I'm halfway through third season, so I may as well finish it before switching at this point. I don't really expect Andromeda to be in any way positively comparable to B5, though I do like the "restore the civilization" attitude of the protagonist :).

Sure, that makes sense, I was more meaning why you started it in the first place. I have Andromeda in my big pile of sci-fi series, but it's wayyy down the list.

I was reading up on Gene Roddenberry, recalled that Andromeda is based on his scripts and decided to start watching on the spot. No comparing with other options happened - it sort of occured to me that I want to finally watch it, and I went with it.

It was based on some of his ideas that his wife had written down over the years but not on any complete works by him.

The first season was OK given it's budget but when the studio kicked out Wolfe it turned into utter garbage.

Like most syndicated show it pretty much was run into the ground by the networks, less story, more self confined episodes that can be picked up by the average Joe Dumb while flipping channels, and constant budget cuts.

They've spent like 75% of their CGI budget for the 1st season on the Andromeda model for the pilot episode which resulted in pretty much every space battle after it being a scene for scene recut of the 3rd episode from different angles.

I would not recommend that show to anyone.

Yeah, I would not recommend it either, but I had to see for myself. It feels like a wasted opportunity for a pretty good show.

Perhaps TeMPOraL finished binge watching Hercules and wanted to watch more of Kevin Sorbo's oeuvre.

(Edit after seeing T's responses - I was close!)

Haha, good one :D. No, I haven't watched Hercules at all, but binge-watching is indeed my preferred way of consuming TV series.