Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (Part 1) Seasons 1 and 2 - FTV (Forgotten Television)

[@enilenis]

I worked on the last 3 seasons of Andromeda. Those were the golden days of sci-fi television. I remember the show getting wrapped after season 4. Everyone was convinced that was it. Yet the ratings ended up being higher than anticipated, and one more season was commissioned. By then everyone had moved on and didn't want to be there. They were just goofing off. Very little supervision was done on set. VFX shots were getting approved after 1-2 revisions (used to be 3-5) Everything was "good enough". How the show ended up appearing consistent throughout is a total mystery, because we had multiple vendors working with no cross-communication. No design bible. Just winging it. I did a ton of holograms on the show, as well as some weapon FX.

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

It definitely felt like Season 5 was more like a lower budget spinoff off Andromeda than an actual continuation of season 4. Might've been better if they had done like 10 episodes in season 5, with a bigger budget and a wrap-up to the story.

[@guitargodthor2]

Correction: Magog dont keep the hosts memories. Only in the one episode where the Humans had that ability, the Magog gained that ability because they keep some of the hosts DNA. No other Magog have that ability other than Rev Bem's children. Rev Bem felt horrible for killing his mother and found Wayism and became a reverend. He no longer kills in honor of his misdeeds to his mother. Also, he doesn't cook salmon, his digestive tract only works when the kill is fresh. He eats salmon raw and probably alive.

[@cedarledgepublishing]

Thanks for posting. So happy to see Lexa Doig in the CHUCKY tv series! She played the BEST character on Andromeda. The show was never the same again after they began to succeed in their mission.

[@jarjared3522]

The one thing stopping me from being hooked on Andromeda is Kevin Sorbo. He is wooden and has such a limited range which makes him a VERY bad fit for this Captain role. Now I am a Babylon 5 fan and have heard all the complaints of Michael O'Hare being wooden as Commander Sinclair. However Michael O'Hare runs CIRCLES around Kevin Sorbo in terms of acting.

[@AlinktoPersona]

I loved the crew of Andromeda of Seasons 1-2 . Extremely diverse with clever ideas and everyone has a point. And dat opening And I never saw Andromeda as ripoff of Farscape of in an way. They're different beasts.

[@jb888888888]

_Andromeda_ was cool until Kevin Sorbo decided that he had to be in every scene and every plot must revolve around him. Basically when Trance turned from purple to orange there was only one really good episode after that.

[@cassia-andor6445]

Which episode?

[@jb888888888]

@@cassia-andor6445 "The Unconquerable Man."

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

It actually got better after that, overall a fun show. Not many shows like this around.

[@jb888888888]

@@Nobody-Nowhere Agree to disagree. I watched the entire series when it was first run. I stand by my opinion.

[@cristophermartinez6707]

I just discovered your channel, it's really good.

[@VolrinSeth]

Andromeda actually started off with the (civil)war against the Nizcheans.

[@kiltedbroshar4187]

Trance as described by Harper.... An enigma wrapped in a riddle with a tail in the middle. 😁

[@WhyteLis21]

This show was more in tune with its parent's, "Star Trek" than with Farscape in my eyes. Lot's of words of wisdom meaning in text before each episodes starts, too. 😁

[@marfoxx4165]

Hey Rangerreview what are some kid shows/movies you would review if you didn't get demonitized?

[@k2muts]

Nice, eagerly awaiting part 2

[@warrenreid6109]

This show could have been so much more. Also I've just began to watch this channel. I like what I see so far.

[@RobertLewis85]

Thanks for part one and two, great analysis

[@honorablekunglao]

I remember the saban TV movie. It was called National Lampoon’s Men In White.

[@ryancoulter4797]

I still remember Lexa from YTV and the video game show, back when she had adorable crooked teeth.

[@kingnewcomer2029]

I'm glad that after the failure of Earth Final Conflict, the second Gene Rodenberry show, Andromeda did much better, especially with Kevin Sorbo as the main character again (despite said main character not being much focused on in the first 2 Seasons), and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writer! It's also neat that despite being a direct copy of Farscape, it still managed to have its own identity. I do love the functionality of the Andromeda ship, and the story, as well as the characters.

[@roaditr]

While I think sliders and earth final conflict were shows that started out really strong and gradually went bad, I didn’t think andromeda was any good to begin with. Dylan Hunt was annoying every time he was on screen and all the species seemed one note. I got a bit invested during season 2, but gave up towards the end of the same season when it became clear that this show really only wanted to be a pewpewpew pew pew let’s shoot with laser guns show. Such a let down.

[@onikin]

I agree. And Kevin Sorbo's politics have really turned me off of getting into his old work and giving it another chance (his new work is all extremely ideological).

[@robertchapman625]

Always love when Andromeda gets a review-I always feel that Wolf lore and background he created for the show had the potential for it to be a classic of that decade like Battlestar Galactica reboot. Sadly bad home production company (while meant Wolf created a ship/combat more like RL development/projections, it also meant limited CGI shorts and the heavy reliance of the physical set), not the best casting and really extreme fluctuation quality of writers for episodes dragged it down.

[@SteelGymGaming]

I absolutely love Andromeda, even if it does get weird in the final season haha. Its interesting that ST Discovery looks like its using Andromeda as a base for Season 3, and I am 100% behind this idea

[@kiltedbroshar4187]

Andromeda is the greatest show ever

[@rogerlynch5279]

LIKE EDI FROM MASS EFFECT ::::::::::::) How true !!! Fun Fact EDI´s voice in MASS EFFECT had been TRISH HELFER who usually has played bad or at least twisted roles;so for example in LUCIFER the mother of the Devil ::) Lexa Doig meanwhile had a short guest star role in the late rebooted STARGATE episodes. I had liked to see there more of her. She is a fine actress.

[@Jalu3]

Have you done Space Above & Beyond? Sentinal? Young Indiana Jones Adventures? Brisco County Jr.? After M*A*S*H?

[@DigiRangerScott]

Pluto has all 5 seasons and a dedicated channel, and Prime Video lost the first two seasons. I’m still working through Earth Final Conflict, about to hit season 4, but I still have Alias and Stargate Atlantis (and Universe) to get through. Sorbo’s been a bit too much of a backwards mofo for me to want to watch Andromeda though. Maybe this video will convince me

[@dragonchr15]

Sorbo was great in this show....he may have flew of the rails with his political views the past five years or so but he made this role his.....

[@pearlkit]

Great essay about Andromeda! Thanks! Did you do one for Farscape as well?

[@rangerreview1780]

I didn't do FS.

[@AnarchyintheNYC]

@5:10 "...And its been 300 years. Looking at it from a human's perspective- that would be like asking me to go live in the 1800s." Umm is this guy recording this video from the 22nd century?

[@stephaniepage4334]

Who do you ship dylan with?Sarah, beka, trance or rommie

[@kiltedbroshar4187]

You got a few details wrong but still great vid

[@rodneynicholauson4566]

It would be a challenge for a borg cube.

[@Droid_Builders]

I remember stop watching the show because the commonwealth was so easily formed. It seemed too far fetched in my mind, we can't agree to get along on one planet forget multiplying that by thousands of worlds and some guy from 300 years ago can pull it off in a few seasons. I thought the reformation of the commonwealth was one of the main plot points of the first few seasons so the show became a little rudderless. I still need to complete the series because maybe I was too quick to judgement back then

[@onikin]

The slipstream isn't all that more complicated than Farscape's wormholes-which are basically the character and plot of the show-or Babylon 5's Second Space (or more, the "third space")

[@kingkong4ever]

I'm currently Watching this. I'm upto episode 14 of season 2

[@sarahnade2529]

Please please do full breakdowns

[@movieviewing]

Andromeda started out ok but as seasons came along it just got more and more out there in terms of crazy story lines to the point i lost interest in it. i think it should have started out before the fall where we got to know the commonwealth and what it was about then have the fall with then rebuilding the commonwealth. but still with the general story line it wasn't going to be the next star trek or star wars as the story line/ back stories wasn't there and not developed enough.

[@mrnobody6447]

So slipstream is the warp of 40k minus demons?

[@zeokingsilver]

I herd that the show was cancelled just before S5 began is it true and if so how man other seasons were planned

[@rangerreview1780]

No one knows really for sure how far it would have went if the market hadn't changed.

[@zeokingsilver]

@@rangerreview1780 But it was canceled wasn't it

[@rangerreview1780]

Yes it was. The show was greenlit for season 5. syndication died the same moment. so they cut the budget of the 5th season. Which is why it turned to crap. And so they ended it with that season. @@zeokingsilver

[@zeokingsilver]

OK thanks, before I thought that was how it ended cause it did seem like a okay way to end. I thought it was the way it was intended not sure if there was going to be more @@rangerreview1780

[@WTSD850]

wow the main premise of this show sounds a lot like star trek discovery

[@jasonmoso6469]

Andromeda could have been a good show if it didn't have Kevin Sorbo (who has never been a good actor), and if they didn't make the guy who played Seamus whine every word that came out of his mouth

[@kahlernygard809]

Maybe I'm biased cause I went to same small high-school that Sorbo did but I like his acting style. And honestly nobody could play a fake space jesus like him

[@damenwhelan3236]

​@@kahlernygard809 Avery brooks.

[@kahlernygard809]

@damenwhelan3236 he was real space Jesus not fake

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

Nah, it was just perfect as it was. The best thing is that internet geeks can't decide anything about these shows, all they can do is whine in the comments.

[@waitandhope]

This show was great for season 1, the rest kinda fell apart

[@veeli1106]

Season 2 was still good, then it fell off a cliff…

[@waitandhope]

@@veeli1106 yep about right lol

[@jamesoffutt2801]

Farscape takes place in the Henson universe.

[@willt3223]

You know. Andromeda was so poorly made that I wouldn’t mind seeing an Discovery style treatment to it. Update vfx more intense battles.

[@michaelmcveigh8880]

Farsacpe review please

[@jonc7836]

Alex Collier Andromeda

[@PeterSwinkels]

And the whole slipstream needing an organic pilot sounds idiotic. Sufficiently advanced robots/cyborgs and ais should be just as if not more complex than an organic being. In fact would there even be a practical distinction at some point?

[@shayla106]

At the end of the day a machine and human are not the same thing. A machine (which were made by humans) is only capable of what it was programmed for.

[@VolrinSeth]

I think the show banked on the notion that machines could never be programmed to have a human's natural instinct and intuition.

[@dragonchr15]

Sorbo shot his career in the foot when he came out as a conservative...a very extreme one from what I've observed...he could have had a great career after Andromeda if he had kept his politics private.

[@patnor7354]

All the more reason to admire him.

[@shayla106]

@@patnor7354 Wrong because he let it ruins any show or movie he is apart of. He care more about his politics and belief than writing a good movie or show. It’s doesn’t help that he has a big ego and usually has to make himself the center of attention.

[@manw3bttcks]

@@shayla106 Better to just cow and grovel to the radical liberals in hollywood and keep his career? Maybe he wanted to keep his integrity

[@veeli1106]

What a time we live in when being for personal freedoms and liberty with minimal government interference is considered “extreme”.

[@Akkatlah]

Sorbo is simply not a very good actor. His conservatism had nothing to do with his career stagnating.

[@PeterSwinkels]

“Her name is Rommie, from ROM! Get it? durrr” - Stupid name.

[@gentelmanjunkie542]

Didn't know Michael Shanks was married to what's er face, good job bruh.

[@DannieGemz]

Andromeda was good aside from one problem it's lead actor Kevin Sorbo who is total cringe and in general a bit of a nasty guy in general, other than that the guy who played Tyr Anasazi 'Keith Hamilton Cobb' who has as much on screen presence and charisma as a bean , seriously the guy was depressing to watch, very awful acting, not much tops babylon 5's 1st season in terms of corniness but this did lol

[@kiltedbroshar4187]

Andromeda is the greatest show ever. Not a single bad episode.

[@Mythologos]

I've never heard that Sorbo is nasty. It was the network that wanted to focus everything on the main character.

[@DannieGemz]

@@Mythologos There is a long history of him being nasty its out there on google for u to read up about, he is notoriously difficult to work with, everything has to be his way or the highway and then don't get me started on his religious bible bashing, i respect peoples choices for religion but leave that at home yeh, don't try to convert people in your work space or any other for that matter....

[@kahlernygard809]

​@@DannieGemzI'd be more than happy to listen to some preaching in exchange for being on a mainstream TV show that pays well.

[@xjf459]

@@MythologosI’d surmise that’s a lefty commentating lol! Sorbo is great but one of the few openly Republican actors. I’m Canadian so I don’t have a Dawwgg in the fight but see the ridiculousness of lefty’s and how they hate everyone not open “left”