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Jerk off and come all over the grave of Leonard Nimoy with all the power of your accumulated sexual frustration
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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Let us hold this event in remembrance of the untimely demise of the only good space faring TV show, Lexx.

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Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
<penis shower>

Mastodon Compound
Oct 2, 2012
Lexx was good, but holy poo poo balls, what the gently caress happened after the second season? And why weren't there more tits?

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
The Rocky Horror of Scifi.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Mastodon Compound posted:

Lexx was good, but holy poo poo balls, what the gently caress happened after the second season? And why weren't there more tits?

The third season was actually the best.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Mastodon Compound posted:

Lexx was good, but holy poo poo balls, what the gently caress happened after the second season? And why weren't there more tits?

yeah LEXX really went off the rails in the 3rd-4th seasons, i guess they couldn't top "destroyed the entire universe". season 1-2 is some of the best sci-fi ever done though

Na'at
May 5, 2003

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star
Lipstick Apathy
VAIYO A-RAH JERHUME BRUNNEN-G

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
I heard JJ Ambrams was directing a Portal and Half Life movie

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

all we are is dust in the winddddddddd

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
best exchange of insults in television history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDQz9sSrQs

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Rutibex posted:

best exchange of insults in television history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDQz9sSrQs

Brizon and Patches in the Sky were like the best episodes of any sci fi TV show.

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
space tits

Arkanomen
May 6, 2007

All he wants is a hug
There will never be a tv show about butt-hole hunting carrots and lusty robot heads flying around the two gayest universes.

Yudo
May 15, 2003

Lexx is great but the quality of the show is very uneven. You can tell that they started to film episodes that they had no idea if they had funding to finish.

Stanley Tweedle
Aug 15, 2001

steinrokkan posted:

Brizon and Patches in the Sky were like the best episodes of any sci fi TV show.

this is an intelligent post.

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
I liked when the guy from Human Centipede said somebody wasn't good enough to suckle his poo poo

Lexx was good television RIP

www
Aug 4, 2010

show rules

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

www posted:

show rules

thats fair

JossiRossi
Jul 28, 2008

A little EQ, a touch of reverb, slap on some compression and there. That'll get your dickbutt jiggling.
Stanley Tweedle might be the best anti-hero ever written.

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?

King Vidiot posted:

I liked when the guy from Human Centipede said somebody wasn't good enough to suckle his poo poo

Lexx was good television RIP

M-m-mantrid? Never watched Human Centipede but now I will.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
E: Nevermind,

Maldoror
Oct 5, 2003

by R. Guyovich
Nap Ghost
fire and water third season was good, i really dug all the heaven and hell fantasy imagery, it's worth it for the production and costume design alone

all goes to poo poo when then come to earth for the entirety of season 4 (chess episode was interesting i guess)

there was a script written for a new farscape pilot on showtime i think? probably won't happen

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

Squalitude posted:

M-m-mantrid? Never watched Human Centipede but now I will.

It's funny that Dieter Laser went from playing a guy who just talked about people suckling his poo poo to playing a guy who made people suckle other people's poo poo.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Maldoror posted:

fire and water third season was good, i really dug all the heaven and hell fantasy imagery, it's worth it for the production and costume design alone

all goes to poo poo when then come to earth for the entirety of season 4 (chess episode was interesting i guess)

there was a script written for a new farscape pilot on showtime i think? probably won't happen

Season 3 had a decent story, and it went from awful effects of the previous seasons to pretty decet, even inspired visuals. Even if there were few memorable episodes in that season, it overall managed to build a good narrative.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
I'm Norb.

And its a scary thought, the universe getting turned into right arms.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

happyhippy posted:

I'm Norb.

And its a scary thought, the universe getting turned into right arms.

I'm the people of Potatohoe.

Garden is virtue.

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
Could the mods please replace Lexx in the title with Farscape

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Farscape is the charmless, Americanized derivative of the authentic experience that is lexx

in other words: gently caress you and may the merciful shadow fall upon you

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I've never seen Lexx

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
Can any of the fine folks in tviv give me a rundown on this show? Thanks!

Noun Verber
Oct 12, 2006

Cool party, guys.

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Can any of the fine folks in tviv give me a rundown on this show? Thanks!

It's like if farscape were made by sexually repressed europeans. Pretty good.

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Can any of the fine folks in tviv give me a rundown on this show? Thanks!

There exist two universes: The Light Zone, ruled by the oppressive League of 20,000 Planets and a being called His Divine Shadow, and the Dark Zone, a universe of chaos and depravity, but really they both seem to be full of horny pansexual cannibals. To cement his rule over humanity, His Divine Shadow creates the Lexx, a sentient organic spaceship with the power to blow up planets. However, it comes under the control of the cowardly, low-level security guard Stanley Tweedle. He's joined by Zev, a love slave with incomplete programming, 790, a misanthropic robot head accidentally programmed to fall in love with Zev, and Kai, an undead assassin made from the last of a warrior race prophesied to end the reign of His Divine Shadow.

Together, they travel the two universes, looking for somewhere to call home and visiting interesting places, narrowly avoiding getting raped and/or eaten, more often than not blowing said interesting places up or escaping as something else blows them up, having unrequited crushes on eachother, and occasionally dabbling in heroism.

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
It's like Star Trek but every planet is either full of horny sociopaths or if there are any decent people they'll be killed either by the planet's sociopaths or by the crew of the Lexx accidentally or on purpose.

It's very Canadian/Nova Scotian, and feels like if Russ Meyer tried to remake Battlestar Galactica.

Sixfools
Aug 27, 2005

You be the Moon,
I'll be the Earth
And when we burst
Start over, oh, darling
I like Lexx's shapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpKIZ_Q1Ozk&t=2422s

ShadowCatboy
Jan 22, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Can any of the fine folks in tviv give me a rundown on this show? Thanks!

Lexx is what you would get if you took Waiting for Godot, biopunk, space sci fi, and soft core porn and mashed it together and seasoned it heavily with existentialism and dark humor. It is both fantastic and terrible, full of meaning and yet not. And I think it's definitely something that I think every sci fi fan should experience.

The world of Lexx is grim, dark, deterministic, and utterly pointless. But in a sense that's the beauty of it. You have a handful of fuckwits flying around in a stolen ship that is the most powerful weapon of destruction in the Two Universes. Yet beneath the utter absurdity of the situation and the grinding monotony of their vagrant and unfulfilled lives, but when poo poo goes south and they have their backs to the wall they fight to find some element of meaning in who and what they are.

EDIT: Don't try looking for a grand epic space opera. Enjoy it as a bizarre spectacle and a brutal and satirical look at the human condition.

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻
The first episode of the show I saw was either The Web or The Net. For some reason, (Budget problems? Experimentation?) They made two episodes about the same story, about an alien parasite infiltrating the ship, using most of the same footage, just with some different focuses and intro scenes. It's probably the most normal sci-fi plot in the series. The parasite is a standard creepy alien with none of the kookiness or depravity fo the rest of the show's antagonists.

I only caught a few episodes, most or all from season 2, plus the last parts of Gigashadow and Eating Pattern before season 4 started. Looking over an episode guide, I was surprised to see how the apparent theme of misfits traveling the universe kind of ran out halfway through. Season 4 is the longest, and the whole thing is, "Hey, remember this character? Well here they are reincarnated in Earth!" Which is crazy because the third season already looked like "Hey, remember this character? Well here they are on one of these two afterlife planets!" But when I saw it then, I didn't know that I was already supposed to know the American government characters. Still, it kind of worked.

Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Mar 19, 2016

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Mastodon Compound posted:

Lexx was good, but holy poo poo balls, what the gently caress happened after the second season?
It got better.

Maldoror posted:

all goes to poo poo when then come to earth for the entirety of season 4
Season 4 wasn't as good as 3, but it was still pretty great.

steinrokkan posted:

Farscape is the charmless, Americanized derivative of the authentic experience that is lexx
Farscape is also good.

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Can any of the fine folks in tviv give me a rundown on this show? Thanks!
Season 1: A bunch of cowardly, selfish, short-sighted idiots accidentally come into possession of an absurdly powerful space ship. They fly around meeting more terrible people in disgusting places before finally deciding to do something worthwhile for once in their meaningless lives.

Season 2: Stanley and Zev/Xev fly around aimlessly looking for something to do. 790 and Kai tag along. They meet even worse people in even more disgusting places and learn that the universe is doomed and there's nothing they can do about it.

Season 3: They reach a pair of planets that are literally heaven and hell. Hell is ruled by an immortal being named Prince, who wants to use the Lexx to destroy heaven. This being hell, the people there are even worse than the ones they'd met previously. Heaven's pretty nice though.

Season 4: They arrive on late twentieth-century Earth, a planet that is about to be destroyed by man's hubris. Prince is there too, along with a bunch of other characters from previous seasons, but only Prince and the Lexx crew remember any of that. There are vampires and fairies and bad carrots, and the ATF is the most powerful organisation in the world.

So basically, it's a really great show.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
Thank you all, I think I will watch Lexx. Is it streaming anywhere?

ShadowCatboy
Jan 22, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Thank you all, I think I will watch Lexx. Is it streaming anywhere?

I think it's on hulu.

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WarLocke
Jun 6, 2004

You are being watched. :allears:
The original movies (the 'first season') are the best, if only because Eva Habermann's Xev is waaaaay hotter than Zenia Seeberg's Zev. :colbert:

That said, I never did catch most of the s3/4 episodes. I should fix that.

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