Lexx - The Dark Zone

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Television series
German title Lexx - The Dark Zone
Lexx - The Series
Original title LEXX
Lexx-logo.png
Country of production Canada , Germany and the United Kingdom
original language English
Year (s) 1997-2002
Episodes 61 in 4 seasons ( list )
genre Science fiction , fantasy , comedy , adventure , drama
idea Paul Donovan
First broadcast April 18, 1997
German-language
first broadcast		 December 23, 1996 (films), September 1, 1999 (series) on VOX
occupation
Brian Downey
Stanley H. Tweedle
Michael McManus
Quay
Eva Habermann
Zev Bellringer (episodes 1 to 6)
Xenia Seeberg
Xev Bellringer (from episode 7)
Ellen Dubin
Giggerota (6 episodes)
synchronization

Lexx - The Dark Zone is a 1997 sci-fi television series . It is a Canadian , German and British co-production , with the German partners only being involved up to the third season.

Conception

Salter Street Films logo

The series originally consisted of four films (later the 1st season), which were initially released on video in Germany and then broadcast on VOX . The 1997 in to 2002 Babelsberg Film Studios and in Halifax at Salter Street Films produced series ran from May 4, 1997 on RTL II , but was canceled after the airing of the second season in Germany, which is probably on the low viewing figures is due . From March 1, 2006, the third season was broadcast for the first time in Germany on the pay-TV channel Syfy . In the USA and Canada a total of four seasons were shown until 2002 and the series then discontinued.

The first three seasons are partially shortened in Germany on DVD . In order to get FSK16 approval, the third film of the first season was cut by essential parts of the plot. The series consists of four seasons with a total of 61 episodes.

The first season consists of four 90-minute films, each of which features a prominent guest star. First the two male leading actors from The Rocky Horror Picture Show : Barry Bostwick and Tim Curry . Following Rutger Hauer and Malcolm McDowell .

From the second season the episodes are 45 minutes long. The second season consists of 20 episodes; the third season of 13 episodes and the fourth season of 24 episodes.

action

The main heroes of the series are the spaceship "Lexx" and its crew over all four seasons. This consists of the captain of the Lexx, Stanley H. Tweedle, the love slave Zev / Xev and the undead former assassin Kai, the last of the Brunnen-G. They are looking for a new home together. The entire plot spans a period of about 6000 years. 2008 years lie between the death of the living quay and the start of the main plot. At the beginning of season 3, the crew spends another 4,000 years in cryostasis (cold sleep). The fourth season is in the present on earth. The main conflict of the series is the struggle of humanity against the representatives of the powerful insect civilization. The goal of the insects is the extinction of all humanity. Kai is the last survivor of his native people, the Brunnen-G. He was prophesied that one day he would destroy the last representative of the insect civilization.

First season

Zev, Stan and Kai accidentally come into possession of the Lexx, the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes. After their successful escape from the Cluster, the central planet of the League of 20,000 Planets, they are on their way to find a new home. Kai needs protoblood to be able to live outside of his cryocapsule. In search of protoblood, the Lexx returns to the cluster, where it is found that a giant insect has survived inside the planet. This has controlled the government (the "Divine Order") as well as the Regent ("His Divine Shadow"). At his instruction, all inhabitants of the 20,000 planets were killed and fed to the insect. This now wants to begin its metamorphosis. Protoblood is produced from this “giant shadow” and Kai can replenish his supplies with the help of Zev. The cluster lizard Squish is placed in the brain of the giant insect by Kai and can destroy it.

Second season

The main conflict of the second season is the fight against Mantrid, the former Bio-Vizier of His Divine Shadow. The crew accidentally helped him in the first episode of the season to transfer his mind into a machine, but due to an operating error by Mantrids slaves and lovers, his mind mixes with the essence of the last living insect from the universe of light. Mantrid's goal is to transform all matter in the universe of light into drone arms that obey him (like bees to their queen). In the meantime, the crew usually has to be freed from awkward situations with the help of Kai. At the end of the second season, Mantrid is destroyed; but with it the universe of light also goes under. The crew flees into the dark zone.

Third season

The Lexx is running out of food, so it can only fly very slowly. According to 7-90s calculations, it can take thousands of years before you come across a habitable planet like this. So the crew goes into cryostasis in order to survive this time. The Lexx's crew spent approximately 4,000 years in cryostasis when they encountered the twin planets fire and water. The entire third season takes place on these two planets. Fire is ruled by the charismatic Prince. Water does not seem to have a ruler.

What both planets have in common is that their respective populations live in isolated cities. On water these are islands in the planet-covering sea and on fire they are huge towers, which are separated from each other by almost impenetrable deserts. Fire and water appear to be an incarnation of heaven and hell (since the earth is in the shadow of the two planets). The crew meets characters they already know from the universe of light. These cannot remember their parallel existence, but their characters correspond to those in the parallel world.

Prince wants the crew and especially Xev to work with him. Questions about right and wrong, good and bad are raised. Each of the protagonists has to make moral decisions. Prince has the role of the tempter. Kai meets his soul trapped between the worlds on the planet water, which cannot be reborn because he is still walking undead. Stan dies and the final destination of his soul is judged. All morally dubious decisions are weighed against his good deeds and he ends up on fire in perpetual forced labor. The crew is separated from each other more often in the third season and everyone has to act independently. Kai has some malfunctions after jumping from the Lexx to the planet water and needs help from the other crew members until these are fixed. At the end of the season, both planets are, of course, accidentally destroyed. This frees Stan's soul and can return to his body. But he cannot remember what happened on fire. The souls of the other inhabitants are also set free and move towards a planet that looks very similar to our earth.

Fourth season

The Lexx goes to planet earth, which is close to the center of the dark universe. The crew believes this must be a particularly dangerous place. The fourth season has a political-satirical undertone in many episodes. There are caricatures: the President of the USA, the trigger-happy American southerners, cleaning housewives in suburbs, reality soaps, over-ambitious actors, vampire legends, American patriotism and various state secret organizations. So z. For example, the President of the USA accidentally blames Orlando and blames Cuba for it. As a result, Cuba is also destroyed by the USA. The crew meets several characters that they already know from the universe of light and fire and water. However, Prince is the only one who can remember his past life.

Kai had learned in the third season that his soul cannot be reborn because he is still walking undead. He therefore accepts Prince's offer and plays with him for his death. Kai wins, but he remains undead.

The earth is threatened by an unknown being who looks like Lyekka from season 2. This has left a trail of devastation behind on its way through the dark zone and wiped out all life on many planets. Kai decides to destroy the being. When approaching the creature, Prince keeps his promise and Kai is alive again, only to die with the creature shortly afterwards. Meanwhile on the meanwhile strongly aged, dying Lexx, the jealous 7-90 tried to destroy the earth, which he finally succeeds by convincing the senile Lexx that he is her captain. After the explosion, the Lexx disintegrates, leaving behind a newborn, smaller version of itself. With the new Lexx, the only survivors, Stanley and Zev, set out again to find a new home.

Characters

The Lexx and its crew

What sets the series apart from others are its anti-heroes , who usually don't visit a planet without (more or less accidentally) destroying it in the end:

  • LEXX , the most powerful spaceship of the two universes, is a living being (that is, it has to take in food) in the shape of a wingless dragonfly . The intelligence of the LEXX is somewhere between that of a fly and that of Stanley Tweedle, whom it blindly obeys. The series is named after her. The LEXX is approx. 10 km long, its interior is largely hollow and can be traveled with small insectoid aircraft, which can also be used for planetary excursions. The ship originally belonged to "His eternally dark shadow" who wanted to use it as an instrument of destruction. In the course of the first episode, however, the heroes steal the LEXX and are henceforth on the run.
  • Stanley H. Tweedle (actor: Brian Downey ) only has the rank of "4th class security guard", but through a chain of coincidental events he comes into possession of the key to the LEXX and is therefore the only one able to command the LEXX granted. He is not very popular in the team (he constantly chases after Zev, among other things), but since he is needed to escape from "His Eternal Dark Shadow", the crew has no choice but to get along with Tweedle. Before his time at the cluster, he was the assistant courier of the heretics of Ostrol B, who was responsible for the transport of secret information. Because this information got to "His shadow" and was used to destroy numerous reformer planets, he is generally decried as "the arch traitor".
  • Zev Bellringer (actor: Eva Habermann , from 1998 Xenia Seeberg and from then on called "Xev") from B3K, in a previous life of terrific ugliness, was punished by being converted into a love slave. Shortly before the end of her transformation, a cluster lizard got in the way, so that she is physically a love slave with lizard genes, but mentally remained the same. As a result, she is willing and ready, but also choosy - the only man on board the LEXX that is acceptable to her is Kai. All other men usually do not survive the encounter with the LEXX and its crew long enough to satisfy Zev.
  • Kai (actor: Michael McManus ) is the last "survivor" of his people (the well G ). He is an undead , a former assassin "of his eternally dark shadow" who needs "proto-blood" to "survive". He does not feel any emotions, but has strong morals. By killing the shadow who murdered him, he regains his own memories and countless other memories and thus possesses extensive knowledge. In addition, he is almost invulnerable due to his transformation into an assassin. Kai is only able to get out of his deep sleep for a limited period of time, since every waking minute he uses up part of the initially limited protoblood. The LEXX team therefore only wakes him from his deep sleep when necessary. Before he was captured by the shadow and enslaved as an assassin, he was the leader of the last resistance of the wells against the army of "his eternally dark shadow".
  • 7-90 ("Seven Ninety") is a robot equipped with artificial intelligence and arrogance that is only surpassed by his lust for Zev and his cynicism. The latter is well founded: 7-90 only consists of his head, which received the transformation into a love slave that was actually intended for Zev. Later he changes sex and from now on loves Kai.

The enemy

  • His Divine / Eternal Dark Shadow (Season 1)

As the highest-ranking representative of the “Divine Order”, “His Divine Shadow” is the ruler of the universe of light. The essence of the shadow is passed on from one human host to the next at the end of its life. At the beginning of the series, such a transfer takes place, whereby the brain of the selected host is only insufficiently cleaned, which is why the new “Divine Shadow” makes idiosyncratic decisions that drive the further events forward. In particular, he disregards a prophecy that “His Divine Shadow” will be destroyed by a well G after it leaves the cluster. In fact, his body (but not his brain that was left on the cluster) is destroyed on board the Lexx by Kai. However, its essence returns to the cluster and passes over to the giant shadow in episode 4.

  • His Divine / Eternally Dark Foreshadows ( Seasons 1 and 2)

After the physical death of the respective “Divine Shadow”, its brain is removed and transferred to a device that maintains the vital brain functions for centuries. The previous brains are stored on high steles on the cluster and serve as advisors to the incumbent “Divine Shadow”. At the beginning of the first season, the foreshadows are transported to the Lexx, where they are gradually destroyed.

The physical shells of their predecessors are brought to the planet Ruuma, where they lead a kind of zombie existence.

  • Giggerota ( Seasons 1, 3 and 4) (Starring: Ellen Dubin )

In the first season, Giggerota was sentenced to death for cannibalism and escapes from the cluster aboard the Lexx along with Stanley Tweedle and Zev. Since she directs her appetite against the crew of the Lexx, she is killed by Kai. In the third season, the crew of the Lexx meets Giggerota again. She calls herself the "Queen", lives on the planet Fire and cannot remember her existence as a Giggerota. However, their essential character traits have been preserved. In the fourth season, Giggerota is an inhabitant of the earth. Since the papal election did not come to any result, it was determined by lot to be pope.

Wist was originally a human inhabitant of the planet Claggia. When the parasitic satellite worms take over the planet and mentally enslave the human inhabitants, the queen of worms uses Wist's body to rule over humans.

  • Giga Shadows (Episode 1.4)

In the middle of the cluster, the ruling planet of the League of 20,000 Planets, a surviving insect is hidden, whose insect essence resides in the “Divine Shadow” and controls the universe of light through it. In the fourth episode of the first season, fed by the flesh of the human cluster inhabitants, it develops into a giant shadow.

Mantrid was once the supreme organic vizier of "His Divine Shadow" until he was banished to a bare, snow-covered world. It consists of a head and a large container that contains its organs. He has several robotic arms that can hover independently of him and are controlled by him mentally. At the beginning of the second season he succeeds in connecting with a machine body with the help of the “blue organ” of an insect. As a result, from then on he is a hybrid of man, machine and insect. Its aim is to transform all matter of the universe of light into robotic arms. In season 3, the crew meets Mantrid again on fire. He cannot remember his previous life as the chief organic vizier.

Prince is the charismatic ruler of fire in season three. When he dies he is reborn and can assume any human form and thus deceive friend and foe. In the fourth season we meet him again as Isambard Prince on earth. Unlike all other characters, however, he can remember his past life on fire. He becomes advisor to the new President Priest.

Vlad is a "Divine Executor". These were created to hunt and kill renegade assassins in the name of "His Divine Shadow". Their skills are superior to those of Kais, who has no chance of survival in direct combat against them.

Other characters

Thodin is the leader of the renegades from Ostrol-B. He was able to obtain a copy of the key to the Lexx with great losses on the part of the renegade. While trying to steal the Lexx, he runs into Stanley Tweedle, Zev and 7-90 by chance. Shortly before Thodin is killed by Kai, he transfers the key to the Lexx to one of his colleagues. When this is then eaten by a cluster lizard, he gives the key to Stanley Tweedle.

In the second season, the Lexx gets a fourth permanent crew member, Lyekka. It is a man-eating plant and looks like Stan's old childhood sweetheart. She likes the crew members and therefore doesn't want to eat them. People who accidentally or intentionally get on board are eagerly eaten by her and so she often solves the crew's disposal problems. When at the end of season 2 her pod is destroyed by Mantrid arms and she is doomed to die, she sacrifices herself for the crew and thus helps to defeat Mantrid.

In the third season, Lyekka is recreated by the three gardeners in the episode Gardeners of Love ( Garden , 3.9) to please Stan. However, at the end of the episode, she is killed by Prince people.

  • The timeless prophetess

The timeless prophetess apparently answers questions about the future to anyone who visits him. Strictly speaking, the time prophet cannot see into the future either. But he is aware that time runs in repetitive cycles. He is the only being who can remember the previous time cycles and thus also knows the future.

In season three, Priest is Prince's right-hand man on the planet Fire. In the fourth season he is elected president as an earth inhabitant and is clearly overwhelmed with this task. So he is all the more grateful for the support of a certain Isambard Prince.

In the third season, Bunny is a resident of the planet water and lives in Gametown. She is good-natured and naive and likes Kai. In the fourth season, Bunny is the wife of the President Priest. Because of her naive nature, she can easily be caught in the machinations of Isambard Prince and the president.

Fifi lives like Bunny on water in Gametown. But he feels rather uncomfortable there. He manages to settle after fire, where he enters the service of Duke. For the fourth season, Fifi is the producer of the television series Xevivor and is called Farley. He is primarily concerned about his sexual orientation and is attacked by a killer carrot.

Dr. Longbore is an American scientist who, together with his colleagues, is building a spaceship to leave Earth. He also built a Higgs boson generator that can be used to destroy the earth.

The "Lyekka" in Season 4 is not identical to the Lyekka in Seasons 2 and 3. By its own admission, it is also a carnivorous plant, a "sister of Lyekka". However, it is much more voracious than the original Lyekka. She lies to members of the crew about her intentions several times and tries to manipulate them. Their origin is a huge asteroid, from which the killer carrots were sent to earth as a vanguard, which turn people into zombies. It leaves a trail of devastation on its journey through the "Dark Zone", always wiping out all life on the planets that haunted it. The earth also plans to depopulate them. After destroying Tokyo, a fight ensues with the crew of the Lexx. Kai manages to destroy the asteroid.

Locations

The Universe of Light and the Dark Zone

The world of the television series Lexx consists of two universes: the Universe of Light and the Dark Zone. Two films from the first season and all of seasons 3 and 4 are set in the Dark Zone. Two films of the first season and almost the entire season 2 are set in the universe of light.

In the Universe of Light, His Divine Shadow rules the League of 20,000 planets. The Dark Zone is described as the universe of evil, chaos, and depravity. Wells G lived in the dark zone on Brunnis. When their sun burned out, they found a new home on Brunnis-2 in the universe of light. The earth, like fire and water, is in the center of the dark zone. Fire and water have some parallels to heaven and hell.

Most of the mass of the Universe of Light will be converted into biomechanical mantrid drones during the course of the second season. At the end of the second season, Mantrid pulls all of his drones together in an attempt to defeat the Lexx , accidentally triggering a Big Crunch . The universe of light is destroyed. The Lexx escapes to the Dark Zone.

The Dark Zone is the parallel universe that His Divine Shadow cannot enter. The entire fourth season takes place on Earth, which is located in the Dark Zone. At the end of the first film "Rebels of the Galaxy", the Lexx escapes through a wormhole into the Dark Zone. The wormhole's secret coordinates are in a Stanley Tweedle tooth. The Lexx remains in the Dark Zone during the second and third films and parts of the fourth film. The Lexx returns to the universe of light in the fourth film "Gigaschatten". The entire second season takes place in the universe of light. After the destruction of the Universe of Light by Mantrid drones at the end of season two, the Lexx is thrown into the Dark Zone. The third and fourth seasons then play there.

The cluster

An important place in the world of " Lexx " is the cluster . The cluster is the center of the Divine Order. The paths of the Lexx crew cross for the first time on the cluster. Zev (later Xev) Bellringer, Stanley H. Tweedle and Kai manage to escape from His Divine Shadow on board the Lexx . Its Divine Shadow and Predecessors rule from the cluster. The cluster is the capital of the Divine Order, the center of a religious bureaucracy where all criminals and heretics are tried. The negotiations are automated using old records and holograms. The condemned are used as slaves or "disembodied" and their organs are used in the protein bank. Actually, however, the cluster is the planet-sized body of the last insectoid whose spirit rules outside as its divine shadow and is awakened at the end of the first season.

Fire

Twin planet of water. Fire is an inhospitable place that the crew ends up in at the beginning of the third season. The desert-like surface is criss-crossed by lava lakes. The sun burns mercilessly and people who are exposed to the sun during the day die quickly. Fire shouldn't have its own water supply. The inhabitants of fire live in huge towers. Each of the towers houses an entire city. The towers give them shade and coolness because they are far above the hot planetary surface.

water

Twin planet of fire. The inhabitants of water live in several large floating settlements. Each of the settlements seems to be devoted to a different pastime. During their stay on the water, the Lexx crew visits Gametown, which is the home of the sports enthusiasts; Boomtown, for everyone who likes to have sex; Garden, for all garden lovers. Life on water seems to be full of unadulterated beauty and contentment. However, the idyll is disturbed by occasional fire attacks. The inhabitants of fire can get to water through an atmosphere tunnel with the help of balloons.

earth

The earth is an inhabited planet that is half covered by water. It is in the same orbit as fire and water on the opposite side of the sun. The earth is a "Type 13" planet, inhabited by a human civilization that is about to destroy itself with the help of a Higgs boson generator.

Life forms

In the course of the four seasons we encounter several forms of life: humans, insectoids and plants. In addition, humans have created humanoid robots that are hybrids of humans and robots, so-called "cyborgs". They are mostly used to carry out special work. All life forms of the two universes have no language problems; so they all seem to speak the same language. The only indication of a different language is in Kai's Brunnen-G-Lied, which is sung in the ancient language of the Brunnen G.

People

Humans colonize both the Universe of Light and the Dark Zone. They are fighting a long-running war with insectoid life forms. The aim of the insects is the complete annihilation of all humans. The people have come together to form diverse state structures. The following are explicitly mentioned:

  • The League of 20,000 Planets (Universe of Light)
  • The Planets of Reform (Universe of Light)
  • Fountain G on Brunnis 2 (Universe of Light) or earlier on Brunnis in the dark zone

The Brunnen-G are a humanoid race. In the following Brigadoom reference is made to the history of the Brunnen-G; They were a very poetic people with colorful clothes and elaborate tower hairstyles. Furthermore, they became famous for defeating the insect civilization. After that fight, they isolated themselves from the rest of the universe and developed a medical method to immortalize themselves.

Most recently, the Brunnen-G were attacked by the armed forces of "His eternally dark shadow". Many were even happy about the prospect of death because they no longer saw any meaning in eternal life. Regardless, a young rebel persuaded some Brunnen-G to fight because this hopeless battle was a good way to die.

They succumbed to their fate in 2008, years before the series began, when their planet was destroyed by "His Eternal Dark Shadow." Kai learns from the "timeless prophetess" about the prophecy that he will be responsible for the defeat of "his eternally dark shadow".

The Brunnen-G left behind a technical device on their lost homeworld of Brunnis to prevent the sun from becoming a supernova . The only "resident" was a hologram of a former resident named Poet, who guided visitors through the great library of Brunnis. According to his own account, Poet was left behind by the other Brunnen-G and in his loneliness he replaced the museum guide's hologram. In doing so, he leaves out any dangers such as splitting up while preserving memories. In addition, his hologram was waiting for a woman to beget offspring with his frozen semen. The apparatus that the poet put on for this purpose accidentally wanted to fertilize Stanley Tweedle with it.

Interestingly, Poet's style was different from that of the Brunnen-G: he wore a kind of tuxedo, had a beard and no tower hairstyle.

The LEXX crew reached Brunnis and deactivated the machinery that kept the sun in check. And just before it became a supernova, it revealed the ability to love. After the LEXX took off, the sun became a supernova and finally destroyed the homeworld of Brunnen-G (in the "Dark Zone").

  • Fire and Water (Dark Zone)
  • The Earth (Dark Zone)

Insectoids

The insects are one thing above all else: gigantic. You can survive in space and have fought against humans in the Insect Wars. Its declared goal is the extermination of all people. The giant shadow is also one of the insectoids.

Other forms of life

  • Cluster lizards

Brains are the cluster lizards' favorite food. But they are also able to eat entire human bodies. Half of Zev / Xev consists of cluster lizard genes. Squish is a young cluster lizard that Kai places in the giant shadow's brain in episode 1.4 "Gigaschatten" and ultimately destroys it.

  • Satellite worms (episode 1.3)

Satellite worms live on the planet Claggia as snake-like parasites on humans. They control their human hosts mentally.

  • Plants (Season 2)

The Lyekka from the second and third seasons, as well as the "Lyekka" from the fourth season, count among the carnivorous plants. They are quite intelligent, but always strive to consume mostly human food.

  • Humanoid robots

As a humanoid robot, we first get to know 7-90, which originally consists of a human body, a robot brain and a small remnant of a human brain. However, after his body was eaten by a cluster lizard at the beginning of the first film, he is also able to live without a body. There are other designs from this series.

  • Hybrid creatures

In season 2, Mantrid is a hybrid of man, machine and insect. Brizon, his predecessor as Bio-Vizir and former mentor, is, like Mantrid before his transformation, a hybrid of man and machine.

The moth breeders on board the Lexx are similar to Zev / Xev former prisoners from the cluster. As a punishment, they were deprived of all non-essential functions, provided with technical implants and only used to breed moths, the Lexx's short-haul spacecraft. Their intellectual abilities are very limited.

Film music

The score was written by Marty Simon.

Well-G Song

Probably the best-known piece of music in the Lexx film music is the Brunnen-G Song. It is sung by Cam Hawkins, Marty Simon and Stan Meisner.

In the first scene of the first film ("Rebels of the Galaxy", 1.1), the Brunnen-G song is sung with several voices by the living Kai and his companions in the hopeless attempt to defend their home planet Brunnis-2. The Brunnen-G song is sung in the ancient language of the Brunnen-G and is the only reference in the entire Lexx universe to a different language. The Brunnen-G on Brunnis in the Dark Universe traditionally sang the song before fights in which they awaited death.

Kai also sings the Brunnen-G-Song in other Lexx episodes, especially in critical or seemingly hopeless situations. In the episode “The Rock” (4.6) Kai plays the Brunnen-G-Song in a bar on the piano and creates a jazzy version. At the end of the episode, the entire pub sings the song with Irish instrumentation.

The Brunnen-G song also serves as the namesake for the last episode of the fourth and final season ("Yo Way Yo", 4.24). There Kai sings the Brunnen-G-Song in the finally successful attempt to destroy the last representative of the insect civilization.

From the third season, the Brunnen-G-Song serves as an intro to the series.

Vaiyo AO
A Home Va Ya Ray
Vaiyo A-Rah
Jerhume Fountain G

The fight fighters
For their homeland and their hearts
We fighters will win or die
We are the fountain-G forever

Brigadoom

The episode "The Last of the Wells G" (Original: "Brigadoom", 2.18) is a musical episode in which the events surrounding the destruction of Brunnis-2 and the death of Kai are examined in more detail. All the songs are sung by the actors themselves:

01. Brigadoom
02. Dull Dull Dull
03. Go Beyond
04. Beyond Reprise
05. Farewell
06. Time Prophet
07. His Shadow Is Coming
08. Guilty
09. Sentenced
10. Two Hearts
11. Sweet Relief
12. Well G
13. A Good Way To The
14th Jerhume Fountain G
15th Final Stand

German synchronization

All German actors have dubbed their roles themselves. When synchronizing into German, the following noteworthy deviations should be mentioned: The Lexx has a male voice in the English original. In the German dubbing it was decided to give the Lexx a female voice. However, this has consequences for the logic in two episodes. In episode 2.7 "Love Thrives", the entire living crew including the Lexx is sexually reassigned. In the English original, Lexx becomes female and asks Kai if he finds her attractive. In the German version, she speaks in a slightly different, still female voice, and the whole thing doesn't make any sense. In the last episode 4.24 “Yo Way Yo”, to the amazement of all, the Lexx gets offspring. However, since the fourth season was never dubbed in German, the German viewer already made the acquaintance of the male voice of Lexx in the fourth season.

The translation of the proper names "His Divine Shadow" (literally: "His Divine Shadow") and "His Divine Order" (literally: "His Divine Order") was not literal, but as "His Eternal Dark Shadow" or "The Dark One." Guard ”. This translation carries both a rating ("dark") and a duplication (shadows are mostly dark), which are not given in the original. Instead, there is no reference to the religious trimmings of the goals of order and His divine shadow. Kai's sayings ("I do not ...", "The dead do not ..."), which are constantly recurring in the English original, cannot be recognized as such in the German translation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexx - The Dark Zone - the films in the Lexicon of International Films
  2. ^ "LEXX, Music From The Original Television Sci-Fi Movie Series", Colosseum Schallplatten GmbH
  3. ↑ http://www.lexxdomain.com/brunneng.php
  4. ↑ http://www.lexxdomain.com/brigadoom2.php
  5. ↑ http://www.synchronkartei.de/?action=show&type=serie&id=1963
  6. ↑ http://www.synchronkartei.de/?action=show&type=serie&id=11989