The End Of Lexx

[Garrett]

What a way for Lexx to end, Kai dies, Lexx die’s although there is a Baby Lexx and the Earth dies. Worst of all the series dies as the Sci Fi channel has cancelled the series.

[Lex]

Phew! You had me worried for a minute there!

[Garrett]

You would have been if I had put it in the Last Curtain Call column.

[Lex]

I haven't watched Lexx for a couple of years, but I can symapthise. I hate it when shows are cut off without the chance to bring the story to a natural end.
The worst for this was Space: Above and Beyond (Highly underrated!). It actually finished on a cliff hanger which was never concluded!

[Garrett]

The funny thing, I think when the other series ended more or less everything was tied up. I suppose this series could be class a non cliff-hanger, but I wonder if the end was decided before the Sci-Fi channel pulled the plug would Kai have come back?

It seems a thing to end series on cliff-hanggers even British programs have started this abyssal idea. I stopped watching Alias because a quarter one episode was in next weeks.

[Ian J]

For me, Lexx died at the end of the last series. This series is nowhere near as good and consequently I stopped watching it some time ago.

I will be interested to know how Kai can die as he is dead already and hope that if they auction off the props I can have Xev as she would make a nice addition to my bedroom.

Babylon 5 went the other way for winding up the series.

At the ned of season 4 (I think) it seemded there wasn't going to be a season 5, so JMS began winding up the threads to end at the end of season 4. Then Sci-Fi channel or warner (or whoever) said "OK, you can have a season 5". JMS then had to expand what was still left unresolved and spin an entire season out of it.

[buns]

I used to watch lexx fairly addictively on channel 4 on a friday night......sometimes i even watched it ahead of the late channel 5 film! hehe But then i lost track of ti cos it wasnt well advertised or anything.....i enjoyed it alot, especially the original zev.....not that was definitely somehting to stay up for!

shame its over!

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[Garrett]

Originally posted by Ian J
I will be interested to know how Kai can die as he is dead

Kai beat Prince in a game of Chess, the prize for Kai was to be no longer dead. At the end of this series Earth was being attacked by a giant asteroid monster and Kai went on a suicide mission with a bomb to destroy it, at this point the evil Prince made Kai alive again.

Babylon 5 did leave one thread open, Sheridan was given a present for his future son from Londo Mollari, with a Shadow mind control creature in its base.

[Greg]

Originally posted by Lex
I haven't watched Lexx for a couple of years, but I can symapthise. I hate it when shows are cut off without the chance to bring the story to a natural end.
The worst for this was Space: Above and Beyond (Highly underrated!). It actually finished on a cliff hanger which was never concluded!

Hi Lex

Completely agree. I thought Space A&B was great aswell. Its a pity it cost so much to make because it would have carried on a bit longer.

As for the cliff hanger ending I don't know if you missed the last episode becuase the one I saw was where 3 of the cast had been killed off (killed off for definite i.e ships blown up etc), the colonel/general had lost his legs and I think he went a bit mad although I can't be sure and that left just the remaining 2 main cast members. Its been a while so I can't remember exactly how it finished.

Greg

[Lex]

Originally posted by GregHook


Hi Lex

Completely agree. I thought Space A&B was great aswell. Its a pity it cost so much to make because it would have carried on a bit longer.

As for the cliff hanger ending I don't know if you missed the last episode becuase the one I saw was where 3 of the cast had been killed off (killed off for definite i.e ships blown up etc), the colonel/general had lost his legs and I think he went a bit mad although I can't be sure and that left just the remaining 2 main cast members. Its been a while so I can't remember exactly how it finished.

Greg

Hi Greg,

Yeah, that's about how I remember it finishing as well. However, the producers/writers were intending to carry on with the story in the first episode of season two, but they never got the chance!

Another series not ended properly was Millennium. They sort of did a hash up job in an X-Files episode instead!

graham is right about Babylon5. They were told that the 4th season would be the last, and then cos it was so successful they were given a fifth but had no material left! Talk about forward planning!

[lmccauley]

Originally posted by Ian J
For me, Lexx died at the end of the last series. This series is nowhere near as good and consequently I stopped watching it some time ago.

I started watching Lexx at the start of this series because of comments I'd heard about it. I stopped after the first episode. Tried again a few weeks later and it was equally dire.

I guess your comments explain why I'd heard good things about it before I watched it, but was so disappointed myself.

Cheers,
Liam

[Ian J]

Liam,

It used to be original and funny but as with so many programs the writer(s) simply ran out of ideas but carried on with another series as he was being well paid.

Try to catch series 1 if it's repeated

I thought it was pants myself. Dianes brother was well into it,but he's 29 and still at home

[Ian J]

All 29 year olds that still live with their parents please feel free to insult Sean.