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Hooray!!! Thanks, FX.
Ummm…questions: what’s Jeffrey up to these days? Any great projects in the works? Was he in Thailand with the rest of the crew? If so, how was it? Brian seemed to think the elephants were fun, did Jeffrey? (that’ll give him a chance to go off on one of his funny riffs) Would he consider working for a U.S. production if offered the opportunity?
That’s all I can think of for now.
This is a bit off-topic, but DalekTek, I’m also getting the flood control message when I try to post from my work computer (I know, I know, so spank me). I work at a university, and I see that you are at college. Is Sadboard no longer accepting posts from college domains?
My favorite episode (today, anyway) was K-Town, for a lot of different reasons. I was puzzled at first by the behavior of the denizens of the town. Eventually I came to see it as a kind of lunatic asylum, where those who were relentlessly contrary and contentious in their former lives were sent to argue and throw rocks at once another. There was no rationale for their behavior, because they didn’t need one. And that was sort of Mantrid’s M.O. He wanted to destroy the universe, and he had no sane reason for wanting to do so. Yet he redeemed himself in a way, because when he reversed Kai’s control rods, he must have known Kai might kill him. It was his way to escape, and that’s a perfectly rational thing to do under extreme duress.
It was also the episode with that touching scene between Stan and Xev, when he tells her that she’s “really okay”. He recognizes her disdain for him, but at the same time he realizes he feels affection for her, and she obviously must feel some for him too, since she’s massaging his back, and hugs him and gives him the little peck on the cheek. It’s the beginnings of what Stan said later about them being family.
It also showed growth in Xev’s personality. She was actually able to be affectionate with Stanley without associating it with either sexual desire or repugnance. A lot of people diss Season 3, but I thought the characters of Xev and Stan gained a heck of a lot of development in that season.
I also liked the scene where Kai falls down in the hole with them, but not for the usual reasons. For the first time I saw him as two characters in one. He denies that he can feel pain, and yet on his face, he’s clearly registering pain. It’s almost as if he feels it, but doesn’t *know* he’s feeling it. There’s an external, dead Kai who feels nothing, and there’s an internal, buried Kai who does, almost as if the two personas are unaware of each other. It gives the character more complexity than you would normally associate with a corpse (sort of reminds me now of those conversations between the mortician and the corpses he’s preparing for burial in “Six Feet Under”). But it’s a portrayal that could also explain a lot of living people.
Visually, I found the Planet Fire fascinating and beautiful (but then, I’m a desert girl at heart). When they push Kai off the building, he falls to the ground, then stands up and rolls down the sand dune — it’s basically silent (except for the whistling sound he makes as he falls, and the thump at the end). That scene, and the scene near the end when Xev and Stan are sitting, waiting for Kai to come back to them and they spot a balloon going by, made me feel the overwhelming silence and summer heat of the planet. The way those scenes were done evoked a memory of summer in me, I suppose. And I think a lot of it was because the scenes were so quiet, so low-key, even though there was much drama at the heart of it: will Kai be repaired, will he come back and rescue us from this hell?
Anyhow, that’s my take on it, and I’m sticking to it.
strategically placed dairy queen banana split dish … except for when it fell off…but that got edited…okay, just ask if she would do those scenes now, or ask for a stunt butt
Looked more like a carburetor to me, heh heh! Cool about the chat and interview. Hmm, my questions? Does she keep in touch with the other cast members? I’m also interested in knowing what she plans on doing if there’s no spinoff. Was Rolf Kaines as much fun to work with as it appeared onscreen?
That’s all I can think of for now.
In the latest Cult Times, Michael McManus has repeated what he’s said before in interviews, that the ending of Lexx will bring the story full circle, and that everything will make sense looking backwards.
Whether or not this explains or examines the Divine Order remains to be seen. But it’s entirely possible that we’ll get an explanation for the mystery of the Time Prophet. I for one would like to see that.
I’m enjoying Season Four myself. Come on, folks, scifi doesn’t have to be all space opera to be scifi. Lexx is the most different scifi on TV, and frankly, it’s a welcome relief from all the space chase and shootemup, square jawed hero stuff.
Some episodes work and some don’t — what television show that ever existed didn’t have some weak episodes? Sometimes the writing is bad, sometimes it’s inspired. There’s just no such thing as perfection.
Good thoughts, and I can see your reasoning on some of it, but… I can’t agree that Heaven is meant to be a place where you can just “ignore pain”. Also, people were killed on Water in the battles — not very heavenish.
True, everybody on Fire eventually suffers, but some of the more sadistic types have a great time before that happens.
As for Lexx’s morality — well, the real moral seems to be that bad things happen to the good and bad alike. Remember, nobody has ever survived the Lexx, and even Stan, Xev, and Kai have had their share of grief.
There are lots of good effects, and some not so good. The one I liked best was Lexx emerging into the Dark Zone after the destruction of the Light Universe. Have to agree with Theli on that one. To me, just the concept was a piece of art.
The one I like least is Kai being yanked around on a cord by Vlad. Somehow, it just lacked weight, and the figure animation wasn’t done very well, especially the scene on the roof of the castle.
Invite all the Lexxians and have a big party. Of course, I’d have to send the moths down to get everybody, so I’d reprogram the mothbreeders to be chauffeurs and make them pick up party food and a couple of cool bands, too.
We’d park next to the moon for our party. When it was over, I’d drop everybody off on Earth again and then take a tour of the galaxy, returning periodically for another party.
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In Walpurgis Night Kai, using one of the blades on his scorpion brace, whittles an ocarina that is supposed to replicate the mating call of a moth, and gives it to Stan.
Uh, if memory serves Brizon’s ship was a big blue-green jellyfish.
Jellyfish? Uh, yeah, and that thing Kai carved was an ocarina.
1. I Worship His Shadow
2. A toss up between Wake The Dead and Mantrid.
3. K-Town
4. so far, Magic Baby
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I had a dream last night that after Lexx had ended SadGeezer added a classic Star Trek section to the site to keep people interested, and all the former Kai-droolers started raving about Leonard Nimoy.
Did that already, too many moons ago to count. Once Lexx is gone, unless MMcM starts to appear in another regular series, I need somebody NEW to drool over!!! (Okay, I’m fickle, so sue me.)
I wasn’t able to get online all weekend and I missed the Ellen Dubin chat! Waaaaaahhh!!
DAMN YOU, TIME-WARNER!!!!
I’m with Doffy et al: I want to see Kai with his hair down. And I want to see him admit he does have feelings. I want to see 790 get a body and fall in love with a robot head. I want Xev and Stan to find true love and a home. And I want Lexx to get all he can eat.
Well, what country am *I* living in?? I’ve still got 2 months of hiatus to get through and I’m sure as heck not getting any more sex! Something’s definitely wrong with this picture!!!!
Hiya, Mothbreeder!! Nice to see you again!
I’ve always liked Stan just because he’s so *human*! (even though, like Doffy, I admit to being a Kai drooler)
Let’s face it: without Stan, there would be no brakes on Xev at all, and Kai certainly doesn’t fill that bill. Stan’s the sane center of the Lexx.
However, I did get a little annoyed with him in Fluffdaddy because he insisted (despite all previous experience) on going back to Earth, where he KNEW he was going to get in trouble, just for a roll in the hay with Bunny (which he SHOULD have known he wasn’t gonna get anyway!).
Okay, bad or not, you’ve got me so curious about this episode now that if Scifi doesn’t show it, I’m gonna be one disappointed queen.
BTW, I’m a sucker for a bad pun!
OK, does anybody else find the love/hate Buffy/Spike slugfest disturbing? I admit, I LMAO at the building falling down around them, but their greetings and goodbyes seem to involve punching each other in the face.
I don’t doubt Spike is in love with Buffy. But what’s her deal? She claims to despise him, but can’t keep her hands off him. Is she trying to recreate what she had with Angel? Does she really care for Spike and refuses to admit it? (because what girl wants to admit to an attraction for dead guys — oh, wait, I guess that could describe me, the dedicated Lexxian)
And why do I get this vague sense that James Marsters may be setting the stage to leave the show?
Enterprise lost me after about the second episode. The minute they started in with the technobabble, I was outta there.
T’Pol is an @$$hole in my opinion. Vulcans can be likable, even when they’re being coldly logical, but she’s just downright contemptuous of everybody on that ship.
Actually, it’s those subliminal messages embedded in the frames:
You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
And you thought those were just lines made up by some Star Trek writers, didn’t you?
Although I’m a huge fan of Darwanism, I stil belive in helping a fellow human. Too bad only stupid people are breeding.
Um… on behalf of all the parents and children of parents that are here, let me say thanks, Headgehog. But I assume that *your* parents bred also?
I can’t imagine what Buffy even sees in Spike: he’s skinny, weedy, peroxided, and he smokes. Plus, he’s another vampire. Can’t the girl get a living boyfriend? Oh, wait, she did that, and he was beyond bland.
I’ve always thought the show was well-written and well-acted, but frankly, I think they’re starting to run out of ideas.
If you’ll notice, the adjectives “nasty” and “offensive” are usually only applied to *female* nipples on display. Also, while there was much groaning and eye-rolling at the droolfest over Michael McManus’ one nude scene in four seasons, the quest for ever more Xev shower scenes continues unabated.
My real point is, I don’t mind a little violence or a little sex if it has a point and advances the story. It bothers me not at all to see two people making love (as opposed to merely having sex). But when it comes to pointless graphic sex or pointless bloody violence, I’d just as soon not watch. However, it’s not my business if somebody else wants to: they pay their cable premiums same as I do. I can always switch channels or pick up a book.
Did I let my kids watch things like that? Not until they were old enough to make rational judgments about it, and believe me, we had some arguments. But I never believed in letting them grow up thinking the world is all sweetness and easy answers, either.
Erikans? Does anybody but me find this name significant? Or am I just looking for clues to the end of Lexx where none exist?
I’m not going to fan the flames of controversy by offering an opinion on whether you should or shouldn’t do it , but I will say that if you decide to start a fanfic forum here, you’ll find it becomes habit-forming. People have surprised themselves with the creativity they find inside themselves, once they start writing.
Um… part ducks? Are those like those cement geese people put on their porches and dress up in little dresses? (Americans will know what I’m talking about).
Eva Habermann and Xenia Seeberg each have much to recommend them in the role of Zev/Xev, but I’ve grown much fonder of Xenia, if only because I’ve seen more of her.
I think Stan said it best when he called them a “family”. They all love each other in a vague, kind of unacknowledged way (and yes, I prefer to believe that Kai does feel “something” even if he doesn’t quite realize it). If they didn’t, Xev would have killed Stanley, Stanley would have sabotaged Kai’s cryopod, and any one of them would have tossed 790 off the bridge for good.
I’ve sort of guessed (from spoilers and whatnot) what’s going to happen to Kai at the end of the season, and I can reasonably believe that Stan will continue on in the Lexx universe, but the big question in my mind is: What’s going to happen to Xev?
Amen, FX!
I, for one, appreciate that you guys even put up a forum like this, but I can see where it’s going to go if we don’t all just shut up. I come online to have fun. Lately, it seems, all I do is try to find ways to respond in a civil manner to (or ignore, which is not always easy) uncalled-for insults and put-downs from people I don’t know, let alone the out and out attacks from certain people who could do with a visit to a good mental health counselor.
Aleck and Headge, I understand your complaint about the speed of the Scifi bboard. But it’s always been that way, and no one complained about it before fics became such an issue. Actually, Aleck, I never saw you post anything there except plugs for Acorn Media, so I can kind of understand your frustration. I’m also sorry we’re not up to your intellectual standards, but, hey, there it is.
So once again, thanks FX and Sad, and now I’m taking my own advice and shutting up.
Well, it was nice enough of Sad to give us a chance to defend ourselves (defending ourselves on the other forums just seems to lead to ranting and namecalling).
FX, APEC is not a closed organization designed to keep people out, and the rules are very simple: don’t use other people’s nicks or characters without permission, and if you want to write slash/graphic sexual stories, please take it to a private list where there are no ten year olds lurking, as there are on the Scifi bboard. However, we don’t try to ENFORCE that particular rule, as if we had the power to do it anyway.
We invite anyone in who wants to play. All they have to do is tell us they want to play. We ask that if we give them a clone (again, it’s just part of the game) they don’t do something awful like murder him or torture him, or turn him into some kind of rapist or other awful thing (he is a Kai, after all). And no, nobody in the game is so far gone that they think the Kai clones are real. We talk about them as if they were real because that is part of the game.
Hmm. Dead relationships? I’ll have to ask my husband, children, and grandchildren about that. Yes, they do think grandma is in her second childhood, especially when she threw a shoe and went to Halifax for a — *gasp* — Lexx fan convention. When you get here, where I am, ask yourselves if you wouldn’t like to have one. Old ain’t dead, folks.
I know there are a lot of fictions on the Scifi bboard. It happens during every hiatus, because people have chewed the episode discussions to death. Sorry, if we could keep the eps airing nonstop, we would. But believe it or not, we don’t have that kind of influence with Scifi, despite what some people say. When the show starts airing again in January, there will be more discussion posts, but in all likelihood, the fics won’t cease. They are just too much fun. And if the game annoys you, I’m sorry, but we have as much right to post there as you do.
We don’t insist that everyone join in. We don’t hold it against you if you think it’s silly and don’t WANT to join in. It’s not for everybody, we get that. But we have not told you that you’re “not normal” or that there’s something wrong with you simply because you don’t want to play. Please accord us the same courtesy.
As for Vyx being banned from Scifi, I’m afraid she has nobody to blame but herself for that. If Scifi actually listened to APEC, Season2 would have been aired in order, there would be no four month hiatuses (hiatusi?), Season5 would be in pre-production, the Scifi bboard would have actual moderators to keep down the crap, and nobody would be allowed to flood the chatrooms.
Lastly, let me say this: I think it is extremely insulting to Brian Downey to think that he would listen to one fan badmouthing another fan. When I met him in Halifax, I got the impression of an extremely kind, courteous gentleman who would never knowingly hurt anyone’s feelings. But he is an actor, and a celebrity, and necessarily must distance himself from the crush of fans who want his attention. If he doesn’t answer private messages, that is either the reason, or as doffy and elfie said, he is using java and (shudder) a MAC, and doesn’t have the capability without losing his window.
Thanks, Sad. It’s nice to get that off my chest.
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..if you’re crazy, demented, psychotic, etc, you’ll fit in here quite nicely…
What exactly do you mean by that? I’ll have you know, I am perfectly-I am perfectly-I am perfectly- sane!
Thanks to Micro for doing the duping and mailing. That’s a lot of work.
Thanks to Star and Valdron for doing the copy and making it available.
I mailed you my money on Tuesday, Micro.
Okay, so The Tick had to struggle for laughs a little more this week, and Patrick Warburton looked more uncomfortable in the costume than he did last week, but it was still hysterical. I agree with Doffy, those antennae alone are worth watching.
BatManuel is a scream. And Lady Liberty crying her eyes out, with her makeup all smeared. But they need to give Mothman more to do.
Lines that made me laugh:
“I like the cut of his gibberish.”
“You… KILLED The Immortal?”
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In the second movie, SuperNova, Kai explains that the “mark” is a symbol of his people’s migration from their original home to Brunnis2 in the Light Universe. All Brunnen males had it in Brigadoom.
Forgive me for jumping in, DT, since I’m old and used up and couldn’t POSSIBLY care about sex any more, but let me just say: at 18, you’ve got a heckuva lot of living and learning to do, and one of these days, sex IS going to rear its ugly head. My advice is to go with the flow. It’s not nearly as bad as you’ve heard.
*sigh* why is it that youth is largely wasted on the young?
I’ve watched it. Yes, I have no life. Right now it’s got a LOT of rough spots, IMO, but if they give it a chance, it might iron them out. It’s fairly obvious most of the actors are relatively inexperienced (Forbes March comes particularly to mind). Unless they start developing the characters, though, they’re going to quickly run out of steam (there’s only so much you can do with mutant powers to hold the audience’s interest).
I admit, I don’t know what the comic or cartoon were like, but I think the TV show is a scream. I’ve always thought Patrick Warburton was funny, and he is just perfect as the Tick.
Actually, Reveal7, you named it yourself: Exquisite Illusion. How embarrassed am I, that I saw myself there?
And, if you are female, may I suggest Victor Webster of MutantX as a replacement?
There are seven segments in the iris HDS symbol.
Not that I was comparing it to the segments in mints. Nuh uh.
I do have a life. Really. I do.
Well, I guess PD couldn’t think of any more ways to abuse Stan, so he turned his sights on Kai (heh heh).
