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I am a huge fan of Lexx. I really think it is one of the best shows I've ever seen on TV. I got into it around the middle of the second season & became an addict after that. I have all of the DVD's & have seen every episode (even the movies) multiple times. I plan to review each DVD, each episode, one by one. So here's my review for Series 1, Volume 1
Episode 1.1: I Worship His Shadow -This is it, the beginning of the show Lexx. The first "season" consisted of 4 mini-movies & this is the first one in the series. A great first episode, where you learn about the history of the Kai, Stan & Xev. It's a long story but I'll try to summarize. Kai's people, the Brunnen-G, get destroyed by the Divine Shadow. Kai was killed and re-animated (with this stuff called Proto-Blood) & made into an assain for his shadow. Stan was a part of a group of heretics fighting against the Divine Shadow, but Stan got caught & lost some codes that ended up killing lots of his people, the Divine Order kept him around in case they ever needed more information & made him a lowly security guard on the cluster. Zev was deserted by her parents & put in a wife bank. She got sent to the cluster & was sentenced to become a love slave, but something went wrong & she became part Cluster Lizard. Basically this mini-movie shows all of this background, plus it shows how they 3 end up together & how they get the Lexx (The Lexx being the ship they fly in, it's a living Bug that need to eat & can blow up planets with ease. It was meant to be a weapon for his Divine Shadow). Of course stealing the Lexx makes The Divine Shadow mad & he chases after the crew. It's a great episode & really shows the history behind the show. It sets up the other min-movies & the series really well. It's a great story & I think the best of the 4 mini-movies of the first season. Check it out if you can, especially if you liked the series.
That does it for this review check out my other reviews for Lexx
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If you're here, you've heard a little about Lexx and perhaps are considering buying it. I'd like to recommend it whole heartedly, and here's why: we live in a world where entertainment is run by "money people" who don't really give a hoot about about anything other than a bottom line, and who usually have Delusions of Competence when it comes to creative decisions. This means that most projects, sci-fi or otherwise, are run by commitee and the results are almost always something which, while occaisionally effective, are necessarily watered down creatively. The perfect example is virtually all of the various Star Trek series, which can be very, very good, but are never EVER risk-taking in any meaningful way. They can also get somewhat annoyingly "smooth" and politically correct. Well, Lexx is the polar opposite of all that. The stakes appear to be lower for these guys and so they take many more chances, and the results, while often uneven, are almost always fun and sometimes genuinely inspired. The actors are extremely well cast, with both Zev and Xev offering a sexiness that doesn't descend into sleeze, Kai as the handsome and surprisingly moral dead assassin, Stanley as the sniveling but likeable anti-Kirk captain of the Lexx, and we get a witty, lovestruck robot head thrown in for good measure. If you want something a little different and fun, I urge you to check it out. I'm sure you won't have seen anything quite like it.
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The science fiction world has been wrapped up for so long with Star Wars & Star Trek (great....I admit) that it only spawns clones of each. I love to see shows like Lexx & Red Dwarf get the credit they deserve. Funny and exciting, but yet maintain their completely science fiction qualities.
Looking for something different go with Lexx.
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If you only buy one DVD, from the entire series, make it this one. Unfortunetly, the first movie was only released on DVD in Canada. You'll want to return to this first episode again and again, if you're a Lexx fan. If you have not viewed any of the Lexx series from Showtime or SCI FI, then you NEED to see this first. It's well worth the wait to track down the DVD. What other series has you rooting for a chic that's half Cluster Lizard, a dead guy, an oversexed robot head and a cowardly captain? Live on Lexx, if only in late-night reruns!
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The Lexx series varies wildly in terms of quality and story. Not so with the first four episodes or mini-series.
This is truely one of the most odd and strange rendering of an alien society that's ever hit film. For that alone it gets high marks, but more than that, the world of Lexx is brutal, funny, sometimes sexy and nihilistic.
Most of the Lexx series is an acquired taste but this first installment is well-rendered and better than the majority of sci-fi fare out there.
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