The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Preview: The Andromeda Strain (mini-series)" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/04/preview_the_andromeda_strain_miniseries.php Comments for the entry "Preview: The Andromeda Strain (mini-series)" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:22:39 +00:00 Comment from Toby OB Do we need a remake? Maybe not, but I'd like Toobworld to have its own version anyway. I'm selfish that way.

Thinking about the original makes me wonder about whatever happened to James Olson. A check of the IMDb shows that he hasn't had an acting credit since 1990, which is far too long for somebody who seemed to be on all of the drama series back in the late 60s and throughout the 70s.

I realize he's way up in his 70s by now, but even so I think that as he got older he should have been more in demand as a character actor. The one performance I own of his is in a 'Columbo' episode, but I figure 'Andromeda' and 'Ragtime' were the highpoints of his career.....

]]> 3981@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23642 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:22:39 +00:00 Comment from Phoenix So the book never explains where Andromeda comes from or what it really is. You have to accept it's arrived from outer space and it needs dealing with. It's explained in the book. The government was sending probes into the upper atmosphere to scoop up whatever they could find, the idea being that without the Earth's atmosphere protecting them, the viruses up there would be highly mutated. It wasn't alien in the sense of being from outer space, just in the sense of being not from ground level.

I haven't watched the mini, and I might not now, after watching that trailer. Seriously? The virus is communicating with itself to mutate? Drivel. Also, see how many more times you can play that same squilching sound clip. Bah.

]]> 3981@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23666 Fri, 02 May 2008 01:01:52 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob "It's explained in the book"

That's not an explanation as such - that's an assumption, the assumption behind Project Scoop. It might be true, it might not, and both the book and the film also hint Andromeda might be a message, a weapon or a form of intelligent life (maybe).

"The virus is communicating with itself to mutate? Drivel"

Yep. It's Burning Zone daft in that sense. The trailer, though, is poorer than the mini-series, I would say.

]]> 3981@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23667 Fri, 02 May 2008 03:22:32 +00:00 Comment from Cindylover1969 The Burning Zone? WOOP - WOOP - STINKER ALERT!!! Anyway, we can make up our minds in a week or two when it starts on Sky's movie channels.

]]> 3981@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c23682 Mon, 05 May 2008 18:25:43 +00:00 Comment from Toby OB Just got around to finishing the two-part movie. I was watching an hour every couple of days. That doesn't argue in favor of it being compelling, but I usually only have a three hour window for watching TV and I have quite a backlog!

But overall, I found the first hour intriguing, perhaps due to its adherence to what I remembered of the movie and book. The last hour was intense and even if it was a bit predictable, kept me on edge. The middle two hours primarily served as a conduit from the first to the last.

So not a great piece of work, but far better than I was expecting. (Which was before I read your review - that amped my interest in it.)

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