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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'."
I wouldn't go so far as to call "Mutant X" science fiction. Science Froth would probably be a better genre to classify it in.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
People who start conversations regarding TV (and they seem to have them as often as they can) by telling you they don't have a tv because:
a) They have WAY TOO MUCH GOING ON in their life to have time for TV
b) They are WAY TOO SMART for the crap that's on TV
c) They last saw a good show on TV in 1974
d) They think that divorcing themselves from pop culture is avant garde and oh so punk rock
Should please stop it. No one cares, or no one believes you. Either way, stop bugging us.
Back before either were on TV or in movie theatres, there were X-Men comic books published by Marvel. Then an upstart comics company tried to break the Marvel and DC duopoly (which you apparently love) and came out with Mutant X. There were a few differences with the X-Men, but yes, it was derivative.
Then, X-Men got a cartoon TV show and a movie deal. That went very well.
I guess Marvel at some point acquired Mutant X.
Then, they did something original with Mutant X. They did a live action TV show.
The X-Men have never had a live action TV show.
The Mutant X TV show was not a rip-off. It was original. Smoke that.
You're calling "Deep Six 9" the highpoint of Trek? Pa-leeze! When the high point of a series is a character like Quark and his brother, it's time to hang-up the old phaser.
Shows like DS9, Andromeda, and Mutant-X are the kind of shows that give Sci-Fi a bad name. Of course, the SciFi channel itself tends to give SciFi a bad name with its awful made-for-trashcan movies, but that's a topic for another day.
As for Enterprise, with any luck, its last episode will change history so that the entire series will never have existed. One could only hope.
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