The crew locates Kai's ancestral homeworld. Their visit includes murder, amputation, an attempted hijacking of the Lexx and the impending explosion of the planet's sun.
(SCI FI premiere: August 8, 2000)
Written by Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff and Jeffrey Hirschfield
Directed by Ron Oliver
| Wordsworth Lives! |
| POET MAN: Nature! Oh please! Pound nails in my head, but don't ask me to frolic in the wilderness kissing a duck. |
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Afterward, ship and crew adjust to life in the Dark Zone: Stan naps and spies on Zev in the shower and 790 recites verse after verse of sophomoric erotic poetry. Kai sleeps in his deep freeze, giving Zev something to pine over, and the Lexx accidentally destroys a space probe.
Gigerotta rises from a steaming pool of the Lexx's vital fluids into which she plunged when Kai threw her off the bridge.
Finally, after faking a suicide attempt to get Zev’s attention, Stan promises to help locate Brunnus – Kai's ancestral home planet. (
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ANALYSIS
"Super Nova" ends not with a bang, but with the whimper of lackluster plotting. The threat of an earth-shattering kaboom ostensibly hangs over our heroes' heads as they struggle to save themselves from Poet Man's traps, but the episode never effectively communicates that suspense.
Similarly, the "Perils of Penelope" situation that arises when Gigerotta and Stan repeatedly deactivate, reactivate and redeactivate the satellite control system does not produce a believable sense of tension. It may evoke penny-dreadful sensibilities, but the accompanying sound and fury signify a whole lot of nothing.
The explosion has one positive effect: the elimination of Gigerotta. While the character's hostile self-reliance and proclivity for snacking on human flesh provided an interesting contrast to Stan, Xev and Kai, she was in danger of overstaying her welcome.
WHAT WE LEARN
Kai's beauty mark symbolizes the Brunnen-G's journey to the Light Universe.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Exactly how does the key to the Lexx work?
Why do Stan and the others keep the Divine Predecessors' brains around when they are so manifestly dangerous?
How were the Brunnus stars able to speak?
TUNE IN TOMORROW
Our heroes fight Rutger Hauer and a cannibal video game in "Eating Pattern", the third Lexx film. But did the SCI FI Channel edit out all the notoriously gross bits?
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