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Music dulls the pain- A look at May

May is the very first person Kai meets on the planet Water in the second episode of the third season of Lexx. She is beautiful and forlorn, bodies tragically strewn around her feet after a battle, holding an ocarina to her mouth in lieu of tears, and tells Kai, "Music dulls the pain."

We have no idea what anything about her means- her tattoo, her jewelry, her clothing, her hairstyle. Notice the tattoo and jewelry kind of style match, though. A few episodes later we find out she is really from the planet Fire. Could those be flames? 

Here is a better image of her tattoo. Note the two planets are semi framed in an arc that separates them from... two universes? And a single point. Are Water and Fire inside their own spacetime? Are they a result of previous happenings? We're not sure from the tattoo, but if the artist is using left to right progression, as seen on cultures in the hemisphere in which this show was created, then it seems to tell a story, hieroglyph style. Note the darker circle eclipses the lighter one, perhaps a clue marking May's loyalty, possibly even what owns her.

A fan post by Dreamer pulls in a close up on her body art and asks other fans if they might know what it means, although I see no comments there. Click this next pic to see the post. After viewing more of season three, we know those are flames licking her body.

The fact that her dress is blue and that her decor could also look like water waves and drops is very subtly suggesting throughout the times that we see her that she is a double agent. We really have no idea until she kisses Prince in front of Stanley, revealing her loyalty.

Later in the season we see her die in flames. She actually seems a bit used to this when you really watch Duke having her prepped for her execution. Even the flammable tar being smeared onto her body looks pre-flame in the brush strokes.

Looking again at May's ocarina (click that for a vid demo), Dreamer comments on the creators' music method to enhance the scene, making another subtle suggestion about May's presence impacting the Lexx crew.

May says music dulls the pain. We really don't know what kind of pain she is talking about. The pain of being a traitor? The pain of remorse? Of memories? Certainly not the fire itself, nothing can dull that, and she doesn't play the ocarina as she burns. She is obviously someone who plays a betrayal role for another person pulling strings. Did she do that in her real life before she came to be on Fire? Let's look at her story and see if we can find more clues about her. Who is May, really? Which face is the real face? 

More screenshots coming in part 2

May stands out so uniquely in the Lexx series as supporting character, plot catalyst, and tragedy queen that it's impossible for me to move past her without deeply questioning what's really going on.

You can see more Lexx on the fansite I linked for May at dreamsofghostsandstars.net

May was played by Anna Kathrin Bleuler

dots all over the little blue planet

Hi, guys, yes, I'm working on a post here this week, but stopped briefly to check my little visitor globe stats because I hadn't in ages. This is a snip from the chart flipped/inverted so I could see bottom of the list out of 161 countries.

I've always gotten surprising visits to this site, but I hadn't noticed Antarctica before. 🤔 Hello, Antarctica.

That visitor globe is awesome (top right column, if not showing up for you then use a different browser, Chrome hates it). You can stop the spin, make the spin faster or slower, make it spin backward, tilt the world differently, and enlarge it. If you click on the little REVOLVERMAPS button, it'll take you to the site where you can play with all the different ways to see stats. This is 2D enlarged and hover shows me the hit info for each bubble.

Anywhere in the world.

As you can see, basic location is all I get with that, but over time this is a Lexxellent way to show interest all over the world. I can verify these are not random bot hits because I run several other blogs that don't see this kind of activity at all. I've locked a few controls down to ensure organic catch. Also, those look like random one-offs, but there are dots on the map that score well over 100 visits and more.

Back to work! 😀

correspondence

Was playing on my phone. 😄

Dear Visitors-

Thank you for visiting! You're awesome. Sorry I'm so absent. I'm hoping that changes soon.

Love,
Janika