Lexxian Night Fevers
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No, not that sort of “night fevers”. Well, not all the time anyway.
Dreams! It will be interesting to see if anyone would like to share some dreams with elements from Lexx.
Hey! Stop snickering back there. I prefer the Jungian styles to the Freudian. So no laughing when I say I dreamt that Stanley got me a job welding machine frames on a grotty bondo world.
Oh yes and once whilst very drunk I was woken up and asked to move to another sofa in the middle of the night. Obviously I was drunk and smelly, but I was also having some sort of Lexxian dream. The details of which are lost due to the rudeness of my awakening. But the dreamstate and the alcohol blended so as to convince me that I was still dreaming and that I was on board the damn Lexx and alien cat-head girlthings were taking me prisoner. In the dream, the drunken state felt like I was injured and all I could say was “*gasp* *groan* Thank You, Miss. Thank You.” Since they were moving me, I was properly grateful.
Damn them. There were 3 sofas in the room and they wanted to sit on mine!
Thank you for reading.
I have alot of dreams where I’m Xev…they all make senseless sense somhow. Somtimes they’re rather violent, like the one where I strangled muhammed atta, somtimes they’re erotic… but you don’t get to hear about those. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I’ve had a few….but many of them I don’t remember clearly enough to be able to relate them in a way that would make any sense. There was the one where MM was in his Kai wig, wearing nothing but a pair of blue Speedos…. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
But the one that I remember most clearly involved Stan. I found him out wandering the streets like a lost puppy, and so naturally I brought him home. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Christoph:
It will be interesting to see if anyone would like to share some dreams with elements from Lexx.
Go to this link and read posts #7 and 33 by DalekTek790.
[ 26-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
I dream that the Supreme Beans have selected me to write the script for the finale of [i]Lexx[/i]’s fifth season. An over-enthusiastic Paul Donovan is explaining what he wants for the episode. “It’s got to be big! It’s got to be an action-packed thrill ride that will keep devoted fans and casual viewers alike glued to the screen. It’s got to be familiar, but with things that haven never been done on the show before.” He’s looking crazy and dishevelled, and is waving a cup of coffee and a donut around as he talks to me. “If you want to kill one of the characters off, like if you think it’s time for Kai to finally die, go for it. It’s your choice. This is your episode. But the most important thing is it’s got to be big. You gotta make it exciting all the way through so viewers will still by hyped when season six rolls around.” I promise I won’t let him down.
The episode I write is titled “The Realm of Darkness,” but that has nothing to do with the plot. It has the Lexx come upon an unusual planet. It seems to be all water, but Stan brings the Lexx closer, so it’s hovering just a couple hundred feet above the surface. They spot a small island, and Stan parks the Lexx in the atmosphere and goes down to investigate in the only moth (all of the other moths were destroyed in a previous season five episode). He says he’ll only be gone for a little while. But in his absence, things start going wrong on the ship. The Lexx was parked too close to the planet, and the gravity is tearing it apart. No one but Stan can move the Lexx. The planet’s forces are also collapsing the Lexx’s magnetic field (whatever that means), which is preventing the squalkers from working and causing Kai to malfunction. Hours go by, with no sign of Stan. Cut to Stan on the island. He’s having a great time. The island is a sunny beach with palm trees and ruins. It is littered with interesting junk, and Stan is exploring and collecting, oblivious to his crewmates’ plight, and has lost track of time. Back on the Lexx things are near breaking point. Pieces are falling off the ship, holes are appearing in the hull, jets of white-hot plasma are appearing randomly, Xev is near-hysterical, and no one can think of how to contact Stan. A huge hole is torn in the Lexx’s left “eye,” and Kai falls out. He catches himself by clamping his brace onto a hanging beam, but it is slipping. Xev tries frantically to get to it and pull him up, but she is too late. Kai falls, and at that same time a huge plasma emission comes from inside the Lexx and vaporizes him. Stan notices the explosion, and rushes to his moth with handfuls of junk. The moth is seen flying up toward the disintegrating Lexx as the episode ends.
The production staff of [i]Lexx[/i] is all very pleased with my script, but I have a lingering feeling that I should have done something different with the story. Finally, I think about how I would have thought of it if I was just a normal fan like I used to be and saw it on T.V. I realize I would have been dissatisfied with the ending. I decided there was much more to be explored with Kai’s character, and it was a bad move to kill him off. Production on the episode has almost finished when I decide to rewrite the ending. The advertising on the Sci-Fi channel has already said that one of the main characters will not survive the episode, and I don’t want to disappoint fans, so I kill off Lyekka. I add a subplot of her awakening hungry, with no access to food because of the lack of moths, so she has no choice but to eat the crew. Stan is down on the planet, and Kai is inedible, so she turns on Xev. Xev is viscous enough to fight her off. We bring in Louise Wischermann to film the new scenes and alternate ending. Lyekka’s look this season is hot pink hair and a costume like Bunny’s in Gametown.
I am watching the final cut of the episode. The director has gone for an artsy sort of film noir look, so the scenes in the Lexx are dark with ill-defined colors and weird camera angles, and it’s often hard to figure out what’s going on. In contrast, the scenes with Stan on the island are bright and crystal-clear. I wonder what the director’s problem is. The ending deviates somewhat from my script. The new ending diverges from the old just after the Lexx’s eye splits open. Desperately hungry, Lyekka finds a robot head (790?) skittering around on a small insect-like body near the edge of the pit formed by the Lexx’s split eye. She tries frantically to get inside the casing to the eat the brain cube inside. This is happening simultaneously with the Kai and Xev scene. In this version, Kai does fall, just seconds before an explosion shakes the ship. That sends Lyekka over the edge. The plasma bursts out, but by that time Kai has fallen beyond its range. It hits Lyekka, who disappears in a flash of pink-colored light. Kai “survives” the fall to the island, and says to Stan “I suggest you return to the Lexx immediately.” The episode ends with a shot of Xev holding 790 looking out of the hole in the Lexx.
I have made notes of the problems with the ending, and am about to have a word with the director who altered my great story. On my way to his office I am stopped by another member of the [i]Lexx[/i] staff. He says “That episode was somethin’ else!” I thank him for the compliment, and ask “How’s Louise Wischermann? I hope she’s not too upset that I killed her character off.” He says “I don’t know. Nobody’s seen her since the blue screen filming. She just sort of disappeared.” My last words in the dream are something along the lines of “Oh. If you do see her, tell her she looked cute biting 790.” And that’s the end of the part of the dream that I can remember.
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