Yes I really like certain aspects of the show but it was indeed overwhelmed by Kevin Sorbo and his rather boring look-at-me heroics. Its morality is rather painfully similar to Hercules: The Legendary Journeys in which all situations are morally simple and Kevin Sorbo's character comes in to patronize everyone for failing to do the very obvious right thing. Then in some 1Dway he seems to get an intellectual high off of how he was able to identify the painfully obvious most ethical thing and everyone else is "stupid" more or less, generally for valuing
haha. These "Sorbo" morals involve vilifying
so his hero character can make his "might does not make right!" statements. Anyway, I'm not actually sure every situation was morally simple in Andromeda, but it didn't matter since Sorbo's character declares those who are not in the moral right as "the bad guys" in almost every episode so it's not really about thinking through moral dilemmas anyway. I feel like the show needed just a tad more moral maturity (assume an older audience rather than the imagined rapt 12 year olds, eyes glued to the screen, hungry for Sorbo's next moral lesson lol).
Anyway, it sucks since basically it feels like Sorbo's character sets the bar for the other characters. They can't be more interesting or more intelligent or better at thinking through situations than his character it seems, which kind of limits character development for the lot of them while Sorbo's character has a boring hero's journey to embark on.



way he seems to get an intellectual high off of how he was able to identify the painfully obvious most ethical thing and everyone else is "stupid" more or less, generally for valuing
haha. These "Sorbo" morals involve vilifying
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