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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: SciFiPulse (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:00:48 on Nov 28, 2008

They totally screwed the pooch on this show when they made Sorbo a producer, and let him have enough controll and clout to enable him to get rid of RHW. I stopped watching when they fired wolf and judging by the odd later episode have seen since in re runs. Was right to do so.

Oh and whoever told Sorbo he could act should be strung up by their testicles and left along to die a slow painful death.

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Wolfe and Sorbo by GustavoLeao @ 02:52:36 on Nov 29

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By: John (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:58:26 on Nov 28, 2008

Earth Final Conflict was even worse. Fantastic idea that just got really lost and wasn't even the same show by the end.

Andromeda's final season was just tacked on, and I consider the final season 4 episode a far better ending.

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By: zak (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:16:18 on Nov 28, 2008

I have to agree totally. I've watched it many times, but I never thought it was particularly good, interesting or involving. It had a good premise, the acting was fine to OK, the tech part was all excellent... but, the stories were just nowhere. I never felt there was much continuity even to single episodes. Things would happen just sort of out there without much sense or whatever. The series never seemed to have any direction behind it and the individual episodes that made it up were largely bizarre rambling and often non-sensical mixtures of moments that might have some emotional content but never even seemed to fit together.Sorbo was great in Hercules, but I think he was unbelievably lucky that Andromeda even made it somehow through four (very boring) years. I doubt I could even relate what any one episode of that series was about. But, I will say this much: the stories might have been a mess, but it was ALWAYS pretty to watch. Great beautiful sets and great tech motions everywhere. One could always see beautiful images everywhere either of great ships. or whole galaxies spinning out of control or at least things of that sort. But, any sense to any of it. No, of course not. The writers never seemed to care as long as it had pretty scenes and great graphics. As for its being number one in the Syndi market, I find that hard to believe unless he's talkinjg about some one isolated market and as for finding new viewers - Hmm. Well, did they somehow reedit the series so it made sense?

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