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Anyone seen the first episode of Andromeda already? What did you think of it?
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Saw it today. Rather good, actually. Of course, the best line in the whole show was "He's like a Greek god or something!" in reference to Captain Hunt.
The only thing I didn't like was that I have to wait until next week to see the second half of the pilot!
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I turned to my (massively large-breasted) housemate & said, "Wow....the ship has a nice rack."
She said that she was wondering how long it would take for technology to advance for me to be able to say that.
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But... I found that there were a little too much fireworks in the background, people were moving around a little too much especially the pilot of the ship with it's two little joysticks that were moving like crazy like he did also ...
The costumes were also a little too rough. A human bat ? And a man with tusks ?
There was also a little too much acrobatics and slow moving scenes. So much that it looked like I was seeing an episode of Hercules...
But I must confess that I like the shape of the ship.
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Yeah, SPEAKING of those uniforms....remember that getup poor Raul Julia had t'wear as M. Bison in that shitty "Street Fighter" flick?
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"Andromeda" is actually a Star Trek series.
It was originally pitched as the new Star Trek series, but it was rejected. The original title was "Phoenix Rising." The concept was that the Enterprise-G was frozen in time and came back in a time when the Federation was gone, the Vulcans were facists, and the Klingons were maurauding barbarian hordes (well -- they pretty much are that in DS9 anyway, so...)
C'mon, don't the producers/creators/whoevers names look familiar?
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I thought it was really good, though some of the set seems kind of simple and lame. Like the pilot's seat, that was just annoying. The temporal slow-mo effects were kind of boring. But everything else seems great. Oh yeah, and the Andromeda computer is hot.
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This first episode wasn't too great, even taking into account that it's a pilot and had to have a lot of exposition. I think they actually went abit too far w/ it. But, maybe it's all out of their systems now, and next week's will be better.
And, somehow, the idea that the ship's computer would holographically represent itself w/ that much cleavage seems a bit odd... *L*
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the AI-hologram was obviously programmed by computer nerds, Lara Croft probably out of style hundreds of years from now.
(The Emergency Babe Hologram?)
saw the Pilot episode on Sunday, 8 October. Not quite as good as I'd hoped. Some of the aliens were just awful. I laughed out loud at the dog-faced boss of the scavenger crew: what was he? a cross between a space-pimp and Rudolph the Red Nosed Retriever?
Really hated the smart-alek engineer. It's hundreds of years in the future, and he talks like he's on MTV.
mainly, gripes with the plot, some of which seems familiar.
Great old galactic government fallen, one last ship remaining? Sounds like "The Warlord" with Rod Taylor (stank)[the listing on IMDB has almost no information-- no one cares enough]
humans vs. hostile genetically-engineered separatists: sounds like David Gerrold's "Starwolf" books
ragtag group discovers miraculous ship: Blake's 7
scavengers discover last surviving super-ship of once-great government: The "Tuf" stories by George R.R. Martin
Now I have to watch next week to see Hercules try to Captain Kirk his way out of this cliffhanger.
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I actually WAS serious about "Andromeda" being a Star Trek series. It was pitched as the 5th series and rejected.
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. To be honest, the shipping crew's dialogues are less than witty, but the story's pretty good so far.
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