I'm almost at the end of season 3 of Andromeda. As I've remarked before, it's absolute excrement. There's the episode with over a half an hour of badly executed aerial combat in slipfighters with no attention to plot; there's the episode that has a ten-minute fight sequence that had me looking at my watch and deleted scenes on the DVD that would have actually, you know, made the plot understandable; there's the episode (written by Gordon Michael Wolvett *gasp*) that features an alien capturing Dylan for sex, Dylan fighting a Nietzschean for the right to have alien sex, then shows the alien sex, including the alien dissipating during the orgasm, leaving Dylan lying prone, legs splayed on a bed, yet strangely fully clothed. I don't know what kind of sex he was having, but...yeah.
And after all of this, they pop out an episode like "Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath," which is amazing. Just...wow. I was totally shocked by the guest stars, despite the title. It used three seasons' worth of the show's continuity, had complicated themes, had good acting (thank you, guest stars), and had a little Harper whumpage, just to make me happy. It's the third part of an AI trilogy of episodes, the second of which, "The Night, Death, and the Devil," is one of my favorite episodes of the series. It even mentions Clarion's Call, the android from that episode played by Michael Hurst (see icon).
Maybe the rest of the season lowered my expectations, but I was watching this going da-amn! Now I'm going to have buy this stupid season! I don't know how they managed it, but bravo to Andromeda.
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