Andromeda and Mutant X Cancelled!
POSTED BY: FahQ
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 05:55
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Heh shooting electric rays reminds me of an old tv show, "Misfits of Science" I think THAT show was better than mutant x, because it didnt treat itself so seriously.
Jack of All Trades is another quirky tv show that I liked watching, what few episodes I did manage to catch. It would be awesome to have Bruce Campbell in a Firefly episode, or the movie. In some ways he (and some of his charactors) reminds me of Mal/Nathan
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Yeah, Andromeda was great the first two seasons. It all kind of fell apart when Trance changed. Was that the season-ender for season 2?
Mutant X was always overly-emotional, underly-meaningful garbage. Umm, hello? The lightning guy can fly by flinging electrical strikes at the ground?? *laughs* Then why isn't he blown off his feet every time he flings them forward? Stupid, stupid stuff. And sappy writing.
I do still watch Andromeda, but I'm looking forward to what comes next to fill either of those slots. Cleo 2525 and Jack of All Trades were both better shows (as comedies) than what Andromeda has turned into and M-X always was.
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I was never able to get into Andromeda, despite the Gene Roddenberry title, and my being a die hard Trek fan... but this is right on the heels of a SLEW of Sci-Fi network ads about running the original seasons, then starting a whole new one... someone's losing a job over THIS, I forsee.
As for Mutant X... I think I accidently watched one episode a year or so back, and, honestly, I first thought the whole thing was a joke. Mutant X--as in, "X-Men?" A band of mutants?
It was unwatchably terrible, poorly written, poorly acted. Another case of a crappy action series relying on T&A to sell itself to the unwashed masses.
Good riddance, I say.
--The Hat
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Sorry for the actors, but as it has been said, this was some of the worst sci-fi on TV in years, and Mutant X was always a poor weak, watered down, mirrored, shadowy copy of the X-Men. Utter tripe. Glad its gone so it makes way for some new ideas, oh whoops, what was I thinking, it makes way for more reality tv, just what we really really need!!!!! 
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... bitter much?
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Actually what happenned on Andromeda was that Kevin Sorbo got the head writer/show runner Robert Hewitt Wolfe fired. The situation came about due to an episode where Harper (a character who is basically Spock and Scotty combined) when back to Earth to liberate and failed. Kevin Sorbo and company also lost the battle in the episode as well. Basically because the good guys didn't win, but lived to fight another day, Kevin Sorbo got the guy fired.
Thats was one of my fav episodes! Thanks for explaning why the plot got screwed up after that.
But I will miss Andromeda, two weeks ago they had a good episode on. I hope they atleast tie the lose ends.
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Bitter about Firefly being cancelled? Yes. Bitter about these shows being given air time in first place? No. They had a shot, and failed as they were crap TV. Just wish they would try more inventive stuff instead of turning handle and bringing out more of the same crap.
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... bitter much?
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The reasons why Andromeda and Mutant X made it as long as they did was because the group(s) behind them kept throwing money at them. Yes, the popularity of the X-Men is what fostered Mutant X.
Andromeda has sucked since the beginning yet had some small potential. Maybe there was a reason why Roddenberry never developed it. It was an incomplete idea when it was rummaged from his files (Garbage can?), as was Earth: Final Conflict.
All 3 shows? Crap. Crap stories, crap acting and crap production. Who gives a damn about Sorbo's ego? That only made it proof positive that you cannot polish a turd.
"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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Why shows like Mutant X adn Andromeda get multiple seaons and Firefly gets canned .....remains a disturbing mystery.
Both Andromeda and Mutant X were in syndication and had no suits at a network waiting in the wings waiting for the ratings to dip. Which explains why Nightman and She Spies are still on the air.
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Actually, the full story of Andromeda was that, to gain the high profile needed to get off the ground, they gave Sorbo the Executive Producer mantle.
If he'd been just the lead actor, it would've been okay; he's actually fairly good in drama if the writing pushes him.
He fired the writing staff (they were "too cerebral" and not "interesting" or "adventurous" enough 
), then got the new writers to reinvent Trance. Rev Bem left 'cause the actor had a makeup allergy, not Sorbo's fault.
Then came the Fall of Tyr Anasazi. First, Sorbo effectively neutered him, reducing the highly-intelligent, treacherous, romantic, brooding anti-hero into a musclebound lapdog. When Tyr was still more popular (with the women's demographic) than ageing Kevin Sorbo, he kicked him off the show. Women still complained, so they brought Tyr back to kill him off in an utterly stupid way (running away, brought up short by a cliff, then shot in the back).
It irks me 'cause the same thing could very well happen to any show --just because they need a big name to get off the ground.
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Jack of All Trades is another quirky tv show that I liked watching, what few episodes I did manage to catch. It would be awesome to have Bruce Campbell in a Firefly episode, or the movie. In some ways he (and some of his charactors) reminds me of Mal/Nathan
Heh.
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All 3 shows? Crap. Crap stories, crap acting and crap production. Who gives a damn about Sorbo's ego? That only made it proof positive that you cannot polish a turd.
I have to second that with a fat poop. They were all unoriginal garbage. Andromeda had it's flirtations with mediocrity, but always slid back down the toilet bowl.
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