Stan and Kai find the real Xev and visit the city of Garden, where the three female gardeners tend the fields all day.
Now, when I first heard about the 13-episode arc storyline, I was interested to see how it would work. I envisaged an ongoing story that would be tightly focused on a main storyline with sub-plots in the background. The first couple of episodes saw this working well, with the LEXX crew and the inhabitants of Fire and Water all taking a role in the story. However, the LEXX crew alone can’t hold a storyline very well unless they split up, something they’re not keen to do in case one of them becomes Prince or another inhabitant.
Thus we reach Garden in what seems like a desperate filler episode in which nothing happens at all. Xev takes some drugs, but despite hints that she’ll go on a mad rampage, she suffers no ill effects in the end. Not only that, but she remembers things that only the Xev who was Prince would know about. Stan’s efforts to enjoy some sex with the three gardeners meet with no success, and it’s starting to seem as if he has no control of his libido. He’s had sex with almost everyone so far in the series, yet still he wants more. If he can survive two seasons without any, despite complaining, why has he become so insatiable?
Meanwhile, Kai decides to return to the Earth through decomposing. While funny, this doesn’t serve any purpose either, meaning the only real plot is Stan’s sexual quest, which really doesn’t hold any attention. Oh, and the gardeners’ phallic watering cans and other sexual symbols are heavy-handed and not amusing.
Even the late-in-the-day return of Lyekka does the story no favours, as she merely wanders the city eating any gardeners she comes across, as we all know she will. And because the gardeners are instantaneously replaced due to the way the twin planets work, she can eat them over and over again. It’s dull, seems to serve no purpose at all and isn’t funny. A huge waste of time.
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