posted 07-14-2001 02:51 AM            

I liked how they took potshots at America, but was baffled at how the ATF was really a bigger threat then the CIA and other various government agencies until I realized how Canada views the whole "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" of ours. But it was very witty, and I'm glad that Stan got the key back.

posted 07-15-2001 11:56 AM            

Well, okay....but could you tell what was flying out of that meteor? It looked like little crosses to me...sorta like Mantrid's arms, from what I could tell...

posted 07-21-2001 01:37 AM            

Well, I liked it. Through Rooster's trailer was a little too posh for a hick (CARPETS??), I did like a lot of things like:

--Xenia's singing voice...
--Stan showing a little courage/cruelity towards Prince as opposed to girlish fear.
--Kai meeting up with a bunch of "Lone Gunmenish" people and dispatching the ATF with little ease.
--The satire all together...and what was Gigeroff watching when he wrote the end, "The Big Bird Cage??" Really now..

Anyway, an enjoyable experience until the very end. You see, the Sci-Fi Channel made a goof and instead of running a promo ad that takes up half the screen during the credits, they ran it a minute early and unintentionally censored the last scene of "Texx Lexx!" ARGH!! Now I'm in the midst of RETAPING the whole episode so I can get that last part....blasted Sci-Fi Channel! Bloody two plankers, up your hole!!

But I'm happy. Got my Lexx fix, now to find a second job to get the DVDs.

posted 07-21-2001 07:29 PM            

Irid, the whellchair-bound physicist is Stephen Hawking. He's actually been proven wrong about so many theories it would make your head spin like a quasar.

posted 07-28-2001 02:08 AM            

Okay, this is the one with Craig Charles and Holly Hatridge, better known from Red Dwarf as Lister and the second Holly. This is also known as the episode which gives us the first dose of nudity this season along with a lot of plot threads which could be a big deal later on.

This is also an episode which makes no real sense, through I am tempted to excuse that by saying that Sci-Fi cut the fuck out of it.

I didn't like P4X because whatever satire it was trying to invoke didn't catch on. Was it a shot at the American Penal (ha ha) System? Our brand of justice? The internet? I have no idea, but I can tell you one thing: Craig Charles looked like he was going to fucking die every time he said 'panties.' I felt sorry for him in nearly every scene he was in. He looked uncomfortable. He looked like he had somehow got caught in a big beartrap and was forced to either chew off his own leg or die slowly in nearly every fucking scene. And the very end it finally hit me: for every Red Dwarf joke that made Lister look like a blasted fool (even that time his head swelled like a giant zit and burst), this is the low point of his career. Plus, we finally get a look at those meteor creatures in closer detail, and why they are shaped like the child of a carrot and a suppository. The latter is a hint on how poor Lister bites it in this episode.

But aside from that, the regular cast holds up extremely well. All of them are given some character-defining moments (seeing how Stan rescued himself instead of just whining was good for my soul) and the science nerd's alpha and omega of character was truly amusing. By the end, I wanted him smashed in the way he was.

So, all and all, this episode could be a foreshadowing of what is to come or how the rush order of new episodes by Sci-Fi to the Lexx creative staff is going to shape new episodes. I just hope that the next episode is a bit more fluid and not so scattershot as this one was.

But hell, you get to see Xev naked (a lot Sci-Fi DIDN'T cut!) so who is complaining?

Pez, your thoughts?