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The Holiday Lexx Thread

KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
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Here is a thread dedicated to the funny, weird, and perverted show called Lexx.
Feel free to talk about the episodes that stood out the most for you.
Mine was the one where the resident assassin killed a bunch of teenagers.
https://youtu.be/qjma08_pt2I

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  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Help im being charged with negligence of wifely duties.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    The Tim Curry episode was also good.

  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    The plot line with the Mantrid drones was really good, and always sticks in my mind.

    One of the best on-screen depictions, of a runaway Von Neumann universal constructor/probe cascade scenario, that I've seen realised in television sci-fi, IMO. Seeing the stars in the sky, just blink out of existence, one by one...

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    I never watched Lexx.

    But it always got the impression it was like a knockoff Farscape.

  • TroggTrogg Registered User regular
    1. Lexx came out in 1997, Farscape came out in 1999. Although I do agree Farscape was a better show.

    2. My favourite episode is "Lafftrak". The opening sequence is solid gold.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    I thought Lexx was the CW show with the hot alien dude?

    For some reason I think he didn't have a bellybutton?

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    RT800 wrote: »
    I never watched Lexx.

    But it always got the impression it was like a knockoff Farscape.

    "Red Dwarf run through a porn filter" feels like a pretty accurate description of it, IMO.

  • TroggTrogg Registered User regular
    edited December 2021
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I thought Lexx was the CW show with the hot alien dude?

    For some reason I think he didn't have a bellybutton?
    Er... yeah. Definitely. That's what Lexx is.

    Trogg on
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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Trogg wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I thought Lexx was the CW show with the hot alien dude?

    For some reason I think he didn't have a bellybutton?
    Er... yeah. Definitely. That's what Lexx is.

    I was apparently thinking of Kyle XY.

    I have not seen either show.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Zavian wrote: »
    Burnage wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
    I never watched Lexx.

    But it always got the impression it was like a knockoff Farscape.

    "Red Dwarf run through a porn filter" feels like a pretty accurate description of it, IMO.

    Its like a porno where they're all super horny but the running gag is they never get to have sex

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    And then Kevin Sorbo joins forces with a pillow magnate

  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    Lexx predating Farscape is wild. I never really gave it any attention until both were off the air for several years.

  • TroggTrogg Registered User regular
    Honestly, I think the big difference between Farscape and Lexx (aside from the huge difference in production values) is that Farscape is a sweeping story about love and hope and despair and the human spirit triumphing against impossible odds... and Lexx is a story about what humans would probably actually do if we ever got to space.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    There was that disturbing episode with the tv planet.
    If the audience does not like you, you are decapitated and permanently become the audience.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    The two versions of Zev were good. I did like the original the most.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Cybertronian Paranormal Eliminator Registered User regular
    Lexx is an.. acquired taste. A bizarre, off kilter space opera that never once took itself too seriously. Or at all seriously.

    I always enjoyed the character of Kai, and the brunnen-g song absolutely rips. The musical episode is definitely the best one of the series. I enjoyed it when it was more about bizarre space stuff in the earlier seasons than the later ones where they were stuck around the same set of planets. That said having a season set around
    a pair of twin planets that turn out to literally be heaven and hell
    was a cool concept at least.

    There's definitely lots of fun to be had, and it's one of the more blatantly horny shows I've ever seen. It is VERY weird though.

  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    Lexx had a lot of episodes that were damn good scifi and would have worked even if you got rid of all the horniness. I think that's why the show manages to still, sorta, hold up on rewatch; it wasn't just Skinimax in space, it actually had some good writing going on.

    That first season was some quality grimdark.

    Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    Great show. Cannot remember much about it aside from watching it late on comedy central in the states

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Smaug6 wrote: »
    Great show. Cannot remember much about it aside from watching it late on comedy central in the states

    Yeah, I probably haven't seen it on this side of the year 2000. Should maybe watch that and Farscape again some time.

  • Snake GandhiSnake Gandhi Des Moines, IARegistered User regular
    I never watched it but I watched a lot of TV at the time so I definitely saw adds for it. But it seems my brain has confused itself cause I read this whole thread thinking 'Wasn't that the one with Gina Torres?"

    Turns out, no, that was Cleopatra 2525, which was also a syndicated space show about hot people that I never watched but saw tons of adds for.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Here is a low quality intro.
    https://youtu.be/e2ZRSwul7cE

  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    Burnage wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
    I never watched Lexx.

    But it always got the impression it was like a knockoff Farscape.

    "Red Dwarf run through a porn filter" feels like a pretty accurate description of it, IMO.

    Well shit, I'm sold.

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  • JandaruJandaru New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Burnage wrote: »
    RT800 wrote: »
    I never watched Lexx.

    But it always got the impression it was like a knockoff Farscape.

    "Red Dwarf run through a porn filter" feels like a pretty accurate description of it, IMO.

    Red Dwarf and Lexx, you say?

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