# Should I watch Lexx?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608 "2009-07-01T19:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/41 "2009-07-04T04:58:32Z")

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> [@HPL](#):
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> Years ago, I got into lexx and really enjoyed it. Granted, I was a recovering trekkie at the time and being very anti-trek really appealed to me.
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> Now I don’t know how well I’d like it on a 2nd viewing. Particulary after having watched Firefly and Battlestar Galatica.
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> The fact they destroyed: The empire(which was evil), the universe, heaven and hell and finally earth, in seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively struck me as rather ballsy.

One could argue that 790’s unrequited “gay” love for Kai was the ultimate cause of all the destruction. :dubious:

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-lexx/501608/42 "2009-07-04T06:56:24Z")

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> [@HPL](#):
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> Well, the TV Show planet was one I fondly remember. People who end up there are put through different formulaic shows. If they can play along well enough, they get good ratings and sent to better shows. If they do poorly, they get their heads chopped off on Live TV, kept alive, put in a jar and forced to watch the crappy tv shows forever.

Yes, I think that Where’s Stanley Tweedle was the best actor that TV World has seen in a long time…

As far as the “Poet” character played by Tim Curry, is he just typecast, or does he really love playing the over-the-top campy/cheesy kind of character, seems like he can never escape the influence of Frank N. Furter, even his voice-overs in animation have that manic over-the-top-ness

Tim Curry should be a guest riffer on Rifftrax (have them riff on Clue, or RHPS…)

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