Seeing the post above got me thinking about Lexx. I believe that I’ve seen only one episode of it and it didn’t hook me.
I know Lexx is the most powerful ship in the galaxy and a lot of people stand around and talk about it, but what else happens?
Is it worth seeing? Should I queue up the DVDs?
View it only if you will watch weird sexual stuff. The show is full of it.
It was pretty awful. If you’re really interested maybe you could read some episode guides or something. Sitting though it wouldn’t be worth it, IMO.
That’s an odd way to describe Lexx, really. ‘Stand(ing) around and talk(ing)’ is hardly the most common, or memorable aspect of the series.
Aside from the kinky sex, someone dies and/or a planet gets blown up every episode. (Well, except, maybe, for the last season, when they were in the real world. I have no idea what the body count was like, then, since I’d stopped watching it.)
A typical episode’s formula went approximately thus: Stanley wants to get laid, thinks a random planet or space station they run across is a good opportunity, Stanley fails to get laid, but Zev/Xev doesn’t, someone on the planet tries to kill them, Stanley gets annoyed and returns to Lexx, and orders it to blow the planet up. Planet goes boom, they move on.
Hell, the Lexx itself looks like a giant backwards cock & balls. The shower and food dispensers also look like penises and you need to rub them for water/food to come out. The toilet has it’s own tounge and if you look closely you’ll notice that all the doors and airlocks on the ship are actually sphincters. It gets does get weirder. 
Doors and airlocks that are sphincters?
Now I’m interested.
Only if you’re curious to see one of the worst TV shows ever made.
The original made for TV movies weren’t terrible, although they weren’t especially good either, but the show was awful. When I was in college we used to get together on a weekly basis to watch and mock Lexx, but this eventually died out because we couldn’t take watching it anymore. I’m not sure if it actually became worse or if we just had all we could take. There’s a certain camp value to be found, but on the whole it was an unpleasant, badly written, and frequently boring show. There was an episode with a subplot that involved nothing more than one of the main characters walking from Point A to Point B. That’s it. She didn’t meet anyone or do anything or even SAY anything, but regularly throughout the episode we’d cut back to more walking.
A more typical episode involved most of the main characters (all totally incompetent and unlikable) whining about how they weren’t getting laid, the senseless and unmourned death of one or more minor characters, and a final act deus ex machina appearance by the zombie/vampire/robot guy who’d literally come out of his box to save the worthless hides of the other main characters by killing that episode’s baddies. A planet would usually get blown up, and any prop that could possibly be shaped like a penis would be shaped like a penis.
Naming the captain Stanley Tweedle seemed exceedingly lazy to me. You might as well name a villain Dirtbag Peoplekiller or the hero Perfectman Doestherightthing. I think I would have figured out that the captain was a total schnook without drowning me in obviousness with a name like that.
I meant weird sexual innuendo stuff too. I hate that damn robot head.
However, the zombie robot guy is in fact really cool. He’s the only likeable (or even really memorable) character around.
He was the only character any of us in the informal “watch & mock” club liked at all (one of my friends even dressed up as him for a costume contest), although he was kind of passive aggressive with that whole “The dead don’t do this” and “The dead don’t do that” thing. But he was definitely the only one of the main characters who seemed at all interesting or competent, so it seemed really cruel to the viewers to keep him in the freezer for the bulk of many episodes.
The French are weird.
They may be, but they are innocent when it comes to Lexx. It was a Canadian/German production.
Hey, I learned what a fluffer was from Lexx.
I should add that to the “stuff you learned from TV” thread.
pfft… i thought it was hilarious. lol penises. the space rednecks episode was my favorite. but being a civilized person stuck living in tennesse will do that.
Never watched it when it was on SciFi. I always figured it was a European show that had the overtly sexy bits edited out for the US run, at which point, it seemed kind of pointless to me, kind of like watching a titty movie on USA. 
Did they take all the sexual stuff out of the SciFi version? Because I don’t remember much of it. I know at least one of Xev/Zev was originally a fat girl who was supposed to be liposuctioned and brainwashed into being a sex slave (but only half of it worked). And that Stanley wanted to get laid. And the love triangle between Xev/Zev, the robot head, and the dead guy. Heck, other than the series just looking incredibly gross, and the voice of Lexx, that’s all I remember about the show.
Incidentally, I thought the reason it looked gross was because of the organic ship, so that wound up making me miss most of Farscape, thinking it would be more of the same. Then I happen to catch the last episode, so I am not sure if I want to go back and get emotionally invested in the characters.
No, just any nudity, which existed in the original TV movies.
The rest of the show was aired accurately.
With the notable exception of Eva Habermann.
I remember it being very boring, and that the sexual jokes didn’t even try to be clever, but that’s just about all I remember about it. I’m not sure I even made it to the end of the first episode, although I may have tried again with the second just to be sure it wasn’t an anomaly.