Andromeda TV Series

[Deleted User]

Has anyone here seen the TV show Andromeda? It's got a lot of OA related material: AI, nearbaselines, nanotech, interplanetary polities/cultures and sentient starships. But I mostly watched it for Rommie and Trance

What do you guys think of it?

[ai_vin]

I watched it, but only for a couple of seasons as my interest in it petered out.

[John M. Dollan]

I enjoyed it, for the most part. It has some great OA-related stuff in it, though the science was, of course, always played loose and fast. Still, I thought it had a fairly good premise behind it. I don't think that its potential was ever really fully realized, though.

[selden]

I enjoyed its early seasons, but agree that the later ones weren't as good.

[Drashner1]

I enjoyed it for the earlier seasons and have many of those on disk.

The later seasons got rather odd and seemed to have a much smaller budget and no clear idea of what to do with themselves. This even shows in the prices of the DVDs last time I checked. The later seasons cost a fraction of the earlier ones.

Todd

[John M. Dollan]

If I remember, there was one or two seasons that they thought were their last, and then they managed to get another extension. That might account for some of their... disconnected stories?

[selden]

That would make sense, especially if they had to recruit new writers.

[Rynn]

I think the show had a lot of problems behind-the-scenes that prevented it from reaching its potential. Combined with a low budget and an incoherent vision it made it a flop rather than the Star Trek successor people were hoping it would be.

[ai_vin]

Any open ended series is going to risk suffering from the same problem: In an effort to keep it going the writers are going to add more and more new plotlines, and far to often they don't bother to resolve the old ones. That's why my favorite series was Babylon 5, writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski knew what the ending was going to be before he pitched the show to the networks. He only intended it to last five seasons and that's what we got. It was even set between the years 2257 and 2262. Five consecutive years.

[Deleted User]

Any ideas on how to incorporate elements from the show into OA?

Here's a link to the wiki if you need help: http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page