Andromeda: Does anyone have this as their favourite show?

Thanks.

 

I wouldn't call Andromeda my favorite show, but I do rank it among my top ten. But I never looked at it as being more than a weekend/late-nite sci-fi actioner with lots of laser gun & spaceship battles, stuff being blown up, and sexy people in leather. I think "Hercules in space" is a fit description of the series, but then Hercules was another Kevin Sorbo series I liked.

 

Or maybe people just hoped it would get a big fan following.

 

One thing I never understood, and I've seen in mentioned on other sites, is the constantly appearing and disappearing crew of Andromeda. In the later seasons, some episode there would be tons of people wondering around the ship, and then in others the main characters seemed to be the only people on board. Was there an explanation for that somewhere?

 

Budget.

 

At the beginning of the Pilot, The Commonwealth hadn't fallen yet, and ship was full. When he was awoken, he had no crew and was joined by Becca's crew and Tyr. Once the Commonwealth was restored, there were resources to re-man the ship with Androids and to bring in crew. Then the Commonwealth fell again, and he was back down to basically no crew

 

You know, with the recent/current trend of various SF TV series being revived and/or continued as comics/graphic novels; I'd really love to see Andromeda in this format.

Perhaps, Robert Hewitt Wolfe could be talked into writing his version of Andromeda as a series of graphic novels. And why not get folks like KRAD and js to write some of them as well? Wouldn't have to worry about budget or anything like that. He could go wild and do the big scope epic kind of thing he wanted to do. and with the right artist, it could be wonderful, I think.

Unfortunately, I suspect there isn't the audience out in the world clamoring for something like this. A guy can dream, though...

 

Robert Hewitt Wolfe's Version of Andromeda

 

Kevin Sorbo is an awful actor...

 

You say this as if no-one has noticed...

 

I read that back in the day, but reading it again... man, that would have made for an awesome tv show. Particularly if they had a budget.

 

It bears repeating.

 

No, it doesn't ... you're calling unnecessary attention to the pretense that he IS an actor.

 

The only problem with this would-be original series rundown is that it sounds like the entire crew gets separated in the later seasons. So you'd have a Dylan/Rommie story, a Tyr story, a Rev story, a Harper story... sounds incredibly expensive. You'd have to have four separate sets and casts! And they didn't have any money to begin with!

 

Might have been the DS9 influence on him when he was coming up with his ideas after writing for it. Towards the end of DS9 you had the cast members split off into their own arcs in different settings.

DS9 itself, Bajor, Cardassia Prime, Klingon Empire(Worf), Great Link...

 

Babylon 5 did the same thing.

 

Not to such a large degree, though. And it sounds like this would have become a permanent aspect of the later seasons, and not a mutli-episode arc or something. And they don't reunite until the series finale.

 

Feasible or not, RHW's Coda is awesome.

 

Your opinion, I enjoyed him in Hercules and Andromeda. I also like the man himself.

 

I'm sorry but Kevin Sorbo was awful and the man has an ego the size of the Andromeda galaxy itself. He ran Andromeda into the ground.

I will never forget some of the interviews he gave that articulated how he felt about the show. I remember one where he exclaimed that "we're not making The West Wing here…its science fiction!." As if quality drama and scifi could not go together.

In another he proclaimed that he "hated the Commonwealth plot." He was sick of trying to restore the Commonwealth and wanted to "just restore it and move on with more exciting things." Nevermind that that was THE WHOLE POINT OF THE DAMN SHOW! That is why the restored Commonwealth seemed to come out of nowhere in ONE episode. I think that episode broke my brain because I watched it and realized that I had no idea what just happened.