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Kevin Sorbo Remembers Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

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By GustavoLeao / 18:16, 27 November 2008 / General Genre/SciFi

411Mania.com posted a new interview with former Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda star Kevin Sorbo and here are few excerpts.

TONY: Are you surprised that people still talk about Andromeda? I know a lot of people who still talk about the show to this day. It's interesting, because the show is finding new fans every day.

Kevin Sorbo: I can't believe with Andromeda, we finished in December of 2004, so it's coming up on four years when it wrapped up. The Tribune owned it, right there out of your hometown, Chicago there, but The Tribune was unbelievably lazy in promoting the show. Still, it stayed number one in first-run syndication for its entire five-year run, and I think number one it has to do with the crossover fans from Hercules wanted to see what was going on, so they fell for the show, and they liked the characters on the show. And number two, people who were fans of Gene Roddenberry, obviously, and then people who were just fans of sci-fi in general helped keep that show around. But they never, ever promote it. So, I think now, because there's so much product out there and so much stuff out there, and people go to Best Buy and say, 'Oh my gosh, I'd like to see it.' And they watch the first season, and they're hooked. And you're right, I just did a big convention in Atlanta called Dragon Con, and I must have had fifty people a day come up and say, 'I never watched the show when it was on the air, but now I'm hooked on it, and I just got all the DVDs.' It's nice that it keeps finding a life like that, and I think that people that are fans of the genre are always gonna keep finding it through the years to come.

The full interview with Sorbo can be found here.



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By: Bean (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 11:31:16 on Nov 29, 2008

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Kevin Sorbo Remembers Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

At least someone does.

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By: DixonHill (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:20:12 on Nov 28, 2008 | Edit History (1)

Not four but FIVE years. And that's really a shame because it got more seasons than ENT!!! Think of ENT what you want but it was far superior to AND in any way! It was also a waste of potential for it could have been an excellent sixth Star Trek series. That "Fall of the Federation" concept was around during VOY's last seasons. They could have gone for it if AND hadn't wasted it.

And it was also outrageous to call it Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda since Gene had nothing to do with it but creating the name Dylan Hunt! AND and Earth: Final Conflict were lame attempts at further exploiting the genre after Star Trek's success in the 90s. Series like those contributed considerably to the genre's and Trek's downfall in the 2000s.

Nonetheless I own it on DVD since I'm a genre completist!


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RE: A shame... by Bird of Prey 61 @ 14:31:54 on Nov 28

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By: John (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:44:16 on Nov 28, 2008

Mutant X would often beat Andromeda for the #1 sydicated drama when they were both running. Mutant X got treated worse by Tribune than Andromeda did, and MX was a far better show.


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By: Kamen Rider Blade (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:52:43 on Nov 27, 2008

It wasn't that many years ago. ;-)

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By: Capt. Scarlet (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:49:27 on Nov 27, 2008

'I never watched the show when it was on the air, but now I'm hooked on it, and I just got all the DVDs.'

I would like to hear this guy'c comments when he gets a couple of episodes into season v. Four years and I'm still pissed.


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By: FSJGuy (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:52:25 on Nov 27, 2008

Its sad this show had no direction, good premise, decent(if a little low brow) cast, just horrible continuity and questionable FX. I do watch reruns from time to time, but its not a show i'd buy on DVD


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RE: A shame... by John @ 17:58:26 on Nov 28
RE: A shame... by SciFiPulse @ 09:00:48 on Nov 28
    Wolfe and Sorbo by GustavoLeao @ 02:52:36 on Nov 29
RE: A shame... by zak @ 07:16:18 on Nov 28
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