How bad is Andromeda?

[Candleicious Ghost]

EDIT: I'm home now was typing on a phone. Can say more now season 4 wasn't total shit there were a few good episodes here and there, but I couldn't name them but towards the middle and end of the season it was noticeable how downhill the show went and the season 4 finale well yeah that was a thing. I thought that was the series finale the way things happened.

But then you get season 5 and Dylan Hunt space Jesus saving the universe as we know it. I did like Brandy Ledford as Doyle, thought she was funny. Harper built her but even she didn't succumb to his wishes and wants. But she was protective of him.

 

[tharpdevenport]

The Bird of Prey explding in Generations, is the same one from TUC, with obvious color changes.

10 Times Star Trek Reused Footage And Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

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[JD]

Yeah, that's the one. I didn't watch the video so I'm not sure if they mention, but I'm pretty sure they used in at least one or two episodes of DS9 and possibly Voyager too.

 

[Set Harth]

The Bird of Prey explding in Generations, is the same one from TUC, with obvious color changes.

10 Times Star Trek Reused Footage And Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

Sometimes, corners are cut to save a bit of cash. Other times, it's a very creative way to recycle!

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We noticed.

 

[tharpdevenport]

We noticed.

JD wasn't sure, he said it might also be from TSfS.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Season three, episode sixteen, "Point of the Spear", Tyr has no arm jaggons, he must have lost them in one of the episodes I skipped. I'll have to skim skipped ones.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Found a slightly modified Klingon bat'leth, the Sword of Kahless version, in Tyr's quarters, hanging on the wall. "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath", about thirty seconds in:

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[Candleicious Ghost]

Found a slightly modified Klingon bat'leth, the Sword of Kahless version, in Tyr's quarters, hanging on the wall. "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath", about thirty seconds in:

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[tharpdevenport]

It's an official channel, probably region restricted.

(screen grab from another load, as they have it rigged so I couldn't even take a screen grab -- came out black)

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

It's an official channel, probably region restricted.

Oh they must have nicked that from the Trek prop department.

I wonder if Tyr and Beka ever got it on

 

[tharpdevenport]

there are other weapons on his wall, and I suspect they are all slightly modified weapons from other TV shows and movies, but I can't prove it.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

there are other weapons on his wall, and I suspect they are all slightly modified weapons from other TV shows and movies, but I can't prove it.

More than likely. Lots of productions steal from each other when it comes to props and stuff

 

[ananta]

I haven’t actually watched Andromeda since it originally aired. I remember being interested enough to watch most of the first and some of the second season at least. I never found it all that good, but it was entertaining enough to pass an hour and I was a sucker for my space opera sci-fi.

But it steadily got worse, and the cast never gelled with me. Kevin Sorbo is not, in my view, an actor. He just read lines and wanted to look tough and cool. Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s ousting was by all accounts the death knell. It was never an outstanding show tp begin with, but he had ambition and whatever was interesting about it was promptly gone and it was just an increasingly dumb action show.

Farscape was running concurrently and was just an insanely, massively better show in every respect, so I stuck with that and never looked back. I still rewatch Farscape every few years. I have no desire to revisit Andromeda whatsoever. Maybe my opinion may have softened over the years, but just the thought of sitting through it is deeply unappealing to me. Life is too short basically.

I’m amazed it ran quite as long as it did, so there’s that.

 

[Christopher]

Farscape was running concurrently and was just an insanely, massively better show in every respect, so I stuck with that and never looked back.

I would've loved to see the hard science fiction sensibilities of Andromeda combined with the production values and creature-making skills of Farscape. I often regretted that Majel Roddenberry sold Gene R.'s unmade concepts to Tribune Entertainment instead of the Jim Henson Studio.

Although Henson might not have been able to pull off Farscape's production values on a second show at the same time. They were only able to make Farscape's production values and effects so elaborate because they produced the show at a loss, which they were willing to do because they used it to advertise their work to companies that might hire them to produce commercials and industrial films. So they lost money on Farscape because it helped them make money in other ways. (Kind of like how NBC was able to keep Star Trek TOS on the air for three seasons despite its low ratings because it made their parent company RCA a profit by inspiring sales of color televisions.)

 

[ananta]

I would've loved to see the hard science fiction sensibilities of Andromeda combined with the production values and creature-making skills of Farscape. I often regretted that Majel Roddenberry sold Gene R.'s unmade concepts to Tribune Entertainment instead of the Jim Henson Studio.

Although Henson might not have been able to pull off Farscape's production values on a second show at the same time. They were only able to make Farscape's production values and effects so elaborate because they produced the show at a loss, which they were willing to do because they used it to advertise their work to companies that might hire them to produce commercials and industrial films. So they lost money on Farscape because it helped them make money in other ways. (Kind of like how NBC was able to keep Star Trek TOS on the air for three seasons despite its low ratings because it made their parent company RCA a profit by inspiring sales of color televisions.)

I had no idea Farscape ran at a loss. That’s really interesting to hear. Certainly, the production values were astonishing, they did such a job at creating a truly vivid universe; it was so rich, expansive, visually stunning and extremely alien. It definitely spoiled Trek for me back at the time as it was a whole different league. Although it was really the characters, the acting and writing that I found most compelling. I rarely “ship” anyone, I’m not that much of a romantic, but the Crichton/Aeryn relationship was one the best romances I’ve ever seen on television and I was totally invested. It wasn’t perfect all the time, but I still miss that show so much, twenty plus years on.