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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Well, the Lexx [i]is[/i] 4,000 years old! Maybe he’s just wearing out.
I believe the exact figure is 4,344. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] Seriously, the Lexx is essentially an Insect, so it should be able to survive at least as long as the Giga Shadow did.
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Originally posted by Rockham:
The pill bug form is something that evolved in nature more than once and so we would expect it to evolve on other planets too. There were creatures with this form in the Dr Who story The Zarbi.
[b]Zaaaar-[i]beee[/i]! Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee![/b]
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Lexx 1: 8.13 (100% viewed)
Lexx 2: 8.30 (95% viewed)
Lexx 3: 5.50 (92% viewed)
Lexx 4: 7.75 (42% viewed)quote:
Originally posted by Mandara K.:
In a parallel light universe; if it was really espousing light; would find a regular, average looking guy getting his type of attention for being a good guy not a good looking guy.
Dang straight. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I feel like I’m missing something. What did the Frey do worthy of praise in this area? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Smartass 2002:
That was great! Where did you get the idea for the story from??
I’m flattered that you think enough of my little story to actually wonder about its origins. There were actually a number of events that inspired it. It was written on February 17, and on that day I had to meet with the school psychologist because I got in a little trouble over something I did. There is something really menacing about someone who really hates you acting like he’s your friend. Plus there’s that irritating plural thing (“How are we doing today?”). Anyway, that caused me to fantasize about doing to him what Gêkí did to the doctor. Then in speech fourth block (my last class of the day) I was looking for a good script for dramatic interpretation and got really frustrated and came to the conclusion that the only way to find one I liked would be to write my own (even though realistically I couldn’t use it). When I was walking home I started thinking (not seriously at first) about what I would write if I could write a D.I.
The scene in the [i]Lexx[/i] episode [i]Tunnels[/i] in which Kai is questioned was a factor. I had that in mind when I was putting together the story in my head. I combined that with the evil psychiatrist idea. I thought it would be neat to have some futuristic character, bizarre in the context of twenty first century America, questioned by a twentieth century American. I don’t like time travel so I decided to make it an illusory reality (generated by, of course, the doctor). I was also influenced by a short story I had read shortly before which consisted mainly of one scene and dialog and in the end was open to multiple interpretations.
After failing to think up a new type of character for the out of place man I decided to make him a Yün Siph. The Yün Siph are in a couple chapters of a novel I’m writing. There are only two left, and one is killed in the course of the story. I came up with kind of mini-biographies for the major characters, and from the one for Gêkí (sort of the idealized sci-fi version of myself) I got some of the stuff like him almost having his heart cut out with a scalpel by a female agent of the Technocrats. So by the time I got home I had the entire story laid out in my mind and all I had to do was sit down at my computer and bang it out. The only real change from my original concept of it was the new (less definite) ending.
The origin of the name Lester Shield is interesting: it was what I was called at a speech & debate tournament by someone who misheard my name over the background noise.
I hope that is a satisfactory account of my story’s origins and is not too boring. I don’t want to sound egotistical, I know I’m not a hot shot sci-fi writer and my story isn’t all that great.
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What an episode! It seems most of what I was going to say was said while I was looking for a picture of Stephen McHattie, but I’ll try to compose a worthwile post.
Moss was great! They took the character of E.J. Moss (from [i]Lyekka[/i]) in an unexpected direction for this season, but the end result was excellent. Deputy Commander Moss is possibly the most creative character conceived for [i]Lexx[/i]’s fourth season.
I’ve read up on cult and fringe groups, and Moss isn’t that far off from some of these real life characters. He appears to practice the form of Y Ching divination known as cubomancy, the ritualized casting of dice with the belief that the universal force that consciously controlls all seemingly random occurences will guide them to a certain outcome, each one having been preassigned a certain significance in the situation.
Here’s an explanation for the numerology stuff: In 1981 cult leader Gregory Gordon figured out that “Ronald Wilson Reagan” equalled 666 (the number of the Great Beast in Revelations) if each letter were given its alphabetic number and added up (I think that was the method). He also found ways that the numbers of many things in relation to Reagan added to 666. From that he contrived an elaborate Apocalyptic scenerio that has failed to take place.
Long before season four began to air, there were a number of rumors (treated sceptically by me) about Waco in the upcoming season. It was said by some that the fourth season would be a kind of docudrama of the last days of the Branch Davidians with [i]Lexx[/i] characters inserted in. There were even rumors that Prince would be David Koresh. [i]Moss[/i] appears to have been the actual seed from which all those rumors and speculation grew (unless there will be more on Waco). In case you didn’t know, in 1992 the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas was stormed by the A.T.F., because the Davidians, a doomsday cult, had been illegally stockpiling weapons for the upcoming war. A fire broke out in the compound, and the Davidians and their leader (a theologaster calling himself “David Koresh”) died. Though it is generally believed that the Davidians started the fire as part of a ritual suicide, there are rumors and conspiracy theories that the A.T.F. started the fire for some obscure reason, possibly by the use of encendiary bullets.
People have been saying that Deputy Commander Moss was very different from Captain Moss, but I’ve found some similarities. Both have accents, are patriotic toward their region, misunderstand events which cause them to act violently toward the Lexx crew, and call Kai “the guy with the hair.” It appeared that Deputy Commander Moss knew that his soul came from a parallel universe, but that was never really explored.
This episode had further references to the fact that many (if not most) astronomers no longer believe that Pluto is a true planet. Stan says that he did not blow up any of the Solar System’s planets, but adds that he did destroy “a little thing way far away…it probably wasn’t even a planet.”
George W. Bush reference: Reginald J. Priest makes the infamous three-finger sign. I think Priest could take the key, but I doubt he has memories of his life on Fire. Remember, the Priests of Fire were not deities like Prince (several were reincarnations of characters in the first two seasons). I believe he was genuinely lost in the Viêt Nam jungle for 32 years.
Previous episode reference: [i]Twilight[/i]-Kai chants “wheel” when running low on proto-blood, like his poem when he was afflicted with Ruuma’s radiation.
Best line: “Your honor, the defendant has just confessed to plutocracide!” -Moss
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Originally posted by LexxLurker:
Just the other day I read a thread where Flamegrape attacked Dalek for almost no reason. Dalek can be a putz, but he’s a Lexxian and a die hard Sci-Fi fan and that gives him more in common with me than the 99% that arent fans of Lexx or Sci-Fi. Flamegrape seems like he’s got a pretty good head on his shoulder so it just makes me wonder why he’d want to esculate the fight. And the above dawned on me. There’s really not a whole lot to argue about anymore than each others personalities and writing quirks.
Flamegrape is female. The reason why lately she has been eager to snap at me is because there was this argument-thing going on and Aleck made me out to be some kind of radical and Flamegrape saw that his representation of me conflicted with her personal values and now sees me as some kind of enemy.
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Originally posted by FX:
squishy, unfortunately i did have to ban two people during the last flame war…
Who did you ban?
What’re you gonna do when [i]Lexx[/i] is over? Krycek Komic Kaptions? [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] Oh wait, that show’s ending too.
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Originally posted by Snooklepie:
oooohhh!!! where? where?
[url=http://www.allposters.com]www.allposters.com[/url]
“It is said that a pun is the lowest form of humor (which makes me wonder if a bun is the lowest form of bread).” -Piers Anthony
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Originally posted by Squishy:
And football scores are informative, like half time or quarter (if you’re American), tells you it’s time to get beer from the fridge.
LIKE BEER…BEER GOOD!!!
That’s interesting, because somebody told me there was no football in the U.K.
You know the drill, don’t read this if you want to be surprised by various events in rerun [i]Babylon 5[/i] episodes and movies.
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.Londo Mollari becomes emperor after employing the Shadows (without knowing until it was too late to back out) to bring the Centauri Republic to its former greatness. He regrets his decision, and removes all Shadow influence from Centauri Prime so the Vorlons would not destroy it. When he saw that they were still going to blow up Centauri prime because [i]he[/i] was touched by the Shadows, he asked his cousin Vir Kotto to kill him. For this act of selflessness, the Vorlons allowed him and his people to live.
But there was no happy ending. As emperor, the Drakh, a satellite race of the Shadows possessing their technology, installed a parasite called a Keeper in him to control him. 20-some years later, he was able to temporarily subdue his Keeper, and had his “old friend’ G’Kar kill him, to eliminate its evil influence on Centauri. G’Kar obliged, but as he was strangling the life out of Londo, the Keeper came back to life, and strangled G’Kar. All three died simeltaneously. After Londo died, Vir became emperor, and brought a new golden age of peace and prosperity to the Centauri Republic.
Bill Mumy was one of the few cast members from the original [i]Lost in Space[/i] not to make a cameo appearance in the film remake (unless I missed him).
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
You made a good point witht the 3 and 7 segments. Yes I know that is the case but I (and 99.9% of the population) tend to group bugs,insects,aracnids etc in the same group: Creepy crawly things I don’t want touching me or my food or living in my house!
That may be true (though I’d think more like 60%), but I think it’s pretty safe to say the Supreme Beans and the [i]Lexx[/i] writing staff know much more about entomology (and science as a whole) than I do, and were applying that knowledge when creating the Insects.
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I was basing my assumptions that the nets were insects based on theire size, intelligence…
I think it’s likely they’re related, but I would think the Nets to be a group separate from, not to mention hostile to, the Insects.
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I wouldn’t say that the LEXX is programmed like a computer to be afraid of webs. That fear is natural to him. Much like how LEXX moths and terrestial moths are drawn to flame. And how every other lifeform (except for us) on the planet stays away from things with bright colors. i.e. bees, poison dart frogs, monarch butterflies etc. Bright colors are natures way of saying don’t touch. We make our bombs that way too. Unfortuanlty bright colors attract children, d’oh.
I don’t know if the Lexx’s thoughts and impulses are the result of computer-like programming, Insect instincts, or some combination of both. But regardless, some aspect of its mind made it want to turn away from the Net. This implies that the Insects were afraid of the Nets, and knew that some may still lurk in the Light Zone looking for Insect prey. The Lexx also seems familiar with the biology of the Nets (“where there is a Web, there could be a Spider!”). And (this isn’t really relevent) that second part isn’t exactly true. Hummingbirds are instinctively attracted to the colors yellow and red (an impulse that does not always work to their advantage).
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I’ve read about/seen ants with huge variantions within a species. Ranging from size, color, mandibles etc. But each one still looks like another ant. A moth, a dragon fly and a pill bug look nothing alike. That’s why I disagree witht the caste theory. Individual castes within the pill bugs isn’t such a bad idea though, too bad we’ll never get any back story to prove it one way or another.
Actually, pill bugs don’t have castes. They’re isopods, not insects (and I know I referred to them as uropods in a previous post, if you’re going to point that out; that was erroneous). I don’t think we’ve heard the last of the back story of the Insect civilization. There are still several more episodes for Insect reappearances and explanatory dialog, plus the possibility of a spinoff and future movies. Besides, I think the Beans devised all of the information about the Insect civilization that has been revealed and much more before they started writing the [i]Lexx[/i] movies, and are just revealing it to viewere on a need to know basis (much like Chris Carter with the [i]X-Files[/i] conspiracy and J. Michael Straczynski with the multilayered story arcs of [i]Babylon 5[/i]). I think somewhere, someone has the answer to all our questions.
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Originally posted by LexxLurker:
Ive always gone with what the plot says.Lexx plans were based from the Astral B, stored in Stans tooth. Probably the Heretics couldent build it.
However Brizon could, and did. Thus the Lexx was born.
How did the Heretics get that knowledge? Id have to guess that shortly before the Brunnin G were destroyed we learn they contacted the outside world(Brigadoom). But about what? This could be part of it, maybe they downloaded their knowledge to the heretics.
This is only one possibility, but I think the ability to create creature-machines like the Lexx and the moths was part of the knowledge the Insect inside the Cluster gave His Divine Shadow when he passed his essence to a human host. His Shadow gave a select group of bio-viziers this Insect arcana, and they used either the D.N.A. from Kai’s crashed stinger or secret samples extracted from the Cluster insect itself (or both) to bring these plans to fruition.
It is important to remember that, though Brizon said he built the Lexx, he is an ego-centric braggard with a tendancy to take credit for other peoples’ accomplishments. He may have really been the major force behind the Lexx’s creation, or he may have simply been one of dozens (or even hundreds) of brilliant minds who made the Lexx possible.
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Originally posted by Praxilla:
You gave me a dismissal on EVERYTHING I said, and let me tell you, you did NOT pick and chose. The only reason to look down your nose at someone is because your physically taller than them and even then it’s not a very good excuse.Did you point out what specific thing you were pooh poohing? NO. So don’t come back trying to make it look like you were perfectly in the right to be insulting and moronic towards me. IF you chose to use such demeaning terms towards other people, you best be johnny on the spot and explain yourself better.
I’ve always been nice to you, Praxilla, why are you being mean to me now? [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img] I never verbally attacked you or said anything about you personally, I just don’t agree with your belief that the transporter is feasible, and I’ve given you reasons.
And where are you getting that physical height thing? You’ve never even met me, you don’t know how tall I am. Are you being metaphorical or what? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
I really don’t understand why you’re lashing out at me like this all of a sudden. Has Aleck gotten to you, too?
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Go with the “You have lovely hypnotic eyes.” line next time. You might have considerably better luck!
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Thanks for the advice, Flamegrape.
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
Correction, we did see the web/net creature. I have no idea what roll it/could’ve played in the insect war. Perhaps just another fighter. Since it still existed, and the Brunnen G thought it destroyed all the insects, perhaps they only referd to the pill bugs. The stigners seem content to do what they’re told (hence why I think they’re a human creation), but the web/net creature just wants to catch food and survive. The pill bugs were intent on destroying all human life, so they may have incited/recruited the other bugs to fight the humans. Once the Brunnen G destoryed the pill bugs, with no unifying force, the other insects scattered and went back to being typical survivalistic creatures. Much like the insects that live on our own world.
I do not believe the Net in the episodes [i]The Net[/i] and [i]The Web[/i] was an Insect (just to clarify my half-sane semantics, Nets are the species, Webs and Spiders are the components). I think it was a completely different species. The Net body plan was radially symmetrical, based on 8. The Insect body plan seems to be based on 3 and 7 and always bilateral. It does have similar characteristics, like an exoskeleton, enormous size, the capability of interstellar travel, and the ability to pass part of its intelligence to hosts of other species. So it’s possible that the Nets originally came from the same planet as the Insects, that they share the same evolutionary ancestry and may belong to the same phylum. Or this could all be the result of convergent evolution and the Nets and Insects could have arisen in different star systems entirely. Now, Insects could not have existed in vacuum (speaking metaphorically, of course). They must have been part of an ecosystem, with standard prey to sustain them and predators to keep them in check. The Nets may have been just such a predator. The Lexx is programmed to be afraid of the Web he sees. He also knows that where there’s a Web there’s likely to be a Spider. His instincts told him to turn but Stan told him not to, with disastrous results. This implies that the Insects and the Nets had previous contact, and, as with this situation, the Insect was the victim.
The caste theory is just that, a theory. There isn’t really enough data about the Insect civilization to tell how closely that speculation adheres to “reality.” But, keep in mind, terrestrial insects can show considerable polymorphism within one species, and the Insects had advanced technology like genetic engineering which they could have used to greater specialize and differentiate castes. Also, even if there was only one caste, the genetic engineering and tissue manipulation of later groups like the Brunnen-G and the League of 20,000 Planets could account for all the differences.
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Originally posted by Bonnee:
DT – I am sorry if my combatants have managed to convince you that I might be using you as a pretext to get back at them. Please try and believe me when I say that I WAS (and remain) completely taken aback by what has transpired between you, Aleck, Flame (and to a lesser extent, FX) – and regard it as symptomatic of a problem that needs to be addressed by Tony. This is nowhere better illustrated than the tendency for those to believe what they want to according to partisan lines and/or existing predispositions. I don’t think that it is any *coincidence* that this has been between three moderators mutually supporting each other and a very active member obviously highly esteemed in their eyes. Whilst i wouldn’t go so far as to imply a conspiracy, I understand why you might feel conspired against. but Aleck knew you weren’t being literal – you were just obviously describing how you were feeling, and he extrapolated from there.
Bonnee, I do not believe that your sympathy for me extends beyond an excuse to post inflammatory messages, nor do I condone this “crusade” you’ve started.
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Originally posted by Aleck:
As for others’ opinions: As much as I argue with DT, I don’t immediately write off his opinions or attack them without thinking. I may take issue with the way in which he presents them, or the reasoning that brought him to those opinions (if I see that reasoning as being flawed or misinformed), but I always give his ideas and opinions consideration, and as I’m sure even he will attest (and has, in stating that I was agreeing with him), they are not simply dismissed as being worthless.
My reasoning is never flawed.
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Originally posted by Snooklepie:
and then there’s the things on the “must have” list…a life-size cardboard cut-out of Data, a proper klingon costume (not one of those cheapo, crappy things i always seem to see advertised), that poster out of Mulder’s office, a B5 model (complete with fibre-optics) a DS9 model (ditto), a bat’leth, the rest of the ST soundtracks, a Ranger pin, the number plate NCC 1701 for my car (i think i’ll need a lottery win to be able to get that one!!)…etc….etc…
There’s a place online where you can order the “I want to believe” poster. It isn’t quite the same as the one on the show (I think the company couldn’t legally reproduce the photograph in the background so they created a computer-generated facsimile), but it’s pretty neat. I’ve got one over my computer desk in my dorm.
I believe in the possibility (and in some cases inevitibility of development) of cybernetic implantation, human cloning, genetic engineering, cryogenic stasis, particle scanners, electromagnetic levitation, and quantum transportation of large objects. But I (and pretty much every scientist who has written a “science in science fiction”-type book or essay) find it incredibly hard to believe that every single particle in a human being can be stored in a computer and reassembled accurately from other matter. Read why the transporter (and several other pieces of [i]Star Trek[/i] technology) are implausible here.
Besides, the transporter would be useless, since the same function could be taken by a much simpler device. By artificially generating a quantum singularity you can transport people from place to place whole. Not only is the transporter highly implausible, it is completely unnecessary.
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Originally posted by Flamegrape:
Why don’t you write a short story from the point of view of the Insect Civilization? Why would the Insect aliens want to kill humans? Maybe humans accidentally caused them to “swarm”? Sound like you have your work cut out for you DT!
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I’m not big on fan fiction. I prefer compiling information on the “real” Insect civilization, not inventing my own.
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Originally posted by Squishy:
DT, that was quite funny you trying to be friendly to the opposite sex by calling her a Preying Mantis, I would have loved to have seen the look on her face…not exactly the most romantic thing to say.
And how did she remind you of a preying Mantis?
Because she had lovely hypnotic eyes. It was intended as a compliment, but I suppose it could have been interpreted differently, which would be consistent with her reaction.
[i]I Worship His Shadow[/i] should read 8 and [i]The Giga Shadow[/i] should read 2. Kai killed at least 1 [i]Fore Shadow[/i] officer plus Thodin and all the Austral-B Heretics except the keyholder and His Shadow’s host. Then he killed someone as an assassin in a flashback and a brain.
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Here’s my speculation on the Insect caste system and the origin of the Lexx:
Now, it is plausible that the Insect civilization consisted of a number of castes specialized for different jobs within the society. It is even possible that the essences of a single Insect could reside in more than one body based on the task at hand. On Earth, I believe insect hives can have as many as 6 different castes. Now, my theory is that the genetic code for all the castes resides in the D.N.A. of each and every Insect, like all the junk D.N.A. we have that codes for traits our ancestors discarded millions of years ago. All of this is in each larva, they are stimulated to grow into a certain type but the D.N.A. remains. Now, this would also mean that if you had a sample of the D.N.A. of any Insect, or possibly even Insect-based constructs, you would have the genetic material to create any caste, or even a new type of organism with different characteristics of different castes that do not normally exist together in one being. In other words, with just a tissue sample from the Giga Shadow or a stinger you could grow things as dimorphous as moths and the Lexx.
Now, [i]if[/i] the caste theory is correct and [i]if[/i] the synthetic constructs used are based directly on a single caste, then we can assign Insect(oid)s we’ve seen to a certain caste. Stingers would be warriors (well, duh) and moths would be workers. The Lexx’s nature is less clear. It is bigger than most craft, which would imply a royal caste. But size may not matter, since the builders of Insect craft could suppress growth so their ships didn’t get so big it required major resources to keep them alive. The Lexx has been identified as male, which would imply that it is based on a male/king/drone. In insect societies on Earth all of the non-royal castes are infertile females. But Insects may not be the same as insects. Now, warrior is also implied, by the fact that [b]the Lexx can blow up planets.[/b] Maybe there are different subcastes of warriors, common “light” warriors like stingers and “heavy” warriors like the Lexx that have a special limited function, like to protect the queen. Now, what was the Giga Shadow? It had a bunch of larvae attached to it, so that would imply that it was a queen. But that was at the end of its life. In Earth insects, sometimes a normally infertile worker can develop into a queen if the colony’s queen has died. So the Giga Shadow would’ve been a pseudo-queen or quasi-queen, something different earlier in its life. I find it most likely that the last surviving Insect was just a minor work unit, something relatively insignificant to the Insect civilization and the human forces that exterminated them. Queens would’ve been the first priority for things to destroy. But if the Shadow (the young Giga Shadow) was a worker, we run into problems since we (I) have already assigned moths to the worker caste. But perhaps moths were a specific subcaste employed for work requiring long-range travel, so they would be “scouts” instead of plain “workers.” All of this is speculative, the idea of a caste hierarchy itself is merely theoretical.
We don’t know if the craft like moths, stingers, and the Lexx were even based directly on a specific type of Insect. Their D.N.A. could have active parts from several different castes. Moths seem to be grown by grafting a number of tissues onto a metal frame. The different [i]tissues[/i] may come from different castes and have different genetic codes.
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Originally posted by Mary Beth:
i was also reading lots of scifi and fantasy books by then. this continued throughout high school and off and on since then. i didn’t date in high school.i went out to do stuff with my best friend, Terry. we also went to junior prom, senior prom, Homecoming, and various events together. how geeky is that! [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
Oh, that’s not so unusual.
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Originally posted by Mary Beth:
here in the present the geekiest things that i have are, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia- action figures, playing card, comics, movies, etc… i even have a stuffed Raphael doll sitting on the back of my couch.
I still have my collection of over 100 [i]Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle[/i] action figures I bought long ago. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
But insects are cool! And Insects are really cool! Seriously, I really love insects, ever since I was a kid. In elementary school my nickname was Bugboy because I was always collecting, drawing, or talking about insects. I think insects are the most æsthetically appealing form of life on this planet (and the prospect of giant or intelligent insects on other planets is an intriguing and disquieting concept that has become a tradition in science fiction). I once told someone they reminded me of a preying mantis, but think she might have taken it the wrong way.
Anyway, I love insects. INSECTS!!!
I wasn’t going to watch the olympics, but a psychic on a website said a huge U.F.O. would show up at the games Thursday, and I was going to check that out just in case. But I had too much work to do. I assume we’re still officially alone in the Universe, since I didn’t read anything about that. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by elmey:
I’ve gotta know–what kind of job makes blood donorship mandatory??? [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Cluster security guard (if you get enough demerit points). [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Let’s see here, I just spent the last 9 hours playing Dungeons & Dragons. I had a lot of homework but 2 of my classes were cancelled so it balanced out. I had an easy chemistry midterm. This weekend I had planned to go down to the Haunted Bookshop to get some D&D books and a Piers Anthony novel and maybe get that 20th anniversary [i]Tron[/i] D.V.D. at Sam Goody, but I didn’t get around to that. Probably the most remarkable thing that happened to me this week was I talked to a girl in friendly terms for an extended period of time.
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Originally posted by Squishy:
Yes insects, want more insects!!!, I miss the D/O as well, Lexx was really dark in those days, that’s when I thought it would really give Star Wars a run for it’s money.
Insects make everything better. [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Kai:
I prefered the light universe so why don’t they bring it back. Like if theuniverse colllapsed then there is another big bang. All the lexx has to do is slow time untill the universe is ready e.g. fly close to a black hole (and don’t complain about the unrealism of that one, this is Lexx so stick that copy of a brief history of time where the sun dont shine)
That kinda thing may be okay for [i]Star Trek[/i], but this is [i]Lexx[/i]. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by mary beth:
[img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] what is the weirdest thing in your purse or wallet?
My Lucasfilm Fan Club card that identified me as an official Jedi knight.
I don’t want to continue this topic (the topic Aleck started, not the one intended for this thread), but I feel an obligation to counter the claims made that are especially erroneous.
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Originally posted by Aleck:
You’ve insinuated that everyone on the board is of lesser intelligence than you. You’ve had the presumption to believe that you have the right to speak for the entire membership of this board. You’ve insinuated that you’re morally superior to the rest of the posters. You’ve projected your own opinons onto others.
This is what I meant by how he “interprets my posts as meaning something entirely different from what I had in mind when I was typing them.” I never did, said, or implied any of those things.
He’s also trying to chip away at my credibility by making it sound like I am somehow atypical in opinion or unusual in mentality. And saying the target of an organization is “just paranoid” is the oldest trick in the book. This is like what they did to X, only now I’m in the crosshairs.
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Again, you’re arrogant, you’re insulting, and you’re *out of your freaking mind*.
You have no reason to question my humility, I am very innocuous and polite unless pushed too far, and I have a firm grasp on reality. And I just want this all to end. Unfortunately, there seems to be nothing I can do or say to make Aleck relent, and even if he were to leave me alone I would still have to deal with his remanent satellite figures (like the Drakh and Hand after the Shadows departed, to use a sci-fi metaphor you can understand).
And, quite frankly, I’m getting really sick of groups of people conspiring to make my life difficult.
Yes! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] A chat with the head man! [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] I have an appointment with student health on the 9th, but I should be back to my dorm in time to come on before the chat is over (I wonder what my psyche would think if I told him I was in a hurry to talk to a robot head [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] ).
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Originally posted by Nirvanah Rimmer:
Oh, yes, you most certainly seem older than you are (to me anyway) .I think it has a lot to do with your vast amount of sci fi knowlege paired with you good grammar and spelling. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]LOL I have to say, most men or men-like beings your age aren’t very interested in learning or information (unless it’s information about girls bust sizes or football scores).
I suppose I am very interested in learning and information (just don’t ask me about football scores or girls’ bust sizes, that’s outside of my field of knowledge [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] ).
I haven’t had much time to read the stories on this forum, but I got around to reading yours, Praxilla, and it is really pretty good. That’s a nice suprise ending to the first segment.
New crew: Stan, Lyekka, Oberon, and 790. That’d be cool for a spinoff. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] Or it could be a prequel series, with Thodin and the Heretics. It’d be nice if we could relive those Divine Order days. [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] Really, I’d watch any spinoff, just so long as ther were INSECTS! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Hey, I just had a thought: what if Cleasby were to get the key to the Lexx and become the new captain? That could be interesting. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
[ 23-02-2002: Message edited by: DalekTek790 ]
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Originally posted by Squishy:
I’ve heard it said that T.V and computer games can promote anti-social behaviour, and to a degree I guess it’s true. Although, I think most adults are less affected and they use television as a way to start a conversation, like we do here, or discussing sporting events. Children seem at the most risk, watching television seems to hamper certain learning skills, i.e how to communicate in the real world, and in some cases they are shut off from society.
You hear that some are influenced by T.V, again it could be attributed to how your childhood was shaped, you end depending on T.V as your portal to the outside.
But I think most people with a T.V have the same requirements as each other, I watch only things that interest me, so at best it’s about 2-3 hours viewing, and that’s on a good night.
But I would rather be sat in a front of a T.V with a nice cold beer than throwing my money down the drain getting rat-arsed down the local bar (though once in a while is good!!!), a lot of it is due to age or your circumstances. Like housewives, stuck at home all day, the only highlight is picking up the kids from school, and the only entertainment provided is boring daytime T.V…sounds like hell to me!!!
Squishy [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
I agree. I like television and video games. I’m not one of those people who believes that all the violence in society is the result of [i]The Matrix[/i] and “Doom.” But television can have unhealthy effects on people, especially younger children. To many people, television is something to which they compare their lives, and develop their sense of what the real world is like (I think that’s true of everyone, to an extent). Television presents fictitious situations and norms that can be confused with reality. Actually I think it’s shows that are “mundane” and close to reality that cause the most trouble, rather than violent cop shows or that sort of thing.
Like I said, I’m not against entertainment, but people can become disconnected from reality.
I’ll take a moment to explain Aleck to you. Aleck Bennett is a tenacious philodox and a charismatic logogogue. He derives great pleasure from the mental anguish of others, particularly me. He will periodically engage in heated logomachy with me. He invariably starts these arguments. All I ever do is defend myself against his agnogenic attacks. He has fixated on me for some reason I am uncertain of, and goes to great lengths, through extensive research and careful choosing of words, to maximize each post’s potential to vex me. He is bent on offending, upsetting, depressing, angering, and provoking me. He is constantly playing with my mind. With every post he tries to destroy me psychologically. Furthermore, he has recruited others for his sadistic cause via indoctrination. He says I am arrogant and offensive, and after reading that other board members are more likely to interpret ambiguous actions as offensive or signs of arrogance. He also deliberately misrepresents what I say, or interprets my posts as meaning something entirely different from what I had in mind when I was typing them, in order to generate adversarialism. He projects his own characteristics on others. I think that about sums it up.
I didn’t want this thread to be a battle. Let’s end this.
Look, I’m glad people can find things to add, but there’s no point in criticizing the list over things that aren’t really errors.
Now, which Jim Fowler credit is incorrect?
Aleck, not long ago you were agreeing with me and talking nicely. Now you’re back to contradicting everything I say. What’s with that? Do you just disagree with me when you’re not getting enough argument at home? Or are you being deliberately inconsistent to play with my mind? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
The T.V. in my dorm only gets 6 channels, so all I watch here is the news and [i]Doctor Who[/i]. When I’m at home every other weekend then I can watch all the cable shows I love like [i]Lexx[/i] and [i]Leave it to Beaver[/i].
ColecoVision, eh? Well, I still play the Super Nintendo I got when I turned 15. Mario forever! [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]
I also have an estimated $300 worth of [i]Star Wars[/i] C.C.G. cards, does that count? [img]images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Nirvanah Rimmer:
Mine is 3-8-79
Wow, I had no idea I was so close in age to so many of you, I always felt younger than most of you lol. Especially DalekTek, i thought he must be like 30, but I guess he’s just smart for his age (yeah ,yeah, that’s it yeah sure LOL) [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
Do I really seem older than I am? When I first started coming here, I figured most of the board members were about my age, since that’s who seems to be into sci-fi, teens and young adults. But now I’ve found out the average age here is quite above mine.
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Originally posted by Aleck:
What???? DT, get out of whatever box it is you hide in. You say that “few people have seen Blade Runner, and I think significantly fewer enjoyed it”, yet you claim that Def-Con 4 has a sizable following? For all its technical inaccuracies inasmuch as credits are concerned, the Internet Movie Database is a fairly decent representation of a a cross-section of the movie-going public, and Blade Runner has an 8.3 (out of 10) user rating, and has been voted on 40,315 times. It ranks about #68 in the top 250 movies of all time, according to their calculations. Def-Con 4 has been voted on a mere 187 times (which should indicate how many people know it exists, compared to the roughly 200 times as many who know about and have voted for Blade Runner), and has a user rating of 3.6 out of 10. Blade Runner is one of the most critically successful science fiction films ever made, while Def-Con 4 languishes in obscurity. Just because *you* don’t personally like something doesn’t mean that nobody *else* does, as much as you seem to think that everyone should share your opinions and views on everything.
I wasn’t going to extensively research all the films these actors were in, I just included the ones I thought were siginificant. I know 5 people (excluding online contacts) who liked [i]Dev-Con 4[/i] (I myself have not seen it). I know 1 person who liked [i]Blade Runner[/i] (I saw it and thought it was weak).
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So, for Tim Curry, you listed a fairly insignificant role in a failed movie like [i]The Shadow[/i], instead of listing what is perhaps the most significant role of his career. In a film that plays theatrically practically every weekend in practically every major metropolitan area, and in multiple theatres in the larger metro areas. A film that has done this since, roughly, 1980. Makes perfect sense. Like listing that barn-busting, earth-shaking success [i]Mr. Stitch[/i] rather than [i]Blade Runner[/i] for Rutger Hauer. Uh-huh. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] Glad to see you’re weeding out the lesser titles.
Once again, I know people who liked [i]The Shadow[/i] (one is a devout fan), but [i]The Rocky Horror Picture Show[/i] has a very narrow range of appeal (I saw most of it on T.V., it was pretty stupid). [i]Mr. Stitch[/i] is obscure, but this is a sci-fi themed board and that was a Sci-Fi original movie, plus (i think) his only non-acting credit).
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Do you know *anything* about film, or are you just making this up as you go along? For someone who allegedly requires hard proof before he believes *anything*, you certainly seem to have no problems inventing things out of whole cloth…such as the rabid cults you claim exist for films that only you and about 10 other people actually like, while claiming that more popular and/or well-respected films that you don’t happen to like (or agree with on a moral basis) are obscure and/or widely scorned.
I know quite a lot about science fiction films. I had a website that gave reviews and star ratings of sci-fi movies, but I made the mistake of working with someone else on it, and to make a long story short it no longer exists. I’m working on an updated version of it (I have well over 100 films rated), but I don’t want to put it up until it’s perfect.
[b]Lex Gigeroff[/b]
I Worship His Shadow-His Divine Shadow’s last human host
Eating Pattern-Coozunk
Lafftrak-Robotic actor portraying clown, Mr. Beetle, and colonel
Twilight-Zombie? (unconfirmed)
Brigadoom-Actor portraying His Divine Shadow
Tunnels-Dr. Rainbow
Little Blue Planet-Barnab Hufferton on poster
Fluff Daddy-Barnab Hufferton[b]Jeffrey Hirschfield[/b]
Recurring-790
I Worship His Shadow-His Divine Shadow’s host on [i]Fore Shadow[/i]
Eating Pattern-Feemak
The Giga Shadow-His Divine Shadow’s host from flashback
Lyekka-P. T. Bando
Lafftrak-Robotic actor portraying soldier
Fluff Daddy-Dick Dongler
