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In the off chance that anyone still watches Andromeda, I've got a question for ya. I recently saw an episode of season... what, four now? The current season, anyway. And Steve Bacic was on and had reprised his role as Telemachus Rhade. I thought he was just guest-starring, but it looks like from a fan site, the official site, and the IMDb that Bacic is now a series regular.
My question is how did this happen, story-wise? Last time T. Rhade was seen, he was the admiral in charge of the Home Guard on Tarazed. Now, he seems like he's Hunt's second-in-command. How did the chief of a military organization get demoted to working under Dylan Hunt? Or was this a case where there was no explanation for his sudden reappearance?
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Yes, T. Rhade has now joined the Andromeda cast. And T. Anasazi is gone. There is an explanation (by way of a barely-coherent two-part episode) for the change.
I know this because I've had to listen to the rantings of my sister, who until the last season finale had been a die-hard Andromeda fan, has now completely given up on the show. Seeing as how she continued to enjoy the series after the dreadful "Ouroboros" and the conversion of the show into Kevin Sorbo's Andromeda, I think it's sufficient to say that the show has discovered new depths of horrible storytelling.
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Tyr is dead, shot in the back by Captain Hunt himself. This comes supposedly after it's revealed that Tyr had been Plotting To Betray The Crew� from Day One.
What else... oh yeah, Trance has been revealed as an "Avatar of the Sun" or some bull like that. The name has the ring of Wolfe's touch to it, but the idea that she killed the entire Andromeda crew while they had traveled into the Spirit of the Abyss's universe and recreated them in our own universe (to help them escape) is one of the biggest lines of bullshit I've ever heard.
Oh, I'm told that Hunt has finally gone ahead and all but said "screw you" to the Commonwealth, as Sorbo said he wanted two years ago. The entire series is now an even more rotten corpse than Earth: Final Conflict was.... and that's pretty scary.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Yes, T. Rhade has now joined the Andromeda cast. And T. Anasazi is gone. There is an explanation (by way of a barely-coherent two-part episode) for the change.
Yeah, I understood that Keith Hamilton Cobb (or whatever his name is) was leaving the show, but I didn't know that he was going to be killed off a few episodes into the season. Doesn't that kinda screw up his whole storyline with his son being the Neitzchean savior? Good lord. That reminds me: I didn't like how he was written off as a regular character, either.
quote:What else... oh yeah, Trance has been revealed as an "Avatar of the Sun" or some bull like that. The name has the ring of Wolfe's touch to it, but the idea that she killed the entire Andromeda crew while they had traveled into the Spirit of the Abyss's universe and recreated them in our own universe (to help them escape) is one of the biggest lines of bullshit I've ever heard.
This alone makes me glad that I drifted away from Andromeda in the last season. I don't think I can put into words how ridiculous this sounds.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: The entire series is now an even more rotten corpse than Earth: Final Conflict was.... and that's pretty scary.
You take that back! Nothing could possibly be worse than E:FC Season 5!
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I am SO glad I haven't been watchign this season of Andromeda.
Okay, i lied. I watched the last half of the episode where Tyr died. And then I had to clean up the vomit. This show is not less sensical, less plotted, and less acted than any other sci-fi show I once followed.
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Earth final conflict had five seasons? I thought they packed it in after number four.
As for Andromeda, I stopped wating it round after the season finale that featured some huge Magog world ship. I've caught two or three episodes since then and none of them made a great deal of sense. Infact I barely recognised the show since everyone's hairstyle and constume seamed to change every five seconds. Where did the hairy bloke with the claws disappear to anyway?
Majel Barrett needs to buy herself a set of tighter reins and a big scary stick.
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People need to stop watching bad television shows.
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The guy who played the fuzzy batfaced guy, Rev Bem, left the show because he had reactions to the makeup. He came back for a show somewhere in the third season where he got transmorgified or something into a more human-looking batfaced guy, thereby allowing to come back if need be. Has he?
The guy who played Tyr left the show basically because he hated it and was bored of being reduced to a two-dimensional yes man for Herc. I think it started when he made the writers remove his Nietzchean arm spurs because he hated wearing them.
Most importantly, is that the original writers of the show, including its creator, were all systematically fired or otherwise removed from the show. It was downhill form the middle of the second season, really. I've only watch the half of the episode I mentioned, and snipets on occasion, but it no longer has the ability to hold my interest. Good riddance after its (apparently confirmed) fifth season, I say.
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My goodness, they're doing a fifth season? What moron greenlighted THAT?
I've seen a few episodes since Oroborus. More than a few, really, but not anywhere near what I watched before that. Actually, I thought the way they wrote Tyr off was at least decent, though killing him was stupid. Glad I missed it.
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