People only remember (if they remember this show) how incredibly schlocky and terrible this show became. Granted, it had more seasons being a trainwreck than being watchable.
The TLDR of the production is that a regular writer on Star Trek Deep Space 9 was made the producer of Andromeda at the start. He wanted to create something alternative to Star Trek, but that, budget permitting, was as good. There were tussles behind the scenes for control between him, and the executives & Kevin Sorbo who wanted the show to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
Eventually during season 2, the TV executives were brave enough to ask the question “What if we fired this experienced writer and put Kevin Sorbo in charge?”. The rest is history.
That all aside, the early stories in Andromeda showed a kind of interesting puesdo-Trek universe that had fallen into piracy and disorder, but the show was still optimistic that the spark of the old civilization could be rebuilt.
I await your jeers.
I almost started this on Amazon the other day because it's one of the few sci-fi series I've never seen, but I just can't stomach Sorbo so I started rewatching Lexx instead.
Lexx is wild. I watched it originally on a pay tv channel that had cut the episodes up into ~25 minute blocks.
I first dropped into late season 2 and occasionally I’d miss an episode.
So, combined with the weird cutting, the no context and the standard Lexx craziness, I had NO idea what was happening. The whole thing was a fever dream. Highly recommend!
I actually think it’s was the best way to watch it first go round! Then, when I came back and do the whole series in order and it was almost as much of a surprise.
I caught it first on nflix and then bought the seasons on google play and of course now they're free with ads on youtube and for some reason even logged in it makes me watch ads...
It's hard to imagine how that show would have flowed broken into 25m segments. It's weird enough as-produced.