the long wait is shorter
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cruising around this morning i see the gerbils at scifi have finally seen the light and are putting lexx back to its original timeslot in the usa 10PM Fridays!!!! not only that, but the season begins July 13th rather than the originally bandied-about date of July 28th! whether that means they will recap some old eppy’s before starting with season 4, i don’t know and don’t care…anybody out there have more news? i may have to invent a new drink for the occasion [img]/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] (kamikaizi’s anyone? [img]/ubb/wink.gif[/img] )
to see the new schedule click here [url=http://www.scifi.com/lexx/]http://www.scifi.com/lexx/[/url]
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Anyone got any idea when season 4 starts on the UK sci-fi channel?
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“I’m on my way down, I’d like to take you with me. I’m on my way down. The minute that its born, it begins to die. I’d love to just give in, I’d love to live this lie…”
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Originally posted by Mercury:
[b]Anyone got any idea when season 4 starts on the UK sci-fi channel?[/b]
gosh, i just looked at scifi uk’s site and it looks as though you are stuck with season 3 right through july 25th on the wednesday timeslot (ungodly timeslot!) anyway, since you guys end with [b]battle[/b] on the 25th of July, maybe you get season 4 in august? like when everyone goes on holiday? yecccchhh…hey aleck, any rumours on when season 4 is getting released in different areas? anybody else out there heard anything?
Thanks for the update. I’m having withdrawal symptoms. And speaking of new drinks – have any ideas for a drink that looks like protoblood?
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Originally posted by aurora:
[b]And speaking of new drinks – have any ideas for a drink that looks like protoblood?[/b]
hmmmm, protoblood is sort of gelatinous greenish white, kind of like something you would sneeze up?! well, i suppose we could concoct something with midori or creme de menthe in it [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img] how about it people, any ideas while we are eagerly awaiting our next fix? what about stanley wall-bangers and lexx on the beach?we need something to honor xev too… [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]
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What about the screaming orgasm, isn’t that a Xev drink? [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
I’ve seen a drink called an Alien Secretion, it’s Midori, Black Bat Bacardi and pinapple juice. I think that with maybe a splash of Jagermiester for color and that would do it.
BTW, Hi I’m new to the board but a long time fan. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Oh 790, you may only be a robot head but, you are the best head I’ve ever had.
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Originally posted by Xv0b3k:
[b]What about the screaming orgasm, isn’t that a Xev drink? [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]I’ve seen a drink called an Alien Secretion, I think that with maybe a splash of Jagermiester for color and that would do it.
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hello yourself and welcome to sadboard! [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] you are right, screaming orgasm will do for xev but regards alien secretions-EWWWWW-what is next, precious bodily fluids?! bear in mind that i am one of those people who cannot abide bubblegum ice cream, st patrick’s day where all food and beer is colored green and so forth…i think i just have a problem with consuming colors that are not found in nature [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
I’ve been thinking about this…what about a Cement Mixer? I’m sure that…in the mouth…would look something like the Lexx goo. Would just have to find some good color.
And Flaming B-52’s…erm…are just cool. Don’t know where they would fit into Lexx, but they are FUN! [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]
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“…we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what normal is anyway.”
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Originally posted by FX:
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hmmmm, protoblood is sort of gelatinous greenish white, kind of like something you would sneeze up?! well, i suppose we could concoct something with midori or creme de menthe in it [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img] how about it people, any ideas while we are eagerly awaiting our next fix? what about stanley wall-bangers and lexx on the beach?we need something to honor xev too… [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] [/b]
Are you blind? Proto-blood is tannish-brown.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.Greenish? Tannish? On my tv protoblood looks sorty of whitish/clearish. Lots of cool drink ideas to try though! I saw a recipe for making your own “peppermint schnapps,” involving vodka, corn syrup, and natural peppermint flavor. I don’t like peppermint, but another flavor/color might work? By the way – I’m new here too, and glad I found you guys! My friends are just about ready to have me committed. How do you get those cool smiley faces?
In “Giga-shadow”, the proto blood was very thick and creamy (no sexual connotations please [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]) but when Kai squeezes some on to 790’s brain cube in “Norb”, it does look a brown/bronze colour. Maybe once the blood has been in Kai a while it darkens as the blood in “Giga-shadow” had just been produced?
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“I’m on my way down, I’d like to take you with me. I’m on my way down. The minute that its born, it begins to die. I’d love to just give in, I’d love to live this lie…”Aha! Good thinking, Mercury.
actually dalek tek, color blindness tends to be a sex-linked characteristic, therefore more common in males [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] but you’re right, there is at least one eppy where it looks more brownish…i was thinking of gigashadow where all the snot was lying around on the floor around the dead monks,( and when zev scoops it into the container,) it had a very faint greenish tinge…but not being the proud owner of a dvd, i won’t swear to anything…as for inserting smilies, aurora, when you are typing your reply, there is a legend to the left of the box that says “smilies legend”, just click on that and the encyclopedia of smilies comes up, along with what you have to type to get them…now on to important matters, i have not had a cement mixer or a flaming b-52 but it seems we should be able to fit them into the lexxicon somehow…as far as peppermint schnapps, i would suggest midori as a green liquor substitute, but that much sugar and alcohol tend to lead to unfortunate consequences and sounds, [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/cool.gif[/img] and i really don’t want to see anything green coming back up out of anybody! oh and mercury, lovve your signature, and thanx for not giving into the sleazy easy white and creamy jokes!
The proto-blood in [i]The Giga Shadow[/i] was fresh from the insect. Maybe it is usually refined or distilled or mixed with something else before being put to use.
Kai needed to be decarbonized and fitted with cybernetics for the proto-blood to reanimate him, but Yottskry was just dead-dead when it dripped on him. Maybe that was more concentrated, and that’s why it had different properties than Kai’s and looked like frosting instead of gravy.
It’s my theory that proto-blood is the egg mass of the Insects, and that it contains nanites. Nanites are machines smaller than bacteria that could repair their cells, allowing them to last longer, reshape their tissues, allowing them to adapt, and help interfase boilogical and mechanical components of their being. Kai mentioned in [i]K-Town[/i] that he had some sort of micro-machinery. But the proto-blood (in a slightly different form) was also used to revive humans after His Shadow’s Insect body burrowed into the Cluster. The nanites could reanimate human tissue to a point but never bring the person back to life in full, since it’s calibrated for Insects and works with their less complex biology.
So what keeps Kai alive is what kept the Insects alive. Is any of this making sense?
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
Whovian, Froudian, Lexxian, etc.
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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
[b]It’s my theory that proto-blood is the egg mass of the Insects, and that it contains nanites. The nanites could reanimate human tissue to a point but never bring the person back to life in full, since it’s calibrated for Insects and works with their less complex biology.So what keeps Kai alive is what kept the Insects alive. Is any of this making sense?
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actually, yes , and it’s a good plausible explanation…but somehow i suspect that you have put more thought into this than the beans did [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] so protoblood is prototype blood based on insect biology and nanites? the pupa of the insects, at least on earth, change colors as they mature then desicate, so it makes sense that the protoblood would too…
On the topic of protoblood, would it be possible to work out Kai’s entire anatomical/mechanical layout purely from the evidence in the series?
Just a thought. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]I’ve read (can’t remember how official the source) that protoblood is part of the immune/repair sytem of the insects. I doubt the nanites are part of it, I [i]assume[/i] that they were created by the bioscholars.
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Originally posted by Cat:
[b]I’ve read (can’t remember how official the source) that protoblood is part of the immune/repair sytem of the insects. [/b]
i hadn’t read that…i have always likes the mechanics of the wrist brace…it appears to be integrated into his arms, and seems to be set of by kai contracting one of his flexor muscles, i think he activates the wrist mechanism to reel the ‘stinger’ back in…anyway i like it…as far as the trunk, i would assume that all of his intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas etc have been removed since he doesn’t eat and of course ‘the dead don’t poo) so i guess his abdomen basically only has the vasculature necessary to pump the protoblood…i wonder if the pump is housed in the chest in lieu of the heart, and the electronics are controlled by the ports in his chest, which can be modified by the rods in the codpiece…the rods in the codpiece (and obviously, there is no need for anything UNDER the codpiece since the dead don’t pee either, among other things [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ) would also help regulate the central processor for overall function of kai…just a few thoughts anyway…
Thanks FX, just the sort of ideas I was thinking about. Also the term “decarbonized” suggests that he requires protoblood due to the fact that not only is he dead, but he is also no longer completely organic. I’m guessing that the Insects from which the protoblood naturally comes from are also not carbon based in order to survive in space.
This also makes me think another thing; is he the same Brunnen G warrior who died defending his planet? After death, decarbonization, mechanisation, programming to his Divine Shadow’s will and the absorpion of the memories of every assasination victim he killed (including the Divine Shadows’ and his own), the Kai in the series has only the Brunnen G chant he sings as an echo of his past life.
Jeez, I come up with one idea and my brain spits out more over-detailed thoughts. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Anyway, any more ideas on Kai’s insides (or self identity [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ) will be appreciated by someone with way too much time on his hands…[This message has been edited by Ptarg (edited June 06, 2001).]
ptarg: Kai is still himself, he has all of his own memories and thinks of himself as Brunnen G, all of the other memories he has seem distant to him, for instance in Gigashadow he required the help of a machine to see these memories with any clarity
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Originally posted by Bean:
[b]ptarg: Kai is still himself, he has all of his own memories and thinks of himself as Brunnen G, all of the other memories he has seem distant to him, for instance in Gigashadow he required the help of a machine to see these memories with any clarity[/b]
hi bean! if we see kai’s soul with all the other souls at the end of fire and water, then our kai has no soul, and is therefore not truly the kai warrior that was killed, right? he’s just the shell, albeit the shell with memories (programmed into the cells which are more or less intact?or decarbonized, or whatever [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img])pardon my metaphysics, just playing devil’s advocate here…fx
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Originally posted by FX:
[b] hi bean! if we see kai’s soul with all the other souls at the end of fire and water, then our kai has no soul, and is therefore not truly the kai warrior that was killed, right? he’s just the shell, albeit the shell with memories (programmed into the cells which are more or less intact?or decarbonized, or whatever [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img])pardon my metaphysics, just playing devil’s advocate here…fx[/b]
That bugs me as well. If it’s Kai’s “soul” on Water (and what else could it be?), our delicious dead man is just a shell. But then why hasn’t Kai’s soul reincarnated? Has it been floating around in Water for 6,008 years? When Kai “woke up” on Gametown, what exactly woke up?
Kali
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Originally posted by Kali:
[b] That bugs me as well. If it’s Kai’s “soul” on Water (and what else could it be?), our delicious dead man is just a shell. But then why hasn’t Kai’s soul reincarnated? Has it been floating around in Water for 6,008 years? When Kai “woke up” on Gametown, what exactly woke up?Kali[/b]
well, i guess kai’s soul has not come back to him because he is not technically alive…but since he is not truly dead either, i guess his soul is not free to find a new body or place to inhabit…which brings us back to zev…we see her on water too, which means xev is zev’s memories and lyekka’s reading of stan’s memories/ideals of zev, as well as the glop that kai salvaged [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img], so xev isn’t really the reincarnation of zev either…and i am really confused now
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