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Please, Mike, you must explain to me what a "re-re" is.
In the article, Kevin Sorbo really does come off as, well, a jerk. I would say that he's relishing the idea of changing Andromeda to fit his vision, but I've never read any other interviews of him. He may just be one of those individuals who isn't really tactful.
I also find it disappointing that Lexa Doig says she was bored during season two. She had a couple good episodes that really expanded on her characters -- "All Too Human" and "The Knight, Death and the Devil." She also had some excellent parts in "The Widening Gyre," "Bunker Hill," and "Belly of the Beast." I'm also wary of this attitude of "be mocked or mock ourselves." What's up with that?
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a 're-re' is short for retard. take the first syllable and say it twice. synonomous with 'mo-mo' except i have no idea where that term comes from.
but rest assured, Sorbo is a dick and both a re-re and a mo-mo.
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I was inspired by the previous comments to go and find some of the classic Sorbo commentary about "Andromeda" from SlipstreamWeb. I think the quotes speak for themselves...
quote:The producer thinks that Andromeda is exactly what viewers want to see on television. "People want escapism," he said. "They want to see the good guy beat the bad guy. We want to see triumphs that are good over evil, not see people talk about, 'Oh, she's such a bitch.' Oh god, so boring. It's amazing to me, Temptation Island III, whatever." Published November 28, 2001 - http://www.slipstreamnews.com/news/281101_02.shtml
quote:In a short news item, Sorbo confirmed the reasons for the split. "Robert is a genius, but was developing stories that were too complicated and too clever for the rest of us to understand," he told the magazine. Published November 23, 2001 - http://www.slipstreamnews.com/news/231101_01.shtml
quote:"I'm not a good writer, but I certainly can look at a script and say, 'This doesn't make any sense,' ... I don't like treating the audience like they're idiots and I get tired of the fact, especially in television writing - well, it's movies too - that you have to point arrows. If I'm walking down the street, why do I have to say I'm walking down the street? They can see me walking." Published December 22, 2001 - http://www.slipstreamnews.com/news/221201_01.shtml
quote:Asked to pick his favourite episode, Sorbo selected 'Ouroboros,' which aired late last month. "'Ouroboros' is probably my favourite episode of the year," he said (via AndromedaTV.com). "I have a few other favourites, but this was probably one of the funnest episodes we did all year. It's got not only a lot of action in it, because this one moves non-stop from the beginning to the end, but there's a huge transformation for one of our characters - Trance. [...] Very very fast-paced and high-energy episode." Published February 23, 2002 - http://www.slipstreamnews.com/news/230202_03.shtml
quote:The show is going from strength to strength with changes bought in for season three. "We're going to get away from the Commonwealth," the actor explained. "We've kind of said, 'The hell with it.' Dylan's got to come to the point where he realises that he can't save the universe on his own by restoring it to where it was, with a million member worlds. So he pretty much decides that, 'You know what? We've got this ship and a pretty good crew. Let's just go out there and help people who need our help.'"
In the words of one Andromeda character, this guy is a freaking genius!
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Bizarre. :-/
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use of the word 'funnest'
-10 points.
basically he's dumbing down the series because he couldn't understand it, the casualties being any intelligent writers that happened to be in his way, and of course the late Roddenberry's good name.
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The season two finale had previously gotten the series' lowest ever first-run Nielsen rating, a 2.4. But the season three premiere managed to beat that record, coming in at only a 2.0. And that rating is simply pitiful compared to the season two premiere, which scored a 3.2 rating.
It seems that "Andromeda" is no longer the "number one action hour." And if the viewers continue to turn the show off like rats deserting a sinking ship, maybe the executives will realize what a gigantic mistake they made.
But then again, maybe not... At any rate, the thing I would like most at this point is to read about Mr. Sorbo receiving his pink slip. Not likely, but it would still be nice.
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Then we'd have TYR running around the universe in a hot spaceship, using his mighty powers of angst to save his own skin week after week. He'd kill Harper and Trance for being too annoying an needlessly mysterious (respectfully), and keep Beka around for fleshy pleasures and general kickassery. I'm down with that.
More seriously, it seems that th egeneral audience really DON'T like the latest round of changes. So much for the built-in audience of Hercules... And the disturbingly optimistic posters of the Slipstream forums aside, there is basically NOWHERE left that generally posts positive about Andromeda anymore, so...
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I've often wondered how Christian, Lisa, and Caillan have managed to diligently keep up with the reports at SlipstreamNews after a whole year of discouraging news. I keep expecting Christian to give up on SlipstreamNews (though he'd probably keep the disturbingly optimistic and exuberant board active as a courtesy to the many members).
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I'm waiting on that too. But I'm still more perturbed by some of the posters - I'm wondering if some of the posters are on the Tribune payroll... Like that Slipfighter guy! Geez, is there anything about this current season that he DOESN'T like the tiniest bit?!
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Actually, I've been lurking on Slipstream for quite a while and things have changed quite a bit. It was like a freaking love-in in most of first season, but now they have a comfortably large group of Sorbo-haters, Tribune bashers, and cynics... Yes, they still have a few outspoken oddities, but the numbers are not too unlike whats happening with Star Trek fans and Voyager lovers.
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