Lexx - Yo Way Yo

[sodaboard]

If you're not Canadian or deep into scifi you've probably never heard of this. If you're either, you definitely know about it. Described as "Stat Trek's evil twin" during its time between 1997 and 2003, Lexx was... weird. Insane. Fucked up. Sexy. Gory. Weird, again. You'll either love it or hate it, most likely the former.

Personally I love it because of how different it is from just about every other scifi series on at the time, with only Farscape coming anywhere close to how weird it was. It didn't have a deep meaning or complex plot, just some losers in space blowing up planets with a big bug.

 

[Pargon]

I loved Lexx; you could watch that shit on SyFy before it was SyFy back in the day. It’s got some buckwild episode synopses on W:


“Bugbomb searching, Thodin” is still quoted semi-regularly in my house

 

[Lunatic Fringe]

I was talking to Mr Fringe about this recently. We're both massive Sci-Fi fans and he had no memory of it. I remember the musical episode with Kai being really weird. It was all weird of course.

Trying to imagine it being made now.

 

[sodaboard]

I was talking to Mr Fringe about this recently. We're both massive Sci-Fi fans and he had no memory of it. I remember the musical episode with Kai being really weird. It was all weird of course.

the musical episode is one of the best in the series, most of the main actors had theater backgrounds and the music scores were great. that's another thing, lexx has a great score with all sorts of weird synths and orchestrals. marty simon did an excellent job.
a while ago someone got scans of the original sheet music for the show, notes included.

Trying to imagine it being made now.

it couldn't, it's impossible. even though some parts of it were "progressive" it was always portrayed in a fucked up way that never made it look good.

 

[Coolio55]

Adding to my torrent list. I only found out about Farscape because Tim Schaefer ripped it off *cough* REFERENCED it for the only interesting part of Broken Age.

 

[Xev]

I truly never heard of it.

 

[Breadbassket]

I remember Brigadoom to this day and I don't know why.

 

[Major Child]

Watched it back then, though I mostly remember it because of a guy in a video store obsessing over Eva Habermann.

 

[Milkshake Sniffer]

If you're not Canadian or deep into scifi you've probably never heard of this. I

Canadian/German co-production wasn't it. It also got terrestrial broadcast in Bongland. It seemed to never really have a mainstream push behind it and the weirdness probably didn't help. The impression I got was that those who saw it really liked it but not many saw it. Strangely impressive guest stars as well with Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer and Tim Curry.

I mostly remember it because of a guy in a video store obsessing over Eva Habermann.

Seems entirely acceptable behaviour. She did make a quite "remarkable" impression the only one I can think of, to rival it being Tricia Helfer in the Battlestar Galactica remake (and using her so prominently in the promo material was a genius move). Even the set up for Eva Habermann's (Zev) character right at the start was genius A society where stroppy loud landwhales forceably have their bodies replaced and minds rewritten to become compliant sex bunnies (now that's a progressive utopian society!). Having Zev escape after the body replacement but before the mindwipe set her up so well.

 

[CervixHammer]

I saw a few episodes on SyFy (I think), and had to figure out what it was later. For reasons.

 

[BIONICLE 10127 1]

It was a very memorable series, let's put it that way. I like to think of it as kind of a mash up of Blake''s 7 and Red Dwarf with Cronenberg style biotech and body horror. I really like the organic and visceral feel of the ship interior, the only thing that comes close is the "Tin Man" ship from the one episode of Next Generation Star Trek. I just wish we had seen more of the light universe and League civilization before they get unceremoniously recycled into insect food at the end of the miniseries. The heaven and hell planets from the third season were pretty cool too, though the last twenty episodes set on Earth weren't nearly as good as the ones before, it seems like the writers just ran out of ideas at that point. I think it ended gracefully enough, Kai's final death scene really felt like a tragedy.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I remember seeing it on tv late at night whenever I was in hotels

 

[Stasi]

I watched it back in the day and keep meaning to re-watch it, I actually downloaded the whole series a couple of weeks ago and added it to my home media server. I have a massive backlog of shit to watch though, I'm still working through my re-watch of Sliders.

 

[Grub]

I was just thinking about this show the other day. It's one of those ones I completely forget about then remember from time to time because of how fucking weird it was. I liked it and would watch it whenever I noticed it was on and nothing better was on but I also found it kind of off putting at the same time.

 

[sodaboard]

I watched it back in the day and keep meaning to re-watch it, I actually downloaded the whole series a couple of weeks ago and added it to my home media server. I have a massive backlog of shit to watch though, I'm still working through my re-watch of Sliders.

sliders is great up until midway through season 3 when they kill arturo. after that it immediately goes to shit. still trying to get through the last season now but i have to force myself to watch it.

 

[Overly Serious]

A society where stroppy loud landwhales forceably have their bodies replaced and minds rewritten to become compliant sex bunnies (now that's a progressive utopian society!). Having Zev escape after the body replacement but before the mindwipe set her up so well.

It was more than just not getting the mind-wipe. The reason the procedure was interrupted was because one of the escaped cluster lizards got in and it actually got caught up in the body reformatting. So not only was she not mind-wiped, but her remade body got mixed up with cluster lizard DNA so she was super-aggressive. And the new body was basically horny all the time. Which made it even more depressing for Stanley that she was essentially turned on permanently, he was the only living male for light years and he still couldn't get laid by her.

This makes it sound like I'm an expert on the show but in fact I only saw the original four(?) episode arc, late at night. The episode with the 200' blonde in the bondage outfit certainly left an impression however. It was unique. I did see I think a clip of a later season and they were on Earth or in a prison or something, which made no sense to me. And they'd recast Xev. But that's pretty much all I know. The scene where a bunch of prize-winning school children are sentenced to death by lizard still makes me laugh to remember, however.

 

[Milkshake Sniffer]

This makes it sound like I'm an expert on the show but in fact I only saw the original four(?) episode arc, late at night.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexx-Compl...et&qid=1766172796&sprefix=lexx,aps,195&sr=8-1

Go on. Go on go on go on go on (best Mrs Doyle voice). You know you want to.

 

[sodaboard]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexx-Complete-DVD-Xenia-Seeberg/dp/B004JESO2E?crid=44ICNMDSU4I7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EfbvcWtnMbC4Bg6O8GgEGUAa_4RriicT6wiAxxEX0IvCa6TaWdIHwGKOLRevaDuiIffP9_UHv59XDLHdkeMpLTKzg_VOjyXDYjJKnXy8TFaTR5GRj0HUBA5NLSmoZAD1hFJdfpB7D6nJ4spWgHI193EjOqmEKTtfzeTcGrPiJFsrcjZXuEpQ_7VuWuitHN_0zJxtgTty0hmkWmbgvLhWdQ.q9t5ZjbSXqgWqccddosSuhlSK_nIzRGbBehahorqX7Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=lexx+dvd+box+set&qid=1766172796&sprefix=lexx,aps,195&sr=8-1

Go on. Go on go on go on go on (best Mrs Doyle voice). You know you want to.

or you could just you know

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[FatalTater]

I am neither Canadian nor that deep into scifi, but I had cable in the 90s and I LOVE LOVE LOVE Tales from a Parallel Universe/Lexx! It was so campy and fun, yet a bit dark. So perfect.

 

[sodaboard]

rewatching the S1 and S2 premieres and the donovan brothers strike me as the kind that could absolutely make a deep, compelling story about an intergalactic insect civilization and their war with humanity but instead chose to go the humor/satire route instead because why not.
i know the show has its flaws (several of them) and that most people will hate it or be turned off by it, but after watching a lot of star trek TNG i love how it's its complete opposite, no morals, no laws, just a couple of idiots in space trying to get laid and blowing up planets if they don't get their way.
it's more the late 90s CGI aesthetic that gets me more than the writing and while the overall plot doesn't really go anywhere after S1 (or S2 if you want to be broad) i love that it was something different and new, even if it didn't work out very well in the end.