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

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How have I never seen Xena destroying Hercules. Can you post a link to this greatness?

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/lucy-lawless-kevin-sorbo-twitter.html
https://www.newsweek.com/lucy-lawless-kevin-sorbo-twitter-feud-xena-hercules-1559930
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/01/lucy-lawless-kevin-sorbo-trump

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

As far as I’m concerned, being called “boy Xena” is an enormous compliment, and Sorbo is far from worthy.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Man Kevin Sorbo is such a fucking douche. That was great, thanks for the entertainment!

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

And

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 and replaced by episodic 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. Sorbo isn't exactly an innocent actor caught up in show with a management dispute, since he was the one who ended up getting Wolfe's job.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 46 points 11 months ago

To be fair to Kevin Sorbo, he did tank Kevin Sorbo's career. So he's not all bad.

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

Thank you, that explains a lot.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Because he is a complete loony extreme right-wing intolerant christian fanatic POS.
I used to like Andromeda, but now I can't stand the sight of him as Dylan Hunt.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I dunno. Those may not be completely airbrushed in, but there's certainly some contouring going on.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah you're right. Even in his prime he doesn't had muscles on his muscles like a real demi-god.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Much like that "last man standing" guy

[–] HeChomk@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Dylan Hunt... Sounds like cockney rhyming slang... And it's so appropriate.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Which has been are we talking about? I got distracted looking at pics of the actresses.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Sorry, not sure why Kbin didn't correctly attribute the proper thread. I was referring to Sorbo.

[+] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world -18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

He got political, so if your against his politics you hate him because no one separates the art from the artist anymore. He was never really much more than a B list TV actor anyway so most people just don't even care.

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 13 points 11 months ago

It's completely ok to say "I really liked the thing, but I just can't watch it because I can only see the actor behind the character". If I found out someone punched puppies in their spare time, I would find it really hard to enjoy the things they are in. I don't think it has to be any different with an actor who's political stance you are vehemently against.

Risa