Andromeda Season Premiere - What the heck?

[trancejeremy]

Minor spoilers.







What the heck?

Could that epsisode have been any more confusing?

It's like Andromeda is repeating the final season of Lexx. Even to the point of having the same bad actor play the same exact role. (He is to Science Fiction what Ted McGinley is to regular TV)

Actually, it seems like they borrowed bits of every sci-fi show or movie and pieced them together. Technobabble from Star Trek (Nullification point? What the heck?), the ending was out of Star Wars. Gah.

Also, it seems like every other member of the cast has given up even trying to act.

 

[Hand of Evil]

The show has been sliding down hill for some time, dumbing down.

 

[Welrain]

Is that possible...after watching series one I cant believe it could dumb down any further.

 

[Ranger REG]

With the departure of Robert Hewitt Wolfe and the leadership shifting toward actor Kevin Sorbo (who is also an executive producer), it's possible.

That and the fact they don't have a confrontational character for Dylan Hunt, a void left by Tyr Anasazi (played by Keith Hamilton Cobb). BTW, cute in-joke by the Seamus Harper character to refer Tyr as a "not-so Young and the Restless" (Sadly for the ladies, Keith returns to soap opera ... but without his signature dreadlock.)

 

[Wycen]

Usually it's on around here at 9 pm on Saturdays. I couldn't find hide nor hair of it from 8 pm to midnight. Midnight I switched on Star Hunter, which is on its second season and last nights episode was maybe the best of the whole bunch, but that is probably because I like space combat and the first 10 minutes was the Tulip under attack.

Actually the fat guy, who is now the pilot of the ship was also fun to watch in action. Of the 2 episodes with the new crew, he's the only one I like, the others, including the girl from the previous season who no longer has orange hair, can be spaced.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Even to the point of having the same bad actor play the same exact role. (He is to Science Fiction what Ted McGinley is to regular TV)

I need to know, who?

 

[Wycen]

I need to know, who?

After watching another retarded episode of Alias, I was flipping channels and I can answer this, plus my own previous post. Andromeda is now on a new channel, day, and time.

The villian is Prince, from Lexx, the guy who came from the Fire/Water planets. He was also the elder vampire on Forever Knight. Can't remember his real name.

So, the Commonwealth, which they suddenly rebuild via magic in the last season, has now been destroyed or is going to be destroyed. Wow. If I actually cared about this show, this might be lame.

 

[Nightfall]

On the positive side, Alias is gaining moment...

 

[Orius]

Could that epsisode have been any more confusing?

Well, good news is I am not losing any brain cells. I couldn't figure out wtf was up with the episode either.

However, this is what happened more or less:

At the huge battle at the end of last season, it looks like most of the fleets got wiped out, not just the Commonwealth. Good and bad news; when Dylan said someone other than Tyr had to have set the whole thing up, I knew everything just stunk of Magog....

It seems some ships from the Commonwealth survived and they joined up with Dylan.

Trance's magical bonsai is somehow important.

Anyway, this Peru guy or whatever the hell his name is seems to have made a deal with the Magog god, and he was told to create all-out chaos. This is not surprising, the Magog god brought about the destruction following the fall of the old Commonwealth, to facilitate his plans. That's why restoring the Commonwealth became important to Dylan; he needed the Known Worlds united to stop that damn worldship. The Magog god even made an appearance at the end of the episode when they sped through the slipstrean at an extremely fast speed (why ? I have no idea).

But it seems the Commonwealth managed to survive the chaos of the series finale, but whether or not they can resist the Magog remains to be seen. It's seems like they're getting off to a good start, they brought the Magog storyline back, but this episode was confusing as all hell. I hope subsequent episodes will be more coherent.

 

[Orius]

BTW, cute in-joke by the Seamus Harper character to refer Tyr as a "not-so Young and the Restless" (Sadly for the ladies, Keith returns to soap opera ... but without his signature dreadlock.)

Ah-ha! Is that the soap he was on? When I heard the reference, I was pretty sure that was the case, but I don't know jack about the horrid wastes of air time that are soaps.