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In a way, like "Tosca", "Lexx" isn't for everyone

Stephen Torres | PEARL CITY, HI, US | 04/14/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"("Lexx" was also called "Tales From a Parallel Universe", depending on where and when one saw the original run.
The Big Four are also referred to as Lexx 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, The TV series are numbered as 2.x, 3,x and 4.x with each ep assigned a number (x) for that seasons' episode.)

When it comes to "Lexx" you either love it, hate it or simply just can't comprehend it. But you should give it a try.

The "Big Four" DVDs are sort of the "Holy Grail" for Lexx fans and me, being one of them, have been waiting for a reasonably priced set of the four original movies.



1.0 "I Worship His Shadow" introduces us to Kai, Last of the Brunnen G and the cosmology for "Lexx."
The "Light Universe" is ruled by an extremist, totalitarian theocracy called The Divine Order.
Great opening battle scene and fantastic ships and weaponry wipe out all life on Brunnis II. We see how Zev gets transformed into a love slave, how 790 gets transformed and how Stanley fumbles his way into to becoming the Captain of the Lexx and how they all come together as the crew. We also get Barry Bostwick as Thodin, a rebel leader in the fight against "The Divine Order" and Ellen Dubin as "Giggerota." The crew escapes into a black hole with His Divine Shadow's flagship right behind them, trying to retrieve the Divine Predecessors that the Divine Shadow had stored there.

2.0 "Super Nova" (my favorite of the "Big Four") takes us to Brunnis, the original home of the Brunnen G. The planet is still intact and the sun is too: the satellites that kept the Sun from going Nova still work. The planet is devoid of life as everyone leaves for Brunnis II because the sun is dying. Well, almost everyone. A single inhabitant, Poet Man, (Tim Curry) spent many years hacking Brunnis' technology as his revenge for being (intentionally?) left behind.

3.0 "Eating Pattern" finds our crew starving when a radio beacon finds them and invites "fresh" people to visit the secondary resource (read junkyard) planet, Klaagya. Desperate, the crew make their way to the dump and find that they are what's for dinner..sort of. The creatures inhabit the bodies of the planet's former inhabitants and must eat "Pattern" which is processed from human bodies, but because of a sort of cannibalization, the pattern they now make is "less than premium."
Bog, played by Rutger Hauer, is the "King of Pattern." We also meet "Wist" who is their leader.

4.0 "Gigashadow" With His Divine Shadow and the Divine Predecessors feared destroyed, we find the The Cluster and Divine Order disintegrating. Remnants of the priesthood are trying to restore The Order and His Divine Shadow by creating the Gigashadow. But one of the high priests named Yottskry, played by Malcolm McDowell, has reservations. A junta by the rebel priests tries to take power and Yottskry dies during the struggle. He is later unintentionally revived by a protoblood leak and he gets incorporated into the Gigashadow as it's nexus. The crew of the Lexx go back to the cluster to get more protoblood for Kai and discover what is taking place.


A bit about the TV series...

I kind of take issue with Farscape fans who say that the idea of a living ship (The Lexx) was stolen from Farscape (FS), but the idea wasn't new. Lexx aired before the first ep of FS and Star Trek and Robert Heinlein had living ships in their stories.

There is a bit of a history between Lexx and Farscape fans. Fans sometimes blamed each others show as being inferior or the respective shows of "stealing audience" and even of not bringing in enough viewers as a lead in or lead out to the next tv hour...and later FS fans blamed the lack of support from Lexx fans helped in the cancellation of FS. To me, the biggest difference between the two shows were budget, support by scifi (now called SyFy) and the objectives of the respective show's' crews. While FS flew around saving planets, alliances and galaxies, the Lexx crew were looking for food, a home and "fun."





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Great editon of the Weird but Fantastic series

Donald N. Mynatt | Colorado Springs, CO United States | 12/05/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If you were a fan of Lexx, the this is the first buy of the series that you should make. I had to take one star away for the menu at the front, I would have thought they would have put more work into that. But still, I felt that the product itself comes nicely packaged and the video is crisp and clean. If you have never seen Lexx, start with this set! It's cheesy, goofy, bizarre, imaginative, weird, fantastic, and just a great romp! It has one shower scene where you see Zev in the buff (slightly - too bad it's so slightly) but other than that it's pretty much PG except for the over outrageous unbelievable violence. Like the older Doctor Who's, the cheesy special effects just add to the overall wonderful flavor! BUY IT, WATCH IT, HAVE SOME FUN!Lexx: Season One (4-DVD Pack)"