15th May 2005, 3:18 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:I saw part 1 of 'In a Mirror, Darkly' and part 1 of 'Terra Prime', actually. That's not missing all of them. As for last season, was that the Xindi season? I saw at least half of those. Probably more than that.
As for Andromeda, I don't understand why a lot of people dislike it... it's a great show. Very well done sci-fi, interesting universe and characters, well made... where is the problem? I don't think there ever has been one. The fact that it's lasted five seasons says that there is at least some amount of a fanbase...
Andromeda was good and solid the first 2 seasons , Season 3 it started to get shaky but had enough good episodes to make up for it.What happend was that the TPTB decided to change the writers half which waisnt necesarry alot of the casual sci oriented fans fled from it none of the action adventure folks came in to replace them, Andromeda turned from a 3d Gene Roddenberry quality show with alot of depth and diversity to a 2d beat and shootem up show.
The thing that burns me on Andromeda now , Is how Dylan Hunt was made into captain kirk , Dylan Hunt was unique from the begining as a relic fossil character who was a philosopher almost trying to change the times, Now he has been down graded to a dude who beats up the bad guys and always gets the ladies, In the 60's that was cool but now its just damn cheesy!
The loss of Tyr hurt it for me , It could have been a huge plot twice or whatever that Tyr goes bad and betrays them , But they totally botched it and toss away alot potential story for next season, His 2 epsiode arc in season 4 ended abysmally, Tyr who was established prior as a rather cunning and witty individual always second guessing and a step ahead of everything a true survivalist, But he dies off and goes out like he was moron who may as well toss himself off a bridge. Tyr could have been a hole season long Arc villain, Given the show a new plot direction. Now it has zero!
Andromeda is too predictable now you pretty well can tell the outcome of a episode from the begining low and behold its as you suspected , The episodes are so bland and stale especially this last 5th season I stoped watching as did a hell alot of long time fans.
Andromea is reverse of enterprise started off great and then slowly degenerated.