Nicola Mody-Nikoloff wrote:
I love Farscape too, maybe for the same reasons (never thought about it before) - great characters, humour, plots, conflict. And they have really inventive aliens - no 'facial bump of the week' like is Star Trek.
I've only started watching it since they've been re-running it from the beginning on the Sci-Fi Channel, but I fell absolutely in love with it very quickly.
Lexx I didn't fancy and never watched.
It's *definitely* not for everybody. And unfortunately, it's very uneven. At its best it's brilliantly satirical dark humor, but at its worst, it's just... embarrassing.
However, I have a question: What is Andromeda? Up till now I never heard of it; it sounds interesting. No one-eyed maniacs in it, are there? :-)
Its full name is _Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda_ because apparently it was developed from an idea found in Roddenberry's desk or something. :) Don't let that keep you from giving it a chance, though, as it's not exactly another Trek clone. I actually like to think of it as being about a Star Trek character who suddenly finds himself in a B7 universe. The basic premise is that starship captain Dylan Hunt and his ship, the _Andromeda Ascendent_, are trapped in a black hole for 300 years, and when they come out, their happy, Trekkish, Galactic Commonwealth has fallen (quite violently), and the galaxy is now a dark, chaotic, generally very unhappy place. Dylan takes it upon himself to single-handedly bring back the Good Old Days by rebuilding the Commonwealth. This is widely regarded as insane. (It really *is* Blake's mission in reverse!) He joins up with a smuggler and her crew, and with Mr. Sarcastic Bastard, a mercenary who does very much have his own agenda. There's not quite as much bickering as on B7, or for that matter _Farscape_, but the characters *definitely* experience strong differences of opinion.
There are, however, no one-eyed maniacs.