What's next for scif on TV?
POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Thursday, April 21, 2005 20:40
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ps iI know that this has something to do with the subject but I thought that I woud let you know
P.s.s I looked at the list none of them sounded good to me
men are in lust women are in passion
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Quote:Actually it was Majel (his widow) who did most of the "getting the ball rolling" on Andromeda. Which, in that particular case, consisted of turning it over to Robert Hewitt Wolfe (one of the few true artistic geniuses in TV sci-fi, IMHO) and letting him have at hit. He brought on Ethlie Ann Vare and "Zack and Silent Ash." They created the premise, the characters (aside from Dylan, who was a Roddenberry original), and the first season. By that point, it was more RHW than Roddenberry.
Originally posted by leelu777:
like ANDROMEDA ,gean rodenberry after he died the project was given to his son (by the way has no idea how to recreate a show)
Then the producers fired RHW (from his own show). Then they took out Ethlie, then Zack & Silent Ash. Apparently the show was too high-brow and serial. They wanted something flashy and episodic.
Quote:HEY NOW!!
it was given bad writers (ever minute is a very bad no horrible joke)and typical captin always sleeps with the main female guest star and says the most corniest lines at the end of the show and the most steriotypical characters like harper (over actor)
Harper (a.k.a. Wash on pixie-sticks and espresso) was one of the bright points on the show, right up to late S3. Of course he's over-the-top; he's a savant/genius, in addition to being a refugee from Earth (which might as well be Hell in the Andromeverse). He's also the closest to a pure-blood human on the show. He's the "normal guy" who didn't sign on for anything resembling Dylan's insane quest (he's just there 'cause Andromeda's got the most advanced tech in the known worlds, and he's in lust with the ship's AI).
It's the new writers who don't/didn't know what to do with him and turned him into "Iolaus." Before that, he was like our Xander.
He's also delivered some of the best, most Whedonesque lines in the series:
"Trust in the Harper, the Harper is good."
"Call me the Love God, Baby!"
"Allow me to introduce myself; Seamus Zelazny Harper, Super Genius!"
"We came, we saw, we got spanked."
"I want my Rommie!!"
"I'm sorry, Dylan can't take your call right now. Please leave a message after the beep from the funny little guy. Beeeep."
ROMMIE: Did you just proposition me in a dead language?
HARPER: It ain't dead the way I speak it, baby.
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A terrific shame. That show might have really gone somewhere, dong wa?
FOX ain't the only black hole of intelegence.
Former Andy fan Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Harper (a.k.a. Wash on pixie-sticks and espresso) was one of the bright points on the show,
He's also delivered some of the best, most Whedonesque lines in the series
He also - *gasp* - used the word "shiny'" in a very Whedonesque, pre-Firefly way. Don't ask about the "Crazy Ivan" the crew pulled once - shudder!
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Quote:True, not quite as cool as Serenity's, but I did like Dylan's description of it.
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Don't ask about the "Crazy Ivan" the crew pulled once - shudder!
DYLAN: I want this ship bucking like a drunken Vedran with a Nightsider on her back.
BEKA: Sounds like my last date.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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