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…I am dead, I have no feelings [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I think I used that line on a girl once…
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Does anyone know if the season 1 soundtrack is still available?
I don’t know if it is commercially available, but you can get the M.P.-3s at Lekss: Muzyka Temnoi Zony (that’s “Lexx: Music from the Dark Zone”). Some of the text is in Russian, but the track listings are in English.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
(The “Zev Dies” theme is track #26 on the soundtrack CD, [i]Lexx: The Series[/i].)
That reminds me, there is a song on “Lexx” that baffles me. Track 28 is the Cleric chant like at the beginning of the beginning credits, but instead of going into the [i]Lexx[/i] theme, some music of which I have no recollection plays. It says “Opening Theme, season 2 version 2.” [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img] Was that actually used in the opening credits of some episodes in the second season? If so, which episodes? I have no memory of that song (and I don’t have season 2 tapes to check).
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Originally posted by Slopmaster:
Get on the ball uh. Well don’t take this the wrong way but I won’t exactly loose any sleep if I don’t have a link on your site
I was kidding. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
[b]790[/b]-He’s a funny little robot head, and I can sort of relate to him. Not so great in the 3rd and 4th seasons, though.
[b]Gubby Marx[/b]-The dream machine operator played by Canadian comedian Wayne Robson in [i]Patches in the Sky[/i]. Another great comic relief character.
[b]Lyekka[/b]-Sort of a heroine, sort of a villain. A disquieting and thought-provoking character.
[b]His Divine Shadow[/b]-The best villain. He’s a powerful and organized foe, the figurehead of an emmense antagonistic organization, but there’s some pathos. The show’s most complex and intriguing character.
[b]The Wozard[/b]-The great thing about this guy is at first he seems like a hero, but in the end turns out to be a villain. Wonderfully acted.
[b]Schlemmi/Fifi[/b]-A Krycek-type rat, evil sidekick, lowest of the low character. He’s also (especially in [i]Luvliner[/i]) fairly realistic, like somebody you’d meet in real life. I didn’t like him as Farley C. In [i]Xevivor[/i].
[ 17-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
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Originally posted by mayaxiong:
I’d have to say the worst eps were:
Woz, truly disgusting scene with Xev’s liver being punctured.
White Trash…could have been better..
alot of S4 ( I actually loved Fluffdaddy, if for no other reason than to watch MM go stark raving nutso and spaz out with his Shakespeare and Faust interpretations, in 2 languages I might add)and Xev got to eat Kai, but not in a GOOD way…ahem..
Patches in the sky…kind of boring…except for the return of Gigerotta
You must be easily disgusted. And I don’t believe the Wozard ever punctured anybody’s liver, that’s sort of a more Brizony thing. I love [i]Woz[/i], I think it’s one of the show’s best episodes.
And [i]White Trash[/i]? How can so many people dislike an episode that’s so funny? There are other yokel-bashing episodes, but none as funny as that. Pa: “We’s Golleans is smart, see, so we excaped” “We’re out of the Cluster? Yee-haw!” (silly dance and music ensues) “The thing about the Gollean clan is that the brains ain’t evenly distributed. Y’understand?” Junior: “No.” That show kills me every time, it’s like watching a videotape of a Sherman family reunion. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
The only thing I didn’t like about [i]White Trash[/i] was the scene where Stan takes advantage of Sissy. I’m surprised Prince didn’t bring that up in [i]The Beach[/i], since it’s about the worst thing he’s done. But I suppose it was necessary to the plot so we could get to the lasergun wedding scene.
I also liked [i]Patches in the Sky[/i], mainly because of Wayne “I don’t do that no more, Mr. Green” Robson. And the title is cool.
I [b]hate[/b] [i]The Beach[/i] and [i]Heaven and Hell[/i], because they introduced metaphysical elements to [i]Lexx[/i], forever tainting the show as a whole. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img] Plus [i]The Beach[/i] was a flashback episode. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]
[i]Twilight[/i] would be on my blacklist if not for “The Wheel.” [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] That was what caused me to post on the SadBoard for the first time (I wanted the words).
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Originally posted by Slopmaster:
Well as stated above this term was never used.
That was a minor error on my part.
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According to the closed captioning for “Stan Down” what Prince really said was “I think it was the shape of the Che Guevar monument in Cuba”
That might’ve been another minor error.
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Well granted I need to add the def’ of the ISS but there was no mention made of it being abandoned in 2001.
That really happened. Last I heard the project was officially dead. Not everything in my shoddy addendum is actually from the episodes, there’s some basis on reality. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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I believe I have Nanites as well.
I looked for a nanite entry before, but I somehow missed it. I believe some entries in the “N” section were out of alphabetical order, so I was looking in the wrong place. But the entry is slightly inaccurate. It says nanites are smaller than atoms, but they’re actually the size of cells, protein molecules at the smallest. Also SadGeezer said Mantrid was using nanites (I don’t remember them saying that, but I’m not inclined to doubt SadGeezer).
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Hmmm interesting but not entirely relevant.
I know. It’s just that “Oh-tOokurah” thinks it might be foreshadowing. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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That number must stand for something else because as you recall in “Xevivor” Hank was Mr. Austrailia 2000 so I kind of doubt he was this 20 years ago.
Didn’t catch that line. The two 20’s weren’t connected onscreen (I don’t think), so I suppose it could be 20/20 (you get to see everything) or maybe it’s channel 2,020 (this is the future, after all) or something else. If the date isn’t 2020 then my whole timeline is off. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
On that note, I notice you make frequent references to 2,009 years. I will remind you that the time the Lexx was adrift between seasons 2 and 3 was 4,332 years, not exactly 4,000. Oh, and Cluster lizards aren’t from “the hottest places in the Cluster.” They’re not native to the Cluster at all. Our favorite demireptile says they were imported from another, hotter planet in [i]Battle[/i] and [i]Heaven and Hell[/i].
And I told you about the bird thing.
Your website is a really good resource, and if you get on the ball and fix the entries I mentioned I might put a link to it on my sci-fi site that doesn’t exist. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
1. The Beach
2. Heaven and Hell
3. Girltown
4. Super Nova
5. Stan Down
6. Love Grows
7. Lafftrak
8. Tunnels
9. The Rock
10. BattleOkay, touching moments:
When Zev tells 790 “You may just be a head, but you’re the best head I ever had” in [i]791[/i]. How sweet.
When Stan saves 790 in [i]Norb[/i].
When Stan reflects on his life in [i]Stan’s Trial[/i].
When Kai dies in [i]Brigadoom[/i] (I know it’s a replay of a scene in [i]I Worship His Shadow[/i], but it feels different after seeing all that stuff from Kai’s past.
When Lyekka dies in [i]The End of the Universe[/i].
When Mantrid sacrifices himself to save Kai in [i]K-Town[/i]. “My punishment is over.”
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Originally posted by Aleck:
While this is true of the design, it was never referred to as a buckyball in the episodes. You earlier made reference to this, saying that Mantrid referred to the design as a “buckyball.” However, I’ve checked all of Mantrid’s dialogue scenes in the final two episodes of Season 2, and he never uses the term. The closest he comes is in the final moments of “Brizon,” in which he speaks of the decoy he planted to trap Brizon. He says, and I quote, “Of course, I noticed the primitive little bug he placed in an older version of the machine I’ve become.” As Mantrid speaks in a broad German accent, I can understand how someone could misunderstand and hear “bug he” as “bucky,” but he never uses the term “buckyball.”
Oops. I could’ve sworn he said “buckyball.”
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Originally posted by X:
Kinda like calling Lyekka a “Trin”. While that may be accurate in another fictional universe it really can’t be applied unless specified by the beans.
Now that one was right. If a term is stated in dialog at least once, in my book that’s being specified by the writers. In [i]The End of the Universe[/i] Lyekka, after her plant pod has been destroyed, says “Trins need pods to survive” (that may not be the exact wording). I interpret that as meaning her people are the Trins. That’s why I call Lyekka a Trinflower in some of my posts. I don’t have the script, so she might’ve said “Tren” or “Trana” or something similar, but she clearly refers to her people by some name along those lines, and I’m pretty sure it was pronounced “Trin.”
And if something isn’t referred to by name but is blatantly implied in the episode that counts, too. Like the von Neumann planetoid in [i]White Trash[/i]. There’s no room in dialog for Stan to call it that, but that’s clearly what the makers (whether the writers or designers or special effects department) had in mind.
Well, my favorite cantina creature would be Hem Dazon, the T-headed Arcona you see in the beginning. The Jawas are a great race. The best evil alien race is undoubtably the Daleks, no other villainous species in any other show or movie is that scary and well-developed. Then there are the Gelflings in [i]The Dark Crystal[/i], love those things. Then for a race in sci-fi novels H. G. Wells’ Selenites are cool, with their whole caste system. And Jimez Smoot’s descendants in [i]Man After Man[/i], but they’re not technically aliens.
I don’t know what my favorite rase of all time is.
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Originally posted by Aurora:
Xev telling 790 he has a “tiny little robot head in love chance of making your dead man dreams come true” in (which early S3 episode was that???)
It was in [i]Heaven and Hell[/i]. I thought that was kinda nice, considering how poorly Zev usually treats 790.
I mean in [i]I Worship His Shadow[/i] 790 pledges himself to her eternally, and she just leaves him, walks away like he was nothing. That’s so cruel. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img] She only carried him with her (after he tracked her down) when she thought she could [b]use[/b] him to open the doors, and then she practically forgets about him. I don’t understand how anyone could be so cold hearted to someone who loved them. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I can really feel for 790. All he wants out of life is love, and all he gets is hassles. I mean, I can understand why Stan (for the most part) doesn’t like him, but 790 [b]loved[/b] Zev, she meant everything to him and she treated him like a machine, like he was just some door-opener planet-scanner etc. there for her convenience without any feelings of his own. That’s so sad. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, [i]The Daleks[/i]: Episode 4-[i]The Ambush[/i]
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, [i]The Dark Crystal[/i]
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i]
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Originally posted by Slopmaster:
I’ll think about it but I’m not feeling very motivated to change it right at the moment.
Well, when you feel motivated to update the content then I would like to contribute. I have entries available for some Lexxian terms that are missing from your dictionary:
[b]Buckyball[/b]
A geodesic spheroid composed of triangular faces designed for optimal resistance to stress and used in spaceship design. Invented by and named after R. Buckminster Fuller. Mantrid had a number of buckyballs, one of which he used as a decoy to trap Brizon.[b]Castro Monument[/b]
Monolithic monument erected in Cuba after the death of Fidel Castro to honor El Presidente. A reporter noticed the Washington Monument in the background of the faked Cuban militant videotape, but Prince said it was the Castro Monument.[b]Cimmeria[/b]
Region near the Black Sea that was occupied by nomadic barbarians from circa 3000 to 634 B.C. A 4000 year old carving from Cimmeria uncovered by Dr. Longbore depicted a dark figure and the Seal of the Divine Order.[b]Cluster Lizard[/b]
4 meter long encephalophagous reptile inhabiting the Cluster, but originally from a very hot planet. Used by the Divine Order for cruel and unusual execution. Cluster lizards have no legs, but their ventral surfaces are equipped with two rows of pseudopods, allowing them to roll in hoops after prey. An accident in a lusticon chamber left Zev Bellringer with 17% Cluster lizard D.N.A.[b]Dominatrix[/b]
Sadistic female soul who almost killed Stan in one of the tunnels on Fire. She was reincarnated on Earth as Dravidia.[b]Grey[/b]
Type of extraterrestrial biological entity that 21st century humans believed was visiting Earth. The image of the Grey was used by Haig-Schlieffen operatives.[b]Guglielmo Marconi[/b]
Human who transmitted the first radio signal. It was apparently received by an extragalactic intelligence.[b]International Space Station[/b]
A multinational space project. Started in 1997, abandoned in 2001, and accidentally destroyed by the Lexx in 2020.[b]Mars[/b]
Fourth nearest planet to the Sun. Destroyed by the Lexx under the command of Lulu.[b]Nanites[/b]
Cell-sized machines. Mantrid’s drone arms contained nanites, allowing them to deconstruct and reconfigure matter. Kai proposed a plan for the construction of a spaceship with nanites to Dr. Longbore’s followers.[b]Net[/b]
Large spaceborne organism. Consists of a spider and a web.[b]Plasma[/b]
Collection of positively and negatively charged particles exhibiting properties of both a gas and some a form of energy. Plasma is used in the power cores of certain space stations. Doctors on the MedSat Medical Terminal tried to destroy Kai by bombarding him with plasma tapped from the station’s core, but instead completely disintegrated themselves and mostly disintegrated Zev.[b]Pluto[/b]
Planetoid discovered in 1930 by Clyde Arthur Tombaugh. The subject of an enormous scientific controversy in the late 20th and early 21st century over whether or not it was a true planet. The Lexx said it was “maybe” the Solar System’s ninth planet. Stan destroyed Pluto in a test of the Lexx’s targeting systems.[b]Robot Intuition[/b]
Form of extrasensory perception supposedly possessed by robotic drones.[b]Seal of the Divine Order[/b]
7-part clockwise metallic aperture-shaped icon that was the symbol of the Cluster, the Divine Order, and the League of 20,000 Planets. The Seal of the Divine Order appears on the clothing of Divine Clerics, the Lexx’s moths, the stonework of the Castle Drakul, a carving from ancient Cimmeria, a painting from 16th century Carpathia, and a woodcarving Father Borscht owned. It is always associated with death. The Seal of the Divine Order was based on the Insect exoskeleton.[b]Star Child[/b]
Ancient skull unearthed near Chihuahua, Mexico that some believe is the remains of a human-Grey hybrid. A photograph of the Star Child was on a bulletin board in the headquarters of Dr. Longbore’s followers.[b]Trin[/b]
Spaceborne carnivorous plant. Subdue prey using telepathic and shapeshifting techniques. Lyekka was a Trin.[b]Vacuum Vortex Anticelestiometathesis[/b]
The entry into a planet’s atmosphere via a vacuum vortex, or funnel (the vernacular term is “tornado”). It allows a craft to land without the stress of entry, but the vortex is difficult to exit because of the violent effects it has on the surrounding atmosphere. Kai piloted a moth into the atmosphere of the planet Woz via vacuum vortex anticelestiometathesis from a preexisting vacuum funnel, but not without a hitch.[b]Venus[/b]
Second nearest planet to the Sun. Destroyed by the Lexx under the command of Lulu.[b]Von Neumann Planetoid[/b]
A donut-shaped celestial body with a ring-shaped center of gravity, of the type predicted by 20th century Earth astrophysicist John von Neumann. Stanley Tweedle destroyed a von Neumann planetoid to demonstrate the Lexx’s capabilities to the Gollean clan.[b]”The Wheel[/b]
7-stanza poem composed by Kai while under the influence of Ruuma’s radiation.[b]792[/b]
Robotic butler for Governor Roada and Lady Heedia. His body was eaten by Lyekka, and his head was destroyed by Mantrid.[b]2020[/b]
This number appears on the title card for “Xevivor.” It is presumably the year the episode takes place.If you need a [i]Lexx[/i] timeline for your site you may have the one that I posted on the board. I’m not going to use it.
[ 16-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
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Originally posted by Aurora:
Princess of Fire *and* DT: Lexx is *fiction*. Things are spelled the way the Beans write them down. Dictionaries of the real world are irrelevant.
But Isambard [b]is[/b] a real name, as in Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Victorian engineer. [b]No one[/b] is named Ismbard or Iznbard as far as I know.
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Originally posted by Canuk:
Was anyone bothered by the fact that Kai was ok with Xev eating people but in another episode he was quite eager to dump Lyekka on a planet for the same reason? In both cases,it was ‘part of their nature’. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
I figure that’s because Lyekka is permanently dangerous, whereas Zev’s viciousness would pass.
Oh, come on. It’s no contest. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] Lyekka is a virtually unkillable shapeshifter who can telepathically trigger hallucinations in her prey. Zev only has superhuman strength and implausible rolling abilities. Lyekka created Zev, she can destroy her.
Besides, Lyekka is a lot creepier than Zev. Zev is weird, but not scary. Lyekka has a genuinely frightening and disquieting persona. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by X:
Time to ammend that dictionary, Slop [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
If you’re going to update the dictionary, here are the corrrect spellings (according to my sources):
Aurelium 4
Farley Cuckle
Castle Drakul
Enox
Giggerota
Dr. Kazaan
Leesterians
Dr. Ernst Longbore
Lusticon
Gubby Marx
Argon Protopl
Ruuma
Schnek
Schlemmi
Smoor
Sub-Nebuli
VoraAnd by the way, a bird is not a feathered mammal. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
[ 15-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
So was Barnab Hufferton supposed to be the reincarnation of some previous character? I heard elsewhere he was Dr. Rainbow, but the Huff character isn’t much like him, and the summary for [i]Magic Baby[/i] said there was a “Dr. R.” in it, so he would be a more probably reincarnation. Lex Gigeroff has played 3-6 characters in 7-11 episodes (depending on which source is accurate), so which one (if any) became Huff?
[b]Austral-is -e[/b] [i]adj[/i] southern
-[i]The New Collegiate Latin & English Dictionary[/i], John C. Traupman
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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
I’m updating my [i]Lexx[/i] timeline. Since I posted the original more episodes have aired, and I’ve found new information, most recently on Slopmaster’s [i]Lexx[/i] dictionary. I’ve also incorperated my new theory of [i]Lexx[/i] time.
“Why would you put a big choppy smashy thing in the middle of a corridor? It serves no useful purpose! Who wrote this?!?”
Well, If they’re gonna conclude the show (as opposed to leaving it open for movies or a sequel series) they’d better have Kai get de-borged, have 790 get a body, and have Stan and Zev get together. Oh, and they’ll settle down on Earth or some other planet, and the Lexx will probably blow up or something.
I’m not sure they’ll do anything with the cycle of time. I think it’s a little pessimistic to say time will end nineteen years from now. We know humans in this cycle will achieve space travel and colonize many worlds in both universes in the next cycle (unless our heroes did go back in time, in which case colonization occurred in a single cycle).
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Originally posted by mayaxiong:
DT, whether you realize it or not, your dream is rife with sexual symbolism, perhaps an confused state due to stress or pressures
in your personal life, but it was actually
quite entertaining…!
I can’t see any sexual symbolism. Being eaten by a giant Venus flytrap-like plant seems neither erotic nor antierotic to me. And in my dream Lyekka never even said “I like you,” the way she’s supposed to before she eats people. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
I did, however look 27 elements that appeared in my dream up in a dream interpretation guide. There were 6 that represented love, 2 that represented romance, 2 that represented sensuality, 1 that represented seduction, and 1 that represented passion. I thought there was an unusual amount of recurrence of love in the interpretation of the elements in my dream (5 direct references, 1 indirect reference). To make sure it was a genuine anomaly, and love wasn’t just that common throughout the interpretations, I picked the first 27 entries for elements starting with the letter “R” (for a random sample), and counted the times love appeared in those. There was 1 direct references and 2 indirect references. That means love is more common in the elements of my dream than the general population of symbolic elements. From that research I believe it is logical to conclude that my Lyekka dream was probably, at least in part, symbolic of love.
I do not know why I would have a dream symbolizing love (my love life is not that interesting). I am also unsure how knowing the meaning of a dream is of any benefit to me, and this is all probably of little significance to most everyone else. My main accomplishment in all this seems to have been much wasted time over trifles. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
I don’t mean to sound offensive Flamegrape, but what are you? I thought you were female, because when I asked about the insect woman at the bottom of your posts, you replied “That’s me, Flamegrape.” But now you’re saying you want to be eaten by Zev, whick implies your being male (and insane [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ). So what [b]are[/b] you? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
Freud was a pseudoscientist. [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] He made a bunch of emotionally-based assertions that could not be confirmed scientifically, and used shock value to get attention. This guy was like a cross between Immanuel Velikovsky and Howard Stern.
He came up with “theories” (many of which don’t even fulfill the criteria for being a true theory) based on how he saw the world, then reported evidence that he observed and invented and ignored the (overwhelming) evidence that his theories were complete bunk, confirming his own opinions.
The only reason anyone besides a few fringe followers believe Freudian psychology is because it filled a vacuum (there was essentially no psychology before Freud) and was thus held dogmatically as truth by the scientific community. I mean Œdipus complex? Psychosexual stages?!? [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] His theories read like a bad publication of the Society for Alternative Medicine.
I know my bad science, and [b]that[/b] is bad science. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
1. Mantrid
2. Woz
3. Stan’s Trial
4. Fire and Water
5. Texx Lexx
6. Gondola
7. Little Blue Planet
8. K-Town
9. Brigadoom
10. White TrashIf movies count, then [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i] would be #1 and [i]Lexx 1.4: The Giga Shadow[/i] would be #8.
[ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
Here are some quotes from my favorite movie series. I think they represent a certain depth that you just don’t see in much dialog, these days. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
“Da Gungans no liken outsiders.” -Jar Jar Binks
“Ooh, big maxie da Force!” -Jar Jar Binks
“Wesa no like da Naboo, and da Naboo to like ussens. Day tink day so smarty den ussens. Day tink day brains so big.” -Boss Nass
“Woe grane champio du Pixelito: Sebulba!” -Beed Annodue
“Poodoo!” -Sebulba
“Ayeeeah! Ahha! Utinni! Utinni!” -Dathcha Nkik
“Bah doe! Bah doe!” -Jek Nkik
“Urrrg! Ur ur uur!” -URoRRuR’R’R
“Neggrh ghogola, woldewa?!?” -Ponda Baba
“Oo-ta goo-ta, Solo?” -Greedo
“Jabba wah ning chee kospa. Chas ke nowi yanyi chu chusu.” -Greedo
“Cuchlee numaa. Cheska po kuta x’esta klenka, ya ooscka!” -Greedo
“Res luk ra’auf.” -Bossk
“E chu ta.” -E-3PO
“Ke chu ke kukuta?” -TT-8L-Y7
“Uh, Artoo-Detoowha bo See-Threepiowha ey toota odd mishka Jabba du Hutt.” -C-3PO
“Die wenna wanga.” -Bib Fortuna
“Die wenna wauaga.” -C-3PO
“Ne Jabba no badda, te chaada su goodie.” -Bib Fortuna
“Nudd chaa!” -Bib Fortuna
“Bo shuda!” -Jabba the Hutt
“Da eitha!” -Jabba the Hutt
“Na chuba neg’torie, na! Na! Na toota…” -Oola
“Zeebuss.” -Boushh
“Uu a’kingsa riika pagh bagla bis kachata, weenow con bantha poodoo.” -Jabba the Hutt
“Boscka!” -Jabba the Hutt
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
Wadda great site!Thanks for telling us about it.
I guess I’d agree with half of yer jumping (especially the Get Smart), but Dr Who jumped for me when Bonny Langford joined the show (although she has quite a bnice bum) 🙂
I thought the cast was best during the Peter Davison era with Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric as companions. That was [i]Doctor Who[/i]’s golden age. Then they killed off Adric. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] Matthew Watterhouse is one of the greatest actors the show ever saw, and the character of Adric was very well-written. He was truly unlike any other companion in the entire run of the show, with complications that had only begun to be explored. But they killed him off. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img] They didn’t even write him out by having him marry some alien chick or stay to help some underdeveloped planet, either. They decided to kill off our favorite Alzarian, and the show was never the same again. It destroyed the entire character chemistry.
Now, [i]Doctor Who[/i] improved greatly after the Colin Baker Doctor got killed off (in a sense) and we got Sylvester McCoy. That was when the show almost reached the Davison level of perfection, but not quite. I, personally, thought Bonnie Langford was pretty good. I mean, she was no Janet Fielding but Mel was a good companion and she played her well. I don’t see why everybody loves Ace so much. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
Those are my [i]Who[/i] thoughts.
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, [i]The Daleks[/i]: Episode 4-[i]The Ambush[/i]
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, [i]The Dark Crystal[/i]
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i]
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Originally posted by :
DalekTek,You must be a Howard Stern fan, too….the guy from the “Jump the Shark” site was a guest….
[b]No![/b] I do [b]not[/b] watch Howard Stern! [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Why stop at [i]Star Trek[/i] and [i]Roswell[/i]?
[b]Crossover 1:[/b]
F.B.I. HEADQUARTERS, 10:13 A.M.
Mulder: 7 disappearances over 36 years. Each time witnesses say they saw a blue 1960s era police public call box, which had disappeared by the time authorities arrived. The disappearing police box phenomenon isn’t confined to modern times, either. There are stories going back to ancient Greece. Cave paintings dated to the Paleolithic Era depict the same object.
Scully: Historical phenomena like this are catalogued by zealous paranormal enthusiasts who want isolated reports to fit together into some sort of grand scheme. A correlation between phenomena is testament only to the biases of the compiler, not any supernatural force transcending time and space.
Mulder: Perhaps.
Doggett: So, am I still on this show, or have the fans voted me off yet?
[b]Crossover 2:[/b]
Stan: Lexx, blow up that ship full of puppets!
Lexx: As you command, captain.
[b]Crossover 3:[/b]
Velma: The Psi Corps under the command of President Clarke has been trafficking biomechanically-augmented telepaths for use in Shadow vessels to prevent their being used by the Resistance to block Shadow targeting systems…
Shaggy: Zoiks! It sure is a good thing me and Scooby found that book of G’Quan.
Velma: …And ever since terrorist groups began trying to engineer a biological agent to eliminate telepaths before they can be used for the Shadow ships, the Corps has been programming mundanes to assassinate high-ranking genetic technicians.
Bester: And I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
The possible crossovers are endless! There’s a whole industry opening up, here. [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
“We gotta get outta here.”
“It’s gonna blow!”
“Nooo!”
“That’s just crazy.”
“Does anybody have a better idea?” [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Lizard:
You mean there is MORE! What happened next? Post away, the dream was the most interesting part of the post. I think that it is rather “little shop of horrors”-esque.
Since you asked nicely, here is the whole dream in all its (boring) detail:
I am in a white room with several teenage boys (the oldest looks about 15) discussing science fiction. They are engrossed in a debate over what Lyekka’s best outfit in [i]Lexx[/i] was. I feel out of place among them (I’m not sure if I’m me in this dream or someone else). One of them, who has blonde hair and glasses, is at a computer bringing up images of Lyekka in every episode to compare the looks. I think these people are pathetic and immature for discussing something so trivial (not to mention sexist), but I don’t want to offend them, so all I do is point out that they compiler of the computer file forgot that Lyekka also appeared in the episode “White Trash.”
The dream shifts from the mundane world to the [i]Lexx[/i] universe when Kai walks in the door to my right. I immediately remember that this is a time of great despair because an evil force will soon destroy us all (I’m not sure if it was Mantrid or some character my mind invented). Kai tells me that there is one last hope. If we can find Lyekka, the powerful plant creature, we may be able to halt the menace where it is and prevent further destruction.
Kai and I (perhaps I am Stan) fly in a moth to what looks like a silver skyscraper floating in space. We enter at the bottom, and there is a huge air-filled shaft inside. It is a giant garden or greenhouse. On each story on either side there is a rectangular shelf about half the size of a city block made up of wrought-iron mesh with flowering plants on it. At either side of each shelf there are windows, but all that can be seen are stars. A light shines down from the top of the shaft. Kai and I fly upward past dozens of shelves with hundreds of large plants of every size, shape, and color. They are beautiful, but I don’t have time to gaze at them all because I must find Lyekka. About two thirds up the skyscraper/shaft/garden/greenhouse I spot what I recognize as Lyekka in the exact center of an otherwise empty shelf to our right.
It is a radially symmetrical plant about the size of a small house, or the foliage of a large tree. It looks like a naked lady (the plant), or perhaps an artichoke that’s been stepped on, and is a pale, almost sickly green. Six of the leaves are octopus-like tendrils, each about twenty feet long, with serrated edges that are waving back and forth. The plants on the other shelves are growing out of plastic boxes of soil, but the Lyekka plant has no roots, only shrivelled foliage at its base, and is simply resting on the mesh. Kai lands the moth in the corner of the shelf and we get out. I look at the “floor” and I can see through the spaces in the mesh down to the dark abyss below. It gives me vertigo, and I have to look up at the plant.
The middle of the plant “blooms,” revealing petals and three stalks. These parts are dark green and lush and look tasty. At the end of each stalk is a pod. One of pods has not erupted, another ends in a yellow flower that is beautiful but is facing away from me, and the third has a human face that I immediately recognize as Lyekka. I cannot see where the human flesh meets the plant, I’m seeing her head inside the plant through an oval hole in the pod. I can see her neck and collarbones at the bottom of the hole, her blonde hair inside the space, and a “crown” of long, brown thorns atop the green cap covering the top of her head. I wonder where her body is, because even though the pod is shaped roughly like a human torso it tapers to a stalk too quickly for a human body to fit inside, and it is completely smooth and flat. She is wearing bright red lipstick and smiling ever so slightly.
I tell Lyekka that we are in grave danger and need her help to thwart an evil force. She does not say a word, but instead all of her leaves ripple and shudder at once, and she extends two tendrils and grabs me. My first action is not to try to free myself, or to cry out in terror, but instead I reach for my hat, which has fallen on the floor. It is far out of reach. No matter how much I struggle, I cannot get out of the tentacles, and am being slowly drawn to her head. She opens her mouth in a malicious grin, revealing a set of pearly-white piranha-like teeth. I know she’s going to eat me. Kai is just standing around (to my left, a few feet from my hat) trying to reason with the plant, and persuade her nonviolently to let me go. I yell to him, “Just kill her, Kai! Kill Lyekka now!” Then the Lyekka head bites into me and I wake up.
[ 05-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
quote:
Originally posted by SadGeezer:
I personally find your post sometimes insulting, interesting and intelligent!!(but usually a mixture). Many times I’ve wanted to censor your posts because of the way they upset some people (some of the time) BUT I ALWAYS READ DALEKTEC790 POSTS!
Thank you, but I’d rather be recognized for my intelligence, wit, and insight rather than anything controversial.
quote:
Originally posted by Aleck:
I mean, he’s insulting, he’s arrogant, he refuses to acknowledge evidence that is slapping him in the face, and he invites everything that comes his way, but the little bugger just keeps plugging away and coming right back for it. It’s charming. He just takes everything that comes his way and never learns a thing from it. It’s a kind of consistency that one doesn’t see these days. It’s almost…[i]admirable.[/i]
That is what I would call a sinister compliment. I am [b]not[/b] arrogant or insulting and I always evaluate all the evidence before forming a conclusion. You just say that stuff to anger me.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Ah-ha! Ze doktor’z diagnosees vas correctk! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Huh? Wozefrigg? Do you speak Bocce? [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by X:
Not unlike the way DalekTek790 oft dreams he is Kai [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
My Kai dreams are not erotic (I don’t think I’d call being eaten by a plant erotic, either). They’re mainly just the fantasy of having a scorpion grappling hook wrist brace dealiething. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] In one dream that I mentioned earlier Zev kissed me, but I brushed her off (because I was dead).
This was just a discussion about Lyekka’s future appearance in [i]Lexx[/i]. Now there are 14 posts talking about some silly dream I had and was naïve enough to post. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img] At least I didn’t post the whole dream, there’d be 50 responses! [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
[ 05-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Uh, oh! I think I opened Pandors’s Box. (No pun intended. No, wait– yeah! Pun intended! Definitely pun intended!)DT790, there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about such dreams. I’m not a psychologist, but I’ve read a few books and things. I don’t think that the dream suggests anything other than anxiety, manifesting itself through sexual means. It is absolutely no indicator of orientation.
My advice about not visiting the Isle of Lesbos was my sly way of saying, “Don’t hang around women for the moment. You don’t need the stress.” I was hoping that you would look up the Isle of Lesbos. It was an ancient Greek island inhabited only by women. It’s also related to the origin of the word, “lesbian”. Therefore, staying on an island full of women would cause you distress of untold comic proportions. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Thank you, Flame.
I’m currently in a psychology class. We haven’t covered dream interpretation yet, but I know the basics and I know that sometimes a cigar is just a ciger.
I have studied Greek mythology, and am aware of the significance of Lesbos. That is also where Aristotle’s wife was born, interestingly enough. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I have had some bad experiences with the opposite sex of late, but I am not a misogynist or what Aleck is accusing me of being.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
Maybe when that movie was made a few years ago, the beans were forshadowing, but with the rest of the Lexx saga happening on earth, other dark zone stories seems unlikely.
Actually, Earth is located in the Dark Zone (yes, Aleck, my theory was correct [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] ), so technically all the fourth season episodes are Dark Zone stories. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Paul: We gotta do something about the pale-faced guy. He looks too much like Data, we’re gonna get our asses sued.
Lex: Maybe we can give him an [i]Edward Scissorhands[/i] haircut.
Jeff: Okay, if you’re so smart, how are we gonna deal with this robot? The animatronic body still doesn’t work and we’re facing a deadline…
[img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
You’re right, Aleck. I shouldn’t’ve posted that dream. I didn’t think people were gonna “analyze” it. I wasn’t even expecting a response to that part of the post. The post was about how the plant-Lyekka character will be brought into the fourth season. I just typed in the part about the dream because it was something on my mind that was sort of related.
I’ve made a couple of posts that really touchy people interpret as “offensive” or “insulting,” but I [b]never[/b] implied that anyone was of an unnatural sexual orientation. That is overstepping some [b]serious[/b] bounds. You didn’t post that because you believe it, either. You just did it because you wanted me to argue with you, so maybe I’m just walking into a trap by writing this post, but this needs to be said. [b]I AM PERFECTLY HETEROSEXUAL[/b] and I am deeply insulted by your claiming that I am not. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
My philosophy holds that a theory should be based on [b]the most logical and straightforward interpretation of the evidence free from emotion or preconceived biases[/b]. Thus my interpretation is that the only “meaning” of the dream is that I was thinking about [i]Lexx[/i] during the day so elements from it appeared in my dream. I wasn’t expecting any Freudo-Jungian pseudoscientific analysis from anyone, and I thought, despite your antagonistic nature, you were above petty insults. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
quote:
Originally posted by Hypatia:
I watched Solaris and wasn’t bored (it was too confusing to be boring!).
I didn’t see the [i]Solaris[/i] movie. I didn’t [b]know[/b] there was a movie. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] I read the book by Stanisùaw Lem. It’s a real page-turner! The setup is great, the only problem is an overly depressing and macabre ethos, expecially toward the end, and some plot flaws. But it was a good, exciting read, and I’d recommend it to any sci-fi fan (unless you suffer from depression). You have to read a couple paragraphs two or three times to understand what is being said, though. It’s a little complicated and more than a little arcane.
Maybe it was one of those movies that butchered the book’s originalplot. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
Hypatia-Oops. I meant November. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] The year comes from [i]Xevivor[/i]. The logo for the show that appears onscreen says “XEVIVOR 2020”. I take this to be the date.
Cat-That’s an interesting link. Maybe I’ll add it to the links page of my site that still doesn’t exist. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Geesh! I’m sorry I brought it up. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
Aleck-[b]You[/b]’re always claiming I present theories that are unfounded. [b]You[/b]’re always claiming I post things that are insulting. [b]What the phlogiston do you think YOU’re doing!?!?![/b] [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
[b]I[/b] don’t think it means anything except maybe I talk to too many crazy people on the [i]Lexx[/i] board.
I’m sorry I caused a stray from the topic. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Cat:
The pod exploded and the Lexx said ‘Ouch’
I must’ve missed that. Anyway, there were cryopods like that floating all over the Dark Zone, based on the recording. I wonder when they’ll get back to that. They put it there like a teaser for a later episode.
I had the creepiest dream about Lyekka last night. You probably don’t care, but it’s been all I can think about. [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] It was like that thing on the Sci-Fi Channel (during commercial breaks) with the computer-generated plant that eats the butterfly (or was it a bird?) only it was the size of a house and it had Louise Wischermann’s head at the center with a crown of thorns and it had leafy tendrils wrapped around my body and was trying to eat me. I guess I was Stan, cause Kai was standing around trying to reason with the plant and I’m yelling “Just kill her, Kai! Kill Lyekka now!” Then the Lyekka head bit into me and I woke up.
I’ve had a similar dream at least once before. I think maybe I spend too much time thinking about [i]Lexx[/i]. [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
Okay, on the topic, I don’t think Lulu will turn into a plant. Her soul is probably from the human Lyekka, judging by what other Lexxians say about [i]Fluffdaddy[/i]. The plant Lyekka’s soul has yet to appear to us. Judging by the title of the second to last episode, it [b]will[/b] resurface. And it will somehow probably be Louise Wischermann.
Maybe it will be a pseudo-human form, or maybe her soul is in Trin form floating around somewhere in the Solar System looking for food (which she will shapeshift to obtain). I don’t think Stan and Lyekka will come together. He’s a human and she’s a plant. That coupling just wouldn’t be right. As I see it, Zev is the one made for Stan. Lyekka can go find some stamen or something. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
Thanks DalekTek790 for writing it all down. Just a few corrections/additions though:Mantrid Drones didn’t destroy Lister/Liber they destroyed each other in the ratings war 2.5; so they should go into the destroyed in other ways category. The drones ate the TV Planet. The whole light Zone should probably be added to the mantrid Drone List.
Lexx also blew up the VW-Bus like spaceship in 2.10, the international space station 4.10, a satellite above earth 4.10, a cryopod carrying some poor sod 1.2, and other spacecraft he ate along the way, 2.07 4.01
Finally the two planets that used Klaagia as a dump also destroyed each in some war. Hence all the asteroids Lexx crashed into on its way to Klaagia. 1.3
I got Leester and Liber mixed up with the T.V. planet.
I don’t think anything happened to the guy in the cryopod, he just floated by. 790 had been given the specific command to locate Brunnis-1, and being a robot, he ignored significant things not included in the command. I wonder when they’ll get back to the Children of Vora.
I’ve missed a few fourth season episodes, so I’m not quite up on the destruction. Was the space station blown up, or just eaten? I didn’t count stuff the Lexx ate. That trailer the teens were frozen in for 287 years was eaten, not blown up, right?
Now, this whole blown-up planet thing gets me to the topic of the Lexx’s beams. What are they? I don’t think they’ve ever been called “lasers” or anything else in dialog. The best clue was in [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i], where an officer on the [i]Mega Shadow[/i] says “The Lexx is opening its ocular parabola.” Parabola are only used in the focusing of light, so that rules out plasma, particle beams, etc.
But we still don’t know if it’s lasers or masers. Both are focussed with parabolic mirrors. If lasers were the case, we’d expect a more or less clean vaporization of matter at the point of contact and little damage to surrounding matter outside the penumbra. With a maser, the idea would be to heat the material to the point in which it fractures from uneven expansion.
So the latter would seem more consistent with the Lexx’s beams. We know they’re hot, like masers, since they caused melting and burning in Orlandoin [i]Stan Down[/i]. But in [i]Lexx 1.4: The Giga Shadow[/i] the Cluster (containing a giant Insect) is blown up with the Lexx’s beams, and we get a close-up look at the debris. There are no visible signs of melting on any of the chunks, which would accompany maser fire. The Cluster appears to be composed of non-igneous silicates, which should be both susceptable and indicative of melting.
A standard laser seems inconsistent with the Lexx’s beams. However, it is possible the beams are cased not just by laser but gas excitation provoked by laser. This would mean a photoreactive gas is expelled from the viscinity of the Lexx’s ocular parabola toward the target. This is consistent with the localized nature of the beams, and more notably the color. “Straight” lasers would be invisible until they reacted with a planet’s atmosphere. Judging by the color, the Lexx’s beams, if laser, are neon-argon (I think, don’t hold me to that). The only problem with the gas theory is that gas would be effected by the gravitational pull of a planet. The beams fired at planetoids by the Lexx don’t seem to arc toward the body at all.
It seems both the laser and maser theories of the Lexx’s beams run into some problems. I don’t know what to make of this conundrum. And the writers are probably not saying what the beams really are simply to keep fans guessing. It seems the mystery of the Lexx’s beams will remain unsolved until explanatory dialog is written into a future episode of [i]Lexx[/i].
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Originally posted by Holt:
BTW, does anyone see the similarities between the character functions of Kai and Spock?
Yes! I was the one who wrote the “Lexx Trek” piece under “Star Trek: Enterprise” (“I’m very good with the Prime Directive” [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ). Actually, Kai is more of a Data ripoff, but Data is a Spock rehash. [i]Lexx[/i] is the best ever [i]Star Trek[/i] ripoff.
Hold on a second…the Lexx arrived at Earth in Devember of 2019 ([i]Little Blue Planet[/i]), the crew came down to Earth in January of 2020 ([i]Texx Lexx[/i]), and in [i]Walpurgis Night[/i] it’s already May? [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] Man, time flies whey you’re watching [i]Lexx[/i]. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Who or what is Valdron? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
[b]Objects the Lexx has blown up[/b]
-Frontier Post 65798-4-8 (1.1)
-The [i]Mega Shadow[/i] (1.1)
-Klaagia (1.3)
-The Cluster (1.4)
-Mantrid’s planet (2.01)
-A red planetoid in the Quadra System (Zev, 2.02)
-An orange planetoid (2.03)
-The [i]Eagle 5[/i] (accidental, 2.03)
-A grey planetoid (2.04)
-A von Neumann planetoid (2.08)
-Vermol (2.08)
-A space trailer (accidental, 2.10)
-A mining planet (accidental, 2.14)
-The Web (2.17)
-Fire (Zev, 3.13)
-Water (Prince, 3.13)
-Pluto (4.02)
-Orlando, Florida (accidental, 4.04)
-Venus (Lulu, 4.10)
-Mars (Lulu, 4.10)
-A satellite (accidental, 4.10)
-The International Space Station (accidental, 4.10)[b]Objects Mantrid’s drone arms have disassembled[/b]
-The MedStat Medical Terminal (2.02)
-Potataho (2.03)
-The T.V. Planet (2.05)
-The Celes Pleasure Station (2.06)
-Ruuma (2.13)
-The Wolfram-T Galaxy (2.14)
-Narco-Lounger World (2.14)
-Woz (2.15)
-A galaxy near the center of the universe (2.16)
-The D.J.’s planet (2.19)
-Brizon’s planet (2.19)[b]Planets that have been blown up in other ways[/b]
-Brunnis-2 (the [i]Fore Shadow[/i], 1.1)
-Brunnis-1 (super nova, 1.2)
-A brown planetoid (self-destruct system, 2.09)
-Nook (bad knowledge, 2.11)[ 03-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
Sgt. Draino-You make some good points. However, I think His Divine Shadow was aware of his Insect origins. Kai may have absorbed all of His Divine Shadow’s memories into his brain, but he couldn’t access them all at will. In [i]The Giga Shadow[/i] a machine was necessary for him to remember something the Hirschfield Divine Shadow did, and that was the brain he crushed. And, even though he said in [i]Walpurgis Night[/i] that a memory he absorbed told him about Earth and the super-assassin, he didn’t recognize Earth immediately despite the fact that one of the people he had the memories of must’ve travelled there or known of it.
Now, about the brain in [i]The Giga Shadow[/i]. Kai finds this brain with the left frontal lobe damaged. It talks like Walter Borden and tells him it’s good but wants to die. Kai crushes it, and absorbs its memory, but says it knew nothing of the Giga Shadow. He walks away, and Yottskry stumbles over there, finds [b]another[/b] brain with the left frontal lobe damaged (“Whoa, whoa, whoooaa! Nobody said anything about [b]two[/b] brains…” [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] ), picks it up, and Walter Borden starts talking in his head. I’m not sure how there were two brains laying around (maybe you can help me there), but I think the one Kai crushed was a decoy, containing only part of His Shadow’s intellect. Kai crushed it, and it gave him a sense of closure, so he left without noticing the brain that contained the whole of His Shadow’s thoughts, memories, and impetus.
Also, in [i]Mantrid[/i] the Insect essence in Kai recounts its history. So whatever Kai observed had full knowledge of being an Insect and of the Divine Rebirth. That essence couldn’t’ve come from the Giga Shadow. It was from either when Kai killed the host body in [i]I Worship His Shadow[/i] or crushed one of the twin brains in [i]The Giga Shadow[/i]. Either way, it means some manifestation of His Shadow [b]before[/b] the Divine rebirth knew about the Insect stuff.
By the way, this isn’t related, and everybody might’ve noticed it already, but when the essence comes out of the Gigeroff Divine Shadow when the skull cap comes out and swirls around Kai, if you watch it frame by frame you can see jointed insect legs within the smoky “essence” trying to strangle our favorite dead assassin. I thought that was a nice touch.
Now, I don’t think anybody can contest that the Insects and His Divine Shadow could divide their essence for different hosts (of course I always say that and then I get a post from Aleck… [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ), but I think all of the original Insect’s essence left the body. Why? From [i]Mantrid[/i]: “I survived by transferring my essence, my thoughts, my memories, my…[b]everything[/b] into a human host.” All the essence went into the humans and the Insect was left dormant.
I also think [b]some[/b] members of the Divine Order knew His Divine Shadow was not human. I mean, they were in charge of transferring the essence and the Divine Rebirth. And the bio-viziers were some of the greatest minds in the universe, a few of them must’ve found out if they weren’t told.
Another thing I noticed: the Seal of the Divine Order which appears in [i]I Worship His Shadow, The Giga Shadow, Texx Lexx[/i] and [i]Walupurgis Night[/i] as well as the beginning credits and season enders is based on the insect body. When the Giga Shadow rolled up, its profile looked almost identical to the aperture symbol, with seven radial segments in a dull silver color. Y’all might’ve noticed that already, though. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
F.X.-Why would I post under a pseudonym to talk to myself? [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
[img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] “ttennebdeirubi” [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]
[ 01-10-2001: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
[b]Fan Groups[/b]
Star Wars: Jedi
The Dark Crystal: Froudian, Crystalhead
Star Trek: Trekkie, Trekker
Doctor Who: Whovian
The X-Files: X-Phile
Alien: Alienite, Spacejockey
Lexx: Lexxian
Red Dwarf: Dwarfer
Alien Nation: Newcomer
Babylon 5: Babylonian, B5er
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hitchhiker, Babelfish(Some fandom slang may vary based on region and message board)
As I’ve observed, there are two basic types of sci-fi fans: movie sci-fi fans and T.V. sci-fi fans. On message boards with Jedis, Froudians and Alienites there’s a lot more discussion of the little things. Details, symbolism, significance of certain dialog and elements, speculation, theoretical scenarios, minor characters, etc. That’s because movie sci-fi universes are much smaller as to what is established onscreen (8 hours of [i]Star Wars[/i] vs. 500 hours of [i]Doctor Who[/i], for example). But on message boards with Trekkies, Whovians, and X-Philes it’s all “bigger” things, like story arcs, special effects, the last episode, what will happen next, who’s the coolest character, etc. So T.V. sci-fi fandom is more materialistic (is that the right word?), and concrete. With film fandom there are more theories (“How did the egg get on the [i]Sulaco[/i]?” “what does ‘balance to the Force’ mean?” etc.). The only groups that have a lot of theories are X-Philes and Babylonians (before [i]Babylon 5[/i] ended). I’d have to say the biggest gulf between fans and non-fans is with [i]The X-Files[/i], where non-fans seem to think there’s this vast network of conspiracy plotlines only Chris Carter knows while people who’ve seen every mythological episode know a hell of a lot has been revealed over the years.
So where does [i]Lexx[/i] fit in? Lexxians are both movie fans and T.V. fans. The movies of shows like [i]Star Trek[/i] and [i]Doctor Who[/i] are add-ons, small outgrowths of T.V. plots that often deal with elements peripheral to the series. Where with [i]Lexx[/i] it’s the four movies ([i]1.1[/i] and [i]1.4[/i] mainly) that built up the whole universe. Then there was the series, which wasn’t just add-ons but is very committed to the framework the movies laid out. So you get elements of both movie fandom and T.V. fandom in [i]Lexx[/i] fan discussion.
That’s my two cents.
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, [i]The Daleks[/i]: Episode 4-[i]The Ambush[/i]
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, [i]The Dark Crystal[/i]
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i]
