The Andromeda Strain miniseries on A&E 5-26

Post by **danlo** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:55 pm

Here's your link Aside from the two "stars" they are hyping; Benjamin Bratt and Rick Schroder, the cast looks pretty impressive.

Post by **Cail** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:50 pm

It'd be nice if they do it justice.

Post by **Damelon** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:59 pm

I was going to say, how could Rick Schroder be in the Andromeda Strain?

Echo what Cail said.

Post by **danlo** » Sat May 24, 2008 4:02 am

He wasn't that bad on NYPD Blue...here he plays Maj. doctor Keane, if Doogie could do it...

Post by **The Dreaming** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:21 am

Gotta say, I'm fairly disappointed. The only parts that I thought were particularly cool came straight from the movie. (The Decontam scene was pretty awesome though) The 4 or 5 extra subplots hurt way more than they helped. I also thought the disease was MUCH scarier with it's origins being a complete mystery.

The original scared the crap outta me. This one made me actually sigh a few times. (Plant life changing color as the contagion spreads? Seriously. You just can't make an infection into a nail-biting chase scene.)

Post by **Usivius** » Wed May 28, 2008 12:35 pm

well, I only saw about the frist 20-25 minutes of the first part at about 11pm and realized I was not going to be able to stay up and watch both parts (played back-to-back) so I taped it last night and can't wait to get back to it.

I saw the movie years ago and it was pretty cool. And regardless of there being any differences to this one, or compared to the book, what I saw looked pretty darn cool. All the actors were impressive. Can't wait to see if it all holds up.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Wed May 28, 2008 12:56 pm

I watched part one on Monday night and recorded Part II last night. Not bad for a television production. I watched the original film about a million years ago so I have almost no memory to compare and I've never read the book so to me it's fairly fresh and I'm not complaining about the differences. We'll see if Part II pays off.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Thu May 29, 2008 11:32 am

Well I watched the second half of AS and was surprised. Everything was going okay and then in the last 15 minutes or so it got unexpectedly stupid. REALLY STUPID. The film up to that point wasn't flawless but it was smart, well executed, well acted and directed and then...WHAM! I can't explain what happened. I don't know if the STUPID events were always stupid (even present in the book) or were just handled stupidly. Without giving away a spoiler these stupid issues deal mostly with two incredibly stupid deaths. Have I mentioned how stupid I thought parts of the end were? If not I probably should have.

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:00 am

aTOMiC wrote:Well I watched the second half of AS and was surprised. Everything was going okay and then in the last 15 minutes or so it got unexpectedly stupid. REALLY STUPID. The film up to that point wasn't flawless but it was smart, well executed, well acted and directed and then...WHAM! I can't explain what happened. I don't know if the STUPID events were always stupid (even present in the book) or were just handled stupidly. Without giving away a spoiler these stupid issues deal mostly with two incredibly stupid deaths. Have I mentioned how stupid I thought parts of the end were? If not I probably should have.

I 100% agree!
Did they run out of video and decided to cram everything in the last 15 minutes?
I was totally hooked before that point.
The "cure" idea was awesome and then......................wtf?
I have no f#cking clue why they finished it the way they did.

Spoiler

So the vent mining in the present destroyed the bacteria they needed in the future to destroy Andromeda. Then how did they, in the future, know the vent bacteria would work if it had no sample to test with?

The wormhole was real?
They could do that in the future but not kill Andromeda?
Where did Andromeda come from originally?
What was the original plan, that was disrupted by the town locals, of the future people anyway?

Why did the black woman scientist survive exposure at the end or at least not go insane?
Why did Andromeda selectively dissolve clothes and plastics only when it was convenient to the story.

I guess the water at the bottom of the tube was radioactive, thanks for letting us know, are there always open super-nuclear shallow pools of water at the bottom of open maintenance tubes?

What was all that crap falling on them in the tube anyway and why?

The gum chewing guy was behind it all because he wanted the money from the vent mining? WTF????

The same gum chewing guy had video of the space station where they put a sample of Andromeda? WTF WTF WTF?

I haven't been this pissed off since Highlander II

Arrghhghgh!!!

Post by **aTOMiC** » Fri May 30, 2008 10:30 am

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Your points are my points. Thanks for composing all of that HLT.

I don't know if I'm as pissed as when I watched Highlander II. Frankly I was fairly entertained with Andromeda for about 3 hours. That's not too bad.

Post by **danlo** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:21 pm

Wow! I thought it was going to be good. Now I'm sorry I suggested it, I guess I'm not sorry I missed it. Thank goodness I was doing something else while Tam watched The Bachelorette...

Post by **Kil Tyme** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:30 pm

I didn't even bother once they went into all the different back-stories and the life-at-home crap of the major players. Bah! Stick with the orig movie; one of the best SF flicks ever made.

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The Andromeda Strain miniseries on A&E 5-26

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