New Galactica Series - Page 17

Atrocities · #**161** February 22nd, 2005, 05:04 AM

I lost interest in Andromeda. I think it was because of the hap hazard way I have seen it. It had no set schedule in my area so I would see episodes here and there.

Its hard to follow a show like that and I can see why a show is cancelled do to poor ratings when viewing times are spread out shot gun style.

Happened to Babylon 5 in its final season, on TNT no less. TNT's schedule killed Crusaders, a very decent sequal series to B5 IMHO. And the UPN less then expected, and Lower Your Standards, handling of Enterprise has also proven this to be true. If you just lock a show into ONE time slot and do not bump it for sports or other crap, TNT, then perhaps it might blossom into a hit. Duhhhhhhhhh

Makinus · #**162** February 22nd, 2005, 08:31 AM

Andromeda was cool up to the 3rd season.... after that it became too confused to be fun... the only good thing is when Rhade becomes a new member of the crew... but the other actors looks like they don�t like the characters anymore, so the show falls flat...

And the storylines became too confused after the 3rd season, and looks like they don�t have more ideas so they just confuse the viewer with new tecnobabble every episode...

I still watch the show now and then, but i think it lost its steam...

Atrocities · #**163** February 22nd, 2005, 08:51 AM

When I watch the show I get the distinct impression that it was poorly edited. It seems to rush through the story without ever really telling the story. The viewer is left to guess and wonder what they missed. Perhaps its a DVD ploy, you know, to promote the sales of the DVD's so that people will go back and watch the show to try and pick up the peaces they missed that were never really there.

I do not want the Sci-Fi channel to get their hands on an ICON from Star Trek like Enterprise. They would dog tie the production staff, cheapen the show, do to it what they have done to Stargate SG1 and Andromeda - make them appear rushed without any dedication to acting. (In otherwords the cast are just doing a job, a job that was once fun but has been morphed into a living hell.)

They would only buy 20 episodes when Star Trek set the standard at 26. (Well 24 for these last two seasons.

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Does it strike any one as a bit odd that Carter went from book worm scientist in all of the previous seasons of SG1 to sex symbol this season? I mean come on she is an attractive women, but you can clearly see that she is not at all happy about being pimped out like this. She is by all rights one of the more adoptive characters to be on TV in years, for her appeal as a women, both in looks as well as in intelligiance. Amanda Tapping, (Sp) has done a brillant job with the character but now that the show is on the Sci-Fi chanel, they have altered her character in a vain and very visible attempt to make her a sex symbol. That just irks me to no end.

The episodes have seemed rushed, almost hacked together at times, with the actors looking less and less like they enjoy what they are doing. In all honestly they have the appearance of people who just want to move on in life because they are bored with what they are doing and it is coming acrossed through their acting.

I love the show, and would love to see it go on for another seven years, but in all honestly, if the actors didn't need a job, I am sure they would agree that some things should be allowed to pass into history before they become less than they were.

Renegade 13 · #**164** February 22nd, 2005, 12:44 PM

I assume you're talking about season 8 of Stargate?? It's just started here (I've seen the first few episodes) and I thought it had already fallen a bit from the standard set in seasons 5-7. I could feel the difference.

geoschmo · #**165** February 22nd, 2005, 12:55 PM

The problem is that Stargate wasn't supposed to have a season 8. They had long planned, and even partially wrote the last great story arc that was going to put the exclamation point on the end of the series and launch the Atlantis series. They didn't orignally intend to run them in parallel. Sci-fi threw enough money at them though to stick around for one more season so a lot of stuff had to be rewritten in a hurry to stretch things out. I think it shows a bit in the quality, but it's still a lot more watchable then most anything else on tv.

I think the last few episodes are going to be really awesome though. Once they can get back to the final showdown with the Ga'ould that they intended for the end of season 7.

Starhawk · #**166** February 22nd, 2005, 01:45 PM

Dang AT your getting downright hostile over there lol, Sci-Fi is really not that bad I mean look at Battlestar it's a great series so far and that's a sci-fi original.

Andromeda can only be blamed on it's writers, it was going down hill even when it was still only on channel 2, they are going way too dang mystical on us, instead of just a captain trying to rebuild the commonwealth we now have a demi-god magi type character trying to save the friggin universe.....sorry but that's cheesy

That and how many times can the reformed High Guard be destroyed? They are up to 2 so far and in this last season they are stuck in one stupid star system so we aren't seeing what's happenin to the new commonwealth, and with only 6 episodes left to the series it makes me wonder how rushed the series finale is going to be.

And oh yeah Carter's not a sex symbol it's just that they finally let her have a love life outside of the SG1 which is good since she really needed to get out in the world

geoschmo · #**167** February 22nd, 2005, 02:09 PM

If you think about it, Carter has always been a sex symbol. She was just targetted to a different audience then your typical tv sex symbol. I mean, what is more attractive to the typical geeky sci-fi fan that a cute girl that could talk for hours about quantum physics.

Alneyan · #**168** February 22nd, 2005, 02:14 PM

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geoschmo said:
I mean, what is more attractive to the typical geeky sci-fi fan that a cute girl that could talk for hours about quantum physics.

Two cute girls that could talk for hours about quantum physics of course. Erh, perhaps drop the "about quantum physics" part.

Starhawk · #**169** February 22nd, 2005, 02:16 PM

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geoschmo said:
If you think about it, Carter has always been a sex symbol. She was just targetted to a different audience then your typical tv sex symbol. I mean, what is more attractive to the typical geeky sci-fi fan that a cute girl that could talk for hours about quantum physics.

Too true, we geeky guys like smart women that are also hot

Azselendor · #**170** February 22nd, 2005, 04:14 PM

Andromeda's problem wasn't even the writers. A lot of it lay within Tribune who has the same mentality as UPN - except they cater to the Hercules/Xena types. Shows with one central character and a cheerleading squad to follow them around. At the end of season 3, Majel left the production and after writing like 11 episodes of season 3, RH Wolfe was fired for not being able to dumb down his work for the yokels as much as they wanted.

It also didn't help the show when Kevin Sorbo refused to sign the contracts unless he was given Executive Producer Status and forced Wolfe out.

The real sad part is that Andromeda had a lot more potential than anyone ever gave it. Like the Osiris Chronicles, Andromeda will forever burn in level of hell devoted to good ideas bastardized by idiot actors and executives.

Stargate, on the other hand, was supposed to wrap up in Season Sxi with a big Feature Film. That got pushed off to Season 7... then to season 7 finale which was to kick off Atlantis... then to season eight... then Bleh. They gave up on ending it or something.

Now if SciFi pics up Enterprise, It's be a great lead-off from Galactica or Lead-in for Stargate SG1. Hopefully the sets can be salvaged and the deal set soon. And I really hope Paramount decides to not demand full price for Enterprise, the licensng fees for star trek is insanely high. One could pay of the US National Debt faster!