I'm sad to see Andromeda go...
...on in its current form.
After Wolfe left, and they jettisonned the metaplot, they also jettisoned most of the good characterization. This isn't surprising, plot serves character. Characters need events to react to, hard choices to make, hopes to dashed and rekindled {and more than 48 minutes in which to accomplish all this}. Good plotting brings out good characters {see B5 or Buffy/Angel for this, though Buffy/Angel are for more character intensive. In the Buffyverse plot exists solely to bring the characters to their next emotional crisis...}
Trying to watch 3rd season episodes I felt like the characters I liked were already gone. So Tyr physically leaving the ship isn't a big deal.
Its too bad; he was a great character and greater foil for Dylan. Getting rid of that kind of dramatic tension should equal suicide for a show. Plus, I loved how Andromeda wasn't as hincky about race as the Star Trek franchise. They had a black actor playing a non-handicapped guy who was smooth around the ladies {I liked Tyr cooking a gourmet dinner for a shocked Beka}, smart, and actually deserved his reputation as a kick-ass warrior... And he was confortable enough with his sexuality to flirt with Dylan {I swear its in there...}.
On the show in general: Sure, it was cheesy, but it was pure, unadulterated kind of sci-fi cheese. It always struck me as pulpy version of Traveller. I always got the sense the show was written be people who knew and liked SF. There were really nice touches: the great Nietshzean names, Rommie in general {particularly her crush on Dylan}, the fact that romances between Captain and warship were 'discouraged' but not forbidden, the fact the Vedrans looked lile K'kree from Traveller, Trance as a real like scary anime child-goddess...
Plus, like Farscape, it was fun.
