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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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    By: Bird of Prey 61 (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:31:54 on Nov 28, 2008

    Fully agree with the waste that became Andromeda. At least through most of the second season there was some sort of guiding hand with RHW and moving towards a conclusion. After his influence was gone once he was shown the door, the show became unwatchable, and I didn't care any more.

    You could say Andromeda was the fourth pilot for Genesis II, Dylan Hunt and the "300 year freeze" came from that movie and its subsequent pilots "Planet Earth" and "Strange New World".

    There are so many creative people out there with ideas, how come we have to settle for some of the trash that graces our airwaves/cable?


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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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    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: 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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      By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 02:52:36 on Nov 29, 2008

      I agree. The first season, with Robert Wolfe as a writer/producer, was the best season and have good episodes. When they fired Wolfe in the second season and Sorbo took over as a producer, the show went downhill from there. A shame indeed,since the premise of the "Fall of the Federation" was so exciting and the characters were interesting.

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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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