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A book, I think it was “The Making of Deep Space Nine,” said that Babylon 5 was suspiciously similar to Star Trek: Deep Space 9, and that suspicion was compounded by the fact that J. Michael Straczynski was in contact with Paramount at the time Deep Space Nine was in production, but no legal action has been taken.
I think there is little room to argue that Deep Space Nine is not head and shoulders above Babylon 5 in general quality.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Who is that?
D’gre’Queen said there were no girl geniuses in science fiction, and I pointed out that she had overlooked Nyssa, the lovely and scientifically adept young Traken on Doctor Who.
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Originally posted by D’gre’Queen:
A better question is, why doesn’t scifi ever depict any *girl* geniuses?
What about Nyssa? Doesn’t she count?
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Originally posted by Aleck:
Therefore, even though there is a troika of females in both seasons, I think it’s safe to say that the goths aren’t incarnations of the psychotic souls from Tunnels.
Okay, someone on the chat after Walpurgis Night said they were.
You can find 3 silly crossovers here.
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Originally posted by Fred:
Okay, if Dongler is not a reincarnation of Bando then why are BOTH character’s killed by Lyekka/Lulu?
A coincidence most likely. Jeffrey Hirschfield, who portrayed both characters and wrote the latter episode, said that he didn’t consider Dick Dongler to be a reincarnation of P. T. Bando.
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I consider Lyekka (as Lulu) to be a reincarnation from Fire, possibly.
Yes, but she appears to be a reincarnation of the Austral-B Lyekka, not the Trin who took her shape.
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Who is Desh???
Desh, played by Amy Kerr, was a prisoner who put on a convincing innocent victim act to get Kai to free her in the episode 791. Amy Kerr appeared in Stan Down and apparently plays a role in Magic Baby and Dutch Treat as the same character. I believe we are to assume that she is the reincarnation of Desh.
Is there something wrong with the 4.17 section of your site? Usually, by a number of hours after the new page is put up captions start appearing.
I suspect the typical protocol for the creation of Divine assassins is to give them a uniform based on the clothing of their culture dyed black. Roada probably recognized Kai as a Divine assissin because his clothing was completely black. The “uniform” could be about anything, just what distinguishes it is that it is all black.
That was really great, talking to one of the creative minds behind Lexx as well as a performer in the show, all in one. It was nice to have some of my questions answered. And he’s real witty and humorous, I figured he’d be all serious and solemn, like in the interviews I’ve seen with George Lucas and Gene Coon. That chat was really something.
Since the Patricia Zentilli chat I’ve been looking forward to one with Louise Wischermann, but it’s been a long time and I guess the Frey hasn’t heard from her, so I don’t know if that’s really gonna happen.
The fabric patterns aren’t quite the same. Look at a before and after picture and it’s really clear that they can’t be the same clothes. They do look similar, though, besides the after one being darked and minus the fried egg thing (some of the jewels are still there, thouth).
Sci-Fi Pick-Up Lines
“Are you an Angel?” –Star Wars
“Please sit and entertain me.” –Star Trek
“I am the Master and you will obey me.” –Doctor Who
“She is one.” –The X-Files
“Such sweet shapes!” –Lexx
“You’ve been in my life so long I can’t remember anything else.” –Alien
“I’m gonna get you, little kitty.” –Red Dwarf
“You remind me of the babe…” –[/i]Labyrinth[/i] Okay, now I’m dipping into fantasy, I better stop.
Hey, maybe “The Wheel” is a dirty Insect poem Kai heard 2,000 years ago.
Okay, I’ll stop trying to be funny.
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Originally posted by Smartass 2002:
My age, and rest assured, you’re the third youngest person on the forum, is fifteen. The youngest is Lucinda (dark_angel3838) who is fourteen.
That is also surprising to me.
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Okay, counter-question, how old are YOU? If you go to college (called university here, college is high school. I sometimes get confused on the point) then my guess’d be middle twenties.
I am 18 (and male, of course).
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And you said there were worse topics… where? I’ll see if I can somehow manage to corrupt them!
Well, for starters there’s that one Mary Beth posted with a list of “funny” (disgusting) stories, at least one of which is an urban legend. After reading about 3 I felt like I was going to be sick and was hitting the “Back” button frantically.
I have actually had nightmares caused by things I read on this message board, just not this forum.
6 months between I Worship His Shadow and The Giga Shadow.
3 months between The Giga Shadow and Mantrid.
9 months between Mantrid and Patches in the Sky.
103 days between Patches in the Sky and The End of the Universe.
4,332 years between The End of the Universe and Fire and Water.
2 weeks between Fire and Water and Heaven and Hell.
9 months between Heaven and Hell and Little Blue Planet.
76 days between Little Blue Planet and Texx Lexx.
95 days between Texx Lexx and Walpurgis Night.
51 days between Walpurgis Night and A Midsummer’s Nightmare.
4,335 years, 2 months between I Worship His Shadow and A Midsummer’s Nightmare.
Dragonflies belong to the insect order Odonata. The order Odonata has 3 suborders: Anisoptera, Zygoptera, and Anisozygoptera. I know that all male zygopterans die shortly after mating, and females die shortly after laying their eggs. That is true of at least some anisopterans, but I don’t know if it’s true of all. And I know nothing of the third suborder.
But even if all dragonflies do die after mating, that doesn’t mean the Lexx will. The Insects don’t always conform biologically to the insects on Earth. Plus the Lexx was grown as a weapon of destruction, not as part of a proposed race. Its sexual characteristics may be vestigial, atavisms from the Insect template that was used in its creation.
I missed Dutch Treat (but I have it recorded and I will see it eventually), so I don’t know what happened between the Lexx and this other bug (“Nothing happened, Stan. We just talked the whole time. Honest.”).
A while ago, I calculated that a female lexx would be something like 15 kilometers long (whereas the Lexx is 10), based on the relative sizes of male and female anisopteran dragonflies. Dragonflies mate in what is called “the wheel position” (I’m not making this up).
What would be cool would be “Heretic,” like “Counter-Strike” only the opposing forces are those of the Heretics and the Divine Order. On the one side you could be a Heretic from one of several cultural groups, on the other a Divine personal guard, robot guard, security guard, etc. There would be several first and second season locales as maps, each with its own mission for the Heretics, which the Divine Order is trying to stop. That would rule!
1. Garden City (Garden, Battle)
2. Woz (Woz)
3. The Cluster (I Worship His Shadow, The Giga Shadow)
4. Ruuma (Twilight)
5. Castle Drakul (Walpurgis Night, Vlad)I forgot put one in. I was thinking I just made it up based on Lexx, but I just noticed that the line is actually spoken in I Worship His Shadow:
“Don’t hurt me, Divine Shadow!” (Lexx)
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Originally posted by NB1:
Oh, yea, one other question, Why do you think Kai insists on killing Longbore?
Because he knows Dr. Longbore is His Divine Shadow.
The Goth girls were in 3.07 as Dominatrix and her psycho ballerinas. Brock was in 3.13. Lyekka, Laleen, Lomea, and Lissha were all in Stan’s dream in 2.14. Jeffrey Hirschfield recently said that he doesn’t consider Dick Dongler to be a reincarnation to P. T. Bando, and I don’t know if I’d count Lulu and Lyekka as the same person. Here are some others:
Berf
1.3
4.02Desh
2.09
4.04
4.07
4.10
4.17
4.24Gloodel
2.08
3.01
3.02
4.08Jebbed
2.07
4.06Jood
1.1
1.4
4.13Vigl
2.01
3.06 (?)Big Angry Ed
2.05
3.10
4.06Davison
1.1
4.01Scarface
1.3
3.06Lissha
2.06
2.14That’s all I can think of right now.
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Originally posted by thefrey:
only an hour to go!
We’re all psyched (I have 14 questions for him, but I doubt I’ll ask them all).
Love Grows established that the Lexx is male. So if it is pregnant, then it’s a continuity error.
Honestly, I don’t think that was what the Giga Shadow’s tentacle was doing when it penetrated the Lexx.
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
What part is a sensitive topic? The sex or Kai?
Sex.
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No, I’m not being antagonistic, I’m stating my opinion. People do like to have opinions. However, I have noticed that you get my back up, your personality feels like you are somebody other than you pretend to be on this board. True or not? I don’t know. Do I care or not? Not really.
I said that because your response seemed especially mean and over the top with the numerous exclamation points and all. Plus, in the brief time I’ve known you, you’ve accused me of having nasty thoughts, insulted my intelligence, and recycled two jokes I posted previously. This implies an (inexplicable) animosity toward me, a trend that seemed to be continuing with your ireful response to my post.
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
At the time of the dream, he was finishing up a PhD, planning on taking his college jazz band on tour and getting ready for retirement at the end of the school year. His death was an unexpected thing.
Sorry, I didn’t realize it was a premonition. Just forget I said anything.
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Originally posted by Smartass 2002:
‘Cos maybe you’re hoping that we’ll all get suddenly sane!!!!! No chance. But look on the bright side, when we’re all off this topic, we’re all sane. And in real life, we’re sane. (Ermmmm…. well, maybe not me, after all, I read somewhere that all teenage girls are clinically insane. Actually, for a supposedly insane person, I am amazingly sane when it comes to anything other than this topic!!!!)
Whoa, hold on…You’re a teenage girl?!?
The age isn’t too surprising, I figured late teens, early twenties; but I just assumed you were male. All this time I’ve been talking to you as if you were a guy. 
I’m sorry, it’s just that your style of writing, your interests you’ve mentioned, all seemed to indicate masculinity. Okay, okay, I’ll get over it.Just curious: how old are you? For all I know, I may be the youngest “geezer” on this message board, and it would be reassuring to find that there was someone my age (or younger
) here.I don’t think you’re insane (then again, you did like my story…
).Oh, and for the record, there are much more disgusting threads on this forum.
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
“anty?” is that a mistype? Just wondering. If you meant angry, I’m not, I just like happy little exclamations. And, sweetums, if you meant during his “life-life” than say that the first time, it would help in understanding your thoughts. On if your posts are too long, I think they might be. When I first hit the button to quote you, all that came up was the last line of your entire post. hrmm… although it takes a while, maybe you should put each reply to each person in a seperate post? Just a suggestion!
That’s kinda what I meant when I wrote “in life” in the post on Kai.
“Anty” is a slang term meaning “unresaonably and consistently adverse,” or “diametrically opposed.” It comes from a shortening of the word “antagonistic.”
Okay, the quote thing usually only reproduces what is after the last quote on the previous post. Aleck taught me how to split up quotes so I can reply to each part individually and avoid confusion.
I’m not really sure where to go with this thread. It’s like tiptoing theough a minefield. I want discussion (there seems to be a deficiency in Lexx-related talk lately), but it’s a sensitive topic and if I say the wrong thing it could turn into a big argument.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
I was wondering about that bit of music at the end of 4.16 Moss. (I think I asked about in another thread here at SadBoard or over at Lexx.Com.) It turns out that it was Wild, Wild Lexx. If it was never used in series II or III, that must be why it sounded so unfamiliar to me. I wonder if they used it again later this series…
Wild, Wild Lexx may have been in season four episodes before Moss, I don’t know.
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Originally posted by Chris A:
I’m convinced that the souls have come from Fire and Water, but reality has been conveniently rearranged to make a space for them. Priest was “found” having reincarnated in the jungle, and it’s not too hard to imagine people ‘deciding’ he was from Vietnam. Conversely, in Dutch Treat Bunny references a family that she cannot possibly have since she’s been on Gametown for 4000 years.
Trillions of souls didn’t just appear on Earth, apparently some of them were just born into human form there over a period of time, starting at least 50 years before Little Blue Planet. This still hasn’t been explained to anyone’s satisfaction. I find it unlikely that they could have all only been on Earth for 9 months. These people have taken places in society, and have families.
How has Jeff Davison been president for 4 years when he should’ve been on either Fire or Water ever since Stan killed him at Frontier Post 65798-4-8? How can Lomia have parents if she just appeared from Fire? Big Angry Ed should have been killed at the battle over Garden City at the same time he was wronged by Brund Parsnec. And how can former clerics who sacrificed themselves to the Divine Cleansing get jobs as prison guards, T.V. technicians, or as a guide for Eco-Tours? The A.T.F. soldier Digby held at gunpoint has been dead since before Kai was alive, and one whould think he would stay that way. And while I’m at it how does an Austral-B chick with a funny accent become a trash film star? Okay, now I’m rambling pointlessly, but really, how can this happen? I’m not sure, but we can be pretty certain there has been more than 9 months between their appearance on Earth and our heroes’ arrival.
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Season five is virtually impossible, as are movies at this time, but who knows what the future will bring. Popular sci-fi shows have a tendancy to come back years later in the form of movies continuing their stories.
Okay, that last story was lame so I’ve got another one. This one doesn’t involve any apparitions or physical anomalies, but it continues the theme of unusual occurences pertaining to the recently deceased.
Okay, it was the day my grandfather was buried. It was late, my brother was already in bed and my parents and I were watching television. There was nothing good on, we were watching the Illinois lottery. I was watching it (I was young and easily entertained), my parents were more talking than watching.
Anyway, to make a long story short, my father’s birthday came up as the winning number. It would have been more interesting if my dad had actually bought a lottery ticket and played his birth date (he’s not big on throwing his money away on silly things like that), but this was significantly shocking to all of us nonetheless.
Praxilla, that is an interesting story with the dream. I have recently done some reading on the subject of dream interpretation, and it is said that sometimes dreams can be your subconscious’ way of coming to terms with things your rational mind has trouble wrapping itself around. Just something that came to mind when I read your post.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
It was implied that he may have gotten some in Walpurgis Night, but Stan didn’t get lucky in any episode after that, so far.
He did in Prime Ridge. Thanks for the information, since Vlad there have been patches in my Lexx knowledge.
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
Ahem, I believe it’s been stated many, many times…HE’S DEAD! D-E-A-D. He doesn’t have needs, he doesn’t breath, he doesn’t feel, he just is! Going through the motions, that’s it. *imagining Kai would say something like* You have a need? I guess I can fill it because I don’t have cares. Do what you want.
I meant in his life. At the point when he decided to fly beyond Brunnis-2’s shields to speak to the Time Prophet, he did not yet know that the Brunnen-G were all doomed to death, but he did know the possible repercussions of his actions. He knew he could get thrown in jail for punching a hole in the shields, and he knew that his lover would probably leave him if he went on his space trip, but he did it anyway, because he believed the Prophet’s knowledge could benefit his people.
And don’t be so anty, Prax.
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Originally posted by Snooklepie:
stan is a teenager trapped in a man’s body. his rampant sexual appetite seems almost akin to that of a youngster going through the throes of hormonal torment-and not knowing quite what to do about it.
I’ve never even known (or known of) any teenagers who were at Stan’s level. I mean, some kids have overactive libidoes, but Stan is in a class by himself, whatever his mental age.
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could he have been wrapped in cotton wool as a child? was he a mummy’s boy? did his parents even mention to him that the birds & the bees existed, before he was thrust out into the adult world? does his upbringing have more to do with his lack of emotional and sexual maturity, more than any subsequent rejection of his sexual/emotional overtures by women?
I would think that the people who end up Tweedle-like in sexual attitudes and behavior were rather the ones who were neglected or poorly brought up, whose parents spoke openly of sex and didn’t really care what their kids did.
But then again, my knowledge of psychology is not extensive.I completely agree that there was almost certainly something wrong with Stan’s upbringing. Remember, Zev grew up in a box, perhaps childhood on Stan’s planet (also a League planet under the Divine Order) was similarly terrible. P4X establishes that Stan was born on Austral-B. A lot of people on Austral-B really hated the Divine Order, and maybe that was because they lived in an awful society that the Order was responsible for.
Off topic, are my posts too long? I mean, if I’m cinsistently boring people with these lengthly messages and you’re skipping or skimming through my posts, say something. I can work on trimming them down.
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he’s one confused individual.
I’m sayin!
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Originally posted by Fred:
5) Moss (I can’t say that I missed him much in this one. His sadistic nature is driving me crazy. I think that he became like that first in “Battle” when he assumed that Kai was coming to him, whereas Kai and Stan were going to rescue Xev. He surely acted crazy in “Girltown” and “The Beach”, as well as others in season four).
My theory is that the electronic components interfasing with 790’s brain cube were somewhat damaged in the fall in Fire and Water, and have been degrading ever since. There are also psychological stressors to contribute to what may be an “organic” disorder. Read my “robot head” topic on this forum for speculation on 790’s psychology.
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Originally posted by Snooklepie:
i don’t know about anywhere else, but martial arts have become popular again here in britland (especially with kids). i’m seeing a lot more clubs offering training in the different arts than perhaps a few years ago. i cannot help but think the demand has come from people wanting to be like buffy, xena or hercules
Martial arts has been big lately, but I think Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers would have had a more significant influence on kids than those shows.
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Originally posted by LexxLurker:
When did Prince say he rescued Priest from Vietnam? Even in the more recent eps when Bunny mentions Vietnam, Priest has no idea what she was talking about at first, then remembers “Oh yes, Vietnam” Then tunes in to watch “Vietnam: Party in the Jungle” as if he’s trying to “read-up” on where he was supposed to be.Prince *doesent* understand his true origins, he never has. He made that quite clear in Series 3. All he knows is that he is bad and to dominate all before him. Why have a sit-down with Priest? He never bothers to explain things to him anyway, why that one thing?
Also Priest when asked what kept him alive in the jungle for 35 years he mentions his dreams of childhood which included “strippers” among other things.
His wife says “War hero my ass” and Priest has very little to no knowledge of America or even Earth in general. He doesent even know what Florida is. He has no knowledge of Earth but can remember very clearly that Prince was ruler of the planet Fire, and his enemies were Water? Just doesent make any sense to me. To me at least it seems quite clear Priest came straight from Fire much like Prince and did *not* live full lives here on Earth.
I just dont see how Priest could’ve been concurrently living on both Fire and Earth.
I think the reason he didn’t know much about the U.S. was because he spent 32 years in the jungle. When does it imply that he was not in Viêt Nam (besides his wife questioning his being a war hero, I think she was just skeptical of the ‘hero’ part)?
The people who were reincarnated on Earth after the Soul Migration seem to have established lives there. It’s almost as if 50 or more years elapsed between the destruction of Fire and Water and the election of Reginald J. Priest. I don’t know how to explain it, but I’m sure the Beans will make it clear to us at some point.
By the way, so far we have seen 28 reincarnated souls (that I know of, if you count Prince, Priest, and Kai but not Longbore).
I kind of collect weird stories. Some “spooky” things have happened to me that could be interpreted as having been paranormal phenomena, but all of them are also subject to materialist explanations. That’s also quite often true of stories I hear from other people.
One thing in particular that pops into mind is when I was staying over at my cousin’s house in Clinton for New Year’s. In the evening, at twilight (“the wheel doth turn!” sorry
) I noticed that the decorations over one of the archways in their house was twitching, undulating like an inchworm. I went up and felt it, and it was just some floral things painted on with stencils, and there was some dried, kinda sticky substance that wasn’t paint, but logically there was no way it could be moving. But when I stood back it started writhing again. My brother and mother saw it too, but none of us perceived it to twitch at the same time, which implied that it was an optical illusion. I said to my cousin “Hey, come take a look at this, that painted deal looks like it’s moving.” and he said casually “Oh, it does that every night.” In the morning I took a real close look at it, and noticed that the painted images were sort of crooked, the spaces between them were slightly uneven and they weren’t all at consistent angles (I also noticed a green dried substance in linear drips from the ceiling). So I reasoned that the apparent twitching was just the result of the brain trying to correct the image that the eyes were getting, since the pattern wasn’t consistent but “logically” it should be. I talked to my aunt, who painted it, and she said “Oh, sure it’s crooked, I did a **** job on those.” But she also told me something interesting.The dried substance I saw was the remnants of a green viscous fluid that flowed (“in gallons,” if I am to trust that she was not embellishing) from the place where the wall met the ceiling on the first floor, when they washed the walls when they first bought the house. No matter how much washing they did, it still came, even though there didn’t seem to be a crack it could be emanating from. But (as her story goes) after 3 days the substance stopped flowing, everywhere except over the archway that “moves,” where it got mixed with the paint as it was being applied, and has periodically dripped from since. This, too, can be explained without evoking the New Dominant. There could have been some kind of chemical reaction between a cleanig agent and the old paint, or there could have been a fungus or something inside the walls, and some of it was getting washed out of imperceptably small cracks or other openings as it was washed. And I am not quite confident that the “slime” story has not been expanded beyond what actually happened, even though all the members of the house I asked seemed to have a consistent account of it.
In a final note, some months later I checked a book out on paranormal activities, and it mentioned that town (Clinton, Iowa). Apparently in this century there have been several Fortean events, that is, strange objects and substances falling from the sky. Some researchers have even speculated that there is a periodically-opening wormhole situated somewhere above Clinton, Iowa. When you take all these things together, it makes for kind of a spooky story, although there is no smoking gun evidence anywhere within of anything truly extramundane.
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
Used around the house: [Star Trek]”He’s dead Jim” referring to something gone, a joke that didn’t fly, or something that is just plain sad in it’s ending. (like moldy jello)[Red Dwarf]”Too slow chicken marango”- when I’m not fast enough at getting the remote.
[Dr. Who]”Reverse the polarity of the nuetron flow”- to get something to work and it fails.
[LEXX]”The dead do not…” -put anything you don’t want to do at the end of that sentance.
[LEXX]”I’m hungry Stanley, I want something to eat”-whenever I start scrounging around for food and I’m finding nothing. I even use the appropriate voice/accent.
[Star Wars]”I have a bad feeling about this.” -times when this line comes up can be divided into “midterms” and “finals.”
[Aliens]”That’s it, man. Game over, man. Game over!” -see above.
[Doctor Who]”Please don’t do that.” -when someon e is doing something annoying; in mock-British accent.
[The Instrumentality of Mankind]”Ee-tellykelly!” -expression of grief, or general shock.
[A Clockwork Orange]”Oh, my brothers and only friends…” -when addressing a group.
[Lexx]”How peculiar.” -when something is unusual; in mock-German accent.
[Lexx]”The wheel doth turn!” -meaningless phrase.
What is with this song exchange thing? Who started it? Or is it some piece of message board arcana I’ve never run across before?
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Originally posted by Chris A:
Such a shame that we’ve not gotten to see Ralph Haines as Duke, he’d have made an excellent head of the AFR in a very different capacity, although I can’t imagine him pulling off the hat-wearing insanity that Stephen McHattie managed.
I think somebody said something about Ralph Brown being unavailable for filming season four.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
4. The Key with Xev(Prince)
I already had that. The count is 4+Boomtown total+anything he might have gotten in Vlad, Fluff Daddy, A Midsummer’s Nightmare, 769, or Mort (I’ve been forced to miss about every other episode this season and I don’t like to read the reviews before I see them).
There are a lot of “Dutch” expressions, but for some reason they all seem to be negative. Dutch Treat, Dutch courage, Dutch act, Dutch uncle…
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Originally posted by D’gre’Queen:
Kai isn’t virtuous. He’s dead. So naturally, he doesn’t want sex.
I didn’t mean virtuous in that way, that is just one of his admirable traits. He also has shown, even in life, to have been willing to do something for the greater good even if he knows it will have serious repercussions on him. He is also brave and will put the needs of others before his own.
The times Stan has had sex that I’ve seen are with Sissy in White Trash, with Prince in The Key, with Muffy in Walpurgis Night, and with Piccalina in Prime Ridge. Like I said, there are a couple episodes I haven’t seen yet where something might have happened. One I think had to do with a place on Fire where nymphomaniacs are punished and Stan had sex with a couple of women. And he lost the key to the Lexx to Lulu, which would imply that he had sex with her in another episode I missed. He told Prince he got the key back from her through sex but it looked (a lot) like he was lying.
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Originally posted by Sgt. Draino:
Why didn’t we see the Giga Shadow shoot these sheets?Maybe because it was “prematurely reborn” and not fully awake before it got sucked into the fractal core.
The Giga Shadow did fire internal blacksheets try to destroy Kai. I agree, Insects probably have a “black organ” (equivalent to the Divine personal guards’ blackpacks), but in the Giga Shadow it was not fully functional by the time the body was destroyed.
The blacksheet guns and the Fore Shadow were probably mechanical systems designed after the Insect structure (in whatever physical or semicorporeal form it may exist) that generates its own blacksheets. But the artificial blacksheets can’t be as powerful as the real thing. Why? None of the blacksheets fired from guns can hurt Kai, but the ones His Shadow produced in I Worship His Shadow and The Giga Shadow were clearly damaging him and would have destroyed him with further onslaught (His Shadow was no idiot, he let the bio-viziers create assassins invulnerable to conventional weapons, but they were always within his ability to destroy).
Note that there are at least two types of blacksheets from guns (some are bilateral, others spiral), and I think three designs of blacksheet guns. Blacksheet guns appear in I Worship His Shadow, The Giga Shadow, Stan’s Trial, and Woz.
I do not think the Lexx’s weapon is an Insect blacksheet system. It has ocular parabola, which seem to focus and redirect some kind of energy of external source, and are all in all entirely different from the systems of the Fore Shadow and the Insects themselves. Plus they can’t destroy Kai.
Fellow sadgeezers-Just for reference when thinking of questions to ask Mr. Hirschfield, here is a list of his Lexx writing credits:
Solo
Terminal
Love Grows
Wake the Dead
Xevivor1st Credit
The Giga Shadow
Luvliner
791
The Net
The Web
Fluff Daddy
Bad Carrot2nd Credit
I Worship His Shadow
Eating Pattern
Twilight3rd Credit
Super Nova
The End of the UniverseHe has also portrayed five characters, appearing in at least three episodes and lending his voice to nearly every episode.
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“Exterminate!” -Dalek warrior, The Daleks: Episode 4-The Ambush
“Feel the power of the dark Crystal!” -skekTek the Scientist, The Dark Crystal
“I will love you forever!” -drone #790, Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow
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Originally posted by NB1:
I also think he is substituting sex for love which many people do…
Yes, that much is certain. That’s an all too common psychology on Earth as well.
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Gynecopiper?
I think that applies to him. Or are you unsure what that means?
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Does anybody, DT, you probably do, know just how many women Stan did bed??
It was four at my last count, but there are episodes I have missed.
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Originally posted by Nirvanah Rimmer:
It’s been my experience that men who have been rejected by women repeatedly through their lives tend to follow 1 of 2 paths. They shut down their libido and just totally absorb theselves in other interests (this is very rare). And the other path usually ends with the man in question becoming obsessed with porn, videos of women, and getting it from anyone ,anywhere they can , instead of focusing on respecting women and loving them because being loved by a woman actually TAKES a woman, but the CAN experience sexual pleasure without one.
So you’re saying maybe Lyekka’s rejection (coupled with rejection by a few other girls in his youth) caused Stan to be this way? I thought that could be it, bad experiences with the opposite sex. In the flashback he was very shy and polite, quite unlike his usual approach when it comes to women.
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Tese men tend to think with only one brain…
I have an interesting if irrelevent addition to this analogy. Insects of the order Mantidae each have two brains, one in their head wired to their sense organs, the other in their abdomen wired to their sex organs. These brains can vie for dominance over the body. Some humans are like mantids in this respect.
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…because they have been so rejected by so many women for so long that women become this incredible “Force” an amazing high they can never touch except in their fantasies. They can’t help it, it’s all they know.
I suppose there could be people like Stan (or worse) in real life.
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Originally posted by HisDivineShadow:
Could be a reverse Capt Kerk? Kerk is Very heroic and gets laid. But Stan isnt and has a hard time get anything at all.
I think the opposite of Stan would be Kai: he is brave and virtuous and doesn’t want sex but the women are all over him.
“I am Stanley H. Tweedle, last of the Austral-B. The Austral-B were a race of great, um…I’m Stan.”
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Originally posted by Micromary:
Maybe he’s allergic to tulips….
I don’t know, Lyekka didn’t seem to have any trouble digesting Tulip.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Those things look cute! But let me guess… they shoot death-rays from their eyes, right? LOL!
It’s a larvae gun (also called a venom grub), one of the large insect fauna of vortis enslaved by the Animus. They spit acid. The episode is generally called The Web Planet, The Zarbi is an alternate title used for the novelization.
