#Tyr Anasazi

[endiness]

Season 2, Episode 9 "Into the Labyrinth" ANDROMEDA (2000–2005)

[angsty-violet]

Restraints and Dreams

He twisted and turned, fighting every inch of the way. It was no use. The restraints didn’t have any give in them. The Magog definitely knew what they were doing. No matter how hard he fought, he couldn’t seem to get anywhere.

For a brief second, his mind caught onto the fact that there was supposed to be someone with him. Someone who should’ve been captured. Another man, someone he knew well. But before it could really set in, the thought was fluttering away in the wind.

He moaned, quietly wanting to get away from his horrible place and having no choice but to endure. He thrashed sharply and then went limp with exhaustion. There was no way that he could possibly keep up that level of energy for very long. All he wanted to do was lay there and wait for the end. However, there was something inside of him that insisted that he keep trying. That he couldn’t give up now, of all times. He had already come so far, beaten so much, he couldn’t just give up.

Still, there was a sense of overwhelming wrongness with him. There was something inside of him that wasn’t supposed to be there.

Perhaps, if he escaped his restraints, he’d be able to rid himself of the feeling of wrongness. Maybe all he needed to do was get out of there, and he would be able to move on from that terrible feeling. That spurred on another set of thrashing and movements. This time, he actually felt something give slightly. This was more than enough to spur him on and start the movements in earnest.

He fought, and inch by inch, the restraints finally gave out. He landed with a heavy thud on the ground and barely managed to climb to his feet. As soon as he was aware of the fact that he had escaped, he was off and running. He needed to find a way out before they discovered where he was.

Another thought about the person who was supposed to be with him, but before it could solidify, he was distracted by the sounds of approaching feet.

They were coming for him in all directions, and he was overwhelmed with panic. Despite that, he could see a way out. He wasn’t sure how he knew it was a way out, but he knew it was. All he needed to do was keep going. Get through that opening. He was home free. What would be waiting on the other side, he didn’t know. All he knew was that it had to be better than here.

However, before he could reach there, clawed hands were reaching out to try and catch him. They were ripping and tearing at his clothes and hair. He was pulled away from the opening, and he cried out as he was dragged away. He continued to cry out and fight, but it seemed to be no use. There was nothing he could do.

Harper woke up with a scream. It seemed to echo through his quarters. He patted himself down quickly, and a hand rested on his stomach. His intruders were still inside him. He hadn’t found a way to get rid of them yet.

That dream, it had been him inside the Magog World Ship. But that wasn’t how it had happened. He had been with Tyr for one thing. And after they had escaped their restraints, they had managed to make it off. Harper was disoriented for a minute. Which was the truth? Had he and Tyr escaped together? Had it just been him alone on that ship, fighting for his life?

The doors to his quarters opened, and Tyr was in the doorway looking down at him. “I heard you scream. Are you alright?”

Harper looked around and then down at himself. His thrashing had kicked off the blanket, and he was shivering from the cool air. However, he wasn’t bound. The feeling wasn’t even recreated in real life. He had kicked off the covers, and there was nothing impeding his movements. He wasn’t trapped on a ship filled with a Magog, just waiting for the eggs to hatch. He was safe and sound on the Andromeda. But he didn’t feel safe. He still had the Magog larvae inside of him, and he still might die. Not to mention that the Magog World Ship was still out there.

“Will you…,” Harper trailed off for a moment. How could he ask this?

“I will stay if you wish me to.”

Harper nodded, relieved that he didn’t have to ask for it. Tyr moved closer to the bed, and Harper set it to rights. Putting the pillows back where they belonged and getting the blanket off the floor. Tyr sat next to Harper, sitting up, ready to begin his vigil.

This wasn’t the first time they had done something like this. Several times since surviving the World Ship, Tyr and Harper had watched over each other. Like it or not, a bond had been forged between them. They had survived something that should’ve killed them. Now, they were stuck with the results. Harper with a belly full of Magog and Tyr with the guilt that Harper couldn’t be saved the way he was.

“Sleep, little professor. I’ll watch over you and your dreams.”

Harper nodded and slid back under the covers. Even though he was just as safe as he had been before, it was easier to close his eyes.

Something about knowing the Tyr was right there beside him made it so the world was a lot less scary. Maybe just having a Nietzschean with him made him feel indestructible. Or perhaps it was Tyr specifically. They had fought their way out together twice. If there was anyone who could help get him through this fight, it was Tyr.

Harper finally closed his eyes, and sleep was on him. He had been working overtime to get the ship up to fighting shape, and he was truly exhausted.

[storyofmorewhoa]

"Lava and Rockets," Andromeda written by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz

"Shadows Cast by a Final Salute," Andromeda written by Bob Engels

[elgascreamslikehell]

So, tagging i missed from people I've also missed!

Staring from @mairaiscarrierofthepaperclips and this funny thing.

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite!

I think it's funny because my taste is quite specific.. and I'm not sure all the characters are widely known. Anyway!

Cause i missed the train i suppose anyone has already done that but still!

@pirrusstuff @fionaswhvre @aspecbuddie @pansysgothgf @steadfastsaturnsrings

[weatherman667]

Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda

A confusing series to describe.  It’s called Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda because it was KIND of created by Gene Roddenberry.  If it was actually created by him, you probably wouldn’t see his name on it.  Star Trek was often advertised as created by Gene Roddenberry, but none of them had the gall to actually put his name on it... until after he died.

For the record, the last Star Trek Gene Roddenberry had ANY direct involvement over was DS9.

Instead Andromeda is a product of a number of Gene Roddenberry’s failed products being  combined together.  Make no mistake, they were combined together extremely well.  The problem was actually:

Kevin Sorbo demanded every episode be rewritten to focus entirely on him, to the point that character development was literally written out for almost every character.

It was a FOX show, and as such, executive meddling was constant.  This resulted in the show being rewritten for the lowest common denominator.

The premise of the show is that genetically engineered Human subspecies rebels.  We later find out the incredibly moral reasons for the rebellion, but in the first episode Dylan Hunt’s Systems-Commonwealth High Guard warship gets trapped near a black hole for three hundred years.

And this is where the show proves it ACTUALLY DID THE RESEARCH.  This wasn’t Star Trek that left (technobabble) in the script, and had some researchers add to it, but actually included the physics deep in the story.

Because the Andromeda Ascendant was trapped near the black hole, time dilation kicked in, to the point that time almost did not pass for Captain Hunt.  He then gets pulled out by scavengers only to realize that the Systems-Commonwealth was gone.  They were in what was being called The Long Night.  The civil war ended with neither faction winning.  Most of civilization was single planets, of varying technological levels.  The only polities to cross between systems were fighting warbands

Dylan Hunt decides to rebuild civilization, and recruits the scavengers.  He has a startling realization that the scavengers are only supporting him because of three-hots-and-a-cot.  Over the course of the story, we have three of the rebellious Human subspecies.  They call themselves Nietzschean, and try to uphold his ideals.   The problem is that Friedrich Nietzsche asked a lot of tough questions, and didn’t answer them.  He honestly didn’t know if anyone could.  This is why he gets accused of nihilism.  The three main Nietzschean characters represent two points of this debate.  Tyr Anasazi represents the belief that they are better than Humans, and therefore have the right to do as they please.  They create an entirely self-centred form of morality, (which is not a morality at all).  Geheris and Telemachus Rhade.  They believe that they were supposed to be warrior-poets bringing civilization to the stars.  They were better, and therefore had more responsibility.  Because the Nietzscheans are the most powerful factions, much of the show is spent on the debate between the two Nietzschean factions.  The show presents morally complex issues, and doesn’t answer them.  They allow the audience to create their own answers.

As such, the various characters from all of the factions can come across as heroes or villains.

The social and political consequences are allowed to follow, and the show goes extremely deep into it’s technological basis.  Unlike the Entreprise, the Andromeda Ascendant had very finite, if terrifying combat abilities.  Combat requires strategy.  Technology is limited, and is also not designed for Humans.  This is because Humans didn’t create the Systems Commonwealth, Vedrans did.  Humans just were driven to become the best at everything, (Space Orks), and so occupied every part of the Commonwealth, (even worlds that required genetic engineering to allow them to survive one).  But, the Commonwealth was designed for Vedrans, (which have four legs).

The biggest problem with the series is that all of the rewrites demanded by the Executives, and Kevin Sorbo, completely destroyed the long-term story, and the attempt to resolve the long-term-story was a complete failure.

[majorbaby]

LRB triggered a memory from my gene roddenberry's "andromeda" days (let's not discuss that further, ever) where anti hero Tyr Anasazi says of protag and straight hero Dylan Hunt "at the end of the universe this is all that will remain: Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches, and Dylan Hunt trying to save the cockroaches" and obv, because Dylan Hunt is your typical roddenberry lead male hero but now it's Janine from Abbott Elementary....

[sarkywoman]

reblogging because my one-to-one is coming up and I need inspo for how to chat with my manager.

I should try this next time management talk to me about my teamwork skills.

[lboogie1906]

Keith Hamilton Cobb (born January 28, 1962) is an actor. He is known for his roles as the ruthless Nietzschean mercenary Tyr Anasazi in Andromeda from 2000 to 2005 and as Noah Keefer on All My Children from 1994 to 1996. He was born in North Tarrytown, New York; he graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. A classically trained actor, he appeared in several Shakespearean productions in the New York area before breaking into television in the mid-1990s. One of his first movies was Eyes Beyond Seeing in which he plays a mental patient who claims to be Jesus Christ. In 1996, was named on People magazine's annual list of the "50 most beautiful people". In 1999, he was in two episodes of the Beastmaster, portraying a character very similar to his character from Andromeda. He left Andromeda at the start of the fourth season, citing dissatisfaction over the development of his character. His 2015 play American Moor explores the experiences of African American actors performing texts as written and directed by white writers and directors. The play garnered great academic acclaim. The play debuted Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in August 2019. He continues to act in theater productions, including roles as Oberon and Duke Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at New York's Geva Theater Center and the bigoted Juror #10 in Twelve Angry Men at Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, Vermont. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAP8fGLU3I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sarkos]

With all the Nietzsche on the dash, I saw a Xena post which reminded me of Kevin Sorbo, which reminded me of trying to explain the Nietzscians from Andromeda to a friend.

Basically, since it was recycled Roddenberry with the bonus of giving the female computer a combination Cortana/Canal Volfeed holoform, the Nietzschiens were Khan Noonian Singhs who operated like Klingons who were named after powerful people, gods or concepts. The Party Member representative was least worst as Tyr Anasazi, but I lamented that the rest of the guys being named like Genghis Khan Marxism Leninism made them sound like Tumblr bots

[scifi-fantasy-world]

Andromeda

"I can't tell you what it really is

I can only tell you what it feels like

And right now, there's a steel knife in my windpipe

I can't breathe, but I still fight while I can fight"

[quasi-normalcy]

Everytime I see him, I'm like "Who's that Tyr Anasazi wannabe?" And then my friends are like "Who's Tyr Anasazi?" and I'm like "Who's Ronon Dex?"

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

[thehollowprince]

Aah, Andromeda! I still remember fondly lil 14-year old me sitting down on sunday afternoons to watch "back2back action pack" starting with Hercules (bland), Xena (iconique!), Cleopatra 2525 (highly entertaining but absolutely bonkers), Jack of All Trades (Bruce Campbell!) and lastly Andromeda, from which the ONLY thing I remember is Tyr (norse wargod-name, because I was a MASSIVE mythology-nerd) and that the ship's computer had a crush on Sorbo's character...

"Dylan Hunt is the least interesting part of this show." Ironically enough Kevin Sorbo's Hercules was always the most boring part of The Legendary Journeys and the show really suffered and dragged after killed off Iolaus. I literally remembered the ship computer having a crush on Sorbo's character before I even remembered his name (I still wouldn't have remembered it if you hadn't written it down.) I'd rather watch Cleopatra 2525. which was bonkers, but everyone seemes to have a good time!

I was on Tubi the other day, just going through old titles from back in the day - the B-list stuff that most people don't remember, when I came across Beastmaster, featuring Daniel Goddard running around in a loincloth with a big stick, talking to and saving animals. In one of those episodes, Keith Hamilton Cobb showed up, looking fine as hell, and I suddenly remembered that he was on that show with low-rent Hercules.

So I went looking for Andromeda, which was also on Tubi, and I've been enjoying this trip down memory lane, despite Sorbo's overwhelming (and unwanted) presence. I enjoyed all the characters except for him. I loved the crew of the Eureka Maru (forever said about Rev Bem), I loved Rommie, the Android version of the ship itself, and I especially loved Tyr.

Twelve-year-old me didn't understand why, but twenty years later... I get it.

People actually expected me to find Dylan attractive when I had this man right here every episode.

This man who wpre leather pants and chain mail and fishnet tank tops, his arms forever on display.l, looking like a whole ass meal and dessert.

The more I go through it, the more I think Captain Dylan Hunt should have been played by someone else... Gina Torres maybe. She has the presence and it would have been entertaining, and made more sense why Rommie would have been attracted to the captain. Hell, we wouldn't have even had to have changed the character's name.

Part of me also would have loved to have seen this show in its original context - as a spinoff of Star Trek. This whole show was based off of unused ideas by Gene Roddenberry, and so I can't help but see it.

The Commonwealth is obviously supposed to be a knockoff of thr Federation, so Dylan Hunt is Captain of a Star Fleet vessel and on a diplomatic mission, they're ambushed by the Nietzscheans (I like the idea of them being a new species introduced as opposed to a knockoff version of Vulcans, Romulans, or Klingons) and the Andromeda gets stuck in a black hole for 300 years. I would have loved to have seen how the galaxy would have been 300 years after the fall of the Federation, instead of this dream of restoring a Commonwealth that we have no attachment to.

I'm enjoying this trip down memory lane with all of these old scifi and sword & sorcery shows from the late 90s and early 2000s.

[dreamsequencer]

So. I never thought I had a type before but uh. Hm.

Ladies and gentlemen, the characters I'm currently most attracted to... there may be a pattern here.

[thepetitepiper]

Andromeda Shipping

I loved the show Andromeda when I was a kid. I totally shipped these two cutie pies!

Harper and Trance

Still do! <3

Years later, I found out that some fans used to ship these two...

...and I’m not mad at that.

[shinobicyrus]

“Ship, How many missiles can we fire in fifteen seconds?”

How Tyr Anasazi deals with Space Nazis.

[harognakosh]

These are some bad-ass men.

We got Heimdall of Thor, Tyr of Andromeda and my personal favorite, Teal'c of Stargate SG1.