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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

A bit of an odd approach to say that a show that 99% of people don't know exists shouldn't be Gene's legacy. Seems like it's just more likely to make people know about. A Space Streisand effect.

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 as DS9, 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 scummy maneuvering, 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.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I liked it in the beginning, and had a crush on ~~Wolfe~~ edit: Woolvett back in the day. He was a cutie.

Sorbo ruined it.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean Woolvett? Wolfe was the writer/producer.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

lol, yes I did

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cleopatra 2525

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

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

No one's fault but your own for being 5 centuries early.

[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They did this weird thing where they interspersed an episode of that with an episode of Jack of All Trades, IIRC.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 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?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 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?"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 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.

[–] Zellith@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

This explains a lot. I wondered why it went from watchable to I wonder what else is onable.