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Subj : Re: Your First Time
To   : alt.tv.lexx
From : Jubal Harshaw
Date : Thu Oct 13 2005 23:56:47

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.lexx

In article <1129219188.579569.58590@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, 
elrous0@pop.uky.edu says...
> PMM wrote:
> > A friend just got me into the dvd series. I started at the beginning but
> > started enjoying the swing of things during the second season. Especially
> > Lafftrak, that's the ep I just showed my other friend.
> 
> I first saw Lexx late one night on the Sci-fi channel (U.S.). I was
> only vaguely aware that it existed during its actual run (remember
> seeing the occasional Sci-fi channel promo for it, which completely
> misrepresented it). But one night I saw a rerun of it on my Tivo's
> lineup. The episode was called "White Trash" and their was no way I was
> going to miss a sci-fi series with an episode called "White Trash."
> 
> So I started watching the reruns and quickly fell in love with it. More
> accurately, I fell in love with the 2nd season/series (even bought the
> box set from a Canadian seller). The 3rd season is annoying and
> repetitive. The 4th season is just okay. And the "1st season" movies
> are absolutely horrible (my God, I've never felt so sorry for an
> obviously drunk Rutger Hauer, who used to be such a great actor).
> 
> I'm sad that the series ended. But, let's face it, they had already
> long-since peaked (both in budget and quality) with the second season
> anyway.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 

I don't think you could ever call Rutger Hauer a "great" actor could you?
He had a lucky part in Blade Runner but he's never done anything else 
I've seen that I'd class as better than below mediocre.

I loved the first LEXX movie and Gigashaddow wasn't too bad. Series 2 
was what also really hooked me though I think. Series 3 I thought was a 
good attempt at something with a wider appeal and I enjoyed it quite a 
bit. I too have the DVD sets.

Series 4 (currently airing in the UK again) I thought was entirely a 
waste of electricity apart from perhaps 2 episodes.

On the other hand credit where credit is due - Every single episode of
every season tried to give us something we hadn't seen before with a 
sense of humour and style totally fresh for TV. I just wish there was a 
lot more of that attitude and perhaps then I'd watch more TV (I'm down to 
about 4 hours very selective per week now) 

I'm so seriously sick of endlessly repeated trash I don't even have a TV 
set anymore I just watch occasionally on the PC.

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j.h.

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