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Originally posted by Slopmaster
Ok here is my theory on how the Lexx’s weapon works. When those dome covers over the Lexx’s parabola are uncovered you can see two pronged antennas. I believe that these antenna’s draw in zero point energy from around it. The antennas that are now charged with this zero point energy. The front part of the Lexx is more or less like a magnet that draws in this charged energy to the front of it and then the magnetic hold is dropped and the energy is let go. Now its possible its a rearrangement of this magnetic energy hold that has caused the Lexx to now shoot rings of fire as opposed to a strait line. Maybe the holders are arranged in several rows and some of these holders have broken down after several thousand years leaving only a few arranged in the form of a ring.
I never thougth about zero point theory (zpt). It would make an excellent solution though. The theory says that there enough enrgy in a point or singularity of space to flash boil all water on earth serveral times over. We have no idea how to utilize zpt into anything useful, so the antennas could be how its colected. Usually 2 prong antennas are used to collect and transmit charge or create light waves; ok so its pretty much the same thing. Your theory saounds great, but in 4.10 we saw charged particles from the tail movign to the head of Lexx, these particles then condensed and blew up a few earther spacecraft.
As for the ring of fire, I think its made into a ring for long range or precision attacks. But the Lexx is still growing so maybe the weapon is growing/changign with it. Also rememebr Lexx fired the wave of fire in s3, so it’s doubtful his weapon was warped over the thousand year sleep.I may have come off as critical, this wasn’t intentional; I most certainly liked reading your thoughts on the weapon.
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originally posted by Brunnis
As far as not overanylizing the lexx tech stuff: there is no harm in arguing/discussing all of that unless anyone intends to build a lexx or something
But I thought it was really cool to see all the tech talk stuff a few lines up. My hat goes off to those who researched that. Besides, if we aren’t arguing over/discussing/learing about all the underlying cool things about lexx, then what the hell are we doing here?
Thank-you.
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orginally posted by HolkThe question for everyone is, considering that you’ll never see Lexx before 8pm on Sci-Fi, where would you specifically like to see Lexx?
Look at what SciFi has at 10est mon-thur: tales from the crypt. How about they put a science fiction show in its place? I’ve got an idea, Lexx!
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Originally posted by Pope GiggerottaWhat is that thing at the end of the credits? It looks like a big statue or something of Vlad’s head. Maybe from an upcoming episode? Anything is possible for a Divine Executioner.
If you rememeber 4.08 Vlad, Kai is explaing what a divine executioner is and why they’re created. During the creation talk, we see that shot. So I can only assume it’s the creation of Vlad.
originally posted by X
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One of the conditions LEXX needs to meet for a 5th season is that it needs to have good ratings for the rerun eps
With the exception of your now famous spinoff, there is no 5th season. A s5 would be nice though.
originally posted by Evil_Lister
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I think USA would be a perfect home for Lexx reruns. Isn’t SciFi and USA owned by the same company?”
Yes, Sci Fi is owned by USA Networks; so USA airign Lexx would probably require divine intervention.
The 2am slot does does annoy me too. But I love Lexx enough to watch it at that hour. Granted its only midnight when I’m at school, but I watched it at 2am when I’m back home. It’s not like anyone else is awake Monday mornings anyway.
As a matter of fact, watching s2 reruns on sunday nights is what got me hooked on Lexx. I only got cable when I went to college last year, so I never saw s2 during its original broadcasts. At the time I liked Farscape and I hlaf watched the first few eps of s3, tha followed it. But on Sunday nights, with nothing better on, I noticed Lexx was on, so I started really watching it. I was hooked after watching a few eps; Twilight impaticurarly. I grew to love the show so much, that I went up to uncon this summer. Uncon was my first solo vacation, excluding day trips to the beach. Without the sunday noght reruns I may have never really gotten interested in Lexx. So the twilight hour reruns did have some good affect on the show.
But I defiantly think an earlier hour or better yet 4x/week primetime would have a more benificial affect on Lexx’s fanbase.Unfortnatly, I’m afraid that the 2am slot may be the only time we’ll see Lexx reruns. even when it goes into syndication reruns(fingers crossed)
BTW since then I’ve grown very discontent with Farscape. I once went out of my way to watch it. But now, I rarely ever bother to record it when I’ll be out, or even remember to watch the recordings when I get back.
Sorry, I know I’m posting this message relatively late
originally posted by Hypatia
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We open with Stan’s lobotomy and castration about to get
underway, his ‘surgeon’ being the friendly Dr.Rainbow (pretty
sure).
Dr. Rainbow was played by Lex G. Whereas teh doctor from this past episode wasn’t. I even cross referenced it with 2.02 Terminal, no luck there either. I thought he looked familar, so I checked other actors but I couldn’t find anything.
originally posted by DalekTek790
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Actually, Earth is located in the Dark Zone (yes, Aleck, my theory
was correct ), so technically all the fourth season episodes are
Dark Zone stories.
what I meant was dark zone stories other then whats happenign on earth.
It was hinted that the Earth was inthe dark zone all the way back to 1.2 Super Nova. When 790 is scanning all the planets you can breifly see an image of an earthlike planet with a gray moon near by.
I don’t know if this was meant to say that the crew may eventually visit our little blue planet or if it was just another subtle joke. For example, how many people noticed that they had someone in a Mother Teresa costume peddling the bellows next to Stan in 3.01 Fire and Water? I learned this, after figdress put that costume up for bid on ebay, explained what episode it was from. If you watch that ep over again, it’ll be quite obvious.
I kinda doubt that we’ll ever see any more dark zone humans besides those found on Earth. Maybe when that movie was made a few years ago, the beans were forshadowing, but with the rest of the Lexx saga happening on earth, other dark zone stories seems unlikely.
My take on Lexx absorbing the body was that he ate her. Just like how he reabsorbed all the mantid drone parts in Norb 2.12 to rebuild himself.
originally posted by DalekTek790
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That trailer the teens were frozen in for 287 years was eaten, not blown up,
right?
If you remember, they blew up the trailer in an attempt to destroy wacked out Kai.
Fortunately for Kai he escaped in a moth, unfortunately for Stan and Xev.quote:
I’ve missed a few fourth season episodes, so I’m not quite up on the
destruction. Was the space station blown up, or just eaten? I didn’t count stuff the Lexx
ate.
*s4 spoiler
In 4.10 the ISS and a random Satellite is destroyed by the Lexx when 790 and Stan try to
move the Lexx by controlling its ion thrusters.Consequently this brings us to the next topic.
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Now, this whole blown-up planet thing gets me to the topic of the Lexx’s
beams. What are they? I don’t think they’ve ever been called “lasers” or anything else in
dialog. The best clue was in Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow, where an officer on the
Mega Shadow says “The Lexx is opening its ocular parabola.” Parabola are only used in
the focusing of light, so that rules out plasma, particle beams, etc.But we still don’t know if it’s lasers or masers. Both are focussed with parabolic mirrors.
If lasers were the case, we’d expect a more or less clean vaporization of matter at the
point of contact and little damage to surrounding matter outside the penumbra. With a
maser, the idea would be to heat the material to the point in which it fractures from
uneven expansion.So the latter would seem more consistent with the Lexx’s beams. We know they’re hot,
like masers, since they caused melting and burning in Orlandoin Stan Down. But in Lexx
1.4: The Giga Shadow the Cluster (containing a giant Insect) is blown up with the Lexx’s
beams, and we get a close-up look at the debris. There are no visible signs of melting on
any of the chunks, which would accompany maser fire. The Cluster appears to be
composed of non-igneous silicates, which should be both susceptable and indicative of
melting.A standard laser seems inconsistent with the Lexx’s beams. However, it is possible the
beams are cased not just by laser but gas excitation provoked by laser. This would mean
a photoreactive gas is expelled from the viscinity of the Lexx’s ocular parabola toward
the target. This is consistent with the localized nature of the beams, and more notably the
color. “Straight” lasers would be invisible until they reacted with a planet’s atmosphere.
Judging by the color, the Lexx’s beams, if laser, are neon-argon (I think, don’t hold me to
that). The only problem with the gas theory is that gas would be effected by the
gravitational pull of a planet. The beams fired at planetoids by the Lexx don’t seem to arc
toward the body at all.It seems both the laser and maser theories of the Lexx’s beams run into some problems. I
don’t know what to make of this conundrum. And the writers are probably not saying
what the beams really are simply to keep fans guessing. It seems the mystery of the
Lexx’s beams will remain unsolved until explanatory dialog is written into a future
episode of Lexx.
Well I guess the mystery was somewhat solved in 4.10. Apparently the Lexx uses a
particle accelerator focused and refocused from various angles to destroy planets. As a
nuclear engineering student I’m familiar with particle accelerators, I can quite easily say
that the energy required to blow up a moderate sized planet is just ung-dly. The particles
would have to be accelerated to somewhere around 10x their rest mass. However their
relative masses doesn’t really matter, if there was enough particles moving that fast, then in theory the task could be done, albeit with near infinite energy. The best I can figure the weapon is some kind of mild interacting anti-particles (probably tau or muon) which
upon interaction would either annihilate the target matter or transmutate into something
radically different and via conservation of momentum, send them flying in another
direction. The resulting gamma rays from particle/antiparticle annihilation would strip off the electrons of the nearby matter, causing a further breakdown. While all this is happening, the planets center of mass and total mass is begin radically changed. Probably enough so that the newly accelerated former-target atoms are no longer bound by each
others gravity and then are free to move themselves in whatever direction the laws of
physics dictate. Larger chunks of matter could still remain if they were far enough away
from the point of contact with the weapon.
This is just my hypothesis on the Lexx’s weapon, so I may be wrong.originally posted by Aleck
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As said in another post, LEXX does not bother in getting itself bogged down in
technobabble like the Trek spawn. When it comes down to it, does it really *matter* how
a giant bug with biomechanical components is able to blow up a planet? Is that
something that we should *concern* ourselves with? I mean, simple things like how
Xev’s hair can grow while Stan’s doesn’t, why Kai’s bun grows and shrinks betwen
seasons but is incredibly hard to muss, how they wash their clothes, where they brush
their teeth, where those human bones come from, etc., have not been seriously answered,
so I think the nature of the LEXX’s weapon is probably low on the list. It’s not that they couldn’t come up with an answer — Paul D. has a hard science background — but it’s the blissful lack of attention paid to such *incredibly* boring details such as this that gives LEXX its delirious edge. The science they’ve used in the past has fluctuated between
being halfway accurate to incredibly and grossly innacurate, and one gets the feeling that they just say some things because it “sounds right.”
here, here Aleck. One of the things I love about Lexx is its total disregaurd for things like laws of physics and continuity. It helps me escape the constraints of what I have to study. I love the explanation of, “It just works, that why” Conversely though, I enjoy B5 because its quite possibly one of the best shows as far as obeying the laws of science. Lexx is still my favorite though.
originally posted by Jason
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Please correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the term maser stand for “microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. So basically it’s a high power microwave amplifier which emits electromagnetic radiation usually in the centimeter to millimeter wavelength range – a long way off from visible wavelengths. Now admittedly, extremely high electric fields can lead to dielectric breakdown and arcing, but I don’t think the resulting pattern would look like Lexx’s weapon in S1-S3, or especially S4.
I have no idea what the pattern would like, a wave of glowing particles seems like a good idea. As for microwaves, we use microwaves to cook our food becaseu they excited the electrons with ejecting them, or ionizing our food, thus breakign down the foods base proteins into different chemicals. I’m not sure if adding more intesity to the microwaves would have more then an effect of heating the substance more. But I’m not entirely sure, that more of a EE or thermophysics topic than a Nuke E
Thanks DalekTek790 for writing it all down. Just a few corrections/additions though:
Mantrid Drones didn’t destroy Lister/Liber they destroyed each other in the ratings war 2.5; so they should go into the destroyed in other ways category. The drones ate the TV Planet. The whole light Zone should probably be added to the mantrid Drone List.
Lexx also blew up the VW-Bus like spaceship in 2.10, the international space station 4.10, a satellite above earth 4.10, a cryopod carrying some poor sod 1.2, and other spacecraft he ate along the way, 2.07 4.01
Finally the two planets that used Klaagia as a dump also destroyed each in some war. Hence all the asteroids Lexx crashed into on its way to Klaagia. 1.3
FX is there anywhere else we can chat during the s4 intermission? I would still like to chat with everyone regularly, during this time.
I’m also a little depressed that every new episode I watch is one less time I’ll be able to watch an episode fresh. Now granted this philosphy works for every epsiode of every show, but its different when you know it’s the last season. That’s why I’m “glad” for this intermission of s4. The anticipation for the new/final episodes increases the satisfaction I’ll get after watching them.
As a side not, I would rather the Canada takes its intermission realtive to the same place as the US. Space is taking a break after 4.14. So they’ll get 4 eps before we (USA) get them. I’d rather not accidently find out anything major before I watch those four eps; like what happened to me in s3.
I agree LexxLurker, I hope Stan does finally find true happiness. But in traditionally it never lasts, but theres always hope.
I’m kinda curious as to how they would bring back Lyekka(plant). Military gene splicing, nuclear accident, Hollywood special fx gone too far? Whats all your ideas?
Of course following tradition, the beans’ll think up soemthing we would have never imagined.
sgtdraino beat me to it, But I’m watching Magic Baby right now. Remember, scifi moved everything back a week for the telethon, and forgot to update all their schedules
The “ches” episodeoyu were talking about is 4.18 The Game. MM, Paul, Jeff, and Nigel were filming it in Iceleand during Uncon. I am kind of curious as to what role the time prophet would play in that episode. But then again she may be playing a different character.
I’d have to agree with you FX. I’m typically a very shy and non-talkitive person, but I’ve been reading the sadboards almost twice daily for nearly a year. But I’ve only really started posting here for the past few months, and typically about once a week. But what I do find out here I usually pass on to other people through scifi.com or by word of mouth. This is defiantly the best place to find out anything Lexx related. Other boards just don’t compare.
If you take a closer look in Brigadoom, you’ll notcie that its the same actress who plays the “two” time prophets. I would think she’d be wearing the same outfits for both kinds of shots. Its hard to tell since most of the pedestol prop is blocking the lower pasts of the time prophet. I would have to agree that the different shots were for dramatics. I doubt theres any special signifigance.
I kind of doubt that Lexx will finish about the same time in both the UK and the US. Lexx is schedualed to resume its regular broadcast on Jan 4, 2002. So unless SciFi US gives Lexx another hiatus; or SciFi UK shows their eps starting at the same time, more then once a week; or a a combinmation of the two, it looks like America will beat you to the finale by about 10 weeks.
Of course this is a good thing and a bad. Its bad because obviously your “out of the loop” as far as spoilers and news. (How do you think we Americans felt all these years) But its also a good thing because you’ll ge to enjoy watching new episodes longer then we will. I like having this break in the season, during this down time, my anticipation will only grow for more episodes. Thus when I do see the second half I’ll enjoy it more.
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and as far I’m aware they will doing one more Uncon in the US,
Where did you here that the next Uncon will be in the states? Where in the US? AN dwhy not back in Halifax?
One thing I’ve learned about Lexx is to forget all the science and engineering I’ve ever learned, for the simple fact that the laws of physics just don’t apply. Unless of course it adds to the plot. Examples of such rules that don’t apply are:
*the speed of light, light moves instantly from place to place.
*Ideal gas law, as you’ve mentioned above
*gravity, Lexx ignores the effects of large masses would have on one another, Like how fire and water should have pulled each other apart, mantrid drones exerting a great effect on strs but not each other
*finally the conservation laws, the enrgy required to blow up a planet is huge, mass should be ionized (~disintegrated) in close proximity to a thermo-nuclear blast, drones converting elements into the needed elements/isotopes takes ung-dly amounts of energy.You should get the idea by now, I just sit back, relax, and enjoy the show, adn envy that my engr homework were as simple as Lexx makes it seem.
The Paul Donovan interview pretty much answers most of your questions. We learned that this will be the last season of Lexx. We also learned that one episode will be entitled “Viva Lexx Vegas”. At to where it fits into the episode order, we don’t know, nor do have we heard what the other remainig episodes will be called. They did tell us though that the series will come full circle.
Another thing they mentioned was that the upcoming episode (Fluffdaddy, if your in the states)orgianlly was 59 min long. They had to cut out something like 14 min for US televison. However they said that the uncut version will be show on the dvds. Aleck was quite surprised to hear this, especially since he’s the one who works on the Lexx DVD’s and he heard it from us fans.
They also have the script to 2.04 LuvLiner up for grabs. Oddly enough though, they have it labeled 2.06 (?)
Here’s the address:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1463109505I just noticed that this board cuts off the names of the people speaking in the chat. They were placed in between the greater then/less then characters. If you want to know who said what, I put an identical post of scifi.com’s website. But in a few days they’ll have the transcript up anyway.
Sorry about that.I just noticed that this board cuts off the names of the people speaking. They were placed in between the greater then/less then characters. If you want ot know who said what, I put an simular post of scifi.com’s website. But in a few days they’ll have the transcript up anyway.
Sorry about that.
I felt the same way Hypatia after I read that quote. Well first I felt utter saddness, but after that, I thought that maybe scifi wasn’t to blame for this being Lexx’s last season.
In a sense I think its okay that Lexx ends now, its better if a show ends while its still good, then for it to go on for seasons showing crap. But I’s still rather see another season.
