• SSTF@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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      Cleopatra 2525

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

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        Dude, it was awesome at the time. Terrible and awesome.

        I’m afraid to watch it now and ruin the memory.

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          Cryogenically frozen after a boob job may be the most underused trope of the 1990s.

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        11 months ago

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

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          Jack of All Trades,

          Had to look that up. Bruce Campbell as a spy/superhero? How could I have missed that one?

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      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.

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      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?”

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        That’s the moment. When the supporting alien character turns from purple to gold is pretty much when Wolfe left the show.

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