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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A bit of an odd approach to say that a show that 99% of people don’t exists should be Gene’s legacy.

While it was not the masterpiece that Cleopatra 2525 was, the first season is kind of a look at some interesting ideas. It was written, developed, and produced by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, who had been a writer on Deep Space 9 for five years. I’m not going to say that first season is as good, but it is interesting looking at Roddenberry’s unfinished notes filtered through the sensibilities of a DS9 writer. Once Wolfe got pushed out by Sorbo and the network executives the show turned into the dumpster fire that it is known as, at least among the people who know it exists in the first place.

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gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I liked it in the beginning, and had a crush on Wolfe back in the day. He was a cutie.

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- setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you mean Woolvett? Wolfe was the writer/producer.
  
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  - gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    lol, yes I did
    
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Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Cleopatra 2525

I was around in 2000s and never heard of this. I blame society.

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- Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No one’s fault but your own for being 5 centuries early.
  
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- weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Dude, it was awesome at the time. Terrible and awesome.
  
  I’m afraid to watch it now and ruin the memory.
  
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  - Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Cryogenically frozen after a boob job may be the most underused trope of the 1990s.
    
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- HairHeel@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They did this weird thing where they interspersed an episode of that with an episode of Jack of All Trades, IIRC.
  
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  - Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Jack of All Trades,
    
    Had to look that up. Bruce Campbell as a spy/superhero? How could I have missed that one?
    
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I actually liked Andromeda, although a lot of the acting was just terrible. But I always enjoy Lexa Doig and Gordon Michael Woolvett as Seamus was fun.

But my god, the smugness just pours off of Kevin Sorbo.

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Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t remember much about the show, but I do remember there was a distinct tone shift in, I want to say, season 2 that made me go from “skeptical but willing” to “WTF is this bullshit?”

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- setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s the moment. When the supporting alien character turns from purple to gold is pretty much when Wolfe left the show.
  
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Zellith@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This explains a lot. I wondered why it went from watchable to I wonder what else is onable.

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