We Could Be Watching

Happy Halloween! *sees this episode neither was recorded nor will come out on Halloween* uhhh happy November! I don't know what november is like but I'm sure it will be just dandy. Anyway, Lexx Season 4 Opening? Another breath of fresh air, but we have learned not to breathe Lexx in too deeply. Still, it's a direction. We also look at 3 episodes of some horror anthologies that I couldn...

It's the Lexx season finale! Theres so many hanging threads and big ideas that don't quite hit the mark, but we talk about how they could have done worse (but mostly better.) I wonder how that next season will do now that all the budget seems to have been forcibly ripped away from them? In other news, Haxan is a really marvelous and beautiful silent horror film that is also sort of an outd...

We're careening into the climactic finale of Lexx's third season! How is Lexx going to resolve all these hanging plot threads? Oh, we're going to fuck around on a beach showing clips from older episodes for a while? Oh. Okay. That's cool. Well, we see an interesting movie too that didn't quite grab me and Sanga reflects on his Egg Creamsperience that didn't quite grab him....

Lexx is pretty good this week! They're doing sort of a gender Monty Python thing, which maybe is Lexx's true calling when all is said and done. And then I Love Boosters is a delight too (without a bunch of caveats like Lexx gets.) And even better, me and Sanga argue about coffee in the start. Is it weird to mix sugar and water? Or those dastardly PRESERVATIVES? You can decide, audience. Yo...

Sometimes you are given an impossible task. Lift up the boulder, find a nonproblematic twitch streamer, or finding an interesting episode of the 70's spider-man show. I guess maybe I did screw up for not picking the clone episode with the meme I mention. I'll take that L. In speaking of Ls, L(exx) is about as interesting as an episode called "Battle" would purport to be I guess....

Well, Dolly Parton passed like 2 months ago by the time this episode will come out, but our love for her will continue on evermore. So, you know, don't complain about this not being topical enough. I don't think I mention it in this episode but I actually like the song a fair amount too. Really made me into a Dollyhead. Lexx, you say? Oh yeah. Well. Stanley's horny again. Sorry. You can email us a...

*me from weeks into the future, all spirit drained from his face, the burden of truth resting upon me as I am unable to crack a lying smile* hey fellas I bet lexx gets good again soon huh. Lexx is still bad and Stargate still SOUNDS bad so they're nowhere to be found in this summary, but you know, this episode introduces the UNDERTALE HOUR. A segment that will recur at least 3 times in the future....

Look, shout out to Wordgirl. That's a real one. Anyway, uh oh, Lexx has taken a huge nosedive in quality again! A few fun Prince moments do not save the cheap Haunted House Outlast bad guys we have going on here. Samuel is absolutely delightful (although I have a few quibbles with the dub) though. Thank you Samuel. I was going to write this episode title as "We could be Frenching" but that has a d...

Wow, the big 3-0! If episodes were years, this podcast would be OLD (looks at my age) I mean this podcast would be 30 years young babeee haha young at heart. yeah. This episode our top 5 marks me being mostly very nice to Sanga and Sanga struggling to be a little nice with himself. We are less nice to Lexx though, which takes a return to the characters and dull cynicism of Season 2. Zeiram has me...

Who says you can't do a Scientology run through podcast, and also like 6 months after it's a dead meme? Even our newfound faith can't stop us from talking for sports for maybe longer than I ever have in my entire life. It also can't stop us from talking about a perfectly nice episode of Lexx, where Stanley does the miraculous thing of touching a woman in a way that isn't too offputting for once. W...

Lots of excitement this episode! After watching the most mid movie in existence and being granted some unrelated time, we ended up choosing a different one instead! Please enjoy all 3 sentences we have to say about Horror Island, and many more sentences we have to say about Henry V, the sequel to Henry IV but NOT the prequel to Henry VI, which was made earlier. Shakespeare continuity sure is silly...

In this episode I say "Alphys is worse than Gex" and I am thankful in this moment I do not have a huge audience to destroy me over such a statement. Anyway, Lexx has discovered after 50 episodes how to do a fun plot of the week story while advancing the overarching plot. Only one slightly embarrassing shower scene is made up for by some of Xev's most iconic moments, characterwise and sonicthehedge...

I was going to name this episode "We Could Be Goring" but was struck by inspiration at the last moment. Also struck by inspiration, we talk about The Bee Movie for at least like 10 minutes for some reason along with some other less culturally important works and games. Lexx is trucking along, making some choices that give us some pause for the remainder of the season. Not quite "so back/so over" b...

It's the far-off future of 2003, and what better to fit our anthology format than an anthology anime thing? We also of course have the less far off future of 2000 where we finally hit season 3 of Lexx, as it bellows into full Miniseries format. So far the vibes are good, but Lexx Vibes are oily yet sticky. Who knows where they'll end up after a few weeks? Also apparently there was a Lexx screenran...

It's the ending of a very bad season of television! We celebrate the only way we know how, by looking over an Australian cultural relic in a comedy that is like pretty good. Pretty comfy! Very Australian. My American brain can only compare it to Nathan Fielder. Nathan For Aussie would perhaps be the greatest show ever made, but I guess he's doing some other thing instead. Oh well. We start Lexx Se...

Right on the heels of the season's first great episode, we carry that momentum directly into a brick wall with "Brizon". Is it dull? Does it have more pointless sexual peril? All that and more! Well, at least we get a really nice surprise with Battle Beyond The Stars, which kicks an insane amount of ass for being a Star Wars Seven Samurai Roger Corman thing. Someone can make some good weird scienc...

A musical and politics? What is this, Assassins? That's just a little joke about our Sondheads out there. We see you. Know, that's not the Cats guy, that's the other one. Anyway uh look Lexx did it for once they did what I would say is pretty close to a great episode in season 2 and I'm so proud of them. More importantly though Stargate might have the best clip show episode of all time and not eve...

Perhaps this is truly a cursed episode of Lexx, such is the case when the file for this podcast episode went mysteriously missing. Luckily we found a backup and now we're here to have what is sure to be the shortest Lexx discussion we'll ever have. I guess out of all the things Lexx does this is one of the more forgivable ones since it's kind of funny but also, I can't believe I watched all that a...

Welcome, audience! Listen, you could do a lot worse listening to two guys talk about ROBOT CLONING for an hour. Honestly less people should talk about ROBOT CLONING at Thanksgiving and should instead talk about the Stargate ROBOT CLONE EPISODE, which is pretty good. Lexx is here, briefly bringing up the idea of having good character beats and then deciding to do something else instead? Maybe the f...

It's a crossover episode! After Sanga demanded big freaks, we were lucky enough to get Mel to come over from the Ultra Queue podcast to discuss the biggest most Australian freaks of all. But first, we subject Mel to TERRIBLE SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT GENDER that is also sort of a LAZY PARODY OF THE WIZARD OF OZ! Sorry about that! Mel's Podcast is Ultra Queue - Available on any podcast platform or here...

CW: Discussion of Suicide Attempts in the Elevator to the Gallows discussion. I was trying to think of a joke format that would allow me to combine "It's only a Dream, Snake Eater", with perhaps some reference to the ladder climbing as an elevator? I can't quite work out how to frame it. Please let me know if you think of it, or better yet, use it yourself for your own superior Elevators to the Ga...

groan zombie arghh whatever we're here to talk about Howard the Duck. What a strange toxic little man. Sailor Moon Baddie: https://preview.redd.it/pd84lj89wqoe1.jpg?width=2500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4378348d5c1d8b4be90db4fc465839ccdf5a928 Howard Dark Overlord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Qs9PDvmpY&t=3s You can email us at wecouldbewatching@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

In this episode, we cover the Iconic Cheers character "Norm", who shows up on the crew of the Lexx! Oh, it's Norb? The Anakin Kid? Oh, it's not Norb? It's the season 2 plot? Wow, I can't keep track of any of this stuff! Actually I can it's just a bit boring but hey what can you do that's just the power of podracing. We also look at Mamoru Oshii's 2001 Polish film, Avalon, a film that dares the wat...

A great evil has been unleashed. A nightmare dream of modern influencers loosely inspired by a beloved 1950's comedy films. We Could Be Watching.....We Should Be Watching??? Should Anyone? Also a pretty good Lexx episode for once wow they managed to capture early TNG episodes. Despite what I said in the podcast I'll wait till we do a Dahir Insaat episode before I bother linking it here. You can em...

It's Slasher time on the Lexx! It's not a bad time except for my own genre proclivities I suppose. They're sort of trying for this one a little bit? Maybe this was a bad time to talk about our favorite sci fi episodes at the start. Sorry Wake the Dead you're no Living Witness. You're not even Meld. Now that was a good serial killer Sci Fi episode. The X-Files one where they get the Chucky guy to b...