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No one watched any of those shows for the set or the "story". The "Gates" are along the same line ..and employ the same "comedy" components in varying degrees. Once you get past the cheap sets and the "this all will be solved in 43.X minutes thing, they can be entertaining.
It all requires, as they say, "a suspension of reasonable belief" for it to "work". The cheap props fade into the static background ..etc..etc.
LEXX worked very well for me for a few seasons. It's a shame that they ran out of money.
One of my favorite scenes was where a bunch of planet eating machines were observed by a manned orbiting weather station where the one fellow was about to give the forecast for the day. He says (something like) "Well, it doesn't look like it's going to be a good day..".
It all requires, as they say, "a suspension of reasonable belief" for it to "work". The cheap props fade into the static background ..etc..etc.
LEXX worked very well for me for a few seasons. It's a shame that they ran out of money.
One of my favorite scenes was where a bunch of planet eating machines were observed by a manned orbiting weather station where the one fellow was about to give the forecast for the day. He says (something like) "Well, it doesn't look like it's going to be a good day..".
