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I did not survive
Feb. 17th, 2019 02:02 pmI just watched "Brigadoom," the musical episode of Lexx, for the first time, and I'm emotionally compromised. My love for this series is rushing back. It's a vicious satire on heroic SF that turns the corner and actually becomes heroic SF while still keeping the snide sense of humor, and the characters are awful yet relatable and I want to hug them but also want to yell "YOU ASS" at them. I would try to sell people on Lexx more often -- goodness knows I want someone to revisit it with me -- but to get to the good parts and have them make sense, you first have to get through a lot of sex comedy and poo and fart jokes, and I understand not everyone finds that an acceptable entry cost.
Every couple of years, my thundering crush on Michael McManus (the Canadian one, there are two Michaels McManus but only one is Canadian and played Kai) recurs and I do an image search. I regret to state that he is still heart-achingly beautiful and has become a silver fox in his mid-fifties. Here he is. If I have to suffer, so do you. I understand he mainly does live theatre these days. Brian Downey is still acting too, I am happy to say. He played one of the villains in the Canadiansploitation movie Hobo With A Shotgun in 2011; I'm not sure how to feel about that movie but Downey was good in it. Eva Habermann seems to have had a packed career in TV in Germany, and Xenia Seeberg seems to have done well for herself too. I always want performers who have given me something important to have good fortune and be OK in general, so I'm pleased that's the case with these four.
Every couple of years, my thundering crush on Michael McManus (the Canadian one, there are two Michaels McManus but only one is Canadian and played Kai) recurs and I do an image search. I regret to state that he is still heart-achingly beautiful and has become a silver fox in his mid-fifties. Here he is. If I have to suffer, so do you. I understand he mainly does live theatre these days. Brian Downey is still acting too, I am happy to say. He played one of the villains in the Canadiansploitation movie Hobo With A Shotgun in 2011; I'm not sure how to feel about that movie but Downey was good in it. Eva Habermann seems to have had a packed career in TV in Germany, and Xenia Seeberg seems to have done well for herself too. I always want performers who have given me something important to have good fortune and be OK in general, so I'm pleased that's the case with these four.
