It's not just one of my favourite canon AUs, it's one of my favourite clip shows. And I hate the clip shows.
Hell, it's Andromeda, starring Kevin Sorbo--The Unconquerable Man.
What if...what if Sorbo's character wasn't the winner of the fight between the captain and the first officer as the ship slid towards the event horizon? What if it's the Nietzschean who lives when they're pulled out, who decides it's his duty to put the Commonwealth back together to atone for what he'd done, for his part in breaking it up all those years ago?
Sadly the show doesn't pick up from there and continue with Bacic in the lead instead of Sorbo. In fact, it demonstrates that it has to be Dylan Hunt trying to put the pieces back together. But it uses clips from the preceding seasons put together with newly shot scenes in such a way that I felt I had to go watch them all again, just to be sure--because it all seemed so plausible. They all worked so well in this new more dystopic light.
It was easily their best episode, and easily the last time they didn't stink to high heaven.
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Date: 2008-03-28 03:19 am (UTC)Hell, it's Andromeda, starring Kevin Sorbo--The Unconquerable Man.
What if...what if Sorbo's character wasn't the winner of the fight between the captain and the first officer as the ship slid towards the event horizon? What if it's the Nietzschean who lives when they're pulled out, who decides it's his duty to put the Commonwealth back together to atone for what he'd done, for his part in breaking it up all those years ago?
Sadly the show doesn't pick up from there and continue with Bacic in the lead instead of Sorbo. In fact, it demonstrates that it has to be Dylan Hunt trying to put the pieces back together. But it uses clips from the preceding seasons put together with newly shot scenes in such a way that I felt I had to go watch them all again, just to be sure--because it all seemed so plausible. They all worked so well in this new more dystopic light.
It was easily their best episode, and easily the last time they didn't stink to high heaven.