What’s so good about Lexx?!
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HA! Got your attention, didn’t I? Actually, I’m a little curious about Lexx. Considering the photos I’ve seen in the Lexx section of the Sadgeezer board, I don’t think that Lexx will be shown here in Malaysia anytime soon, considering the fact that they slapped an 18SX rating for excessive sexual activity on Friends for French kissing, thus it stands to reason that I may not enjoy Lexx for a very long time. Getting to the point, what is it that you find interesting about Lexx? Give this poor man a vicarious experience, please? [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
Lexx has a wide variety of aspects that various people enjoy. Some people like certain aspects of the show more than others, based on individual taste.
1. Strangeness.
Lexx often has strange and unexpected plot developements that are hard to predict. Some people like being wowed and surprised by what they see on the show. This is probably the aspect of Lexx that is most often promoted in commercials.
2. Sexual Content.
This is probably the second-most promoted aspect of the show, to the extent that, if you watched all the commercials, you might think that Lexx was just a big porno movie set in space. It’s really not that bad (though it is considerably more than french-kissing on Friends!). There’s very little nudity. The sex on Lexx is more about wanting than getting: The characters would like to get some, but something almost always seems to stop them.
3. Comedy
Lexx likes to mock aspects of other science fiction movies and series, and often likes to lampoon real-life places, people, and attitudes. It’s also full of “dark” comedy, i.e. ordinarily serious situations that are made hilarious by their unusual context. The show has even been known to make fun of itself.
4. Epic Story
Lexx is an epic story that spans more than 6000 years, with larger-than-life AND average joe characters doing things that effect entire universes. This includes classic battles of good versus evil, that are take quite seriously. (Lexx manages to do both comedy and drama effectively). Lexx’s epic story is my personal favorite aspect of the show.
5. (Recurring) Characters
There are many interesting characters in Lexx. The main characters are themselves interesting, and there is also a wide variety of supporting characters who tend to pop up again and again, often in different “incarnations.” Fans get attached to certain characters, and are interested to see how they deal with situations, and what happens to them throughout the series.
6. Interaction
There is interesting interaction among the characters on the show, BUT there is even more interesting interaction between the fans and the actors and makers of the show! More than any other show or movie I’m aware of, the actors and creators of Lexx have graciously interacted with us, the fans. Mainly via chats and email interviews, also (naturally) via convention appearances. Of course, we fans also enjoy interacting with each other, via this site and others.
Well, that’s all I can think of at the moment. I’m sure there’s other stuff too, though. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
And to think, just because of a bunch of close minded ‘guardians of morality’, I’ll only get to watch Lexx if I emigrate.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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Originally posted by sgtdraino:
4. Epic StoryLexx is an epic story that spans more than 6000 years, with larger-than-life AND average joe characters doing things that effect entire universes. This includes classic battles of good versus evil, that are take quite seriously. (Lexx manages to do both comedy and drama effectively). Lexx’s epic story is my personal favorite aspect of the show.
[i]Lexx[/i] is not a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a hero. Nor is it a work of art that resembles or suggests an epic. Nor is it a series of events that form a proper subject of an epic.
It’s [i]not[/i] all about Kai, the hero. And every time it deviates from the epic that you want, you guys criticise it. Every time it strays from the path of “the story”, you brand the episode as useless, annoying filler.
It’s much closer to the Flash Gordon serials than the [i]Odyssey[/i]. If you think it’s an epic, you take it much too seriously. Just because it has a hero, bad guys, and occasional battles doesn’t it qualify it as an epic.
Here are two other items that you forgot:
[i][b]Stan.[/b]
A worthless nobody who is suddenly given control of the most powerful weapon in the universe. His selfish mistakes and failures became amplified because of his new situation. He just wants to do the right thing, but he always gets into trouble.
[b]Xev.[/b]
A naive ugly girl, raised in a box without knowledge of any real social skills, is transformed into a beautiful woman with super-human strength. But the irony is that she can never find romantic satisfaction and happiness always eludes her. Motivated by her increased libido, she frequently gets into trouble with those she encounters.
[/i]The plight of these two characters are frequently overlooked by fans who only focus on the hero, Kai, and his tragic story. But Stan and Xev are just as important.
I’d agree that the show is epic but not that it’s about Kai. If anything I think it’s not about Kai.
In any event NONE of the characters are heros. They’re anti-heros which is why their great. There’s nothing heroic about Kai. He’s dead. The dead aren’t heroic. Kai just tries to do what’s right in terms of justice. But he doesn’t do it because it makes him feel good. It’s because what little brain he has combined with the memories of the heroic living Kai tell him that it’s right.
Heros are generally characters who commit good deeds because it makes them feel good. And they do it no matter what.
But look at Kai in Lyekka vs. Japan. He asked the meditating/not meditating guy if he wanted him to save him but when he got no reply he just said “apparently not” and gave it up. A hero would’ve saved the guy whether he wanted him to or not.
And Stan and Xev certaintly aren’t heros either.
But for the purposes of generalizing to someone who hasn’t seen the show it’s ok to say their are heros on the show I think.
But I think saying Protagonists and Antagonist would be more accurate.
Ok, Lexx is not an ‘epic’ in the truest sense of the word, but I would use it to describe Lexx and the journey it has taken us on, we do actually feel that the programme has taken us on a 6000 year old journey.
IWHS does actually feel like a long time ago, the way the stories have been written had served to promote that feeling.
But the crew of the Lexx and the Lexx itself are heroic to us, they have occasionally performed heroic deed over the span of the series, so yeah, the word ‘epic’ works for me.
Oh, and Son of Bester, if emigration is the only way you’ll get to see Lexx…then I should get packing now!!!Squishy [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
Lexx is the exploration of inner meaning and how it controls man’s outer space. This is not all logic and purpose and epic because real people are not all logicical and motivated but there are themes and directions within the several Lexx series contexts none-the-less even for Joe Everyman. ‘Kolchak’ knew this. Lexx is mature science fiction not afraid to break the conventions and test the limits and do the unexpected and it has that rarest of science fiction traits, hard science (fictionalized of course), thrown in it: the Higgs boson (thought real by some) … Stanley dispensing with the riddle of whether to call Pluto a planet … asteroid colonies … nanotechnology as space travel enabler … Kai’s enhanced suit … biotech to the Nth power in the products of the bioscholars … Mantrid’s drones as the ultimate organization of simple-ruled yet immensely powerful mechanistic colonies … (Thodin’s) artifical insect … cyborg head … and space shuttles with foot shaped brakes (oops! maybe that one isn’t hard science) … but it does all this without men in rubber masks or the tired trick of time travel. The few aliens … have been sorta alien looking (except Lyekka when away from her pod) instead of people with tweaked up faces. And … yes … it has Xev. But Stanley is the man. Not a cardboard hero or hiss-invoking villain (maybe Prince covers that now), but a human.
Flamegrape is one strange person, but I have to agree. I say, Prince rules! Ha Ha!
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