#rewatch andromeda

Ep 1: Into the Night This aired 25 years ago, which is hard for my mind to grasp 😝  But watching old scifi is so fun, they tried hard with the effects and monsters, and it's not bad, but it's not like it is today.  Let's see how this season holds up.  (The final season is pretty bad, and when I was going through the DVDs we had purchased, I let go seasons 2 and 3 of Andromeda, and only kept 1.  Although I'm watching it on Peacock because who wants to deal with the DVD player)

I love Harper so much.  😍  Rev Bem, Trance, Rommie, Beka and Tyr. - the originals.

I do appreciate little things, like Harper suffering from some sort of measles which Rommie said was eradicated decades before, Tyr came out of a pod and starts as a gun-for-hire, I mean why not. 

Ep 22: It's Hour Come Round At Last Harper reactivates an old AI personality that doesn't know any of the crew.  And they are attacked by the Magog.  Harper has serious PTSD about Magog attacks and is alone.

The writing isn't great because the old Rommie personality was told they it's been 300 years, but yet she ignores Trance on where to fly because her records don't show that.  Of course they don't because she doesn't have the records of the last 300 years. 

I do enjoy the Harper and Tyr scene, who is always tough love with Harper, but it's nice to see Tyr giving Harper the support he needs to control his fear so he can work on restoring Rommie.   Then they stand side by side to fight, although Harper needs a push because of his previous run-ins with them.  He he does start to fight.  And Tyr continues to push him forward and they end up going down together.

The season ends on a huge bummer.  Eveyone is passed out, Andromeda has a huge hole in the ship.  Back when they really leaned into the cliffhangers and we'd have to wait 5 plus months.  😂

Ep 20: Star Crossed

Ep 21: It Makes a Lovely Night The crew surprises Dylan with a party using a reactor meltdown warning and then put 300 plus candles on the cake.  😂

It's really odd to see Beka want to try and get to TarnVedra under the guise of Dylan getting home in order to get to an arms cache.  Why does she want the weapons?  If it was to arm Andromeda, there wouldn't be secrecy.  And her obsession seems to have come out of nowhere.  Her recklessness is off-brand for being this late in the season.

I get that Beka takes the drugs once they are stuck and Trance is ill... but I think Beka was on that route anyway.  

Ep 19: The Honey Offering The queen aka assassin Elsbeth is so Nietzschean, or what we've come to expect from Nietzscheans. It's one of the best entrances of any character on the show, especially the way she assumes Tyr is the captain of the ship.

It's a little weird that Dylan decided to bang her after she lies, ruined the Mauru, almost killed them, handcuffed him.  It's just not a nice way to start things  Sheesh.

Side note - Keith Hamilton Cobb is a beautiful man.  😍

Fave dialog Trance: ... you doesn't like flowers.

Ep 16: A Sum of it's Parts Oooooh it's kind of like the Borg, this computer thing wants to assimilate with the Andromeda.

Ep 17: Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way No idea what happened here, but eh, moving on.

Ep 18: The Devil Take the Hindmost I understand the leader of this colony doesn't want their people to kill anyone, because the people have genetic memory.  They remember everything of their ancestors - but I'm not sure how that could work. How does the human mind grow to hold all the info?  I suppose that's what makes them genetically different.

I get that the monk believes in The Way, but my goodness, not sure why he thought speaking into the darkness in the middle of a firefight was going to change anything.

The genetic memory is an interesting idea, kind of like past lives.  You have to wonder how many people are their own person and not so many pieces of the family members that came before.

Then a young lady implanted herself with Magog eggs  because she coudl pass along her memories and now those Magog would... be... good.  Uh.  She's gonna be dead.   And why do the Magog grow so quickly?  Like, a day they are teenagers.

Ep 15:  Forced Perspective Dylan is kidnapped and tortured for something he did 300+ years before, even before Rhade was his First Officer, for a special mission about extracting a dictator type person.  This is also how he meets Rhade and while Dylan wants a peaceful extraction, Rhade doesn't care as long as the objective is accomplished.

Meanwhile Beka and Tyr are on the Andromeda alone (not sure why Rommie hasn't appeared) they are working out, having philosophical conversations and then Tyr cooks for Beka - there are undertones between them but 😖  In the end, Beka brushes him off because he admits that there's no point in inter-species mating and she's insulted on behalf of human women 😂

Ep 13: Music of a Distinct Drum I had to fix an issue for my parents so I wasn't fully paying attention which sucks but I like Tyr.  Which is a shame since it was a Tyr centric episode.  They continue to soften his Nietzschean edges.

Ep 14:  Harper 2.0 If someone asked me what Rommie wore (ie the color etc) I would have said maroon and gold and it stayed the same.  And I would've been so wrong because that is the AI in the ship, not the avatar because the avatar keeps changing clothes, which I don't recall at all.

Ooooh a Harper ep where a dying librarian forces a download onto Harper through his port to protect the data the bad guys are looking for.  It's like Harper is on speed, very focused on fixing the ship, using the knowledge inside his head without knowing it's there for a time.

A weird 'direction' choice is when Rev Bem comes to see Harper, and Harper reacts in horror and fear - Rev Bem should have backed away, instead he kept coming which is inconsiderate.  Something I'd think Rev Bem would be aware of but instead he comes back and tries to talk to Harper.  It's ridiculous.  (I mean, they work through it but it's not the time to reconcile Harper's fear when it's not really his)

I am still tickled at the way Beka turns and gently pushes Harper toward Tyr who puts him over his shoulder and walks off.  Trance's mysterious origins are hinted at again because Harper speaks in some kind of language and Trance understands him but makes it seem like she doesn't.

Ep 10, Ep11:  Oops I was multitasking.

Ep 12: The Mathematics of Tears Man, what crawled up Dylan's ass, he is super cranky.  And to connect his frustration with the current crew, about how they don't follow protocol or ask permission, he's handed a ship, full of crew that are picture perfect soldiers and follow all the rules.

dun dun dun, the very affected woman is the AI who killed the whole crew.  

They keep finding old High Guard ships, as though no one else was looking for 200 years.  It's nice that they had a throw away line about perhaps not approaching old High Guard ships.