessens the dramatic impact of the last episodes. I just get the feeling that it should go *before* “Patches,” and after “Twilight.” Plus, it fits in with the genre parodies in the middle episodes (“791” and the [i]Alien[/i] franchise, “Wake the Dead” and 80’s slasher films, “Twilight” and zombie films).
–Aleck
I kinda agree with you there, Aleck. That’s primarily why I never buy into shows like B5 or any kind of American subplots. Granted I like DS9 but it’s like I never really got the impression the Federation was at war until those last 8 episodes.
I did enjoy “Battle at the End of the Universe” but I thought “Brizon” was more like a bump in the road to it after having come off the heels of “Brigadoom”.
Aleck made a good point about Woz, it probably would have worked better as an early episode of the series.
I thought Brizon was quite cool, I liked the way he was carrying life support machines around with him, I thought he was a geniunely creepy bad guy. Mantrid stopped being creepy after his first episode, they made him too colourful, his drone arms weren’t that scaring either, they were just weird.
The end of the universe episode for me was good but it was a really bad climax to the series. It was just that crap 790 army that let the whole episode down, I think that if 790 had got to keep that arm it might have been quite interesting for a while, a way of developing his character into something beyond a voice in the corner of the screen shouting out insults at people.
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