What happened to Andromeda?

[FaxModem1]

I've been catching up on it since its initial broadcast, what happened to the show?

All I know is Robert Hewlett Wolfe was let go and he put up that one act script, but what happened behind the scenes and the quality of their scripts?

[Eternal_Freedom]

It...died. Painfully. In an abysmal ending. With some really stupid ideas.

In all seriousness, I wouldn't watch beyond about Season 3.

[Samuel]

Thanas has the gory details. The Cynics Corner also has an explanation.

[Batman]

I wouldn't watch beyond Trance stopping to be purple, and that may be too far already.

[PREDATOR490]

What Batman said.

Past that point is when the show turns around and alters direction. That said, you can feasible watch all the way to S4 and potentially be entertained but by no means is it near the quality or the same show as Season 1 - 2.5
A few of the episodes in later seasons are good but mostly it's just Dylan wank.

Season 5 - Does not exist.
Do not fucking watch this shit unless your ready to watch the show scrap a whole new depth of the barrel.

Season 4 finale can easily be written off as the 'end' to the show or the Coda script.

[Setesh]

Oh boy, this is a can of worms with no end. Sometime after Andromeda received the appellation 'Highest Rated syndicated action show', which they immediately put into the advertising Kevin Sorbo demanded Executive Producer, developer and head writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe be fired. Sorbo couldn't understand the storylines Wolfe wrote so assumed the audience couldn't either. After refusing the studios demand to reduce the cast, dumb down the plot, and focus more on Sorbo he was asked to leave.

Wolfe's replacements were almost immediately met with a huge challenge, Brent Stait, who portrayed magog Rev Bem, developed an allergy to the magog make-up. Fortunately a religious character who just had a major crisis of faith is easy to write out, though his later guest appearance was an abomination against literature.

They then instituted a series of bizarre changes to the characters and the direction of the show. While they still had Woolfe's outline for the overplot and a series of partial scripts and script ideas to give them at least some chance of keeping things partially sane. By the end of season 4 those were all gone so things started really going to shit.

At first Woolfe, when asked was deeply disappointed with the direction of the show after his departure. Then he did a complete 180 and said everything they were doing was what he was going to do. Going so far as to net release a really (for Woolfe) poorly written short story with Trance explaining the Abyss and her own peoples part in the metaplot.

[mr friendly guy]

I thought most of it degenerated after season 2. However there were the occasional watchable/good episodes in the other seasons, which I um, borrowed to watch as opposed to buying the individual dvds, yet alone the whole season dvds.