Please don't let this be Gene's legacy.

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• negativenull@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like Firefly, but ruined by Kevin Sorbo (fuck that washed up POS)

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • knotthatone@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only thing I like that involves him is that Lucy Lawless calls him “peanut”.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why? He looks like one, but why?

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    • negativenull@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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      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.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because he is a complete loony extreme right-wing intolerant christian fanatic POS.

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    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read his tweets: he's a bigot, Bible-thumping, anti-trans & anti-gay, Christofacist, Trump dick-rider, MAGA retard.

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    • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He got political, so if your against his politics you hate him because no one separates the art from the artist anymore.

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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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  • 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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    • 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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  • 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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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  #notmyHercules

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DISAPPOINTED!

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  • Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn right!

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good looks outside can’t mask the ugly person inside, that is Kevin Sorbo.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly? I think he’s ugly.

    I think he thinks he’s beautiful.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I so enjoyed his appearance in God of War III!

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• plantedworld@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Andromeda ship was such a cool design, one of my favorites.

  And I remember really enjoying season 1 of Andromeda in college, while also recognizing that it wasn’t really a “good” show

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• DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He was like the third Dylan Hunt in Gene’s Book?

  But damn was it fun but also confusing. Especially in the later seasons with the Sun’s Avatar.

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  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the Dylan Hunt casting had a downward trend.

    Alex Cord in ‘Genesis II’ >> John Saxon in ‘Planet Earth’ >>>>>>>>>>> Kevin Sorbo in ‘Andromeda’

    Although all the blond women leads - Mariette Hartley; Diana Muldaur and Lisa Ryder respectively - were all better actors than the content they were given to work with.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I had to pick a Dylan Hunt, I’d pick John Saxon. But then I like John Saxon a lot. And Diana Muldaur.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  She is hotter tho

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  • tastysnacks@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So hot that I watch the lifetime channel.

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  • Fades@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Part of why I loved every episode of Stargate she was in, smokin!

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    • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always preferred Claudia Black. She had that twinkle in her eye.

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know, she doesn’t have that same “let me talk to your manager right now or I’ll throw this burrito at you” look.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s why I recognize the name! 🤦‍♂️

  I keep seeing “Andromeda” pop up as a movie and thinking “I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that” but then don’t recognize the description. Because I remember this show, not that movie!

  I gotta find this shit and watch it again. I haven’t seen it since it was new.

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