• @Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24•1 year ago

        Because he is a complete loony extreme right-wing intolerant christian fanatic POS.
        I used to like Andromeda, but now I can’t stand the sight of him as Dylan Hunt.

      • @negativenull@startrek.websiteEnglish
        42•1 year ago

        He is nothing but a Trump Christofascist troll on Twitter. Nobody will touch him (other than Left Behind/God’s Not Dead series). The only value he has is getting entertainingly owned by Lucy Lawless.

      • SSTFEnglish
        41•1 year ago

        Regarding just Andromeda, I’m going to clip some text from wikipedia.

        Controversy erupted in the midst of the second season, when series developer and executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe announced he had been released from the show’s production […] The reason for the change was purportedly to make the show more episodic and open to casual viewing.

        And

        In discussion on his website’s forums and various interviews, Wolfe has elaborated that he was released from the production staff after he refused to shift the show’s focus more heavily onto Kevin Sorbo’s character, Dylan Hunt, by essentially making all of the show’s episodes as Hunt-centric.

        After that Sorbo become an executive producer on the show. The longer running plots set up by Wolfe were dropped and replaced by episodic low brow Hercules In Space stories. Looking at the quoted text above, it’s clear that’s exactly what the network wanted. Louder, dumber, and cheaper content to fill afternoon rerun time slots. Sorbo isn’t exactly an innocent actor caught up in show with a management dispute, since he was the one who ended up getting Wolfe’s job.

      • @Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -22•1 year ago

        He got political, so if your against his politics you hate him because no one separates the art from the artist anymore. He was never really much more than a B list TV actor anyway so most people just don’t even care.

        • @ringwraithfish@startrek.websiteEnglish
          16•1 year ago

          It’s completely ok to say “I really liked the thing, but I just can’t watch it because I can only see the actor behind the character”. If I found out someone punched puppies in their spare time, I would find it really hard to enjoy the things they are in. I don’t think it has to be any different with an actor who’s political stance you are vehemently against.

          • Flying SquidOPEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Honestly, the only reason I watched it despite knowing about Sorbo is that he’s just so damn goofy that I can’t take him seriously. It’s not like he actually can affect anything. Mostly he just makes shitty Christian movies. I don’t know, it somehow feels different from Kirk Cameron. Cameron feels like he’s preying on people. Sorbo just sounds like a doofus. He’s like the MyPillow guy of actors.

  • SSTFEnglish
    36•1 year 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.

    • gregorumEnglish
      11•1 year 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.

    • Flying SquidOPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      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.

    • KichaeEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      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?”

      • SSTFEnglish
        4•1 year ago

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

  • @plantedworld@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    The Andromeda ship was such a cool design, one of my favorites.

    And I remember really enjoying season 1 of Andromeda in college, while also recognizing that it wasn’t really a “good” show