The only thing I like that involves him is that Lucy Lawless calls him “peanut”.
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negativenull@startrek.website 9 months ago
Like Firefly, but ruined by Kevin Sorbo (fuck that washed up POS)
magnetosphere@kbin.social 9 months ago
abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Why? He looks like one, but why?
negativenull@startrek.website 9 months ago
He is nothing but a Trump Christofascist troll on Twitter. Nobody will touch him (other than Left Behind/God’s Not Dead series). The only value he has is getting entertainingly owned by Lucy Lawless.
Riccosuave@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How have I never seen Xena destroying Hercules. Can you post a link to this greatness?
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Regarding just Andromeda, I’m going to clip some text from wikipedia.
Controversy erupted in the midst of the second season, when series developer and executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe announced he had been released from the show’s production […] The reason for the change was purportedly to make the show more episodic and open to casual viewing.
And
In discussion on his website’s forums and various interviews, Wolfe has elaborated that he was released from the production staff after he refused to shift the show’s focus more heavily onto Kevin Sorbo’s character, Dylan Hunt, by essentially making all of the show’s episodes as Hunt-centric.
After that Sorbo become an executive producer on the show. The longer running plots set up by Wolfe were dropped in favor episodic of low brow Hercules In Space stories. Looking at the quoted text above, it’s clear that’s exactly what the network wanted. Louder, dumber, and cheaper content to fill afternoon rerun time slots.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 months ago
To be fair to Kevin Sorbo, he did tank Kevin Sorbo's career. So he's not all bad.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thank you, that explains a lot.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because he is a complete loony extreme right-wing intolerant christian fanatic POS.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 9 months ago
I dunno. Those may not be completely airbrushed in, but there’s certainly some contouring going on.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Much like that “last man standing” guy
HeChomk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Dylan Hunt… Sounds like cockney rhyming slang… And it’s so appropriate.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 9 months ago
Read his tweets: he's a bigot, Bible-thumping, anti-trans & anti-gay, Christofacist, Trump dick-rider, MAGA retard.
harry_balzac@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which has been are we talking about? I got distracted looking at pics of the actresses.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 9 months ago
Sorry, not sure why Kbin didn't correctly attribute the proper thread. I was referring to Sorbo.
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He got political, so if your against his politics you hate him because no one separates the art from the artist anymore.
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 9 months ago
It’s completely ok to say “I really liked the thing, but I just can’t watch it because I can only see the actor behind the character”. If I found out someone punched puppies in their spare time, I would find it really hard to enjoy the things they are in. I don’t think it has to be any different with an actor who’s political stance you are vehemently against.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Honestly, the only reason I watched it despite knowing about Sorbo is that he’s just so damn goofy that I can’t take him seriously. It’s not like he actually can affect anything. Mostly he just makes shitty Christian movies. I don’t know, it somehow feels different from Kirk Cameron. Cameron feels like he’s preying on people. Sorbo just sounds like a doofus.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
I don’t like Sorbo either but him being present in the thing doesn’t make the thing bad.
Hercules is still a good show, despite his Tweets.
knotthatone@lemmy.one 9 months ago
The original showrunner eventually posted how he intended the story to go. It’s a fun quick read about the better show that never got made:
www.cyberspace5.net/agentrichard07/coda.htm
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Thanks for the info.
I remember the show getting worse with time, but I wasn’t enough of a fan to seek out the gossip.