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Please don't let this be Gene's legacy. (lemmy.world)
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[–] negativenull@startrek.website 93 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Like Firefly, but ruined by Kevin Sorbo (fuck that washed up POS)

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I don't like Sorbo either but him being present in the thing doesn't make the thing bad.

Hercules is still a good show, despite his Tweets.

Did he actually ruin Andromeda, or is it more of a "he's in it so I don't wanna watch it now" thing?

Edit: Oh. He really did ruin the show. Well. Carry on then.

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 17 points 9 months ago

The original showrunner eventually posted how he intended the story to go. It's a fun quick read about the better show that never got made:

https://www.cyberspace5.net/agentrichard07/coda.htm

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the info.

I remember the show getting worse with time, but I wasn't enough of a fan to seek out the gossip.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 29 points 9 months ago

The only thing I like that involves him is that Lucy Lawless calls him “peanut”.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Why? I mean, he looks like one, but why?

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He is nothing but a Trump Christofascist troll on Twitter. Nobody will touch him (other than Left Behind/God's Not Dead series). The only value he has is getting entertainingly owned by Lucy Lawless.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How have I never seen Xena destroying Hercules. Can you post a link to this greatness?

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago

As far as I’m concerned, being called “boy Xena” is an enormous compliment, and Sorbo is far from worthy.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Man Kevin Sorbo is such a fucking douche. That was great, thanks for the entertainment!

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Regarding just Andromeda, I'm going to clip some text from wikipedia.

Controversy erupted in the midst of the second season, when series developer and executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe announced he had been released from the show's production [...] The reason for the change was purportedly to make the show more episodic and open to casual viewing.

And

In discussion on his website's forums and various interviews, Wolfe has elaborated that he was released from the production staff after he refused to shift the show's focus more heavily onto Kevin Sorbo's character, Dylan Hunt, by essentially making all of the show's episodes as Hunt-centric.

After that Sorbo become an executive producer on the show. The longer running plots set up by Wolfe were dropped and replaced by episodic low brow Hercules In Space stories. Looking at the quoted text above, it's clear that's exactly what the network wanted. Louder, dumber, and cheaper content to fill afternoon rerun time slots. Sorbo isn't exactly an innocent actor caught up in show with a management dispute, since he was the one who ended up getting Wolfe's job.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 52 points 9 months ago

To be fair to Kevin Sorbo, he did tank Kevin Sorbo's career. So he's not all bad.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Thank you, that explains a lot.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Because he is a complete loony extreme right-wing intolerant christian fanatic POS.
I used to like Andromeda, but now I can't stand the sight of him as Dylan Hunt.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

[–] dejected_warp_core@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I dunno. Those may not be completely airbrushed in, but there's certainly some contouring going on.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah you're right. Even in his prime he doesn't had muscles on his muscles like a real demi-god.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Much like that "last man standing" guy

[–] HeChomk@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Dylan Hunt... Sounds like cockney rhyming slang... And it's so appropriate.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Read his tweets: he's a bigot, Bible-thumping, anti-trans & anti-gay, Christofacist, Trump dick-rider, MAGA retard.

[–] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which has been are we talking about? I got distracted looking at pics of the actresses.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

Sorry, not sure why Kbin didn't correctly attribute the proper thread. I was referring to Sorbo.