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(More customer reviews)This was a big change from the campy season before and the surreal set of movies that happened in the season one. The episodes in season 2 were like Red Dwarf. Where they seemed to bounce randomly from one spot to another, and had little in realm of a long running plot until the later seasons. Season two was a random bunch of episodes with only Mantrid and the Lexx crew binding them together.
This season not only had a long running story arc, but the humor was more subdued and focused on the surreal imagery and spiritual idealogies it presented.
The crew was shot into the dark zone after the destruction of the light zone. You find that they were stranded in an empty area with no planets nearby, and no fuel for their ship. So they go into sleep and drift until they find a decent planet. But they are found before they have a chance to wake, but a strange individual named Prince. He and his roadwarrior like lackeys take Stan prisoner and becomes interested in Xev. He takes them to Princetown, his town on Fire.
Fire and Water are a pair of planets that circle each other and share atmosphere that can be traversed by balloons. Fire is hot and unable to sustain life on the surface. So the towns are tall stacks that lift them high enough to make it livable. The areas below are filled with devices to keep the city cool by using slave labor. Water is all water, dotted with towns on the surface. The inhabitants are all living in luxury, giving little thought to the world around them, the future, or the past. They seem to live for the moment and whatever passion drives them. The towns on both planets are named for their leaders or their obsession, Gametown is filled with sports fanatics, Garden with the plant obsessed, Girltown is a matriarchy, and Boomtown where everyone has sex all the time.
But that isn't the end of the weirdness. People seem to have little recallation of the past or who they are. No one is born, they just remember when they were and nothing else. The two planets have been fighting for ages but don't know why. The crew see quite a few people that they knew in the Light Universe that are all dead, some with the same names. They see Bunny, Schlemi, Mantrid, and Gigarotta that have no memories of their previous lives. Plus Prince seems to know the most, but has his own agenda and is obsessed with getting the crew to fullfill this.
I didn't like this season when I first saw it, but it grew on me. The humor was more subtle, darker, and surreal than the first one. It was also more philosphical and spiritual than the previous series. Dealing with re incarnation, planetary genocide, damnation, and eternal paradise. The big bad wasn't standard as he wasn't out to kill the crew or the universe. But he admitted repeatedly that he was neither good nor trustworthy, but wanted to make a deal. plus he was harder to figure out than the other two, and even by the time the series is over you still don't know for certain what he is.
This was a great season that tends to grow on you. The imagery and well thought out plot was worth the price alone.
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