• SSTF@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      Cleopatra 2525

      I was around in 2000s and never heard of this. I blame society.

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      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.