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Lexx : Season 1

Lexx: Season 2

MonteVideo wrote:

A couple of comments. 

1 - We can see social media posts on social media.  Just because there are more of them, aggregated in one place in a lengthy string, doesn't make them any more reasoned or true. I think this board should stick with commentary with the odd piece of backup. 
2 - This thread should be closed and relaunch under specific topics.
3 - Hard to find out who is most disliked at 640 or 1010 this week, or what's on repeat at Sauga 980  when the thread is this long.

I understand your point, but the problem with multiple threads is

a) I'm trying to accommodate those who simply cannot leave politics off the board, despite my repeated pleas to do so. 

b) I'm dealing with an overwhelming number of members who want exactly the opposite of what you want - more comments on radio and TV, which is what this place is about - and lot less about people named Kirk, Trump or any of the others that come up regularly. I've already had several people leave because they're fed up with it here, although it is fair to say they don't have to read a thread they don't want to see. That's what this one represents.

c) I'm trying to balance both sides without it costing me the membership of people I really respect and offer great insights here. 

So it's Catch 22 - keep this poison off the board and frustrate those like you or make it a free for all and have tons of others defect and not come back. 

I've worked really, really hard to build a cooperative and welcoming atmosphere here, but this political poison has been infecting everything. I listen to a ton of talk radio, so it's a topic I'm obviously interested in. But I would not expect CHFI to stop playing music and start taking calls on Charlie Kirk. That's not what they're about. Similarly, neither is SOWNY. 

I'm trying to allow both sides a say, with one thread packed with politics - which really should not exist here at all. If I do what you suggest, there will quickly be dozens of them and from the feedback I've been getting, that's not what most want SOWNY to be.  

I'll chime in and say that part of the many things in this thread, added by me, happens because the events going on in America right now are utterly chaotic and to many, MANY of us who don't want anything to do with Trump's hideous version of America are nonetheless still affected by his policies and decisions.

If the US goes to war with Iran or Venezuela, I think most of us want to know the real reason for it (and not whatever bullshit the White House spews out, because we've lived through the lies about "Weapons of mass destruction" with the prior right-wing administration and are no longer going to take anything that they say with face value, blindly). Every branch of the US government is now under the control of severely underqualified imbeciles (the Kash Patels, the Pete Hegseths, etc) who are only in those positions for their loyalty, not for their competence or honesty.

Add to that, out of fear that Trump will punish them for telling the truth, almost all the US news sources are no longer reliable sources of information. I only have to point you to the idiotic $15 billion lawsuit that Trump launched today against the New York Times for writing articles that "make him look bad" (to quote CityPulse News). Or the edict from Jeff Bezos to the newspaper that he owns, the Washington Post, to stop producing content that would antagonize Trump. Or CBS putting an end to the Stephen Colbert show for reasons that are definitely NOT financial.

Even when I posted about the online speculation over the man giving the hand signals behind Charlie Kirk, I assumed that it would most likely be established to just be two bodyguards or Kirk employees using signals to quickly convey something routine, but still, it's what the left-wingers are theorizing and speculating about on that day and gaining traction. I don't recall a time ever, when everyone online has been so laser-focused on even the most minute detail around Trump, whether it's his health, his real agenda, who he is conspiring with, etc.

Trump is referred to as a chaos agent for a reason, and because he isn't just a raving lunatic standing on the street but instead the leader of the most powerful country on the planet, has the nuclear codes and is actively taunting Iran and Venezuela into conflict, has shown every sign of trying to establish a permanent authoritarian government where he will never step down, and is clearly in mental decline... people are worried. They have every right to be. If you're not, as has been said, ignore the thread. I don't pay attention to Ben Mulroney or Joe Rogan for a reason, they spew lies and hate and I won't give them any of my time. You're welcome to skip this thread, there's no force compelling anyone to read other than fear of what could happen, morbid curiosity, or just a desire to make sense of a suddenly nonsensical world. If I'm posting here at length, it's because I'm trying to make sense of this insanity (and as a writer, we write as a way to process our thoughts --- when I do it on a public forum, it's to share what I'm finding and hope that others will chime in with their perspective too).

Even the Goyper thing may utterly lead to nothing, but that's the point: you can't disprove anything until it is brought up so that counterpoints can be raised from the other side. For those citing the fact that Tyler was in a romantic relationship with a trans person, I've already heard the counter-argument to this claim (which has to do with something about Tyler renting out a room to someone who was trans, but they were not romantically involved... this was only a single person stating this counter-claim so I haven't had any reason to post it here until there's more evidence).

Keep in mind that "the authorities" cited in the Axios article are Kash Patel's FBI... and considering we know that Kash used lie detector tests to find out which FBI agents were loyal to Trump so he could fire those who were not, anything that the FBI now says is severely in question as to its reliability, it is more likely to be framed in a way that suits the Trump administration's agenda to promote more hatred against the left.

And it's funny that the right-wing are always adamant about free speech... until they hear something that they don't like:

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-workplace-speech-firing-29717a8612ccedebabc7cba29e7ef627

NEW YORK (AP) — In the days following the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, numerous workers have been fired for their comments on his death, among them MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd.

Several conservative activists have sought to identify social media users whose posts about Kirk they viewed as offensive or celebratory, targeting everyone from journalists to teachers. Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer said she would try to ruin the professional aspirations of anyone who celebrated Kirk’s death.

Hypocrisy at its finest, those lovers of freedom of speech.

EDIT: to reference MonteVideo's points, the reason why the screencaptures exist is precisely because there are people who don't use social media (most of those being older people). My best friend, a die-hard Conservative, barely checks his email and avoids social media. My younger brother, in his 50s, hasn't a clue what twitter is never mind TikTok. I've always assumed most folks on this forum are closer to my age than in their 20s or 30s and thus, not as likely to browse social media other than maybe Facebook.

ADD: sigh, in for a penny, in for a pound. Here is the SUPPOSED text message that Tyler supposedly sent to his trans roommate (and possibly his lover). Tyler is 22 years old. Needless to say, there are folks online who do not find that a 22-year old would text in this organized, well-punctuated manner, never mind provide such a checklist of answers that is tantamount to a confession.





This is an interesting predicament: let's say Tyler or his lawyer comes out and says: "Hey waitaminute! I didn't text this! I'm being framed!"

The counter-argument is a simple one: "Well of course he's going to deny it! It makes him look guilty! He's facing the death penalty, why would he admit that he sent this message?"

The roommate could come out and clear up if this message was real or not, but then the left-wing counter to that is: "How do you know you were actually being texted by Tyler and not someone else trying to frame him?" And on and on.

I will say this... if Tyler mysteriously dies while in custody, for whatever reason, you can count on the left-wing conspiracy theories to EXPLODE on the internet.
 

Last edited by TomTV (September 16, 2025 10:43 pm)

TomTV wrote:

Shorty Wave wrote:

Lexx

Well damn, I didn't think anyone would guess it before I made my post later tonight... a slow clap to Shorty Wave, everyone. X-Files was not dystopic enough, and Starlost was a great guess since I do remember that we often got glimpses of how those isolated societies within the domes would take a wrong turn. But LEXX is the show I was referring to and now I'm going to have explain why...  For those who've not seen the show, this should be a fun discovery if you're into dark twisted sci-fi comedy.

 

 
Well damn, I’m good! Actually, I worked for Salter Street Films in Halifax when they were producing LEXX, it was a co-production with a German company. Salter Street Films had hired me to be their creative director for IFC, The Independent Film Channel, that they launched in 2001. The LEXX cast were often in the office, some interesting characters to say the least!

With all due respect to our hard-working moderator, and to those who complained to him, consider this...

Discussion about tRump is all over most radio and TV stations serving Southern Ontario and Western New York. It's on newscasts, entertainment programs/segments, comedy shows and political discussion programs. It has impacted Canadian travel, winter vacation plans and relationships and is severely damaging a wide variety of Canadian businesses, both large and small.

His presidency is, by far, the worst for Canada of any US Administration in well over 200 years.

And yet, on a forum where what is on Canadian and American media is discussed, we shouldn't talk about the number one topic of interest, by media itself? 🫣

I'll crawl further out on a limb here and postulate that a 'majority' of those complaining to RA may harbour some admiration for tRump, so of course their backs get up when faced with some uncomfortable facts around his actions.

Radioactive, I do appreciate the tight rope that you've been walking to keep both sides happy. To me, restricting the political talk to just this thread has been by far the best compromise and I don't get why after doing that, anyone can still complain because as I noted, every thread is an optional thread to read. I really have lost all interest in radio but am still fascinated by TV and especially TV news media since a) I use it as a source of story ideas for my writing, and b) I am naturally curious to know more about the behind-the-scenes struggles of getting that news to air, not to mention any company politics that affects what makes it to the air or what doesn't.

So I read and will participate in the TV-related threads, I just ignore radio and anything that might be outside my wheelhouse of interest. I think it's just the right-wing contingent that don't like the notion that people are bashing their hero (not just the one woman who admitted to being a Trump supporter) but also those QUIETLY on the farther right end of the spectrum. They agree with the anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-transphobic sentiment pushed by Trump but are aware of how bad it makes them look in public to admit it. As I recall, this was why Trump winning in 2016 was such a shock to the pollsters, there was a large contingent of Americans that knew what Trump stood for was considered wrong but they still quietly agreed with him anyway and while they would never say it aloud, they voted for Trump.

Nobody wants to acknowledge that maybe their POV of the political world is the one that is leading us into disaster... that's simple cognitive dissonance.  My hope with this thread is that if there are any right-wingers reading it, they will hopefully learn something from the left-wing perspective (who most certainly feel targeted by Trump and all of his cronies trying to unravel 20 years of progress).

And for any right-wingers who have been kind enough to read my really, really long posts (another big one coming up today), know that I am going to heavily criticize the far-left as well. Ever since 2016, I have felt that they have also gone a bit too far and alienated the center-right, pushing them even more to the right and if there's going to be any peace between the two sides, both parties have to learn what was done wrong for the last 10 years.

 

Last edited by TomTV (September 17, 2025 11:36 am)

And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

One of the more disturbing aspects of the first LEXX TV-movie, is the Protein Bank. The Divine Order uses a social credit system (based on demerits) to evaluate its citizens on their loyalty and conformity and accumulating too many demerits is what can land you a trip to the correction centre where your organs are harvested, bagged and carried away to the Protein Bank.





We quickly learn that the Divine Order uses organ harvesting as its primary form of punishment for its citizens, for both major crimes and even minor infractions. Everyone lives in constant fear, obviously, as each demerit accumulated moves them closer to a visit to the correction centre, where the person is bound to a metal platform and cutting instruments quickly cut out either all or just some of your organs e.g. an eye, a lung, or testicle! For the minor crimes, you are still left with enough working organs to live and continue to serve the Divine Order albeit in a diminished capacity.



Stanley Tweedle, one of our intrepid protagonists, raises the ire of a superior officer while doing his job and soon finds out that he has to report to the correction facility in order to have some of his organs removed as punishment. He is warned by an automated computer system that not showing up before the end of the day will result in the punishment being elevated to death and the complete removal of ALL of his organs. His attempts to evade death lead him to meeting up with Zev, who is also on the run from the Divine Order, which then leads to their eventual escape from The Cluster (the Divine Order's homeworld where both Stanley and Zev reside) onboard the Divine Order's latest massive warship, the LEXX, an impressive vessel that is completely organic technology.



It's then that we come to realize just why the Protein Bank exists in the first place, beyond merely as a house of horrors designed to keep a frightened populace complying to the laws of the Divine Order: the human organs that are harvested are used as food, a source of protein, to feed the LEXX since it is organic and alive, it eats in order to get bigger.

I'm sure from the point of view of the clerics who administer this religious society, it makes perfect sense to feed the heretics and criminals to the "lion" so to speak, leaving the most loyal and pure citizens to live on and serve His Divine Shadow. Maybe even from the point of view of the everyday citizen, those who don't follow the rules or break the law or are incompetent at their jobs, deserve to be organ harvested. This goes along the lines of how people always proclaim "if you're obeying the law and do as you're told, then you have nothing to fear."  Keep in mind that these citizens have no clue that their removed organs are being used as food to create and feed organic battleships that help the rulers keep the population enslaved, it's only our heroes who discover this dark truth about the purpose of the Protein Bank.



This is one of the more subtle aspects of the show that I think gets overlooked: the harvesting of vital parts of your body be it for major crime or even a minor mistake (such as the one made by Stanley while simply doing his job) is totally NORMALIZED in this society! Nobody seems to really bat an eye at how COMPLETELY heinous this type of punishment is!

I was a teenager when I first watched the first LEXX TV movie and I can remember that while the entire idea of using organ harvesting as punishment seemed gross, it didn't trouble me as much as it does now as an adult. Why? Because as a teen, we are still learning the rules about what the rest of society deems "good" or "bad". Often times, we learn what is acceptable from TV or in modern times, from social media and Youtube. TV and its like, are our windows to the world, in the absence of our parents just telling us what is acceptable behavior (in my case, my parents worked 7 days a week to eek out a meager living, they were simply not around to offer that insight, TV thus became an even more vital part about learning about what is NORMAL and what isn't).

In an earlier post, I cited the example of how Red Bull littered the parking lots of night clubs (as well as other sites that their target customer would hang out in) around London so that clubbers and students would be inundated with the sight of empty Red Bull cans giving the fake impression that everyone must be drinking this Red Bull energy drink if there are so many discarded cans just lying around, and this convinced these young people that Red Bull must be popular with others of their age group, so let's start drinking it too.

It was a very clever way of creating social proof, among a group of teens and twenty-somethings about what was acceptable (drinking energy drinks, something which was still a new, tiny business back then).

Just like with me as a teen being willing to accept that organ harvesting was "okay" within the story, simply because in the world of LEXX while we see the citizens are fearful of that punishment, they aren't rioting in the streets over it, so it may be something to fear but still deemed "acceptable" by the rest of society. In other words, the LEXX citizens' attitude was social proof that organ extraction is totally NORMAL!

Obviously as we all mature and establish our own moral code of what is right and wrong, we wouldn't be so gullible, but that's the key thing: maturity and having that moral code in place. Otherwise, even as adults we don't know what to accept or reject when it is presented to us.

And in that regard, let's return to 2016 on Earth for a moment, during the first Trump campaign when the voters heard Donald Trump in an audio recording saying this:



Or how about when he mocked a disabled person in front of his supporters during a rally:


There WAS a time when any presidential candidate caught saying or doing these types of things, would have blown all chance of winning the election. There WAS previously a certain minimum expectation that a president should be dignified, mature, humble, positive/optimistic and respectable, regardless of political affiliation. The person that we choose to lead us, should represent the BEST of us, because we are charging them with a duty to protect our society and to grow it in a way so that EVERY person living in it will prosper and be happy (not just the fucking RICH and POWERFUL and the RACISTS).

Instead, now in his second term, we have a president who has NORMALIZED more and more of what was once unacceptable:
- selling merchandise (gold sneakers, "premium "bibles, crypto coins of himself and his wife, etc) to earn millions for himself and close friends
- murdering people with missile strikes on the claim that they are fighting druglords with NO DUE PROCESS given to the victims beforehand
- using the power of his office to intimidate the news media from accurate reporting over his conduct and banning any criticism of the president
- declaring the intention to take over a foreign country (you know, Canada... but also Greenland) and absorb it into his own empire
- demand unswerving loyalty not to the United States of America, but to HIM personally as one might swear loyalty to a King (NOTE: America does not have kings)

This is all within just the first few months of his presidency! If Obama, Biden, Trudeau, etc. had done even ONE of these things, there would be a call to impeach and remove that leader. With anyone else, we know that this behavior is unacceptable and even illegal. Yet for his cult, he has normalized it as perfectly normal practice for HIM and HIM ALONE. They have seen him acting in the worst possible ways and yet he is re-elected, he is getting away with it, and getting rich off it. For young people, Trump is providing social proof that this is normal, even advantageous behavior.

Now, going back to the LEXX universe: the 20,000 planets which win the Great Insect War have emerged victorious and just as with any other real-life war, we have a human population that is weary, emotionally exhausted, and in a state of disarray. There's undoubtedly some crimes and lawlessness just because the common enemy (the Insect Civilization) has now been defeated and things are slowly returning to humans acting up against other humans once more.



A group, the Divine Order, begins to recruit the aimless, the hopeless, those who have no meaning in their lives and are seeking purpose, into their cult. They promise that society will be rebuilt from the ashes of war, where food will be plenty, jobs will be everywhere, as well as ORDER and safety. The lawlessness will end! They promise that.

Then along comes a human figure that will come to be known as His Divine Shadow, the messiah figure that the clerics rally around and use as their selling point to the masses. The clerics know that they need someone charismatic or mysterious that will hypnotize their followers into blind loyalty. Perhaps in the beginning, the clerics even believe that this messiah will simply be their pawn, while they scurry behind the scenes to enact their agenda (kind of like how The Heritage Foundation sees Trump as theirs). But because His Divine Shadow can regularly transfer his "essence" out of his current human body into a new host body, their "pawn" outlives those clerics and becomes the true head of the cult over the next 1000 years.



At the start of their rule, I'm sure that the human followers who live in the League of 20,000 Planets would find a punishment like organ harvesting to be extremely abnormal and disturbing. So perhaps the Divine Order would instead start with a more palatable punishment e.g. you will lose your pinky finger or pinky toe, if you commit a moderate crime. 5 years later, when crime is still not resolved to the satisfaction of the clerics, they announce a revision upwards to that punishment: you will give up your hand if you are caught stealing, your tongue if you are caught lying to the clerics, your testicle if you cheat on your spouse... "Let the punishment now fit the crime!" is what they righteously declare.

Even within just one generation, the Divine Order could gradually ramp up the punishments to where they had always intended them to be without anyone now batting an eye, waiting at each stage for the population to normalize the new and crueler punishment. Moreover, they plan on growing their own massive battlefleet using the organic technology acquired from the Insect Civilization that was defeated and now they need to find enough food to feed these living ships like the LEXX... so they start to slowly make even the most modest crime more harshly punishable and make it easier for a citizen to accumulate demerits.

There WILL be those citizens among the League that notice this slow creep upwards, those are the vigilant ones. They may even try to bring attention to it among the rest of the population. The problem will be that not enough people will care because again, who cares how much harsher these punishments are? "if you're obeying the law and do as you're told, then you have nothing to fear."  Without the large numbers needed to openly resist these changes, eventually the movement dies out and is impotent and the clerics continue to just raise the punishments even higher, now confident that they can do so without much resistance.



Those who applaud the changes are happy to see the criminals get what they deserve, and assume that none of this will EVER affect them... until we get to episode 4...
 

Last edited by TomTV (September 17, 2025 12:42 pm)

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I don't disagree with you, but I have stated that trying to keep this stuff off of SOWNY has become like stopping ants from invading your picnic. You can try, but they just keep coming. That's why this thread exists. It is overtly political and I'm hoping (outside of the Kimmel story, which is a big broadcast story and needs to be here) it is the only place this stuff will be posted here. 

My hope was that people like you who hate it so much will simply skip this already engorged thread and go on to the others that are more suitable to radio and TV discussions. As much as I would love to strip all this off, it just keeps coming back like COVID - which also makes people sick!

I'm exhausted from this battle and still in deep mourning for my late dog, which has left me unable to sleep more than about three hours a night. I would hope you could allow this one thread to exist without going overboard and simply choose not to click on it, knowing what it contains. 

That way, you won't be exposed to the rantings of this American madman and its consequences, while those who wish to can still see it. 

That's my compromise for now and I hope everyone here will see fit to accept it. I'm trying my best folks. Your cooperation is requested and appreciated. 

Everyone last night and this morning are talking about the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel BUT while all of the public's attention is on this issue, while people are talking about the loss of free speech in America, cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions... what isn't getting talked about is something ELSE that the Trump regime also did last night. And I'm starting to think that the cancellation offered distraction from this other, far more worrisome announcement.







From Machine Pun Kelly:
https://x.com/KellyScaletta/status/1968483648442642560

So there are these two things that happened just tonight.

1. Trump, through the FCC, forced ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over speech he did not approve of.

2. He declared Antifa a terrorist organization.

With those two things, he killed both the freedom of press and the freedom of speech.

His attack on the media continues and as it does, people are going to refrain from criticism that could cost them their jobs.

Overtly leveraging the firing of Kimmel was a means, not an ends. It was to silence dissent. After Colbert and Kimmel, don't you think small-time people are going to refrain from criticism?

Declaring Antifa a terrorist organization is far, far worse, though, even if it's not apparent.

He just blew up a boat full of people he claimed were terrorists by claiming a cartel a terrorist organization. It isn't, but that's not the argument right now.

By CALLING Antifa terrorist organization, he can now things that he wouldn't otherwise have been able to do, like KILL YOU or throw you in prison without due process.

Do you really think he was just building those for immigrants? I told you before they weren't, and I'm telling you now.

It won't be long before they end up filled with so-called Antifa, and the MAGAs won't flinch.

Until he comes for them.

And then, as the poem says, it will be too late.

Little by little, day after day, Trump and the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) is slow walking America into Nazi Germany, where no citizen is going to feel safe and by the time those MAGA idiots realize that they too, are not immune to being called "antifa" and locked up in a concentration camp in Florida, there won't be any going back to the way things used to be.






NOTE: these people below were all killed without due process and there is NO evidence whatsoever that they were running drugs. Quite the opposite, I've seen plenty of commentary indicating that this is NOT how drugdealers would operate:



 

Last edited by TomTV (September 18, 2025 12:24 pm)

CBS is trying to land Megyn Kelly

https://radaronline.com/p/cbs-news-conservative-megyn-kelly-network-8billion-takeover/

 

You live in a country with a constitution, not a loose collection of provinces and territories that should be spitting out the bits and pieces they don't like. Notwithstanding was meant for exceptional situations, not routine practice.

67GreenRambler wrote:

Our new Politburo.

Not sure why, but your images did not come out. Try this site if that one continues to be an issue:

https://postimages.org/

 

RadioActive wrote:

Is there anything that's NOT available on YouTube?

Lexx : Season 1

Lexx: Season 2

I should point out that I tried the two links and season 1 gives the error that the video is not available in Canada. Season 2 seems to work fine.

There are other Youtube channels that  have posted the 4 TV movies that constitute season 1 though, it shouldn't be too hard to search for them. TubiTV did have LEXX available to watch for free but they probably don't have the license to show it since I believe Amazon Prime currently has the rights.
 

Normally I'd expect SNL to have a field day with this, but now I wonder.