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Does anyone but me love this show? I know I've asked before and everyone said "no". But still -- yesterday's episode motherfuckers blew up a whole planet! Like these gas-breathing aliens wanted it and were going to transform the atmosphere and there's this huge space battle in which the planet is evacuated and there's this cosmic showdown. And Dylan needs to show that the commonwealth isn't gonna roll over so he gets all cold and calculating and he's like "if we can't have the planet nobody can" and blows the whole fucking thing up.

Hardcore.

Things I like about Andromeda: only relies on deus ex. like one out of five episodes, and never falls into the same patterns over and over. Lately experimenting with different sorts of reality-fuckery but always in an way that tends to broaden the scope of the unknown instead of explaining it away with capricious all-powerful aliens. the crew are in constant negotiation and all with their own differing agendas which always threaten to explode. deadpan trite dialogue fuckery: "wait, you're asking me to go on a dangerous mission with against impossible odds?" "yes." "okay then." Hardass machiavellian realpolitik. Transforming universe with the whole development of the commonwealth getting charted.

Things I dislike: dialogue can get too clever-clever. mystical "one man bending the universe too his will" shtick can occasionally get too top-heavy. most importantly, somehow the show seems like it really is the rumsfeld cosmic-christian manchean mission mentality at times, which somewhat disturbs me, but also is what makes it more interesting than the star-wars and descendant lamer sf where there's all these high moral dilemmas at the heart of everything. there's something to be said for principles with the firepower and cold calculation to back them up, y'know?

Anyway I think becka is getting a little one-sided, but the last episode showed some promise for her development -- the tyr stuff is really starting to rumble too. harper's way less interesting now that he's not dying.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 14 April 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I k-like that show, and unfortunately all I can think to say about it at this moment is that I have a retarded insane crush on the girl with the funky purple dreads...some things never change (me having crushes on girls with funky purple dreads, that is).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen it in awhile -- not at all this season, I don't think -- because the local broadcast switched times or networks or something. I was just wondering the other day whether it was still on.

But I did like it when I watched it, and usually I don't like "folks in space" shows.

(And yeah, the purple chick is hot. See, if I say it, too, then both nickalicious and I are less retarded. Power of numbers.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

She's totally different looking now. she switches places with her future self , so she has like even more wisdom of future experience to crypticly transmit.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 14 April 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Also how much of a fucking relief is it that for once the "mystic" is not the darkest-skinned character on a show? Oh, and Tyr with the DNA closest to "perfection" out of probably anybody in the universe is fucking black.

Fuckyeah.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll have to check this show out. I've been wanting to see a good sci-fi show lately. I liked how Firefly combined the old-west mythos of science fiction into the show, which was incorporated into some old science fiction film serials for budget reasons. Sadly, it was cancelled. Plus I never got to watch it on Friday nights.

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

She's totally different looking now. she switches places with her future self , so she has like even more wisdom of future experience to crypticly transmit.

Okay, that sounds wild. Have they talked more about her mysterious race/people/whatever? That was kind of a nice hook.

And nicest of all, they manage to do those things without making a big deal out of it, which is cool. Plus, Tyr rocks. And maybe this is the part where I say that I actually really like Kevin Sorbo, and think that of Hercules and Xena, Hercules was the better show, in no small part because of him.

All right, I need to check my cable guide or something and find out when Andromeda is on these days.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah the best episode ever is even CALLED "the prince" and its all about like an actual prince who's been deposed and they're trying to restore the throne but then should they really or should they encourage a democracy (the prince wants to join the commonwealth tho and the usurpers don't) and you REALLY don't trust Tyr in this episode since he totally has his own agenda which seems to lie in selling out the prince to an assasination attempt so like the whole thing is tense maneuver between parties and then dylan kicks it in the end with deft manipulation and foresight and also giant mecha-gun robots who drop onto the planet and blast the usurper's assasins into itty-bitty pieces.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Man tonight's episode wasn't nearly as cosmic but Dylan did birth a whole frikin race.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 21 April 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I caught that episode yesterday, the first one I've seen in ... well, like I was saying, a long time. Purple-chick looks VERY different now ... and is it just me/memory, or is she in fact less purple?

In any case, I dug it. I'm going to try to remember to start watching more often. And "mythology ... it's all Greek to me" was as funny as it was cheesy :)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 21 April 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially since it was Norse mythology. Heh.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 21 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Okay anyone else see the season finale?

Tyr goes splitsville, the universe falls apart, the whole federation fleet destroyed. Nobody does space opera on this sort of galactic scale.

I honestly didn't see the semi-reconciliation at the end coming, though I guess I should have. I also wonder of Dylan shouldn't have just gone with Tyr's plan seeing as how everything turned out shitty when he didn't.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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