In my ongoing quest to watch every minute of sci fi every made
I’m at episode 12 of the first season and don’t care about spoilers.
Wow what an amazingly uneven show! First off the premise which didn’t make much sense to begin with is abandoned only a few episodes in with the most advanced piece of weaponry in the entire galaxy hauling people to surfing competitions and having garage sales:rolleyes: The premise is that on the day of a coup/take over of a Federation style government by eugenically enhanced humans(did Gene hate genetic improvement or what?!) the flag ship of the fleet is frozen in time with only the captain on board. When he and the ship is unfrozen he discovers that the Fed collapsed and there has been general power grabbing and chaos for 300 years, so he sets out to use what is now the most advanced warship in the galaxy to rebuild civilization! We NEVER SEE THIS HAPPEN! In fact something approaching civilization exists everywhere they go, including multi-planet corporations! So WTF?
Some episodes are so boring I can’t even recall them, then there is an episode like The Pearls That Were His Eyes(which is a very clever pun on the plot) that could have come from Firefly. The slow admission from one character that while her father may have been a drug smuggler he wasn’t a drug addict…ok while he may have been an addict he wasn’t a murderer was very well done. The ending was surprisingly not a cliche and very realistic and featured a great guest part by DeLancie. These surprisingly good episodes keep me watching.
However I heard the show goes totally off the rails later on with an almost total cast change, anyone want to comment?
It really went off the rails in the last year. There were two cast changes (the guy who played Rev Bem had problems with the fur suit he had to wear) and they added a blonde avatar the last year because the super gorgeous Lexa Doig was pregnant and couldn’t do much. But after the second season they went to concentrating on the Kevin Sorbo-Dylan Hunt and made the episodes more self contained so a casual viewer could watch one at random and not have too many WTF is going on moments.
Why are the planets they visit so damn cocky? One planet kidnaps the captain and ship’s avatar and puts them in prison! Would you do that when his ship is orbiting your planet armed with super nukes or whatever?!
How has the appearance of this disruptive power not made waves around the galaxy? Imagine a super advanced warship armed with nukes suddenly appears roaming Earth’s ocean, oh and the captain is 300 years in the past and is judgmental and looking to reestablish “civilization”:eek: Holy shit I hope he doesn’t decide to “civilize” the place I’m in!
Why does Dylan waste the Andromeda doing nonsense? He has the most advanced technology in the galaxy but can’t raise cash except by selling crew possessions?!
How come no one talks to Rev Bem about his story? He is the only member of his species we have even seen have the ability of speech, the rest seem to be bestial man eaters(literally!). How do they even build and pilot ships?
As I remember it, the premise wasn’t abandoned. He isn’t trying to rebuild civilization, he is trying to restore the peaceful government of yesteryear, rather than the warring factions that currently exist.
And I thought it was really nice that Roddenberry actually allowed his perfect Federation to get destroyed in this universe. At least half the crew are bad people, people who could never be in charge in Star Trek. It seems that Gene finally decided that his optimistic message could come from trying to fix the world, rather than having it already fixed.
Then again, I don’t really remember many individual episodes. It’s been a long while.
Oh I liked that all the way, but from my perspective there are two things Dylan can offer people which is tech of various sorts and protection, but they never show him doing either. And then do they trust the strange time traveler with the big scary ship to protect them when the shit hits the fan, who is this guy anyway? What if he dies and one of the other crew members takes over, what happens them knowing this thing basically has missiles capable of making a star go supernova?!
You should look it up on Wikipedia for more information. Kevin Sorbo grabbed control at some point and insisted it be All About Dylan Hunt.
I LOVED this show. LOVED it. Everyone on it had the best clothes and hair, they were all just gorgeous (except Rev Bem). The last season? I don’t think they expected to have one and had run out of money, so it was set on a wild-west planet in a BAR. They sat around and talked a lot about their marvelous ship, the Andromeda, dead in the water so to speak circling the planet - lounging around a saloon! They did recruit a blond kickass woman (a real life Penthouse Pet) in a pink velour jumpsuit to fill in for Lexa, and I kind of liked her. And I think Tyr was in love with Dylan Hunt, lol! If I wrote slash fic, they would be my favorite pair.
Yes, but it was based on script and world design by the late author. It is rather similar to three TV pilots/movies that Roddenberry released before Star Trek: The Next Generation: Genesis II, Planet Earth, and Strange New World. All of them feature astronauts that were frozen in time and come back to try to restore their great civilization amongst warring factions, and two of them actually have the main character named Dylan Hunt. (Some claim he wasn’t even really involved in the third.) The big difference is the time frame–Hunt was originally from the modern day.
We’re not entirely sure how much he was involved with, AFAIK, but the similarities to Star Trek suggest to me that the future setting was his idea, too, although I guess someone could have decided to combine the two posthumously.
The last season was just bizarre, but I watched it anyway.
I loved the show. I would buy it on DVD, but it’s stupid expensive for some reason.
I liked Tyr when he was only moderately bad. Once he cut his hair and went all big bad it was no good at all.
OP here and I continued on to the second season, I’m half way through and it is already a much different show than the first season. It has already become so bad its enjoyable, with the budget limitations showing BADLY already.
I don’t have a clue how this can go on for three more seasons
Andromeda was pretty neat in the early seasons, and some of the later episodes were pretty good, but the plot eventually shifts to this bizarre ‘abyss’ thing and turns into ‘space magic’.
It also seems pretty damned silly when Dylan rebuilds the Commonwealth, only to have it almost immediately turn on him and start causing trouble for him.
See what I did there?