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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>GrandFortuna's League of 20,000 Planets</title> <atom:link href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com</link> <description>Lexx fan blog for the TV show Lexx, also a personal blog. I'm not compensated in any form for linking and sharing.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:23:07 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title></title> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2016/01/27/1127/</link> <comments>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2016/01/27/1127/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>GrandFortuna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Lexx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lexxperience]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/?p=1127</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a problem.   The problem is multifaceted, the main one being that I can't get into my own code on xanga like I can on blogger and tumblr, and xanga has not yet constructed a wordpress style widget that I can use. Anyone can make their own cookie code. However, wordpress style widgets […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a problem.</p><p><a href="https://cookie-script.com/"><img alt=" photo cookie.jpg" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/cookie.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p> </p><p>The problem is multifaceted, the main one being that I can't get into my own code on xanga like I can on blogger and tumblr, and xanga has not yet constructed a wordpress style widget that I can use.</p><p>Anyone can make their own <a href="https://cookie-script.com/">cookie code</a>. However, wordpress style widgets are notorious for shredding script code, and xanga won't allow java in any form.</p><p>I've been watching traffic drop off as the EU cookie compliance law has gone into affect, and I've clearly lost about 3/4 of my regular traffic here now. Most of the big stuff has already moved to <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Lexxperience.com</a>, and I'll continue my Lexx blogging there.</p><p>If anything changes and I can insert the cookie code in future, and especially if xanga revives a bit more, I'll be coming back here. In the meantime, please see <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Lexxperience.com</a> for updates.</p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2016/01/27/1127/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Zev vs Xev</title> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/08/27/zev-vs-xev/</link> <comments>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/08/27/zev-vs-xev/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:00:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>GrandFortuna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Lexx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[B3K]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cluster lizard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eva Habermann]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love slave]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lusticon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Xenia Seeberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Xev]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zev]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/?p=1121</guid> <description><![CDATA[Originally posted on 8-22-15 at Lexxperience.com. Click for the complete Lexx series at Amazon.com   Pix click to sources. One of cult scifi's hottest debates is Zev or Xev. Both in real life are cool European models/actresses. But this isn't real life, is it? This is Lexx. In a coexistent universe overlapping our own, in […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally posted on 8-22-15 at <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/08/zev-vs-xev.html">Lexxperience.com</a>.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lexx-Complete-Series-Brian-Downey/dp/B00E0KY62O"><img alt="" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9TLhGnXeJnE/VbuvJMFPqDI/AAAAAAAAEyE/PmCR5abJLO0/s1600/zevxev5sm.jpg" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td>Click for the complete Lexx series at Amazon.com</p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><i><span style="color: #c27ba0">Pix click to sources.</span></i></p><p>One of cult scifi's hottest debates is Zev or Xev. Both in real life are cool European models/actresses. But this isn't real life, is it?</p><p><i>This is Lexx</i>.</p><p>In a coexistent universe overlapping our own, in the same place, at the same time, Order was making a mockery of the human race across a League of 20,000 Planets. Human beings had been locked into a darker than Orwellian regime for thousands of years, and there was no such thing as freedom of choice, reality TV, <i>or even shopping</i>. Although all of humanity living under His Shadow played their parts in that rigidly controlled and regulated society, women especially were considered inferior, relegated by government to reproduction and slave service if they were unfit for other useful fields, such as bureaucracy and military. Make one mistake, and you could disappear into a judicial process that would repurpose your usefulness into parts for robotic drones. Everyone had a place.</p><p>Zev's place was in a box.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/B3K"><img alt="" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pDceodWrlFA/Vbu6uCwd7QI/AAAAAAAAEyU/FtbziWaWpzM/s400/A_younger_Xev_in_the_Wife_Bank.png" width="400" height="305" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/B3K">B3K- Lexx Wiki</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>The wife bank was a huge government sanctioned processing center, one of probably several kinds of what we'd innocently call boarding schools, for parents in menial roles that didn't allow room for parenting. At least their girls in the wife banks would be housed and fed during their reeducation into the mundane roles of laborer, service, wife, and prostitute. There was no shame in the programming schools taking over for kids who came from lesser families, for kids who didn't <i>fit in</i> with the aggressive compliance that Order required from families higher up on the food chain (literally).</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=200&show=1"><img alt="" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VpUPs3yXRfg/Vdkdg7PcDTI/AAAAAAAAFWU/fzLE8rLPBBQ/s400/iwhs216.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">ThePicBug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>At first glance, we assume Zev wound up at the wife bank because she was abandoned, but if we look at the hopelessness pervading all of humanity under the Shadow of Order, I believe her parents either did what they thought was right or were pressured into doing it, maybe both. Best let go early before the horrors of Correction removed her later. No doubt this also included children who asked too many questions and took initiatives that were not in compliance with Order, and were therefore in constant danger of <i>disappearing</i>, being swallowed up in Corrections and never heard from again. I'm sure parents openly questioning or protesting children being removed from their families or whatever social structure there was were met with equal retribution, quashing all thought of doubting Order. Thinking outside the box wasn't allowed. Problem solving skills came with hefty guidelines, and coloring inside the lines led to longer lives.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=250&show=2"><img alt="" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDu5Aswsz3M/VdkVXegXeJI/AAAAAAAAFVU/4n9ZaEeBi-k/s400/sn261.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">ThePicBug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>So being turned over to the wife bank nearly from birth may actually have extended Zev's life. As we watch her emotionally mature through the series, we realize her natural questioning and initiative were already deeply rooted and she would never be able to accept living as a slave to Order, in any capacity, confirmed by her rapid decline into harsh sentencing after she automatically defended herself almost as soon as she had graduated the wife bank. I believe her parents extended her chances for survival when they submitted her to the wife bank, even if the whole scene seems lame and inexcusable from our point of view. What else could they do? She'd have questioned everything growing up and drawn attention to herself.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=100&show=34"><img alt="" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8i-c6SlrcI8/VdkfICs-fHI/AAAAAAAAFWg/7anNDwvODxQ/s400/battle107.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">ThePicBug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's very hard to imagine a society without concepts for family solidarity, holiday gatherings, or even the possibility of happiness. Such large scale repression made it impossible for families to thrive at all unless they wholeheartedly supported Order and used their every waking moment to excel in serving it, as we see in the scene of children being awarded Merits of Service. Their parents likely ranked much higher and were more deeply entrenched in loyalty, and therefore had access to opportunities and the perks that came with them. Under His Shadow, this loyalty undoubtedly went far beyond anything we think of as Big Brother, as we see good children being rewarded with special invitations to mass executions akin to Superbowl sized sporting events.</p><p><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/282952789060254901/"><img alt="" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v0dAw7mNSVA/VdkV73ADEtI/AAAAAAAAFVc/aDoSS_q8ii0/s400/clusterparty.jpg" width="400" height="298" border="0" /></a></p><p>We aren't privy to much of Zev's brainwashing, but we can assume some of it was pretty explicit so she'd be ready to be a good wife. Lexx fans have seen me dancing daintily around ignoring her matron coaching her on the "tower of power" scenes in the past, which immediately clue us in on how deeply sexist and layered society would be around her once she got out of that box. Lexx very clearly shows us both child and sex slavery in efficiently short scenes that leave us hanging with disturbing clues to how deeply controlling His Shadow has become over billions and billions of people that amount to him as little more than cattle in a breeding program.</p><p>I wrote all of the above to contrast the 'smut in space' mentality some scifi reviewers have had for Lexx. Fine, if that sells the show, because that's one way to sell the deeper content. Of course it's smut in space, <i>a love slave escaped on the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes</i>.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-worship-his-shadow-part-8-zev.html"><img alt="" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CizRzyCDUF0/VdkU2GDGx6I/AAAAAAAAFVM/wrf2j1iuPDM/s400/376.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://i%20worship%20his%20shadow-%20part%208-%20zev%20bellringer/">I Worship His Shadow- part 8- Zev Bellringer</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>I could do an entire chapter on lusticons and what their impact would be on our own society. In Zev's world, however, they were little more than sophisticated DNA resequencers that forced women into such menial roles that they had expiry dates. They were remade to be used up and thrown away. Yes, they were remade into Beauty itself, the stuff of dreamers and poets, but along with that their minds were also stripped down to compulsive service and little else. To give readers some context, I'll cross the line of bad taste and simply ask- which would you prefer, your wife to be a real person like original Zev, or a mistress that's nothing more than a responsive doll? It's a trick question, because deep down we all want both, don't we? Be honest and admit it- we want to be able to use people without repurcussion and consequence, without guilt and self loathing. And Order makes this possible. No guilt, no conscience. Just a lusticon and a very smoothly running society. If you don't want to be made into a love slave, you do your time in a box and color inside the lines. Once you're a love slave, you're no longer a citizen. You are government property and allotted like merchandise with no regard to your feelings, your misery, your sadness, and leaving behind everyone you ever cared about or loved.</p><p>It's really important to see this from the Lexx point of view to really get all the rest of Lexx. So many viewers admit confusion, especially by season four, when it's really quite simple. <i>All broken people want is real love, forgiveness, freedom</i>... If you've never been around that kind of broken, you probably won't get Lexx.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><span><a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-worship-his-shadow-part-8-zev.html"><img alt="" src="https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv654%2FJanikaBanks%2FLexx%2FLxSc%2F371.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" width="400" height="299" border="0" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td>All it took was one confused punch after being publicly insulted</p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>So Zev majorly failed years of repressed wife preparation and found herself slung into the heart of the mass butchering of other poor souls not toeing the lines, actually felt ripped off that instead of being put out of her misery she'd be stripped of the last of her menial rights and be forced to ride that tower of power the rest of her quickly expiring days, and not even against her will because even <i>that</i> would be taken away from her via brainwashing program, and how do you even process all that while you're bolted to a slab and nothing but machines and a robot around you? <i>Zev grew up without the warmth of humanity</i>, yet she so beautifully expresses that very thing through the rest of the series.</p><p>So let's psyche eval Zev, the escaped love slave. First of all, <i>surreal</i>. Can you even imagine making it through the lusticon and suddenly the world around you has changed? The robot is broken, there's bloody cluster lizard mess and a giant (at least twelve feet long) decapitated cluster lizard on the floor, and whadayaknow, the bands are suddenly easy to pull away from their bolts on the slab. Zev doesn't seem very phased, because her entire life has been so boxed. She's simply in another box right now, a room with automatic equipment still going. And she's had a really long stupid day/week (we have no idea how long she was bolted to that slab for the trip to the Cluster), her crankiness has leveled up exponentially from the new cluster lizard DNA just incorporated into all her cells, and she's in no mood to waste time freaking out about anything. <i>She's just pissed</i>. And you know how funny ugly situations get when a person is a way past cranky. That's right, let's toss a robot head into a brainwashing program and giggle. <i>Surreal</i>.</p><p><i>These come from <a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">ThePicBug</a> and click out to larger.</i></p><p><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=275&show=1"><img alt="" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w9vwh4DCO94/VdkWjddIzdI/AAAAAAAAFVk/JPyRyyxvfTg/s200/iwhs282.jpg" width="200" height="150" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=275&show=1"><img alt="" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ntoaEqedSz0/VdkW3Awb7qI/AAAAAAAAFVs/DJG_XHAzVIc/s200/iwhs292.jpg" width="200" height="150" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=275&show=1"><img alt="" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fieqs2MJJ9c/VdkXGnmqQqI/AAAAAAAAFV0/oevNDuY_4MQ/s200/iwhs290.jpg" width="200" height="150" border="0" /></a></p><p>Seeing her reflection was a shock. Her struggle with Stan over who would be the human shield was pure instinctual reflex. The grab for the robot head to open the door happened in that hyper aware 'we're gonna die' state. Her dive through the doors and into fugitive escape with Stanley was coincidence. The world just kept flipping upside down over and over. <i>We never see Zev (or Xev) go through this kind of pure flight response again</i>. Everything she goes through after her initial flight response is calculated and consciously thought through, defying the fate that was originally intended for her as a mindless love slave. (I'm still facepalming over 'smut in space'. <i>Really?</i> How shallow are some of these reviewers?)</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?show=6"><img alt="" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n3wV-acYpyQ/VdkYEvnoY-I/AAAAAAAAFWA/GtxpEGAB1CU/s400/terminal006.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">ThePicBug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time we reach season two, we've all fallen in love with Zev. She's way more than feisty and gorgeous, she's <i>real</i>. She's sad and determined and hopeful, and pretty much the tie that binds the crew into a gang with some semblance of a mission. Zev is a decision maker, despite growing up brainwashed in a box, and she very sternly draws her lines around right and wrong. In her heart of hearts, she knows what the good is that she longs for, because she's been so deep in the bad. She's a strong moral character even though she's still trapped in a DNA reboot meant to deconstruct morality into the control mechanism of Order.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=275&show=6"><img alt="" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-euzZ0dteMR4/Vdkc1zDCmGI/AAAAAAAAFWM/CCACBv1WidI/s400/terminal277.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">The Pic Bug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>And then she sacrifices her life to save an undead assassin and a traitor. <i>I wept</i>. I don't get very gooey over TV, but that scene ripped me apart. In the midst of being trapped in experimental medical torture fetish, she is the one who makes the moral decision to fight for the right, and since she never grew up being taught what was right, she got that from her own heart. The depths of Zev came out fighting in a greedy world with no hope left, and she died loving the loveless wanderers who had accidentally helped her escape Order. To see a Divine Assassin kneel and lift her slave bands out of her molecular remains was devastating to everyone but himself, because he could not feel it. But intellectually, that was a defining moment after billions had lived out thousands of years of slavery across a galaxy. The fandom went into shock.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=225&show=7"><img alt="" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7ESmMAUwUmE/VdkgB6krd4I/AAAAAAAAFWo/J5s8BVn-Gq8/s400/lyekka249.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">The Pic Bug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>And then the fandom split into camps of delight and outrage when a plant used a recombinant DNA process to reconstruct Zev's remains with the DNA of an astronaut from <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Potatohoe">Potatohoe</a>, and we get our beautiful love slave reborn, complete with memories, because Lyekka the plant felt sorry for Stanley's loneliness. <i>Think about this</i>- a living 'lusticon' function, a remanufacturing out of love, no brainwashing this time, and Xev is reborn and given back to the crew as a <i>gift</i>. It was weird and sweet <i>and weird</i>... And it's not <i>our</i> Zev, but it's still Xev, as she knows herself, but redefined. Kinda creepy, but still very beautiful. <i>So... is she part Potatohoe-an? Sort of the astronaut's daughter? Did Lyekka impart any plant DNA into her as well?</i> None of these questions seem to come up, but she's definitely still part reconstituted cluster lizard. (@bonenado adds "out of instant potatoes".)</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=75&show=9"><img alt="" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GRpTICFIxws/VdkhG4uB5JI/AAAAAAAAFWw/SCCvXc7zXtk/s400/lafftrak079.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">The Pic Bug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>We watch Xev struggle through the rest of the series with what is it she really wants. First we see her relive what seems like teenager/young adult years, except now she's no longer in a box and sparkling with the delight and joy of sexual discovery. As season two goes on, we watch her mature and take sides on right and wrong, tolerating abuse from Mantrid and then stepping up in Brigadoom to fight for a cause. By the time season two ends, Xev knows exactly what love is, and how deeply it will sacrifice itself.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?show=27"><img alt="" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ET4bZaDOidU/VdkhfjaxcYI/AAAAAAAAFW8/M5ECytUfsnc/s400/gametown002.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">The Pic Bug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Throughout season three we watch Xev go through the heartbreaking layers of being sweetly romanced by nefarious evil with ulterior motive. Xev starts out innocently believing she has finally found love at long last, only to realize she's been used for purposes that go against her strengthening moral principles. Considering that Xev came from deep in the heart of uncompromising moral deprivation, Prince finds she's not so easy to seduce, and even rivals his indestructible ambition with her indestructible cluster lizard tenacity, going so far as to outlast him on his own planet, outwit him at his own game, and even threaten him with her own brand of instinctual cluster lizard evil. She definitely has an edge over falling prey to the Prince of darkness, being only half human, a first for the planet Fire, which allows only human souls to pass into its realm.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=100&show=34"><img alt="" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ap3PCjkYZo/Vdkibygz60I/AAAAAAAAFXI/aQe0LxyUgpQ/s400/battle117.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/index.php">The Pic Bug</a></p><p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>After the shock of going through season three, season four feels a little confusing, but stay focused. Remember that Zev/Xev <i>came from Order</i>. She came from repression, matured through the kinds of moral ambiguity that break people, she discovered her strength against evil, and now she's finally reached a place in the Two Universes that has never been touched by the long arms of Order- <i>Earth</i>. We don't know if Earth humans are a surviving remnant that escaped the Insect Wars many millennia ago, much like Kai's people did for awhile, but Earth has developed all kinds of evils of its own, from governments to black market, and we get to see what happens when a genuine love slave created in the darkest heart of true evil does when she's kidnapped for porn, used to spike reality show ratings, fought over for unrequited love, captured for black market organ theft, handling a real job as a counselor, and most of all, finding out what Kai would have been like if he'd been born on Earth and how their relationship would have turned out.</p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ubJ7dhZOG98/hqdefault.jpg"><img alt="" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vIjcmArljXU/VdkmnO3DecI/AAAAAAAAFXU/hgzHVeQaMZI/s400/fluffdaddy.jpg" width="400" height="300" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Original Zev is played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385694/">Lisa Hynes</a>.</p><div><p>Zev is played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352230/">Eva Habermann</a>.</p></div><div><p>Xev is played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781462/">Xenia Seeberg</a>.</p></div><p>Unlike many fans, I do not have a preference for one actress or another, and don't wish to see canon changed. The continuity works just fine for me, and I appreciate Zev/Xev in all her forms. Remembering that her character essence is what this show is all about means more to me than having favorite actors. I think they all did wonderful work and sincerely portrayed so many offenses against women with sweetness and strength of form. Following Zev's/Xev's journey across the Two Universes has deeply affected me personally, and if/when I come back to another post on Zev/Xev, I'd like to look more deeply into her role in the prophecies about the cycles of time.</p><p>More reading from other fans-</p><p><a href="http://xevb3k.blogspot.com/2012/01/zev-and-xev-bellringer-of-b3k.html">Zev and Xev Bellringer of B3K</a></p><p><a href="http://www.oocities.org/the_lexx2001/ZEV_XEV.html">Zev&Xev</a></p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/08/27/zev-vs-xev/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Pope Giggy- Giggerota, Part 4</title> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/pope-giggy-giggerota-part-4/</link> <comments>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/pope-giggy-giggerota-part-4/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:09:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>GrandFortuna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/?p=1101</guid> <description><![CDATA[Originally posted on 7-10-15 at Lexxperience.com. That last post was way too thinky. Let's have some fun!  I love Xander Bennett. I can't help it. He finally unfollowed me, guess I'm just too weird. I think Lexx fans get that a lot. We're the fringe kids not quite in the 'adorable' and 'cute' eccentricities. Let's […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally posted on 7-10-15 at <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/07/pope-giggy-giggerota-part-4.html">Lexxperience.com</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">That last post was way too thinky. <i>Let's have some fun!</i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="https://twitter.com/pinkyguerrero/status/301059488037867520"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mLy4s2U1wQg/VZSGkAU3y0I/AAAAAAAAENI/VVhAeyOFo58/s400/golfballs.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p>I love <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xander_Bennett">Xander Bennett</a>. I can't help it. He finally unfollowed me, guess I'm just too weird. I think Lexx fans get that a <i>lot</i>. We're the fringe kids not quite in the 'adorable' and 'cute' eccentricities.</p><p>Let's find out how this crazy cannibal from the Cluster winds up becoming Pope. Here, quickie review before I start, subscribe to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChTigmbi0YgtYyHSMlzRpeQ">mobiusbelmont</a> for lots more awesome.</p><p><i><span style="color: cyan">First set of screen snips click back to sources at <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/JanikaBanks/library/Lexx/LxSc" style="color: #c63d84;text-decoration: none">LexxPix</a></span><span style="color: cyan">.</span></i></p><p><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Genevieve_G._Rota#Season_4">Genevieve G. Rota</a> is a real estate agent who 'woke up one day' on the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Blue_Planet">little blue planet</a>, along with all the other souls who inhabited <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_and_Water">Fire and Water</a> before <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lexx">the Lexx</a> blew them up. (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631328/">s4ep4 Stan Down</a>) We find out, along with <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Isambard_Prince">Isambard Prince</a>, who is watching the news, that the Sacred College of Cardinals chose a new Pope, and in a surprise break from tradition, they made a real estate agent from Miami the new Holy Father.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota1.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><p>When she finds out she was chosen during a closed door session that used the only bit of newspaper in the room to break the deadlock (her name in the real estate section having a nice Catholic ring to it), Genevieve rips her sign up during an ecstatic dance of joy, laughing that she's now the Father, then rapping about kissing her ring.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota3.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota4.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota5.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/rota5.jpg" /></a></div><p>As per my <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/07/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part.html">part 3 post</a>, please note when you next watch this episode that Prince didn't seem at all pleased with this news. It actually seems like he ignores it by switching the channel back to <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Stanley_Tweedle">Stanley Tweedle</a> being held prisoner, but if you think about the previous rivalry between Prince and Queen on Fire, you know it's serious panic time when he finds out a few seconds later that the President collaborated with Stanley behind his back, and now Giggy is suddenly a loose canon as the most powerful person in the world. The first time I watched season four I didn't catch the dynamic, but the race is on now, and the competition over the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/The_Key">key</a> to the Lexx will become fierce, once again. Prince must get Stanley and the President back under his thumb before the Pope does. And that's all I'm going to say, you either get the power rivalry problem or you don't. <i>It's not an accident that Prince tells the President he's in Miami, knowing that the chain reaction will be to have the Lexx blow up Miami where Genevieve was just on live television</i>.</p><p>The next time we see Pope Genevieve is in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631293/">s4ep20 Apocalexx Now</a>. By this time, most viewers are so dizzy and confused by the bawdy vaudeville style storyline (I loved it) that it's difficult to see what's really going on. Don't stop at <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Reginald_J._Priest">President Priest</a> (his name is literally State Church, if you think about it) misunderstanding <i>Japaneseland</i>, or the First Lady, who is wearing an American flag bikini, being waved aside by a gender swapped Pope. Look at the power structure that is setting up right before everything goes haywire. Where is Prince? Where is Stanley? Where is the key to the Lexx?</p><p>If I may, seasons three and four are one big long chess game that is finally played between Kai and Prince on a real chess board just before the end, and the goal is to capture the power and gain the Lexx. <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Bunny">Bunny</a> was brought in to get the key from Stanley (she failed more than once) and help Prince control Priest. <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Lyekka">Lyekka</a> and <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/790">790</a> are wild cards. Pope Genevieve is too egocentric to notice the bigger game, as usual. Prince is pulling strings like crazy trying to maintain some kind of control. It's up to <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Xev_Bellringer">Xev</a> and <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Kai">Kai</a> to get it all straightened out. <i>(Battle of Five Armies, lol- Lyekka's carrots, Pope's assassins, Prince's ATF organization, the Lexx crew helping <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Ernst_Longbore">Dr. Longbore</a>, and 790 holding down the biggest weapon of mass destruction in two universes.)</i></p><p><i><span style="color: cyan">The following screen snips are from <a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/" style="color: #c63d84;text-decoration: none">The Pic Bug</a></span> <span style="color: cyan">and will click back to her site.</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">I love that Pope Genevieve is taller than President Priest. She's very intimidating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=25&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ivo6FeAubCc/VaAyStFx4dI/AAAAAAAAEUU/f_naCXa5cZI/s1600/pope1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">And bossy. And mean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=25&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NgMsrc6JcxI/VaAyl_kkCDI/AAAAAAAAEUc/wOy3mfTyx9g/s1600/pope2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">Interesting power partnership. This can't end well. Where is Prince, anyway?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=50&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fBFRQVxdkNU/VaAzS-mv6xI/AAAAAAAAEUk/tlIMM5DhRag/s1600/pope3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">Oopsie, the most powerful person on earth just caught the guy who has the key to the Lexx.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=100&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iSOrDsIT6Yw/VaAzvd0S_FI/AAAAAAAAEUs/6Ulhdoq8OmA/s1600/pope4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">She's aiming for the gas canister above Stanley. Note the lit candles below him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=150&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VzS9zCQEpJs/VaA0MBt3V9I/AAAAAAAAEU0/KvZP7bRh2TI/s1600/pope5.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">Missed killing Stanley by that much, lol. Prince would be having heart attacks if he saw this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=175&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B5CNj06PIvI/VaA0lgJD_hI/AAAAAAAAEU8/tBqwv17VweI/s1600/pope6.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">Her end was so apropos. If you don't remember because you haven't watched in so long, it's high time you rewatched.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=225&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rmrQ9SRvc8U/VaA1Hhf3EdI/AAAAAAAAEVE/5lk5KYatdOY/s1600/pope7.jpg" /></a></div><p>Pope Genevieve G. Rota was played by the prolific <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239294/">Ellen Dubin</a>. Follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenDubinActor">twitter</a> and like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EllenDubinActor">facebook page</a> to keep up with real time projects and interviews.</p><p>Giggerota/Queen/Pope has been a worldwide character discussion for years, as evidenced in -> <a href="http://www.cyclopaedia.de/wiki/Giggerota"><i>this collection of links</i></a> <- on the discussion of Giggerota, including books about fictional popes and scifi characters.</p><p>Giggerota is also discussed and enjoyed in more length at-<br /><a href="http://sadgeezer.com/LEXX-Biography-Giggerota.htm">Sadgeezer</a><br /><a href="http://www.lexxverse.com/view_topic.php?id=347&forum_id=3">Lexxverse</a><br /><a href="http://self.gutenberg.org/article/whebn0002374968/giggerota">Project Gutenberg</a><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KZcIAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=giggerota+character+study&source=bl&ots=hWkuVNG-KZ&sig=OLs4r0N2NeSaTwvAwBzIFJvK1F4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NqefVdH1EsmpsgGK24LoDw&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=giggerota%20character%20study&f=false">this book</a><br /><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Lexx">"Ambiguously Human" in TV Tropes</a> <i>fave</i><br /><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Giggerota">Lexx wikia wiki</a><br /><a href="http://www.wavewrights.com/nonfic/lexx/chai.html">Lexxplorations</a><br /><a href="http://www.norajean.com/Biz-Archive/LEXX-Home/ed-lexx.htm">Norajean.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.lexxdomain.com/links.php">Wolvie's Lexx Lair</a><br /><a href="http://www.syfydesigns.com/showthread.php?370-Pinky-Stuff&p=795&viewfull=1#post795">PinkyStuff</a><br /><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/giggerota">Tumblr</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=giggerota">YouTube</a></p><p>The Lexx series is distributed worldwide by <a href="http://www.echobridgeentertainment.com/dvd/Lexx_06105">Echo Bridge Entertainment</a> and can be purchased for viewing through a variety of online streaming and retail outlets such as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lexx-Complete-Series-Brian-Downey/dp/B00E0KY62O">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Lexx&c=movies">Google Play</a>, and <a href="http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=Lexx&category=9975218%7CAll%7Cmatchallpartial%7Centertainment&lnk=snav_sbox_Lexx">Target</a>. It came through Hulu and Netflix for awhile, so keep your eyes peeled.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=50&show=57"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvrUgmvzmxU/VaA8yRlt9jI/AAAAAAAAEVU/6eNgUKSufqU/s1600/790tied.jpg" /></a></div><p>Go back to <a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part-three/">part three</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/pope-giggy-giggerota-part-4/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>It's Good to be Queen- Giggerota, Part Three</title> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part-three/</link> <comments>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part-three/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>GrandFortuna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/?p=1099</guid> <description><![CDATA[Originally posted on 7-7-15 at Lexxperience.com. I normally grab awesome pix from Angelbacchae's screen captures or her newer site The Pic Bug, but it looks like she's currently transitioning some of her Lexx, so I'm grabbing my own pix again, which are hosted at LexxPix. Girltown is a conundrum, so I'm going to start immediately […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally posted on 7-7-15 at <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/07/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part.html">Lexxperience.com</a>.</p><p><i><span style="color: cyan">I normally grab awesome pix from <a href="http://www.angelbacchae.com/">Angelbacchae's screen captures</a> or her newer site <a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/">The Pic Bug</a>, but it looks like she's currently transitioning some of her Lexx, so I'm grabbing my own pix again, which are hosted at</span> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/JanikaBanks/library/Lexx/LxSc">LexxPix</a><span style="color: cyan">.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: cyan"><br /></span></i> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/girltown.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/girltown.jpg" /></a></div><p><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Girltown">Girltown</a> is a conundrum, so I'm going to start immediately with a disclaimer. I'll try to stick to Giggy, but to understand her character this season, we need to look at where she is and why.</p><p>Since Girltown is on the planet <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Fire">Fire</a> (basically, hell) and the only thing the inhabitants seem to be trapped there for at first glance is being alt-sexual, most reviewers simply say homosexual, and some especially plead the case that Girltown is the only city on Fire where some of the inhabitants didn't deserve to be in hell. I agree with this <i>first glance</i>.</p><p>However, since we really don't know what their previous lives were like <span style="color: #6aa84f">(human trafficking, sex slavery, prostitution, blackmail, drug pushing, snitching and spying, keeping their mouths shut instead of diverting the crimes of others, and yes, actual murder by OD or other means to solve a problem- all the fun 'party' stuff that more innocent viewers don't know go on in the underground, plus we must remember that many of them <i>don't</i> remember their past, so pleading innocence on Fire is moot)</span> <i>and</i> completely glosses over bisexuals, transsexuals, asexuals, and the myriad of other orientations out there <span style="color: #6aa84f">(pedophiles would be especially tormented on Fire, since it lacks children)</span>, I'd rather not lump it into a simple "gays go to hell" debate. For instance, Mantrid's servant is an interesting study I look forward to doing. He seems to be like Bunny, 'innocent', but will do <i>anything</i> for his obsessive love and devotion to the most evil man in the two universes. Anyway, Lexx has been known to be gay-friendly throughout the series, so we can't stop at shallow here.</p><p>I think the roots of their being there go deeper than simple sexuality issues, including bondage for slave labor (of which <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=S%26M">S&M</a> is a necessary duality, a kind of understood partnership), which I'll deal with later when I do a review on the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Girltown_(episode)">Girltown episode</a> (season 3, episode 11). I'll also immediately point out that group sex is a big thing on <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Boomtown">Boomtown</a>, and no one questions that on <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Water">Water</a> (basically, heaven), so let's knock the homosexual thing out of the way right off the bat. And with that, I give to nod to a <a href="http://www.wavewrights.com/nonfic/lexx/darrow8hnh.html">Lexxplorations reviewer</a>, who spent a considerable amount of time on many Lexx quotes and Lexxellent critical thinking. I think I know what the deal is behind that lengthy puzzle. And having said that, now I'll say I agree that some mistakes are made, as Prince pointed out, and perhaps some of the girls' souls were dragged there by their handlers from a past life, because handlers own their slaves. Some viewers/readers may not be familiar with trafficking vernacular.</p><p>Ok, back to Giggy.</p><p>Right before we we see <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Giggerota">Giggerota</a> again, we see a gloved hand adjust a setting by turning a wheel.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gt1.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q0MPQ5MdS2w/VZly00x9yCI/AAAAAAAAEPk/xdvK1V7JRLI/s1600/gt1.JPG" /></a></div><p>Then we pan down to a fire underneath what looks like a really big cauldron. Since we're already on Fire, where everyone is so miserable with the heat, it's odd that we're actually seeing a deliberately controlled fire.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gt2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-39vgEdFqP38/VZlzEgmv3fI/AAAAAAAAEPs/sHjVHVJYm0o/s1600/gt2.JPG" /></a></div><p>We know this face. And we can tell she <i>likes</i> the fire.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gt3.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gt3.jpg" /></a></div><p>Turns out Giggerota is Queen of Girltown, only we find out in a little bit that she doesn't remember having been Giggerota at all (which raises the question of why she's not in the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Tunnels">Tunnels</a> with the rest of the serial murderers, but I'll get there in a minute). Hell apparently isn't hot enough for her, so her throne is a hot tub. Nearly boiling hot, in fact.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/throne2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/throne2.jpg" /></a></div><p>The first and biggest question that comes to my own mind is <i>Why a queen? Why her?</i><br /><i><br /></i> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face2-2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face2-2.jpg" /></a></div><p>At first it seems like she's being coddled, and her voice starts off soft, which is the sort of scene we might have expected on Water for someone who's led a good and decent life, but that changes real quick when she sees Stanley, who's been captured and jailed. Queen thinks Stanley is a girl, a derogatory term which has weirdly lost its original meaning, as the 'girls' of Girltown are lower-classed slave labor that also happen to all be men.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face5.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face5.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">And then we are utterly creeped out when Queen finds out Stanley has never died before...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face4-2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face4-2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face6_1.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/face6_1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><p>It doesn't take long to notice Queen oversees every minute detail in a society that segregates itself into girls and boys, a subset of Shes (plural of she) versus the Non-Shes that live outside of Girltown.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/council.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/council.jpg" /></a></div><p>Queen sits in judgement at the top of a bedchamber in which Rivet sits holding a gavel attached to a torture device around her arm, supervising the points of order while Queen directs the council speakers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/judge.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/judge.jpg" /></a></div><p>Queen calls "<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quorum">Quorum</a>!" and then says "Begin!" with a wink, a gesture that carries <a href="http://www.davidicke.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-196189.html">significance</a> within a certain power group. I'm not sure the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Donovan">Beans</a> were insinuating or intending anything of the sort here, but it makes sense if they did, since it would mean Queen is the one elite power on Fire.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/wink2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-078lhvoKzKc/VZpeY7NC9HI/AAAAAAAAEQk/OS-RrxLtXsU/s1600/wink2.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">Queen is seen by the council only through the screen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/screen1.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/screen1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">By the way, Wrench is misspelled on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631306/fullcredits">imdb</a> to Wench. Socket disputing Wrench's amendment doesn't make sense if the name is misspelled, which changes the meaning. Wrench throws a wrench into the proceedings, get it? And all the 'boys' have tool names. Getting the puns are key to understanding why these people and their pettiness are in hell. I mean, on Fire. #facepalm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left">#darnthesepunstoheck <a href="http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Phil+Prince+Of+Insufficient+Light">#thatwasaDilbertreference</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left"><i>#Imenjoyingthiswaytoomuch</i> (Also, I like to think that Lewis would have enjoyed this episode after all the work he put into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Regress">The Prilgrim's Regress</a>.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/council2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/council2.jpg" /></a></div><p>The whole argument in court boils down to Stanley not being a girl because even though he looks like one, he doesn't behave like nor is dressed like one (like the transgendered slaves), and since it's obvious he's not a boy (like the transgendered council members), <i>he must be a Non-She</i>, which the council finds quite shocking. They have no other word for men. All men outside of Girltown are called Non-Shes and considered very dangerous. Queen wants them to get to the point. Giggerota was always a person of few <i>very to the point</i> words.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/council3.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/council3.jpg" /></a></div><p>The question of whether Stanley might be Prince in disguise comes up, or that his sudden appearance in Girltown might be a plot by Duke to gain a foothold for power. Since Queen has already interrogated Stanley and knows he is a "first timer", she stays patient through the debate over which of three motions should be voted on for the highest punishment, which is death, and then makes her own motion to claim Stanley's body, which is immediately carried and voted yes without question.</p><p>I'm about to make some really big observations about the overall power structure on Fire. Prince fans may not like what I'm about to conclude. It's a line of psych-analytical reasoning that I am first to admit could be entirely wrong, but it actually works for so many questions that pop up with fans. I'll be gentle, but it's still going to feel like I'm ripping off a bandaid, ok? Let's think it through.</p><p>One can gather from the council discussion that the alt-sexed who wake up in Girltown are all familiar with the way sex is used to create a power structure, and where their places are in that structure. On Water, all sexes are equal and equally enjoyed. The question of innocence and not belonging on Fire might have nothing at all to do with being gay or otherwise alt-sexed, but how one behaves with it toward those who are different from themselves. Intolerance is obviously prevalent throughout Girltown, and even the 'girls' who proclaimed innocence didn't blink at killing a couple of 'boys' instead of simply overpowering and binding them up as slaves themselves (turn about is fair play, right), so they are, in fact, murderers and showed no remorse over doing it. <i>Anyone different from oneself is of no consequence</i>. I believe that is at the root of them winding up on Fire. Sexuality and orientation itself is not the issue. Plus, we must remember that the murdered boys will simply wake up again and go back to their original jobs, so that didn't really solve or change anything.</p><p>We could have all kinds of fun tying Giggerota's past rebellion against the stifling Divine Order, which tried to force pair her for its own agenda, to her current overseeing of a gender bent culture that turns sadomasochism into an all new Order. If His Divine Shadow is the male symbol of hell in the Light Universe, Queen is the female symbol on Fire. Neither one has a mate, and each is one of a kind. His Shadow is, in actual essence (Insect Essence), part of a non-human hive mind and actually sexless as far as we know (not counting his host), and Fire seems to be an exclusively human afterlife. (Note that Xev, being part Cluster Lizard, was able to outlive, outmanueuver, and outthink Prince on Fire.) So by default, Queen is a sole monarchy, virtually equivalent to His Shadow being a sole overlord or god of sorts. <i>Queen is what happens when bioviziers strip Giggerota's soul out of her genetically restructured brain and body</i>. The other serial murderers in the Tunnels with the worst of the worst on Fire were, simply put, natural murderers. Giggerota was <i>created</i> to murder, and even His Shadow had to 'put her down' when she got out of hand. She is the Queen of murderers, if you will, created by the second biggest murderer in the Light Universe (His Shadow pales to Mantrid, who, incidentally, wound up in the Tunnels), and she, too, is now sexless and bodiless, <i>just like His Divine Shadow</i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/facei.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/facei.jpg" /></a></div><p>When Stanley says he's willing to do anything Queen wants and that he can make her happy, Queen replies, "Queen can never be <i>happy</i>. Life is difficult for Queen. Prince rules this planet. Duke wants to rule it. And will Queen ever get a chance? No. Because Queen is stuck here in this cesspool. And all we can do in Girltown is make balloons." And she goes on about how awful it is doing nothing but holding meetings and making balloons. She feels like she's missing all the action while everyone else on Fire attacks Water or each other while she stagnates. Her personal hell? "There's no <i>body</i> for Queen." Pretty awesome retribution for someone who feasted on other people's bodies. <i>Queen would actually be happy in hell if she weren't stuck in a cauldron</i>.</p><p>So, she sees herself as the bottom of the power structure, instead of embracing Girltown as the cornerstone of a power structure. Jealous of Prince and Duke being able to stride around fighting each other and waging war on Water, Queen thinks she simply can't advance until she is free of her cauldron, little realizing that neither Prince nor Duke can win anything without winning Girltown first.</p><p>Queen obviously trumps Prince as a baddie, and even being stuck in her cauldron holds a few cards over him. Prince doesn't seem, from our point of view, to mess around that much with Girltown, although we can tell from the council discussion that he has clearly tried in the past. The Prince of Fire, being a persona that one could argue represents the son of perdition, could also be reasonably argued to be next in line for the crown, except that on Fire, there is no succession since this <i>is</i> Death. Prince often talks of escaping Fire, even though he seems to be the most powerful person there, <i>except for Girltown</i>. Why? Is he really trying to get away from his mother? (<i>Metaphorically</i>.) (Slipped a little Freud in there, which I'm sure he'd find amusingly charming. Forgive me, I'm having fun Freuding up Dantean Lexx.)</p><p>Aristocracy is a funny thing. It's stifling for the kids who are anxious for some real action of their own, while the adults sit around minding the store, which pretty much runs itself since everything is already set into place. It was mentioned during the council meeting that Duke was more capable of sending spies to sabotage Girltown than Prince was, and they all seemed aware that banishing Prince by death couldn't stop him showing up in disguise again, so we know they've had experience with both Duke and Prince. We can look at Duke and Prince as rivaling cousins trying to capture Girltown before the other does. Capturing Girltown is the key to changing the ultimate power structure on Fire <i>before the Lexx arrives</i>, and I'll show you why.</p><p>Queen's Girltown runs the balloon industry, providing transportation for the entire planet, giving Girltown a pretty sweet spot in the hierarchy of ownership. Girltown houses a smoothly operating slave labor of 'girls' (hence the name Girltown), a voraciously mean army of young leather-clad 'boys', and a judicial system of hardened and utterly unmerciful older 'boys'. <i>Does this tightly controlled power structure remind anyone of the Cluster?</i> By comparison, the other cities on Fire don't seem nearly as resourceful and organized. Since this is so very unlike Giggerota, who was hellbent (get it?) on creating chaos and tearing down Order, I think it's important to ask why such a leap has happened with her character.</p><p>I think Queen is the new Shadow, a remnant from the Cluster. Giggerota the cannibal and the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631305/">Giga Shadow</a> were both insatiable in their lust for eating humans. Also remember, I said in <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/06/giggerota-wicked-part-one.html">Part One</a> that I think she was unkillable until the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631330/">Super Nova</a> took her out, and now I think <i>that</i> is why Prince needs the Lexx. Follow me here, let's think about this. Check out this foreshadowing from the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Nova">Lexx wikia wiki</a>- "<i>Giggerota however is left on a retracting power pillar on Brunnis and wildly screams at the Brunnis Sun and Star demanding a show, resulting in the two merging and going supernova, destroying the planet and incinerating her.</i>" Um, Fire and Water, guys? Locked in orbit together like Brunnis Sun and Blue Star...</p><p>By the way, Doily didn't kill Queen, he just turned the heat up on her. Probably another pun, but remember <i>we didn't see her die</i>. I think this was very brazen of Doily after that big speech he gave Kai about <i>we're not like that, we're not like the others, we don't belong here, we wouldn't hurt anybody</i>. Doily uses his sexuality as a cover, hiding behind indignant whining about his frailty when he's actually quite capable of stepping up without an eyeblink. I think the word for Doily is 'experienced', not 'innocent'. He understands the S&M power structure quite well and knows how to manipulate it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/facej.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/facej.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><p>Ok, back to why Queen trumps Prince. <i>First please note that Queen owns more water than Prince does, and instead of using it to cool off, she uses it to make things hotter</i>. Prince wants to upset the balance. We think he means by taking over Water, and yes, of course he does, but I think he also means <i>not needing Girltown</i>. The Lexx is his dream come true in that regard, since Lexx obviously trumps balloons and everything else Fire has to offer. I almost get a visual of an impatient prince doing figure 8s with a Lamborghini on the palace lawns. <i>Lexx does figure 8s around Fire and Water</i>. Why am I making a big deal of this? Because we never see Prince either confront or use Queen or her minions in his plans, <i>nor rescue any of the Lexx crew from her for his new plans</i>. If Queen had managed to kill Stanley before Prince did, she would have not only owned his body <i>and</i> soul, but by default would have become captain of the Lexx, which we know Prince would have been wildly against happening. <i>The fact that Prince didn't show up and rescue Stanley, like he did in Tunnels, shows me that he is powerless over Queen.</i></p><p>Those of you who just went into shock, my apologies, but it does explain some weird incongruities. Lexx is the kind of show that doesn't stop and explain things in conference rooms like some other scifi shows do. Lexx expects you to hit the ground running and try to keep up.</p><p>So who came first, Queen or Prince? I think, like the Time Prophet, Fire and Water lie outside normal time. I don't think there was a beginning as we would understand it, I don't think time there is linear and relative to our time, and I think they sprung into existence, as the above linked reviewer has postulated, <i>for the Lexx crew</i>, possibly even from Giggerota's death. Another idea is when the Lexx freed Mantrid to destroy the Light Universe, I <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-dark-zone-and-cycles-of-time.html">make a case</a> that the Lexx tipped the balance and broke the cycles of time, which we could now conceivably argue may have created a backlash bubble that trapped all the souls lost when the Light Universe collapsed. But I severely digress.</p><p><i>But how can Queen be the metaphorical mother of Prince</i>, you ask. Simple authority. Queen is unbendable, immovable, the worst of the worst of the worst. Prince cannot win his conquest for ultimate overlord while Queen rules. Once again, worlds must literally blow up to get her out of the way.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/lexx.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/lexx.jpg" /></a></div><p>Go back to <a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/gettin-giggy-with-the-afterlife-giggerota-part-two/">part two</a>.<br />Go on to <a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/pope-giggy-giggerota-part-4/">part four</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part-three/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>gettin Giggy with the afterlife: Giggerota- Part Two</title> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/gettin-giggy-with-the-afterlife-giggerota-part-two/</link> <comments>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/gettin-giggy-with-the-afterlife-giggerota-part-two/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:06:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>GrandFortuna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/?p=1097</guid> <description><![CDATA[Originally posted on 7-2-15 at Lexxperience.com. Pix are my own snips, hosted at LexxPix. Ok, where were we? Giggerota bit the big one, so we are really surprised when she suddenly shows up in season two, episode 14 "Patches in the Sky". (The external, I mean Lexxternal links there are awesome.) Turns out she's part […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally posted on 7-2-15 at <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/07/gettin-giggy-with-afterlife-giggerota.html">Lexxperience.com</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left"><i><span style="color: cyan">Pix are my own snips, hosted at <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/LexxPix">LexxPix</a>.</span></i></div><p>Ok, where were we? Giggerota bit the big one, so we are really surprised when she suddenly shows up in season two, episode 14 "<a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Patches_in_the_Sky">Patches in the Sky</a>". (The external, I mean <i>Lexxternal</i> links there are awesome.) Turns out she's part of some really creepy nightmares.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/1_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/1_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/2_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/2_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>It's psychologically interesting that Stan dreams of Giggerota, who was a cannibal, just before they discover the entire <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Light_Zone">Light Universe</a> is disappearing bit by bit, as if it's being swallowed up by a big nothing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/3_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/3_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>It's also interesting that Stan, Captain of the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lexx">Lexx</a>, is the one having the nightmares about getting mired and stuck and trapped and threatened. At first glance it almost looks like he's having a premonition about the end of the universe and doesn't know yet he is the only one who can truly do anything about it, although I'm not sure the writers had that in mind.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/5_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/5_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Yes, it all starts off with the guilt thing, which we know actually goes clear back to a complicated mess of <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Reform_Planets">Reform Planets</a> being blown up, resulting in the deaths of 685 billion people because he got caught with the codes, and yes, it turns into a payback nightmare, <i>but why Giggerota?</i> He dreamed of the globe with her in it before he ever sat in the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Narco-World">narco-lounger</a>, so again, I call <i>premonition</i>. But what of?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/6_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/6_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>One could make an argument at this point that Giggerota's soul was on its way to the planet <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Fire">Fire</a> in the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Zone">Dark Zone</a> (season 3), and this dream representation could partially be a real haunting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/8_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/8_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>It's pretty scary that a murderer is demanding that Stanley face being a murderer himself. Is this really Stan's own brain tormenting him? Again I ask, why Giggerota? After everything Stan has been through, it could have been any number of people representing the dead in his nightmares, and this is especially weird because Stanley didn't kill <i>her</i>.</p><table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center"><span style="margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/9_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/9_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/9_1.jpg">That lone tear for his fear while she mocks him is delightful.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What makes this point of view even more interesting is that his argument with her about his guilt and sins is almost identical to what <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Isambard_Prince">Prince</a> says to him in season 3, after which Stan winds up in hell, so one could go further out on the branch and presuppose this is Prince already playing his games while he waits for the Lexx to reach Fire. This won't be the first time we see Stanley trapped up to his head.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/10_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/10_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>"More than anything else, you are afraid of death! <i>That's</i> what I'm going to bring you."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/12_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/12_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Thank goodness things start going wrong outside the dream bubble, interrupting it in progress, although it wasn't good for <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Gubby_Mok">Gubby</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/15_1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/15_1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Since this isn't a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631326/">Patches in the Sky</a> review, I'm not going to say more about it, except that the dream imagery is really cool when you notice it goes through a gradient reduction, like planet rubble. It might be easy to overlook what's happening until you remember Stanley's history, which is why we're all here watching Lexx in the first place.</p><p>I'm known to overthink things, but Giggerota is a really fun character to overthink. And you guessed it, there's a part three and a part four coming.</p><p>Go back to <a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/giggerota-the-wicked-part-one/">part one</a>.<br />Go on to <a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/its-good-to-be-queen-giggerota-part-three/">part three</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/gettin-giggy-with-the-afterlife-giggerota-part-two/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Giggerota the Wicked, Part One</title> <link>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/giggerota-the-wicked-part-one/</link> <comments>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/giggerota-the-wicked-part-one/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:04:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>GrandFortuna</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/?p=1094</guid> <description><![CDATA[Originally posted on 6-30-15 at Lexxperienc.com. Pix click to sources, which contain lots more material on Giggerota. At first glance, Giggerota looks like an ordinary human gone way out of control, a captured fugitive from the law, not just a serial murderer, but a cannibal as well. Why, then, did His Shadow's biggest enemy, the […]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Originally posted on 6-30-15 at <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/06/giggerota-wicked-part-one.html">Lexxperienc.com</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: left"><span style="color: cyan"><i>Pix click to sources, which contain lots more material on Giggerota.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.scifisuzi.com/ellendubin/lexx.htm"><img alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pQt52K5bADY/VZFVdUz2U4I/AAAAAAAAEKQ/haUPXJ8xfFQ/s400/gigthodin.jpg" width="400" height="295" border="0" /></a></div><p>At first glance, <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Giggerota">Giggerota</a> looks like an ordinary human gone way out of control, a captured fugitive from the law, not just a serial murderer, but a cannibal as well. Why, then, did His Shadow's biggest enemy, the arch heretic known as Thodin, rescue her from certain death during sentencing on the Cluster? <i>Because he nearly didn't</i>. It's possible that even in his rush, Thodin believed so strongly that His Shadow was enemy to all that every person under that Shadow had to be freed, that he couldn't walk away with that nagging guilt right here in the heart of the Cluster after all the years he'd spent working diligently to get there. As it turned out later, his brief act of compassion was a very good thing, even though Giggerota was a very bad person. We'll come back to that.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/JanikaBanks/library/Lexx/LxSc"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gigthodinrescue.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"></div><p>Screen snips are difficult since the action is a little blurry, but here you can appreciate that she is literally wearing her husband, a symbol of her defiance against the tyranny that created her.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/JanikaBanks/library/Lexx/LxSc"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gighusband.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Created her? Why do I say that? If you've not yet seen <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631310/">I Worship His Shadow</a>, don't worry, this really won't spoil anything for you and might even make the scenes less confusing, once the action starts up. Lexx is a hit and run kind of show that expects you to keep up.</p><p>Let's think about "Giggy" for a moment. We don't see other people like her, especially when we are shocked in the second movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631330/">Super Nova</a> to see that she has been genetically altered. Those of us who've ventured all the way through the Lexx series know that bioviziers from the Cluster can animate the dead, but what else can they do? They are brilliant geniuses given free license for experimentation without limitation- <i>nothing</i> is too taboo. I believe Giggerota is the result of one of their experiments. This is conjecture, but other <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Giggerota">reviewers</a> hint to the possibility of genetic modification, as well.</p><p><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Divine_Assassin">Divine Assassins</a> were animated rebuilt corpses of former enemies programmed to carry out instant 'justice', Cluster style. The modifications that designed Giggerota may have originally been intended to create a living breed of assassins that could replicate themselves. Giggy is smart, yet severely restricted in focus due to a driving instinctual blood lust. She can reason in a very limited way. It's as if the bioviziers were attempting to install an Insect hard drive into a genetically human body. (<a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Mantrid">Mantrid</a> later succeeded in combining his human mind with Insect Essence into a machine.)</p><p>I mention in <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-worship-his-shadow-part-5-time-prophet.html">I Worship His Shadow- part 5- The Time Prophet</a> that His Shadow, despite apparently having a hive mind, is alone among humans. I think His Shadow was keen on creating a new Order of <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Insect_Civilisation">Insects</a> after his kind were wiped out in the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/The_Great_Insect_War">Insect Wars</a>. We never find out whether Giggerota possesses Insect Essence or could pass that along if she did, but we do know His Shadow definitely wants her dead now. She is an experiment gone horribly awry, killing priests and smashing up temples, something not allowed in a society where religion <i>is</i> government control. Giggerota's rebellions presented the possible danger of leading others into an uprising.</p><p>A note on Insect Essence from <a href="http://www.wavewrights.com/nonfic/lexx/it.html">Insect Tech... or, Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Bugs... Speculations on the Insect Civilisation</a>-</p><p>"<span style="background-color: black;color: #99ffff;font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica">In <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394766/">Mantrid</a> we're told it's the insects equivalent of a human "soul" or a computer "program." Without it, the Insect cannot become fully alive. It is the motivating force/mind life energy of the Insect.</span>"</p><p>Giggerota's first instinct, once freed, is to <i>follow the meat</i> instead of help free the other prisoners.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gigmeat.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/LxSc/gigmeat.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>We saw in an earlier scene that fresh protein gathered from prisoners sentenced to death goes straight to the Lexx.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2012/09/06/the-lexx/"><img alt="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/JanikaBanks/Lexx/iwhs165.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Since I'll be doing more in-depth on what actually happens as I continue the Lexx film review, let's skip to why Giggerota turns out to be so important.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://sadgeezer.com/LEXX-Season-Two-Review-Episode-14-Patches-the-Sky.htm"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-75jqKpCWFhI/VZJwQ1fLChI/AAAAAAAAEK0/I5O4Tyirn8I/s400/patches.jpg" width="388" height="400" border="0" /></a></div><p>First of all, I can't assume Thodin didn't know who and what Giggerota was. If you've read <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2015/03/heresy-in-first-degree-thodin-of-ostral.html">Heresy in the First Degree- Thodin of the Ostral-B Pair</a>, you know I think that Giggy and Thodin were both on <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/B3K">B3K</a> before they were put on the prisoner transport for the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Cluster">Cluster</a>. She's originally from <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Boron-7">Boron-7</a>, which we get no further mention of or info about after her sentencing on the Cluster, so anything I think about it is my own leap into pure conjecture. I'll simply state that I think Boron-7 is one of the 'lab' planets where experiments are worked on away from regular society. Giggerota was 'born' there because she was created there. I don't believe she had parents and a normal childhood. Imagination can run wild about the secret horrors happening on Boron-7, and Thodin probably knew about it through his info-gathering underground network.</p><p>Thodin has been fighting against <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Divine_Shadow">His Divine Shadow</a> probably all his life, is famous throughout the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/League_of_20,000_Planets">League of 20,000 Planets</a> and beyond, and I believe was hiding out on B3K after his own planet was destroyed, presumably by the planet destroyer known as the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Megashadow">Megashadow</a>, since <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Kai">Kai</a> had damaged the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Foreshadow">Foreshadow</a>. I think Giggerota wound up on B3K because she was sent there to be integrated into society. <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-worship-his-shadow-part-8-zev.html">Rare scenes of temple weddings</a> on B3K allude to a thriving well-ordered society that 'educates' women for the wife bank and regurgitates them into strictly monitored couples who continue to procreate and serve His Shadow. (We find out in the fourth movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631305/">Giga Shadow</a> that people are the cattle that literally feed Order.)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev_Bellringer">Zev</a> instinctively belting her new husband across the chops during the Giggerota rebellion was really bad timing, although I doubt Zev's sentence would have been reduced at any other time, given the harshness of their laws and judicial system. I also doubt Zev knew who Giggy was since she'd been in a box probably right up to the wedding, never seeing the outside world, but they wound up on a prisoner transport together, and later wound up on the Lexx together, Zev being genetically modified herself as well by then. These two both represent women starting out as less than third class citizens with their status being reduced to virtual property of the government, as I point out about Zev in <a href="http://lexxperience.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-worship-his-shadow-part-9-thodin.html">I Worship His Shadow- Part 9- Thodin</a>. <i>Knowing all this</i>, I believe Thodin <i>likes</i> that Giggerota backfired and rebelled against Order, and he probably freed her so she could go on to create more chaos. Distraction from his own plan to steal the Lexx could only be a good thing, right?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Giggerota"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sY1i1yB3ikk/VZFVBFpsd7I/AAAAAAAAEKI/zWbDpN6BEKk/s1600/Giggerota%2526brains.png" border="0" /></a></div><p>Back to why Giggerota is so important to the story. Hang on, let me briefly interrupt myself.</p><p>Lexx trivia about Giggerota from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EllenDubinActor/info?tab=page_info">Ellen Dubin's facebook page</a>.<br /><span style="background-color: black">"<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px"><span style="color: lime">Ellen is also a cult figure in the sci-fi world for playing the wild alien cannibal Giggerota the Wicked in the international cult hit LEXX. She has the distinction of doing all four seasons and playing four different characters in this very popular show. Ellen played the first female Pope in sci-fi history in LEXX.</span>"</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;color: #141823;font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 18px"><br /></span> So right off the bat, there's that, but let's go a bit deeper. Giggerota's heavy influence haunted the crew far beyond death, as we shall see.</p><p>In season one, Giggerota is the one who gets Stanley to the bridge of the Lexx after Thodin is killed. Stanley accidentally got the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/The_Key">key</a> from one of the heretics after Thodin passed it along and then a cluster lizard ate the heretic. Once Stanley activated the Lexx with the key, it was Giggerota's idea to go to the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/The_Frontier">Frontier</a>, beyond the reach of the League of 20,000. Despite being thrown off the bridge and presumably dying, she shows up in the next movie, scavenging for food, tearing off and eating pieces of the Lexx...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=50&show=2"><img alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tWfxbh-mUqs/VZKDfg6poXI/AAAAAAAAELE/p3XcRUVax0U/s1600/sn059.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>...until she is caught again and tied up.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=100&show=2"><img alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zlEzid3I8PE/VZKESjFnqCI/AAAAAAAAELM/0gVNPXY38vk/s1600/sn115.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>This is where we find out Giggerota is likely a product of bioengineering and possibly hosting Insect Essence, as evidenced by the <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Divine_Predecessors">Divine Predecessors</a> in the tail section of the Lexx being able to contact her after the others leave her behind to explore <a href="http://lexx.wikia.com/wiki/Brunnis-1">Brunnis</a>. The brains are apparently already aware of what's going on, presumably because they've had contact with Giggerota all along. Not much is known about Insect Essence, but I'm concluding from this that it allows for communication across distance, like a psychic link. This further confirms in my mind that Giggy is a product created by bioviziers with the intention of working for purposes that served His Shadow.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=150&show=2"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0hMAme4VMvM/VZKE58bvZfI/AAAAAAAAELU/c0bIcgrTQ-Y/s1600/sn163.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Despite her being a super egocentric psychopath with limited reasoning skills, the Predecessors are able to negotiate a deal with Giggerota to venture onto Brunnis and bring Stanley back so she can make the Lexx fly to a wonderful feast on <a href="https://www.veooz.com/photos/mHyeSvD.html">Dexter 9</a>, the <a href="http://www.subzin.com/quotes/S3502954da/Lexx/Super+Nova/The+secret+planet+of+the+milk+fed+boys.">secret planet of the milk fed boys</a>. At first we think this backfires because she only brings back Stan's hand after she gets frustrated and bites it off.</p><p>Here we learn something vital about the key. One would presume that Stanley's hand must be brought back alive and still attached for the key to work, as the key can only exist in a living body. We must remember the key is a bio-amalgam of Insect Essence and Stan's hand. His hand apparently won't die just because it's bitten off, which the brains know but Giggy doesn't. A few Predecessors suffer a bit of shredding amid Giggy's frustrated rants when they chide her epic fail, but they're able to trick her, convincing her to go back for Stanley. After she leaves the Lexx again, the Predecessors practice communicating directly with the Insect essence within the key in Stan's hand until it recognizes the user and follows commands.</p><p>Since what I just said about the key brings up more questions, knowing that protoblood animates dead flesh, but the key will flee a dying body, just accept that essence and protoblood are two different Insect things, and that the key has been biochemically manipulated and coded, like a living software program. The key itself can't die, but it also won't keep the user animated beyond death. The Predecessors were still able to use the key in a severed hand because it hadn't fled the hand, since Stanley obviously wasn't anywhere near death when his hand was bitten off.</p><p>We were vitally distracted from why Giggerota's presence is still so important on Brunnis, despite all the damage and suffering she inflicted. If she hadn't been there, Stanley would never have been rescued from Poet Man, simply put.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=325&show=2"><img alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--vT1ibesa7g/VZLQZ97UU2I/AAAAAAAAEMI/Uz5Ql-A9djE/s1600/poetmanrescue.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>And not to put too blunt a spoiler here, but since that's the extent of Giggerota's importance in season one, she croaked off, and I'm not going to tell you how, in case you haven't seen the show. But don't worry, we haven't seen the last of her by a long shot. By the way, if Giggerota really did have Insect Essence incorporated into her, this is the perfect way to actually kill her, aside from dismemberment and becoming Lexx food on the Cluster. I'm not sure she was killable otherwise.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="http://www.thepicbug.com/showcaps.php?Total=25&Start=525&show=2"><img alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ufvQ16vTORo/VZLRVNH0MnI/AAAAAAAAEMQ/MBB19LpDmcM/s1600/show.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><p>Since this post is already pretty lengthy, I'll continue my Giggerota character review in a later post or two.</p><p>Giggerota was played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239294/">Ellen Dubin</a>, who <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenDubinActor/status/578372962757279744">mentioned last spring</a> that she still has the original Pope costume. Like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EllenDubinActor">facebook page</a> and follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenDubinActor">twitter</a> because she's really good about linking current projects and fan interaction.</p><p>My favorite latest annoucement is that Ellen will once again be working with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386601/">Jeffrey Hirschfield</a> (the voice of 790), executive producer of <a href="http://www.syfydesigns.com/showthread.php?444-The-Time-Is-Right">The Time Is Right</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;text-align: center"><a href="https://twitter.com/TTIRofficial/status/608597147110416387"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bw2If3BwubI/VZLWs8TeOEI/AAAAAAAAEMg/5hBZxnNjo6o/s1600/timeteam.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><p>Go on to <a href="http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/gettin-giggy-with-the-afterlife-giggerota-part-two/">part two</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://grandfortuna.xanga.com/2015/07/12/giggerota-the-wicked-part-one/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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