Delenda Est

Andromeda Episode Review

In which nothing happens.

What Happened

Absolutely nothing.

Fine. Rommie gets kidnapped. Dylan and Tyr save her. Beka, Harper and Trance get shot at. They shoot back. The aliens disappear again without any explanation.

No forward motion on the overall plot. No interesting character moments. No real net effect of any of the events on anyone involved.

What We Learned

• Cats have been extinct for thousands of years.
• Tyr is still extremely annoyed by his experiences inside the inter-dimensional tunnel at the start of the season.
• "Age before beauty." Tyr is older than Dylan.
• Rommie knows the term "Class M planet," thus proving that, thousands of years in the future, the Sci-Fi channel is still mostly broadcasting nothing but Star Trek reruns.
• The power source is always on the other side of the bridge.
• The fatter alien will always hit the bottom of the gorge first.
• If you want to go home, always build a timer along with the bomb.
• If the bad guys set the bomb, five seconds is long enough to disarm it. If the good guys set the bomb, there is never any time to do more than stare at it with a stupid look on your face.
• "This is a test," Trance tells us. Yeah, of the viewer's patience.

What Did I Think?

Quippy dialogue can only disguise a crappy story for about half an hour. After that, it just annoys people.