I have given this new series my best shot, but I can’t watch it any more. It’s basically The Beverly Hillbillies Go Whorehouse Hopping In The Outer Space Equivalent Of West Virginia. All it’s missing is banjo music.
Each week, Uncle Jed & Elly May are visited by a wacky bunch of Hatfields or McCoys knockoffs wearing various outfits modeled from the burlap school of fashion design. Lexx, the ship, is a living being, and the inhabitants subsist on its internal excretions (I might be missing some subtle nuances here as I have to walk away from time to time and puke my guts out).
The resident mechanical entity is a disembodied head with videographic eyes & mouth that has never once offered a shred of technical or even helpful advice. In tonight’s episode, Elly May reclines in a fit of sexual frustration and says to the head:
:rolleyes:
Meanwhile, Jethro is some kind of alien zombie who once went on a rampage and killed almost everybody on the ship, but in tonight’s episode is kind & sweet and acts as a defense attourny. The character’s actual name is khai, and it can not be mere coincidence that khai means “stinks of urine” in Vietnamese.
Does anybody like this show, and for God’s sake why? The only good part is when Lexx blows up a planet, and that only takes about six seconds.
I only tried to watch Lexx once, and it didn’t grab me, so I gave up after around 10 minutes.
Farscape, on the other hand, is just the best. I’m a total addict. Anyone who’s even remotely into scifi needs to check it out. The basic premise has been altered somewhat recently, but here’s the basic breakdown:
John Crichton, US astronaut, slips through a wormhole while running an experiment in his mini-shuttle, the Farscape. On the other side, a strange craft glances off his shuttle and careens off into an asteroid. As it turns out, the ship contained the brother of a very hostile warlord named Crais. Crichton is captured and put aboard Moya, a living spaceship. The other prisoners aboard Moya steal the ship and escape, and Crichton and the rest of the prisoners (and one of their former captors) are on the run from Crais.
At the end of last season, they added a villain who’s just about the most evil dude I’ve ever seen, Scorpius. DAMN, he’s evil. I just gotta see what evil thing he’ll do next. That, and I’m strangely attracted to Chianna.
Yup, I’ve suffered through that show too. My roomate will be flippin’ through the channels and come accross it and say, “This is the stupidest show ever.” 5 Minutes later I have to ask him why we’re still watching it.
I too feel that its about as intertaining as watching a dog lick its ass.
“We’re surrounded? Good, that means we can fight them in every direction!” -Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller- Greatest Marine ever.
I watched it first because it is on after “Now and Again.” Well, Nash Bridges is after Now and Again on CBS, but I can’t stand Don Johnson, so I switched to Sci-Fi and found Lexx. I thought it was totally stupid and boring and made no sense.
But, Sci-Fi is promoting it all over the place, so I looked for a website, which explained the story. So, I gave it another shot. It made sense, but it was still stupid and boring.
Last night, for reasons unknown, I watched it yet again. It has gotten even more stupid and boring.
I think it is supposed to be sexy–like some sort of super-soft-core sci-fi porn. It is just repulsive. I think that bizarre creature with the dyed hair, nose-job, collagen lips, and silicone tits is supposed to be really hot. I think she just looks weird.
I agree this show is idiotic, but how come I can’t stop watching it? Probably because Kai is just gorgeous and I am the eternal sucker for a pretty face. I ran across Lexx by accident and became hooked, it’s pathetic, I have no life. I tried to describe the plot concerning the Potataho astronauts to a friend and realized I was sounding more insane by the moment. A very peculiar show!
That said, I understand that the Lexx is a living thing and needs to eat, planets and such, I would imagine. How much do you want to bet the Lexx is going to home in on a planet named…Earth! in the future?
Hey I actually like the show…Wait I don’t like certain elements of the show but overall it isn’t to bad. Xev and Kia have an interesting dynamic to them. I don’t much care for Stanley or 790, The whole Fire and Water is interesting in that they must be trying for a Heaven/Hell effect. Plus you have to love a half-human, half Clusta Lizard, former love slave (As I type this I realize how stupid this sounds if you don’t watch the show)! Actually you have to love Xenia Seeberg who plays Xev, but she looked better last season. I have been known to have very strange tastes so take anything I say with a grain of salt. So all you Lexx hater’s go watch something else if you don’t like it…they do make this wonderful invention called a remote control. I watched Farscape for about 10 minutes and changed the channel and Voyager was never that good to begin with. So I have Lexx by default.
Grrr! They bumped Lexx from Friday night to late Sun/Mon morning, and I had just thought the show was on temporary hiatus. Now I’ve got to wait for repeats to watch the third season shows in order.
I watched exactly four minutes of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda; I swear, they decided that Galaxy Rangers should be made into a real show.
