History YMMV / Andromeda

* SeasonalRot: Most fans tend to think that Andromeda ended at "Ouroboros", the last episode made with Robert Hewitt Wolfe in charge (halfway through the second season), before the show become all about Dylan and the seasonal plot arcs were dropped, with each season being progressively worse and further from the show's original vision until in the final one the crew were all stuck on a craptastic planet named Seefra from the premiere until the penultimate episode, which was as interesting as it sounds. After the series ended, Wolfe produced a short story called "Coda" that ignored everything after "Ouroboros" and told his plan.

* SeasonalRot: Most fans tend to think that Andromeda ended at "Ouroboros", the last episode made with Robert Hewitt Wolfe in charge (halfway through the second season), before the show become all about Dylan and the seasonal plot arcs were dropped. After the series ended, Wolfe produced a short story called "Coda" that ignored everything after "Ouroboros" and told his plan.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Dylan gets called out by this several times, especially be Nietzscheans. He is almost never bluffing, up to and including calling down nuclear-level weapons on his own position.

* HilariousInHindsight: The opening of the show states that "[[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Long_Night The Long Night]] has come..."

* GrowingTheBeard: The series' lighting, make-up, costuming, and writing improves after the first mid-season break (beginning with "Music of a Distant Drum" and "Harper 2.0"), and introduces the Magog/Spirit of the Abyss plot and a shift to a more ensemble-based set up. The cheese also shifts from embarrassing to self-aware and fun. Many fans believe this was undone shortly after "Ouroboros," while others feel that episode was when the show truly Grew the Beard. Later in the series [[https://www.trektoday.com/news/231101_05.shtml overarching story and character arcs were dropped in favor of episodic episodes]]. Story lines where changed to focus mostly on Dylan. Most appear to [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-10-most-mortifying-seasons-of-science-fiction-and-f-5855113?IR=T agree that the beard stopped growing after season two.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/KevinSorbo's role in this series as the lead can be a bit more uncomfortable to sit through these days given his increasingly [[TheFundamentalist vocal and often hostile statements on religion]].

* SeasonalRot: Most fans tend to think that Andromeda ended at "Ouroboros", the last episode made with Robert Hewitt Wolfe in charge (halfway through the second season). Before the show become all about Dylan and the seasonal plot arcs were dropped. After the series ended, Wolfe produced a short story called "Coda" that ignored everything after "Ouroboros" and told his plan.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: While the fandom is split regarding this, some many of the plot twists throughout the show were introduced to fix problematic characters or elements.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Obviously the "hardcore fans" will not agree with this observation, but to those outside that circle, it is fairly obvious that many of the plot twists throughout the show were introduced to fix problematic characters or elements.

* SeasonalRot: Most hard core fans tend to think that Andromeda ended at "Ouroboros", the last episode made with Robert Hewitt Wolfe in charge (halfway through the second season). Before the show become all about Dylan and the seasonal plot arcs were dropped. After the series ended, Wolfe produced a short story called "Coda" that ignored everything after "Ouroboros" and told his plan.

* GrowingTheBeard: The series' lighting, make-up, costuming, and writing improves after the first mid-season break (beginning with "Music of a Distant Drum" and "Harper 2.0"), and introduces the Magog/Spirit of the Abyss plot and a shift to a more ensemble-based set up. The cheese also shifts from embarrassing to self-aware and fun. Many fans believe this was undone shortly after "Ouroboros," while others feel that episode was when the show truly Grew the Beard. Considering later on the series [[https://www.trektoday.com/news/231101_05.shtml overarching story and character arcs were dropped in favor of episodic episodes]]. Story lines where changed to focus mostly on Dylan. Most appear to [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-10-most-mortifying-seasons-of-science-fiction-and-f-5855113?IR=T agree that the beard stopped growing after season two.]]

* GrowingTheBeard: The series' lighting, make-up, costuming, and writing improves after the first mid-season break (beginning with "Music of a Distant Drum" and "Harper 2.0"), and introduces the Magog/Spirit of the Abyss plot and a shift to a more ensemble-based set up. The cheese also shifts from embarrassing to self-aware and fun. Many fans believe this was undone shortly after "Ouroboros," while others feel that episode was when the show truly Grew the Beard.
** Considering later on the series [[https://www.trektoday.com/news/231101_05.shtml overarching story and character arcs were dropped in favor of episodic episodes]]. Story lines where changed to focus mostly on Dylan. Most appear to agree that the beard stopped growing after season two.

** After three seasons of attempting to develop Tyr Anasazi while also looking for any excuse to bring Gaheris Rhade back with a flashback or alternate timeline, the writers finally threw up their hands and concluded that Rhade might offer more for writers and viewers, having a more tangible personality and a somewhat more enthusiastic actor, so they wrote Tyr out and brought in Rhade's clone descendant.

* FridgeBrilliance: Andromeda is a character from Greek mythology renowned for her beauty; which is probably where the producers got the idea of having the personification of the ship be a hologram of a beautiful woman.
* FridgeHorror: If post-Ouroboros Trance is adult Trance, then does that make pre-Ouroboros underaged Trance? [[LessDisturbingInContext Much less squicky]] once it's established that she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several billion years old]] [[GeniusLoci star]] using an [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith artificial humanoid body]] as a sockpuppet.

* InformedAttribute: The Magog are treated as the most terrifying race in the universe. When they actually appear onscreen, they... don't quite live up to the hype. Not only are they very obviously [[SpecialEffectsFailure people lumbering awkwardly in animal suits]], but they get shot down as easily as Storm Troopers when a swarm is attacking a small group of heroes, and have some cringe-worthy dialogue like [[YouNoTakeCandle "Leader... not want food?"]] that seems more fitting for a show aimed at very young children than a sci-fi drama. It's probably not a coincidence that the Magog were replaced by other villains in later seasons, and when they did crop up, were rarely actually shown outside their attacking ships. On the other hand, they can actually become genuinely terrifying once you know what they're actually capable of, particularly with regards to their [[ChestBurster reproductive methods]]. Just goes to show that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

** The CGI varies between well-done, and "1990s UsefulNotes/PlayStation game" quality depending on the episode. While the space scenes generally look pretty decent given the time and budget, the same cannot be said for surface scenes, and the computer-generated elements do not always mesh well with the physical elements. The varying quality is more obvious during the earlier seasons.

** Future ''Series/RookieBlue'' star Missy Peregrym plays an agent of the Spirit of the Abyss sent to retrieve the Voice of Darkness in the episode "Time Out of Mind."

* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/CobieSmulders appears in the two-parter finale as Rhade's wife Jillian.

** Trance Gemini, while always lovable, is undeniably corny in her purple form; the new-Trance introduced in "Ouroboros" is significantly more complex and mature, and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement in some viewer's eyes]], more fitting for the show.
** After three seasons of attempting to develop Tyr Anasazi while also looking for any excuse to bring Gaheris Rhade back with a flashback or alternate timeline, the writers finally threw up their hands and concluded that [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Rhade might offer more for writers and viewers, having a more tangible personality and a somewhat more enthusiastic actor]], so they wrote Tyr out and brought in Rhade's clone descendant.

* FridgeHorror: If post-Ouroboros Trance is adult Trance, then does that make pre-Ouroboros underaged Trance?[[LessDisturbingInContext Much less squicky]] once it's established that she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several billion years old]] [[GeniusLoci star]] using an [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith artificial humanoid body]] as a sockpuppet.

* InformedAttribute: The Magog are treated as the most terrifying race in the universe. When they actually appear onscreen, they... don't quite live up to the hype. Not only are they very obviously [[SpecialEffectsFailure people lumbering awkwardly in animal suits]], but they get shot down as easily as Storm Troopers when a swarm is attacking a small group of heroes, and have some cringe-worthy dialogue like [[YouNoTakeCandle "Leader... not want food?"]] that seems more fitting for a show aimed at very young children than a sci-fi drama. It's probably not a coincidence that the Magog were replaced by other villains in later seasons, and when they did crop up, were rarely actually shown outside their attacking ships.
** On the other hand, they can actually become genuinely terrifying once you know what they're actually capable of, particularly with regards to their [[ChestBurster reproductive methods]]. Just goes to show that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/CobieSmulders appears in the finale as Rhade's wife Jillian.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Magog are meant to be the most terrifying race in the universe, but when shown onscreen... suspension of disbelief may take more than a bit of effort.

* NightmareFuel: The Magog. Dear ''God'', the Magog. They manage to top the Borg and the Daleks as a terrifying villain race.

* HarsherInHindsight: Pretty much ''any'' scene with Dylan being a badass takes on a very different tone upon rewatch in light of Kevin Sorbo's later descent into [[TheFundamentalist religious fundamentalism]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The Magog are meant to be the most terrifying race in the universe, but when shown onscreen... suspension of disbelief may take more than a bit of effort.

* InformedAttribute: The Magog are treated as the most terrifying race in the universe. When they actually appear onscreen, they... don't quite live up to the hype. Not only are they very obviously [[SpecialEffectsFailure people lumbering awkwardly in animal suits]], but they get shot down as easily as Storm Troopers when a swarm is attacking a small group of heroes, and have some cringe-worthy dialogue like [[YouNoTakeCandle "Leader... not want food?"]] that seems more fitting for a show aimed at very young children than a sci-fi drama. It's probably not a conicodince that the Magog were replaced by other villains in later seasons, and when they did crop up, were rarely actually shown outside their attacking ships.

** On the other hand, they can actually become genuinely terrifying once you know what they're actually capable of, up to and including their [[ChestBurster reproductive methods]]. Just goes to show that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.