I've seen only one episode of the series, and it was about an old guy meeting a porn star in the middle of a film.....Then suddenly, they go up to the Grasshopper ship described on the Planet Killer page.
Quite intruiging.
Could HDS or someone well versed in Lexx tell me how it all works out?
PS-Should regular users have the ability to mark posts as sticky? I thought that was just the admin or moderator job....
Could someone summarize Lexx for me?
Moderator: NecronLord
Here's my review:
LEXX
Lexx takes place in outer space on a very empty spaceship called...The Lexx. The spaceship looks like a giant dragonfly, and if some hardcore Trekkie came into the room while I was watching Lexx, I would feel ashamed and embarrassed as he appropriately beat me with his slightly less lame toy Enterprise. Lexx is a living being or something like that, and has nipples that the crew milks for food. I don't think any more explanation is desired or necessary.
The ship, and of course the show itself is so boring that every piece of space debris is worth investigating. This is not without reason since everything they come into contact with invariably houses a bunch of scantily-clad space vixens who want to meet the hero. These vixens are the sexy kind, at least if you are the type of guy who reads those weird comic books with undead chicks and stuff. To round things out for differing viewer tastes, there are also vampires that use gross gory special effects, and a host of other disgusting characters.
The main character, Stanley Tweedleson, looks like an intergalactic gas station attendant. He wears an unkempt shabby red uniform or outfit of some kind that does little to draw attention away from his gouging facial wrinkles. Worse yet, he talks to himself constantly. If I wanted to watch a crazy old man talk to himself, I could go camping with my dad. Combining the acting styles of William Shatner, Woody Allen, and confusing homoerotic themes, this character strives but fails to be the most annoying character on the show.
The main girl in the series is your stock babe. She has lips that look like they were inflated with a tire pump. She always moves suggestively and takes off many articles of clothing but never the really important ones (at least to the camera). This is about as satisfying as investing in a Canadian airline. At least you can see the curves in the stock market.
Which brings up another point. How come girls in the show always want to strip for ugly geeks like Intergalactic Gas Station Attendant? Is it to satisfy some fetish of the writers or is it to placate all the geeks watching the show who believe that a babe like those in the show would act like a sex toy for Voyager-rerun watching troglodytes like themselves. The only conclusion I can reach is that this show is intended for an audience of old, ugly males who like spaceships and dream of female companionship but are so in denial of their desperation that they pretend this show is science-fiction as opposed to a soft-fetish-porno. [Except for Wong, of course, he's the exception]
The threadbare plots are not even worth wasting a paragraph on. Suffice to say that I have seen pornographic films with better plots. Well, actually I don't watch porn. But if I did, that is probably what I would think. Really, I don't watch porn. I don't know what everyone's been telling you.
I have to give it to the show that they do have a lot of conflict. Conflict between phallic symbols, strong homoerotic elements presented in a characteristically juvenile light, and S&M. They also have some kind of science fiction element, though I wasn't able to see it in any of the episodes I watched.
Let's sample some dialogue from the classy show
"Oh, you're a bad boy"
"Yes, I'm a bad boy"
"Stanley Tweedleson is hankering for a spankering"
"Yes, lots and lots of naughty sex"
"I turned on the old Tweedleson charm and brought her to the peak of sexual ecstasy"
"The dead do not squeeze and please - Well there's a first time for everything"
"They like to burrow into your ass, Mr. President."
In conclusion, it is not a coincidence that Lexx rhymes with another word that the show cheaply exploits to entrap a pathetic audience. As one of the villains in the show says 'There is no light in this dark universe." There is no more proof of that than the show itself.
LEXX
Lexx takes place in outer space on a very empty spaceship called...The Lexx. The spaceship looks like a giant dragonfly, and if some hardcore Trekkie came into the room while I was watching Lexx, I would feel ashamed and embarrassed as he appropriately beat me with his slightly less lame toy Enterprise. Lexx is a living being or something like that, and has nipples that the crew milks for food. I don't think any more explanation is desired or necessary.
The ship, and of course the show itself is so boring that every piece of space debris is worth investigating. This is not without reason since everything they come into contact with invariably houses a bunch of scantily-clad space vixens who want to meet the hero. These vixens are the sexy kind, at least if you are the type of guy who reads those weird comic books with undead chicks and stuff. To round things out for differing viewer tastes, there are also vampires that use gross gory special effects, and a host of other disgusting characters.
The main character, Stanley Tweedleson, looks like an intergalactic gas station attendant. He wears an unkempt shabby red uniform or outfit of some kind that does little to draw attention away from his gouging facial wrinkles. Worse yet, he talks to himself constantly. If I wanted to watch a crazy old man talk to himself, I could go camping with my dad. Combining the acting styles of William Shatner, Woody Allen, and confusing homoerotic themes, this character strives but fails to be the most annoying character on the show.
The main girl in the series is your stock babe. She has lips that look like they were inflated with a tire pump. She always moves suggestively and takes off many articles of clothing but never the really important ones (at least to the camera). This is about as satisfying as investing in a Canadian airline. At least you can see the curves in the stock market.
Which brings up another point. How come girls in the show always want to strip for ugly geeks like Intergalactic Gas Station Attendant? Is it to satisfy some fetish of the writers or is it to placate all the geeks watching the show who believe that a babe like those in the show would act like a sex toy for Voyager-rerun watching troglodytes like themselves. The only conclusion I can reach is that this show is intended for an audience of old, ugly males who like spaceships and dream of female companionship but are so in denial of their desperation that they pretend this show is science-fiction as opposed to a soft-fetish-porno. [Except for Wong, of course, he's the exception]
The threadbare plots are not even worth wasting a paragraph on. Suffice to say that I have seen pornographic films with better plots. Well, actually I don't watch porn. But if I did, that is probably what I would think. Really, I don't watch porn. I don't know what everyone's been telling you.
I have to give it to the show that they do have a lot of conflict. Conflict between phallic symbols, strong homoerotic elements presented in a characteristically juvenile light, and S&M. They also have some kind of science fiction element, though I wasn't able to see it in any of the episodes I watched.
Let's sample some dialogue from the classy show
"Oh, you're a bad boy"
"Yes, I'm a bad boy"
"Stanley Tweedleson is hankering for a spankering"
"Yes, lots and lots of naughty sex"
"I turned on the old Tweedleson charm and brought her to the peak of sexual ecstasy"
"The dead do not squeeze and please - Well there's a first time for everything"
"They like to burrow into your ass, Mr. President."
In conclusion, it is not a coincidence that Lexx rhymes with another word that the show cheaply exploits to entrap a pathetic audience. As one of the villains in the show says 'There is no light in this dark universe." There is no more proof of that than the show itself.
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Rob Wilson
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Re: Could someone summarize Lexx for me?
Naked or semi-naked women and how to get them on screen as often as possible.LMSx wrote:I've seen only one episode of the series, and it was about an old guy meeting a porn star in the middle of a film.....Then suddenly, they go up to the Grasshopper ship described on the Planet Killer page.
Quite intruiging.
Could HDS or someone well versed in Lexx tell me how it all works out?
PS-Should regular users have the ability to mark posts as sticky? I thought that was just the admin or moderator job....
Well Ok there's a faire smattering of sci-fi in there and some good points raised about Old ST tropes. But I'll leave HDS and co to give you a proper answer.
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It's Tweedle (note the absense of -son). 
Here's a little more info on the basic plot (basic spoilers, but not entire episodes):
The Lexx was hijacked in the four-part pilot (which was actually pretty good) by Stanley Tweedle, Xev, and Kai. Stanley, despite his idiocy, had to be brought along because he has the "Key" to the Lexx; some sort of energy thingy that's in his hand. That's why the handprint scanner appears in front of him when he goes in the "Captian's Chair" on the bridge. In the first two seasons, they sort of toured the Light Universe, trying to find a way to get "protoblood", a fluid that Kai needs to stay animated (not alive, he's dead.
). During the end of the second season, an evil helper to the dead Emperor of the Galaxy, Mandred (???), built a huge army of robot arms that literally ate the entire universe. The Lexx crew lured the huge swarms of robot arms to the center of the Universe, triggering a Big Crunch (remember, the robots ate the universe and constitute most of its mass). The Lexx was thrown into the Dark Universe (where Earth is), but it was out of fuel. They let it drift, eventually coming across a double planet. One was hellishly hot and the other was heavenly. The Lexx crew got caught up with a "Prince" character from the hot planet who wanted to use the Lexx to destroy the nice planet. Eventually, the crew decides just to destroy both planets. When they do, they see a tons of spirits escape from where the planets were. Lexx munches on the rubble and speeds off, finding Earth is exactly opposite of the heaven/hell planets. That's when I stopped watching.
Here's a little more info on the basic plot (basic spoilers, but not entire episodes):
The Lexx was hijacked in the four-part pilot (which was actually pretty good) by Stanley Tweedle, Xev, and Kai. Stanley, despite his idiocy, had to be brought along because he has the "Key" to the Lexx; some sort of energy thingy that's in his hand. That's why the handprint scanner appears in front of him when he goes in the "Captian's Chair" on the bridge. In the first two seasons, they sort of toured the Light Universe, trying to find a way to get "protoblood", a fluid that Kai needs to stay animated (not alive, he's dead.
). During the end of the second season, an evil helper to the dead Emperor of the Galaxy, Mandred (???), built a huge army of robot arms that literally ate the entire universe. The Lexx crew lured the huge swarms of robot arms to the center of the Universe, triggering a Big Crunch (remember, the robots ate the universe and constitute most of its mass). The Lexx was thrown into the Dark Universe (where Earth is), but it was out of fuel. They let it drift, eventually coming across a double planet. One was hellishly hot and the other was heavenly. The Lexx crew got caught up with a "Prince" character from the hot planet who wanted to use the Lexx to destroy the nice planet. Eventually, the crew decides just to destroy both planets. When they do, they see a tons of spirits escape from where the planets were. Lexx munches on the rubble and speeds off, finding Earth is exactly opposite of the heaven/hell planets. That's when I stopped watching."Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me...God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."
Tales from a Parallel Universe
I highly reccomend the original 4 part series, "Tales from a Parallel Universe" that spawned Lexx, hit your local video/DVD shop of choice and acquire them, you wont be dissapointed. Lexx the series has been good off beat and cheesecake(what red blooded hetero male can resists scantily clad women 
) filled camp sci-fi. The original is far better its more of the black comedy/sci fi horror and less of the cheesecake, although the offbeat is still common through out the series. If you want goof sci-fi on TV be sure to watch Farscape 
(John Crichton is the man!!
Lexx the series has been good off beat and cheesecake(what red blooded hetero male can resists scantily clad women ) filled camp sci-fi. The original is far better its more of the black comedy/sci fi horror and less of the cheesecake, although the offbeat is still common through out the series. If you want goof sci-fi on TV be sure to watch Farscape (John Crichton is the man!! BotM
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Re: Tales from a Parallel Universe
And Aerun Sun is the Lady.Sokar wrote: If you want goof sci-fi on TV be sure to watch Farscape
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Yes the 4 part movies were alot better than the show wich has taken a totally new approach, and there is no HDS in those series so bleh.
Anyhow if Doomriser says something bad about about the original movies, I'll find him and hunt him down, OK?
Anyhow if Doomriser says something bad about about the original movies, I'll find him and hunt him down, OK?
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You forgot the toilet, which is basically gigantic female genetalia on the floor of the ship containing a gigantic tongue.Doomriser wrote:Here's my review:
LEXX
Lexx takes place in outer space on a very empty spaceship called...The Lexx. The spaceship looks like a giant dragonfly, and if some hardcore Trekkie came into the room while I was watching Lexx, I would feel ashamed and embarrassed as he appropriately beat me with his slightly less lame toy Enterprise. Lexx is a living being or something like that, and has nipples that the crew milks for food. I don't think any more explanation is desired or necessary.
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Series one: A very dark, very wierd and very good sci-fi program
Series two: Lose some of the dark and most of the good, but gain even more wierd and some erotic stuff. No where near as good as the first series but watchable.
series three: lose all of the good and all but a bit of the dark. gain more erotic stuff and wierd is now off the scale. Absolute sh*t and it's even too wierd for me now.
Series two: Lose some of the dark and most of the good, but gain even more wierd and some erotic stuff. No where near as good as the first series but watchable.
series three: lose all of the good and all but a bit of the dark. gain more erotic stuff and wierd is now off the scale. Absolute sh*t and it's even too wierd for me now.
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More info on LEXX here:
http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx
http://www.sadgeezer.com/lexx
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Lexx == A modern version of Flesh Gordon.
Enough said.
Enough said.
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Really. Freaking. Weird.
(Example: Earth is blown up in the series finale)
(Example: Earth is blown up in the series finale)
There is no God.
But it does not matter.
Man is enough.
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There will never be a resolution in the evolution vs creationism debate because neither side can conclusively prove that they are right. The creationists can't prove that they're right becuase they're not, and the evolutionists can't prove that they're right because the creationists are too damn stupid to listen.
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But it does not matter.
Man is enough.
Edna St. Vincent Milay, Conversation at Midnight
There will never be a resolution in the evolution vs creationism debate because neither side can conclusively prove that they are right. The creationists can't prove that they're right becuase they're not, and the evolutionists can't prove that they're right because the creationists are too damn stupid to listen.
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