Dylan Hunt is the courageous captain of the most glorious starship in the universe, the Andromeda Ascendant. After 300 years frozen in time at the event horizon of a black hole. Dylan Hunt wakes... to a universe in chaos. The Systems Commonwealth, the greatest civilization in history, has fallen. But together with an unlikely band of renegades and aliens who become his crew, Dylan begins his quest to rekindle the light of civilization and push back the evils that grip the universe! |
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Ratings: | TVMaze: 7.6/10 | |
Released: | October 2, 2000 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Action Sci-Fi | |
AKA: | Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | Syfy BLT Productions Tribune Entertainment Fireworks Pictures | |
Cast: | Kevin Sorbo Steve Bacic Lexa Doig Brandy Ledford Laura Bertram Lisa Ryder Gordon Michael Woolvett Brent Stait Keith Hamilton Cobb | |
Crew: | Gene Roddenberry Robert Hewitt Wolfe Jay Firestone Allan Eastman Robert Engels Adam Haight Kevin Sorbo Emily Skopov Majel Barrett Roddenberry | |
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It is a good show, in spite of Sorbo rather than because of him. After Trek TOS, The Great Bird had material that he tried to turn into series, but only got as far as a film & a pilot. Those were Genesis II & Planet Earth. They didn’t go where he hoped they would go, but after he died his wife Majel Barrett took that material about Dylan Hunt & divided it. One became Earth Final Conflict & the other Andromeda.
Both shows shift gears a lot before they find themselves, so some seasons may be preferred over others since some of the changes in tone, cast & character design are very radical. Each show wasn’t short on its own ambition.
https://www.primewire.tf/movie/140106-genesis-ii
https://www.primewire.tf/movie/158475-planet-earth
https://www.primewire.tf/tv/23939-earth-final-conflict
It started out well but that last season, where the “already pushing the Sorbo saturation limit” became “Sorbo overload” really kinda messed things up for me, as did the “Hercules in Space” plot/narrative.
The show was at its best when it was focused on restoring the Commonwealth and coping with the Magog threat…kinda like ST: Discovery last season, restoring the Federation and dealing with the alien species accidentally destroying planets after The Burn.
But by the Great Ones (Roddenberry and JMS), I can’t watch anything with Sorbo in it anymore after suffering through his Christo-rightwing fanaticism on Twitter for so many, many years. Shame too, he was never a very good actor, but he was perfect for Sam Raimi’s Hercules.
It would be easy to tangentially focus on that, but that sums it up correctly. That’s perfect ✔
He did me with Hercules, a pretty simple character and he just made him dead rather god like, Xena was 100% better and that was pretty cheesy acting wise too. The rest of the cast do save Andromeda though, but only just
Whats all the hubub I hear about Sorbo anyway? Whats everyones issue with him? Is it JUST his acting (which I find isn’t that bad at all), or is he being discredited in his show over some political nonesense on social media?
I thought it was a great show when it came out. I liked Sorbo in Hercules and I thought this was a good fit for him…
Anybody recommend this show? I’m about to finish SG Atlantis and need a replacement.
I’d recommend Farscape, it shared a lot of the same elements as SG:A in terms of creativity, tone, space opera tropes, etc.. In other words, fun with occasional overacting that fit with the overall show, and even more creativity (IMO) than Andromeda. And since you must have watched SG-1, even a “big honkin’ space gun” type weapon that would even make the Goa’uld poop themselves (or their hosts ;) ).
Andromeda is good, but Farscape is very superior. Not once did it search for itself or the arc. It always knew what it was & where it was going with laser-sharp writing & long term serialization. Other than Lexa Doig who portrayed Andromeda ship’s AI was married to SG-1’s Michael Shanks, the only way the two shows were similar was in that the primary vessels were alive or had living AI. Farscape was more similar to The Lexx in that regard - another underrated space opera.
Andromeda’s strength was in the entire ensemble cast, who were more capable than the central star. The show also introduced quantum mechanics in a very mainstream way to provide story elements. Until that time, that area of science was pretty obscure to the laity.
Oh, man, Lexx was a head trip until I could binge-watch the movies and first season. So much crazy stuff going on and so few real-life touchstones until (hmmm, I sense a trend here) NBC got ahold of it and gave it a $10 budget for the last season. Still, I agree completely that it was very underrated - sometimes I get the feeling German TV doesn’t always translate to US TV, but maybe Netflix’s push to bring shows like Dark to Netflix USA will make it easier. :)
That 1st season of The Lexx was done by Showtime, so it’s very different than the rest of the series. The entire series however is brilliant. Really dig Patricia Zentilli as the Prez wifey.
Now I’m excited to watch both! Added Farscape to my plan to watch list.
Farscape fans weren’t happy about the unresolved story when nbc killed the series, so they finally got to see their fav show end as nicely as possible when the 2 part Peacekeeper Wars was released & gave a proper end to the series. Don’t forget to add that for a psychologically satisfying end - which is almost unheard of when shows are axed..
https://www.primewire.tf/tv/8774-farscape
https://www.primewire.tf/tv/301112-farscape-the-peacekeeper-wars
Here’s The Lexx also:
https://www.primewire.tf/tv/26570-lexx
YES! Farscape is amazing! Did everyone catch “Sanctuary”?? Amanda Tapping was just as good in it, if not better, than she was in the SGU’s. https://www.primewire.tf/tv/2113-sanctuary
Sanctuary is waaay cool. It started as a web series, so it’s cool to catch that as well as the episodes made for Sci-Fi before nbc hijacked the network & killed off all the good shows - like SG-1, Farscape, Sanctuary, SG-A, etc.
I liked Sanctuary but the only thing that really annoyed me was Will always having his mouth open. So many times I wanted to reach through my tv and slap is chin up lol
Bwah ha ha ha! THANK YOU!
I missed Sanctuary, but I could watch Amanda Tapping on permanent loop and wouldn’t get bored. ;) I’m going to have to ad that to my list!
You can join the boys in our family then. I believe they’d watch Amanda clean her nails.
As long as she looks up once in a while… Helen of Troy may have had the face that launched 1000 triremes, but Amanda’s got the eyes that launched 1000 Prometheus-class starships. Which I only mentioned so I could say that “Sir, we can’t name the ship Enterprise” was quite possibly the best piece of SF dialogue ever put into a script (though Futurama’s got a couple really good ones too).
Bravo to that!
I second the recommendation, Sorbo & the show can get cheezy at moments but still one of the best available sci-fi during it’s years
Great show!
Will for sure check it out.
Just watching the names of the series being thrown about, Lexx, Sanctuary, Farscape… i’d say give “Space above & beyond” a try, and join the legions that say it finished way too early
Sorry, but while I’m at it, if anybody hasn’t seen it Dark Angel, Jessica Alba’s intro series. Seriously awesome premise, extremely well played, written and cast. Again finished too soon, but there’s enough to make any even slight Sci fi fan into a fan instantly. Looking back on it you can see the first season was underfunded, but the acting and writing kept you hooked, and it soon got a more polished look. Very similar premise as Alias (Jennifer Garner) but different enough that you wouldn’t feel cheated watching both around each other. Out of the 2 though I’d pick Dark Angel myself, but any fan of one should like the other one at least as much.
You definitely won’t regret Farscape, easily the best Sci fi TV show ever made. Another one for sure well worth the watch if you haven’t already, Dark Matter, they seem to go so fast because it’s so engrossing. And as usual with the really good Sci fi shows, there just isn’t enough of it
You said that already but with a minor difference
i double posted by mistake when i edited my typos out
we forgive you ;)
“its a good show” “its only 24 years old” “Let’s take over the comments with ridiculous rants about how good this show once was & now isn’t” …tbf..this show is a 1/20 now.