It gets worse with hindsight. xD Like, Sorbo had that running gag blooper reel, "Have you seen my force lance?" where he whips it out at random interjections. Which is cute, and sometimes genuinely funny when its with babe-of-the-week.
But also, Andromeda was on such a shoestring budget a lot of the guest acting comes off as anemic because there were a LOT of scenes done in one take. This improved a little bit when the cast was whittled away, but in seasons 1 and 2 it comes off as downright insensitive to the production of his product.
AND: All Too Human
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After watching the show maybe four times through, the show is far more love than hate for me despite its clear flaw. Andromeda hit its mark on things like being more militaristic, establishing more clear character pathos, and creating a world that was unique in its approach to genetic engineering or AI at least for sci-fi TV.
This episode was fairly strong for me because it showed how an AI thinks, with logic before empathy. Rommie's job was to get to the Magog ship and if it meant entertaining the math involved in overloading a reactor, it's a move that even a human commando would have contemplated but been far more imprecise with.
I think it was a believable way to show a different approach to the story of a rogue planet or trapped comrades.
This episode was fairly strong for me because it showed how an AI thinks, with logic before empathy. Rommie's job was to get to the Magog ship and if it meant entertaining the math involved in overloading a reactor, it's a move that even a human commando would have contemplated but been far more imprecise with.
I think it was a believable way to show a different approach to the story of a rogue planet or trapped comrades.
Re: AND: All Too Human
I recall an interview where Sorbo said that the first season's episodes were too complicated for fans to understand.
I'd submit that they were only too complicated for Kevin Sorbo to understand. I'm also fairly sure most of the Dylan the Ubermensch stuff came from Sorbo himself, gradually degenerating the show until by the last season it literally became Hercules in Space.
Well not even space because most of the episodes were set in the same dusty bar.
Also wasn't the reason the guy who played Tyr left is because he kept clashing with Sorbo's ego? I vaguely remember something about that but I'm not too sure. Wouldn't surprise me though.
I'd submit that they were only too complicated for Kevin Sorbo to understand. I'm also fairly sure most of the Dylan the Ubermensch stuff came from Sorbo himself, gradually degenerating the show until by the last season it literally became Hercules in Space.
Well not even space because most of the episodes were set in the same dusty bar.
Also wasn't the reason the guy who played Tyr left is because he kept clashing with Sorbo's ego? I vaguely remember something about that but I'm not too sure. Wouldn't surprise me though.
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In a roundabout way. Keith Hamilton Cobb is always super professional, but he is pretty consistent that he enjoyed playing Tyr in S1 and S2 because he "had more to work with as an actor" than in S3. Which is the most polite and/or British way to describe the way the writing went after Sorbo got his claws in it xDMorgaine wrote:Also wasn't the reason the guy who played Tyr left is because he kept clashing with Sorbo's ego? I vaguely remember something about that but I'm not too sure. Wouldn't surprise me though.
