Andromeda

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Andromeda -- Season 3 -- from necessity to paperwork

Webposted: November 17, 2002
by: Kay Kellam

A great deal of what Andromeda fun in Season 1 was a lone man out to reshape the universe in the image he thought it should be in. And then there was this crew, along for the ride, unsure whether or not they believed in his dream -- but it seemed there was a part of each of them that wanted to believe in his dream, and so they followed.

Season 2 revealed that this dream was in fact a necessity. That civilization needed to be standing tall when evil came to knock it down, for if it wasn't, if civilization had already fallen, there would be no resistance to the evil that was coming.

Season 3 -- well, suddenly civilization is standing tall as though it never fell. Every office has an officer in it, the training academies are back in place, spies out and about are handing out special "get out of jail free cards" to truly despicable people, and Dylan is already bemoaning bureaucracy, paperwork, and higher-ups looking over his shoulder... it just seems a bit fast.

I'd have loved a season of things being built. Of Dylan helping get supplies to one of these famed Commonwealth prisons that no one can escape from -- but as is, we're less than half way into season 3 and in three years we've gone from no commonwealth at all to prisons that no one can get out of. To me that's too fast for a reputation to be built up, or they are casually admitting they haven't gotten many top-notch criminals in them.

As for every post being filled and Dylan butting heads already -- his position in this new commonwealth he founded is unclear. But it does seem those he put in place doubt him, or at the very least are fond of giving orders any sane man would know he would disagree with. (For heaven's sake, these people thought him capable of murder -- murders with no motives at that!)

With this week's episode (The Leper's Kiss) I felt as though I had missed a season -- the one in which Dylan was thrown in jail for a night for a fight in a bar. The one in which he bonded tightly with people we've never seen before. The one in which there was a lot of fun, and a struggle to make a dream a reality.

As is our Characters have changed the reality in which they are living -- and I'm still along for the ride.

(C) Kay Kellam, 2001 for PopArtsPlace.com
Prior to having her first novel, A Life to Di For, published author Kay Kellam enjoyed a variety of jobs that helped to shape her outlook on the world, and her profession. more...