Andromeda / Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda - The universe is a dangerous place...

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After Star Trek had completed its golden years, another show from the mind of Gene Roddenberry appeared: Andromeda. Based off of his unpublished writings, it follow Captain Dylan Hunt of the Systems Commonwealth as he is caught at the start of an intergalactic civil war and subsequently frozen in time, only to awake three hundred years later to find everything he knew and loved destroyed. Undeterred, he sets out on a goal to restore the Commonwealth with the help of some of the most annoying fucking people you will ever meet in your entire goddamn lives a group of mercenaries and profiteers. Unfortunately, despite having talented writers like Robert Hewitt Wolfe from DS9 and being billed as "from the guy who made Star Trek", the show suffered from poor viewership throughout its run, primarily due to bad scripts, bad acting, bad CGI and bad everything else and has mostly been forgotten since then. There are parts of it that show glimpses of potential, but unfortunately it's a gigantic slog to get through, especially after most of the original writers left after season 3.

Do you remember watching it? Was it as bad as you remember it?

 

[Kiwi Yuga]

I re-watched this a couple of years ago after having seen it as a kid. I actually really enjoyed it. It is cheesy in places, obviously had a low budget for its era, but it was charming and had a ton of ideas that got the ol noggin joggin. I don't think it deserves the bad rep it got.

The magog are a great villain race, something that is getting increasingly rare. They are unquestionably evil, by nature, and serve as an existential threat to everyone else. Even the Magog monk who is part of the crew for a while is constantly fighting against his nature, and in the end, fails to overcome it.

I think the worst aspect of the show is that it suffers from proto-millennial writing. It, along with Firefly, are kind of the archtypes of that overly-witty dialogue that disarms all tension in a scene that is extremely common in marvel, borderlands, etc. Other than that, I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed original starcraft, Babylon 5, or Stargate sg1. It rides well with that era and flavor of scifi.

 

[Hrothgar]

I like that Kevin Sorbo apparently bullied the gay nigger until he quit the show and they killed off his character.

I have the series on an external hdd somewhere. I may need to watch it again to see if, now that I know, it's blatant during the seasons that Tyr is around.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

All I remember about this was all the women were shockingly attractive, especially the catgirl who stopped being a catgirl after like one season because she was so hot. By the end the ship's crew was like two guys and a bunch of babes. Also two of the women were in Jason X together for some reason.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

I have been curious about checking it out

 

[2mm and 99 others]

As you talk about it, I can recall all the girls, the guy with spikes on his arms, ship design and the general visuals, but I don't know if I don't remember the story because I've never seen a whole episode, or if it was that hard to follow.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Supposedly the crew didn't tell him what was in that hidden panel. Or at least not the wig.

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[mindlessobserver]

It was okay. But it definitely suffered from lack of a budget, and writers able to actually write an overarching narrative rather then "the show of the week". I checked out in the last season after time travel shenanigans were introduced. I fucking hate time travel in my scifi, unless its classic Doctor Who