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Mantrid

Season 2, Episode 1, Aired Dec 11, 1998

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Under the control of His Shadow, Kai convinces Stanley to return to the ruins of Cluster in the Light universe to search for more protoblood. They find insect larva, but it is dormant and it can't produce protoblood. So Kai insists on taking it to Mantrid, an infamous scientist that might be able to revive it.moreless

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GUEST STAR
Holger Kunkel

Vigl
GUEST STAR
Chris Duffy

Captain
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Burgandy Code

Navigator

Jeffrey Hirschfield

790 (voice)
Brian Downey

Stanley H. Tweedle
Eva Habermann

Zev Bellringer
Tom Gallant

The Lexx (voice)
Michael McManus (II)

Kai

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Mantrid

9.5

"Superb"

By TrueTvWatcher, Nov 15, 2011

Mantrid was a superb episode of Lexx and I really enjoyed watching this episode because it maintained the feel of the first season and had enough information for new viewers to grasp what was going on. It was interesting to learn more about how His Divine Shadow came to be and how he was using Kai's body as a vessel. Mantrid was awesome and the special effects were pretty decent and definitely fit with the series which I think is a spectacular display of originality and imagination. I'd also like to mention how awesome the music is in this series. I love the tone it sets and the feeling it generates. I look forward to watching the rest of this season!!!!!!!moreless
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The Lexx crew are forced to return to the Light Zone as Kai has been taken over by the essence of His Shadow and wants to pass his conciousness on to the last surviving Insect.moreless

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By Ydnaj33, Sep 30, 2005

The second season gets off to a solid, if unspectacular start, with a noticeably change in both colour & tone, but with the usually wit and sexual innuendo, the series if known for. Unfortunately 'Mantrid' has the job of setting up the rest of the season. Mantrid (Dieter Laser) makes his first appearance in this episode, and actually shows some promise here for the rest of the season - generally he will not go on to be one of the season\'s strongest elements. Oddly, during this episode Habermann acts as if she is going to be in the series all the way through - which creates a nice surprise, but personally preferring Xenia as Xev, I wish they had changed her early on.

The plot continues nicely from \'Gigashadow\' - picking up with the remnants of the Insect Wars and temporarily taking the crew back to the Dark Zone.

The writing is top-notch thankfully, and all the cast act well. There is a significant change in colour and clearly budget from the TV movies, but it works well - creating in this episode a darker and therefore daunting tone to the series.

Hardly one of Season 2\'s best episodes, but a decent start.moreless
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- Stan: What do you say we try to find ourselves a half-decent planet for a change? Good food, and good-looking women. Zev: Good-looking men. 790: With my head on their shoulders.
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- Zev: Who is Mantrid? Kai: He was once the Divine Order's greatest biovizier. No man ever had a more insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience. A brilliant scientist, and a truly dangerous human being.
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- The voice of His Shadow (by Walter Borden) is a narrator for the opening of the episode, telling the story of what happened in the previous TV movies and also revealing that his essence lives in the character of Kai.
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