1 00:00:15,566 --> 00:00:18,532 Its a reaction to a… to a… 2 00:00:18,532 --> 00:00:21,597 you know, a lot of very dull sci-fi, 3 00:00:21,597 --> 00:00:25,035 you know, in a sci-fi world there is very where 4 00:00:25,035 --> 00:00:30,779 the story that takes themselves quite serious and I couldn't do that. 5 00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:37,018 And the other stories like the original "Alien", John Carpenter's movie "Dark star", 6 00:00:37,018 --> 00:00:39,497 I like "Doctor Smith" and "Lost in Space" - 7 00:00:39,497 --> 00:00:44,344 they are fusing all these things together into one piece of madness. 8 00:00:44,344 --> 00:00:51,038 Spaceship that used to be shiny and rocket shaped and they all became millhead sort of triangular doors 9 00:00:51,038 --> 00:00:53,357 and people who are saluting from the chest... 10 00:00:53,357 --> 00:00:54,782 Just so why the future like that? 11 00:00:54,782 --> 00:00:57,837 I don't know, if I just let's use something completely different, 12 00:00:57,837 --> 00:01:03,024 let's use biotechnology, insects instinct things and everything else... 13 00:01:07,183 --> 00:01:08,866 We want to have characters who have flaws. 14 00:01:08,866 --> 00:01:11,108 So one of our characters is dead. 15 00:01:11,108 --> 00:01:13,723 its a fairly significant flaw there is to overcome. 16 00:01:13,723 --> 00:01:16,394 You killed me 17 00:01:16,394 --> 00:01:21,418 Stanley Tweedle - security guard - has many flaws too, 18 00:01:21,419 --> 00:01:24,897 so he's a normal-flawed human being. 19 00:01:24,897 --> 00:01:29,067 And then we also want to have a fantasy female, 20 00:01:29,067 --> 00:01:32,110 so if we are going to have a fantasy female rather than just have her hide the fact that this is a fantasy female. 21 00:01:32,110 --> 00:01:34,566 So we've gone total hardcore. 22 00:01:34,566 --> 00:01:36,149 She's a love slave. 23 00:01:36,149 --> 00:01:39,494 She, you know, wants to get down and to do it all the time. 24 00:01:39,494 --> 00:01:42,615 As a guy, that is my fantasy female! 25 00:01:42,616 --> 00:01:46,784 Our characters are not in a "Start Trek" way, 26 00:01:46,785 --> 00:01:52,685 I mean, in the story of Lexx we don't have that, we have the normal people who are little bit nihilist, 27 00:01:52,685 --> 00:01:54,748 they are just some sort of “look at what's there!” 28 00:01:54,748 --> 00:02:00,367 World exists in their particular continuum and they deal with it. 29 00:02:00,367 --> 00:02:03,314 That's it, they don’t have a grand master plan like most of us don't. 30 00:02:03,315 --> 00:02:08,768 Originally when we just start making a series, I mean as the writers, 31 00:02:08,769 --> 00:02:12,438 we, myself and the others felt so completely in control of everything what's happen in a story, 32 00:02:12,439 --> 00:02:14,489 did not have a life of us own because we decided what happen and what happen. 33 00:02:14,590 --> 00:02:17,366 We were God in a Universe. 34 00:02:17,367 --> 00:02:21,560 And sometimes things that we whimsically thought of just as passing thing, 35 00:02:21,561 --> 00:02:27,907 become very establish that we become married to them, and they were locking in the minds of people all of the world, 36 00:02:27,908 --> 00:02:32,502 become part of that reality, and it does take a life of it own. 37 00:02:32,502 --> 00:02:36,813 And the Lexx world is a world that I've made a significant contribution to write. 38 00:02:36,813 --> 00:02:38,516 I started the ball roll 39 00:02:38,516 --> 00:02:45,011 but i am no longer completely in control upon its rolling, but I can't one hundred percent manage its direction anymore. 40 00:02:45,011 --> 00:02:46,724 That's really weird. 41 00:02:46,724 --> 00:02:49,685 Well i don't know if I have a style for telling story, 42 00:02:49,686 --> 00:02:55,712 but I do believe that I try to make a type of film that I would like to see. 43 00:02:55,713 --> 00:02:58,941 I also think that all of us were influenced by sort of quirky 44 00:02:58,941 --> 00:03:03,487 off-the-beat humor like “Mighty Python” and hyperbolic “Hell bell” as in “Get Smart”. 45 00:03:03,487 --> 00:03:07,076 And Lexx has bits and pieces of those cultural influences. 46 00:03:07,077 --> 00:03:11,611 And I don't think that is bad thing, and i don't think that i can really help it. 47 00:03:11,612 --> 00:03:13,712 I am a productive my times.