Andromeda.... Wow!
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I also have a thing for Laura Bertram, between her and Lexa, it was a very appealing show
I was about to say...Am I the only Laura Bertram fan!?
This statement...
...doesn't track with this statement...
...in any way whatever.
So, which was it?
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Both. I was a bit uncertain on what it was I was buying. Could be Andromeda this-or-that
[/QUOTE]Urge, I'd like to introduce you to a Cardassian: 
Which is yet another ugly alien, a permanent and important part of another series, and not a zombie.
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Im not sure if I like the cardassians either. Thet lack a coherent theme, kind of. They are stuck in between lizard and human, while being neither. Perhaps if they had coloured them green?
Which is yet another ugly alien, a permanent and important part of another series, and not a zombie.
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Im not sure if I like the cardassians either. Thet lack a coherent theme, kind of. They are stuck in between lizard and human, while being neither. Perhaps if they had coloured them green?
Yeah, Urge, that book is over 40 years old and is well-known for its adaption into a superior movie and an inferior miniseries. To confuse it with "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"... well, let's just say the problem could have been easily avoided.
As far as the ugly aliens go, Gerentex was intended to be repulsive, and Rev Bem was intended to be demonic. How you accomplish that without making them ugly is beyond me. Oh, and Gerentex (the rat guy) isn't a main character.
Like many others, I thought the first season of Andromeda was its best. It was uneven, but there was enough good in it to warrant continuing to watch. I mean, the season finale was one of the best of any sci-fi show, or TV show period. Though the production values were laughable at times and the acting was shaky, I actually thought the concept was fairly well thought out and with the right budget we could've had some interesting aliens and worlds. I had read the All Systems University descriptions of the different species on line before the show premiered and it held out a lot of potential for what the show could've been.
I think it started going down hill mid-way through season two though that didn't become apparent for me at least until after the season three opener. I pretty much bailed after season three.
Looking back, I thought the cast was pretty good (Harper annoyed the hell out of me at first) though I would've replaced Hunt with Rhade from jump, like in that alternate universe episode "Unconquerable Man"?. Would've made for a better show. Plus, I still think Nietzscheans are bad ass (even with those stupid bone blades sprouting from their wrists). Also though the Magog were great villains, on par with the Borg and Species 8472 as an unstoppable force of nature type threat.
I think it started going down hill mid-way through season two though that didn't become apparent for me at least until after the season three opener. I pretty much bailed after season three.
Looking back, I thought the cast was pretty good (Harper annoyed the hell out of me at first) though I would've replaced Hunt with Rhade from jump, like in that alternate universe episode "Unconquerable Man"?. Would've made for a better show. Plus, I still think Nietzscheans are bad ass (even with those stupid bone blades sprouting from their wrists). Also though the Magog were great villains, on par with the Borg and Species 8472 as an unstoppable force of nature type threat.
Urge, I'd like to introduce you to a Cardassian:
Which is yet another ugly alien, a permanent and important part of another series, and not a zombie.
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Im not sure if I like the cardassians either. Thet lack a coherent theme, kind of. They are stuck in between lizard and human, while being neither. Perhaps if they had coloured them green?
I think you're worried too much about how aliens look.
That's pretty much my opinion, too. It was never awesome, but it was entertaining enough.
Well maybe not as bad as possible - that's Starhunter - but overall, yeah.
I can remember when the show was announced and how cool it sounded. But I couldn't even get all the way thru the premiere episode. Kevin Sorbo was the final straw - the most unwatchably putrid actor in TV history. With another lead actor, I might have stuck it out.Any show as well written and acted as TOS that came on nowadays would get plenty of leeway from me for terrible SFX (assuming it was still at the level of the 60s even though produced today rather than being top of the line for its time like TOS actually was). I'd even ignore the 1/3 of the episodes that were horrible for the 2/3s that were decent or great. There's no comparison between the two shows.
"Angel Dark, Demon Bright" is a great episode, and "The Mathematics Of Tears" has a great premise and some emotional weight...which is dragged down by a dreadful action sequence at the climax.
And Lexa Doig is great in both.
And Lexa Doig is great in both.
I barely remember what happened in this show... I think I was excited reading about it on the internet before the premiere... watched the pilot and was far less excited... stuck with it for a while. That Angel Dark Demon Bright one was actually really good if I recall... some kind of time travel/compressions hijinks? There were other decent episodes in there. I thought the season one finale was really good, but for some reason the season 2 premiere was so bad that I might've bailed in the middle of it never to return.
I just have this sense that I was decently excited at the end of season 1 despite all the shows faults, and then just horrified to see what they did with season 2.
As bad of a show as it was, it still had higher peaks in the time that I watched it than freakin' Stargate Universe
Oh, and yes, Lexa Doig was epicly hot. The chick with the tail, far less so.
I just have this sense that I was decently excited at the end of season 1 despite all the shows faults, and then just horrified to see what they did with season 2.
As bad of a show as it was, it still had higher peaks in the time that I watched it than freakin' Stargate Universe
Oh, and yes, Lexa Doig was epicly hot. The chick with the tail, far less so.
I enjoyed "The Unconquerable Man". The episode replayed the events in the series with Rhade as the captain after the fall. As it goes, he killed Dylan on the bridge and lived on to command the ship when it was pulled out of stasis 300 years later. Then when everything went sour, Rhade went back in time and delibetately lost his fight with Dylan on the bridge so that Dylan could live on and make things better. This makes the show itself a "second time around" and no one ever knew but Rhade.
Oh yeah, another Laura Bertram fan here.
Too bad about the tail.
Oh yeah, another Laura Bertram fan here.
Too bad about the tail.
I got to agree with MNM.
I enjoyed Andromeda, even though it definitely did dip in quality after Robert Hewitt Wolfe was let go. However, I've seen much worse (try Glee or Grey's Anatomy or some kind of other deep dreck that's on prime time today)
I really did enjoy that the crew wasn't all spit and polish like a Trek or Gate.
Hey, it's different strokes for different folks. But remember, there is a stop button and it is a free country.
To be honest, I actually liked that season a lot, and the change kinda made sense, it was a neat "SCIFI" kind of story.
She was great, too, but she seemed to disappear after Andromeda went off the air.I also have a thing for Laura Bertram, between her and Lexa, it was a very appealing show
I was about to say...Am I the only Laura Bertram fan!?
You know, for the Andromeda, I gotta say, it was watchable for the role it ended up filling on TV during that time.
It was a good show to throw on when you were half asleep during a sleepy Saturday Afternoon or late night which are both times it ended up getting relegated to.
Other then that, its certainly nothing I would go out of my way to watch.
Some areas of it certainly had WTF moments.
It was a good show to throw on when you were half asleep during a sleepy Saturday Afternoon or late night which are both times it ended up getting relegated to.
Other then that, its certainly nothing I would go out of my way to watch.
Some areas of it certainly had WTF moments.
As bad of a show as it was, it still had higher peaks in the time that I watched it than freakin' Stargate Universe
God, yes!
I bailed on ST:U after a few episodes, and nothing I've read by people who've stuck with it suggest that was overly hasty.
I never saw "The Unconquerable Man" - sounds like fun. I'll have to look it up.
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