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Andromeda And Mutant X Cancelled
dmehus writes "Science fiction fans may be dismayed to learn that "Mutant X" and "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda" have been cancelled, despite the fact "Andromeda" had been cleared for a final season beginning in the fall. That prospect seems highly unlikely as the show's producer, Fireworks Entertainment, is shutting its doors for good and owner CanWest Global Communications (which also owns canada.com, the National Post, Global Television, and a bunch of other media assets) announced it will take a $159 million writedown on Fireworks. The news means "Mutant X" has a series total of three seasons and 66 episodes, while "Andromeda" will have a series total of 88 episodes in four seasons. Slashdot has previously covered 'Andromeda'."
-- They're dead, Jim.
Is nothing sacred anymore?
What's next - Lucasfilm is cancelling Episode III!!?!?
*88* episodes? The fact that someone kept Andromeda going for 88 episodes is deeply disturbing. I always assumed there were only about 4, and they got repeated a lot.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Excuse me...were either of these programs any good?
I'll take you to the ball, Barbara Manitee!!!
Blame Canada.com!
Science fans may be excited to learn that "Mutant X" has been cancelled.
Yet another signature that refers to itself. The irony and humor is dead.
Good! Andromeda sucked since Robert Hewitt Wolfe was fired! Kevin Sorbo should have been fired. The rest of the cast was OK!
.... Doig and Pratt!! Sounds dirty!
Gordon Michael Woolvett was funny. Lexa Doig was hot!
Maybe Lexa Doig and Victoria Pratt can get their own show! Drooooool
With more crap shows???
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And those stupid names. God, who the hell green lights crap like "Rev Blem" or "Trance Gemini"...oooo! So alien! So spacey future sounding!
I think we should do a series where all the aliens are named Bob.
That would be cool.
What's next - Lucasfilm is cancelling Episode III!!?!?
We can only hope...
"We can only hope..."
Will that be the "Classic Hope", or "New Hope"?
First Hercules, now Hercules in space gets cancelled.
>And MutantX? Seriously, who even watched an entire episode?
that would be me. I was smoking drugs at the time...
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
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I think the only thing everybody can agree on is that Lexa Doig is so amazingly sexy.
That said, she never did get to wear any skimpy costumes or space bikinis in Andromeda. Perhaps now she'll have time to find a show where she can really, uhm, display her qualities.
Don't get me wrong, neither were my favorite shows, I wouldn't go out of my way to watch them, but if they were on, and I wasn't watching something else, I would watch them.
You, sir, showcase the alarming arbitrariness of the TiVoless.
" I almost stopped buying it at DVD 4.6"
Unfortunately, Andromeda is not a show that you can refer to by episode numbers and have it make any sense: perhaps in 10-20 years, when there have been multiple conventions, a balding Kevin Sorbo can do a skit on some lesser comedy show and when DVD 4.6 is brought up, he can say "Get a Life." THEN you can start refering to Season X, Episode Y.
But that time has not yet come.
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And see this rather funny comic on the subject.
Lest we forget that Fred Flintstone was accused of being the notorious piano thief "88-fingers Louie"...
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> uncomfortable. The key is to find an acceptable level of mediocrity. If people weren't getting dumber and less literate, there would be no motivation to reduce the reading level of news magazines.
Would you mind explaining that again, without using so many big words?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Wish I'd seen that one, I might have actually watched the show. Nothing wrong with a show that's willing to make fun of itself from time to time....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
I think the best line of the entire series was where Sorbo proves his character is not Picard... Tyr: "I say we kill them all." Hunt: "Sounds like a good idea to me."
So you're saying Andomeda was *better* than DS9?
I wholeheartedly agree! But lest not forget the pinnacle of the genre "Homeboys in Space." If you missed it, check it out sometime... I'm sure it'll be right up your alley.
"So while all the other Star Treks were about mindless exploration"
Kinda missed the point of the franchise there, didntcha?
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