• Come on.. re-taking the ship has been a theme. How come they’re so lame at it? How come they knocked people out but didn’t actually secure them? How come they didn’t re-arm properly?
• 30:25 — The wires were hanging out when she was almost closing it, then they weren’t as it was being closed. =/
• 37:50 — You see, shooting the chains wouldn’t loosen the cuffs.
• 38:10 — Escape pods? Why would they require ship power anyways?
• 40:00 — Uh, what’s with the three-button remote? Why can’t he use a console? How many button pushes would it take for him to shoot a defensive missile anyways?

• 7:40 — You see, they’re called nanobots because they are really small. So small that they are defined by how many nanometers long they are. This is small enough to be a molecule-sized things. So small that a logo doesn’t fit on it. The idea of a symbol does not compute. It’s like tattooing the surface of an atom. There’s no such concept.
• 13:30 — Good thing that’s an armoured couch.

• more pathetic re-taking the ship action.
• 31:45 — “Long story” .. The sword and wig are from season 5, disk7 ep1 of Hercules – The Legendary Journeys – (1995-1999 show).
• 37:00 — Uh, ejecting the core would be EJECTING HER ONLY CORE.

• 4:10 — The rocks are so near Andromeda that they could be gathered out of space, right? But I guess they were going fast, which means the rocks would have been ejected and themselves would be going fast..

• A ship that far away wouldn’t shake things up that much for that long.

• 2:10 — You see, in space there’s NO AIR. So turbulence doesn’t exist.

• 6:45 — Dead for like three years now? Wrong. That’s according to Dylan’s timeline. According to Harper’s timeline it would be 8.
• 7:00 — Big warning bells go off! Where in the heck did he get anything? Did he always have that on him? No, then where did he get it? From the evil, of course.
• 8:22 — The quantum teleporter? What in the hell are they thinking? Don’t they have super-cool doorways which can transport anything to the various planets? Why don’t they bring it up and at least dismiss it as being too difficult to use for this circumstance (i.e. the door is on the wrong side of that planet or leads into enemy territory)
• 10:24 — Three years? Wrong.
• 27:24 — No, you’re actually still moving towards the suns.
• 28:50 — Ok look, all this fucking shark jumping does NOT make up for the bad writing and season plot. Well, the plot for the last few seasons..
• 39:19 — Of course, that could be anyone on that ship, or it could be a drone or remote-piloted or something.
• 40:00 — Uh, so how did he record that message ahead of time like that?
• 41:30 — How about we collect the body and have a funeral?

• 25:52 — You see, if Tyr’s son was the progenitor’s reincarnation, then his son would look like this guy. But .. uh. Sigh.
• And how in the hell did they get a sample of Tyr’s son’s DNA?
• 27:20 — Notice how his face is healed? If our man wasn’t so pumped up maybe he would have noticed..
• 31:45 — Nice Back to the Future – (1985 movie) thing. But you see.. there’s nothing stopping him from capturing Drago and locking him up for life. Did anyone think of that?
• 35:00 — The thing about punching someone in the face until they die is.. that hammering on their chest doesn’t bring them back to life.

• 00:59 — Trans’ sun? But this hasn’t been mentioned before..
• 37:00 — Yes, this show has gone to the dogs..
• 40:40 — Explain what “getting her” means.. oh good, she just mysteriously appears.

• 8:50 — That bin she’s carrying is a collapsible laundry bin from IKEA. =)
• 9:00 — Oh, the light across the eyes gag. How.. lame. Very Star Trek – (1966 show).
• 22:30 — I really hate when they show something on a monitor and then switch views. Would we see the outside of the ship as part of that recording? No we wouldn’t.
• 23:15 — “Dear one”.
• 40:30 — Explain what the fuck just happened. How is she safe? She was doomed before..

• 19:00 — “They’re alive!” is from Frankenstein.

• The title of this episode, Totalled Recall, is a play off of Total Recall – (1990 movie).
• 1:05 — Uh, isn’t go played by putting pieces down on the board, and not by sliding them around?
• 3:15 — Uh. Yes, that would have been a neat feature. FOR THE LAST FOUR SEASONS. I guess nobody remembered that one. Or people thought the shock-stick gag was good enough.
• 16:30 — Wouldn’t she be collecting dust or something? You know.. after 60-100 years. There’s a window right there too, so stuff would float in. No cobwebs or anything.
• 18:10 — Aha, it’s not a window, and they’re in space. So there must be also be air scrubbers taking out the dust or some such.
• 19:50 — 6 days? Was he shaving during that time or something?

• 8:00 — Seeing dead people!
• 13:00 — He’s drinking again?
• 16:20 — Speaking of chest. I guess her absence was because.. well she’s a MILF now.
• 19:39 — But Romy shouldn’t have superior parts or anything. Or maybe she was salvaged from parts on the Andromeda so she’s a match? So Doyle has some missing bits and she has some missing bits?
• 26:30 — The list and naughty and nice reference is from “He’s making a list, checking it twice, going to find out whose naughty or nice.” which is a part of a Christmas song.
• 28:25 — How come all those sparks appeared in the two sides of the corridor?
• 26:05 — Noone died? How about all those antisocial people living underground?
• 39:00 — No problem, just open multiple portals and shred that sun into different directions into slipstream.
• 40:30 — Romy’s memories didn’t haunt her anymore anyways. She already explained that she didn’t have nightmares anymore.

• 6:25 — Wait a second.. a moment earlier the small section of the panel which Harper was working on had a blue outline.
• 15:45 — Dr. Zaius? =)

• 11:20 — Uh, Methos 2? What’s that?
• 18:25 — “We are not the droids you’re looking for” is from Star Trek – (1966 show) s01e04 I believe.
• 18:50 — But they can both go at super speeds and all that. So what’s the deal?

• 2:05 — What Women Want – (2000 movie)

• 6:20 — Summerville. =)

  • FIXME – is this from the second superman tv show? (the young version)

“Life is a carnival,
but the tents are folded before dawn”

Beano Tavalis,
the Armendago Caper,
CY727

• 6:15 — The entire crew was just described as dead, and yet the opening credit shows them.

• 40:15 — .. because after finding something, that place is the last place you look.

What a shit episode.

“Inanimate objects and sentient beings
obey the laws of nature.
Without discrimination.
Environment is their only conscience.”

Vedran Inscription
Departure Slates
005 AT9

• 18:00 — Doesn’t the Andromeda use a sun to refuel? Or is it particular stuff? I can’t remember.
• 20:00 — Fucking sexism.
• 39:45 — What, does he have an Andromeda app on his mobile?
• 41:15 — How the fuck, wait what? You took energy, reversed mass depletion, what?

“Throw them all away,
but don’t predict where your foot will fall;
the first and last steps are the same.”

Seefra-6 Inscription
228-AT9

• 6:30 — The fuel thing is a reference to mummies being used as fuel in places which didn’t have much firewood.

• 36:30 — How is she immune to it?

  • Oh, she is immune to it. Because reasons.

“What is faith then but persistent hope
in the face of relentless doubt.”

Brother Carmen Jane
A CASE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
CY 10087

• 20:00 — Personally I would have shot him.
• 32:00 — Wasn’t Becca fiddling there a couple of episodes ago?
• 32:00 — Those are references to that actor leading in Hercules – The Legendary Journeys – (1995-1999 show)
• 32:30 — I thought force lances were keyed to peoples’ DNA..

“Official secrets keep good lies
turning in every mouth.”

High Senator Bonn,
Fifteenth Congress of Tal
CY 3343

• 11:00 — I know that actor (man) from Stargate SG-1 – (1997-2007 show)

Fuck this is so bad..

“Contrast is the wellspring of desire.
A double-loop matrix
within the eternal continuum.”

Metaphysical Conclusions of Jacob,
All Systems University, Special Collections
CY 9030

• 20:00 — See also Groundhog Day – (1993 movie)

“In the absence of doubt,
there is no change.”

The Memories
175-AT9

• 4:45 — They shoot him. Roll credits.
• 10:30 — Casual misandry.
• 10:45 — He’s got a gun. Other people have guns.

• 21:15 — Oh fuck off. It’s one thing to maybe possibly get away with bending a gun barrel, but super speed? Such bullshit.

Such trash.

“Marshall your forces,
O great Generals.
The cost of victory
exceeds the cost of defeat.”

Joheean Koll
Wars of the Ramayin Frontier
cy 459

Oh god it’s been months since I’ve seen this show.

• 8:30 — The Equalizer was the nickname of the Colt Single Action Army handgun.
• 18:30 — Manhole
• 26:45 — Wow, she’s beautiful.

“Hold.
Herein a vast journey lies
in the span of an instant.”

Seefra-One Chamber Inscription
Vedran
005-AT9

• 1:15 — That was a reference to her being on her period.
• 3:00 — This is the kind of shit that made this show fail hard.
• 9:00 — So bad.
• 36:45 — So bad.

“If the race goes too swiftly,
victory goes to those
who are willing to fail.”

Lambert Krill
executed
cy 689

• 1:15 — Music

• 4:00 — If Dillan was able to whisper to thank her for interrupting, then wouldn’t his communicator also be quiet enough for people to not overhear that readily?

  • Oh good, he was just interested in the weather or some such.
• 21:00 — Why was there a flashback to his ancient predecessor?
• 21:45 — What’s with all the stupid fading?
• 22:30 — There’s a lot of shark-jumping.
• 25:15 — Who’s Prius?
• 30:00 — Of course Raday didn’t kill him.. how was he even killed? Choked to death? But he wandered around until Dilan found him, so he didn’t die there against that wall.
• 31:00 — None of that makes any sense. “Do what you have to do” and “the choices you make” cannot co-exist. Compulsion and choice?

• 39:45 — This whole thing is bullshit and just bad writing.

.. so bad.

“The mirror is a window through
which we see ourselves —
reversed and without form.
Our deepest lies reborn, true.”

Wayfinder Hasturi
A.K.A. “The Mad Perseid”
afc 217

• 4:15 — Uh, this is handy bullshit. So his exit stayed positionally fixed to the near region of his entrance? Even into this other universe..
• 8:15 — Or ferry them up through the tesseract doorways established a couple of episodes ago.
• 19:45 — Recombinant DNA

• 25:15 — So shoot down the probe.

  • 26:00 — Called it.
  • 26:15 — So use the Maru. Oh, called it.
• 37:30 — Since when do solar flares work like that? They’ve dipped into black holes and shit.

• 30:15 — God, so much shark-jumping.

So what the fuck is going on with this entire episode?

“In the middle of the fight we knew:
They had come at us like legends.
One hundred up and one hundred down.”

Vedran Fable
“Amidst the Tribune and the Fireworks”
cy 512

• 9:30 —

  • Guillotine
  • Crucifixion
  • Castration
• 15:15 — Why would Raday wreck everything at his place.
• 17:30 — What the fuck is going on?
• 23:30 — I was wondering if she had an escape pod, but I figured a ship that size wouldn’t.
• 33:30 — For the fading effect, see Back to the Future – (1985 movie)
• 38:15 — None of that made any sense. I mean, I get bits and pieces, but where the fuck did he come from, the past? What the hell?

“Celestial digressions make great
first impressions.
I drown in your halo.
You orbit my soul.”

Lyrics from
“Solar Flares Through My Heart”
cy 2891

• 11:45 — .. so retarded.
• 13:30 — “Space scouts” is a reference to Scout (Scouting).
• 15:30 — What is all this? This is fucking stupid.
• 29:45 — I thought this whole system was low-tech and low-energy. What’s with this magic energy field that just got invented for this moment.
• 31:45 — “Sometimes never”? What?
• 33:15 — I thought the system has two suns.
• 37:45 — What? None of that made any fucking sense. What was she? What’s going on? What are these super powers?
• 41:15 — She needed time? Wasn’t this like an hour later?

“The following statement is false:
the previous statement is true.
Welcome to our corner of the universe.”

Anonymous
Seefra denizen
cy 10210

Is 10210 a reference to Beverly Hills, 90210 – (1990 show)?

• 1:15 — What? None of this makes sense.
• 2:20 — Bad lip syncing.
• 4:15 — I dunno, maybe some of this was mentioned like 10 episodes ago and I forgot about it all over my long break?
• 6:00 — Why would them losing communication be meaningful at all?
• 13:45 — She was just gene-jacked, she’s nothing special.
• 18:30 — “A med-tech”?
• 30:15 — So they had to get close, even though the probe can get there and get back out?
• 37:30 — What? So now the medical cryo pod is also a rigged escape pod thing?

“The hero may find an interval of rest
on the island of the nymph,
forgetting comrades and ship and home.
Until, recalled to his great quest,
he puts again to sea.”

Aimelin Zol
“Tropes of the Ancients”
cy 9857

• 1:00 — What the fuck is a “kilotron”?
• 9:30 — Her powers are back, and yet she doesn’t teleport.
• 11:30 — So he .. stands down because (he thinks) she’s hot?
• 14:15 — So he’s falling right for it.. even though he’s been manipulated, and with the same trick, in the past.
• 14:15 — “Pinhole shwartztel radius”(?)
• 17:00 — CY 9787
• 20:30 — What? Whatidy what what? Make believe memory files singularity time what? Part of him what?
• 25:00 — Why must he have loved her? He was trapped for 300 years.
• 29:30 — Ugh, more bad lip syncing.
• 34:30 — “Don’t forget to use a conduit” is a reference “Don’t forget to use a condom“.
• 37:30 — Oh what the fuck.. them fighting in there is stupid.
• 39:00 — So much nonsense..
• 40:30 — I don’t understand what happened.

“Conceal nothing.
And watch the fools search forever.”

Psalms of Koscs
Vedran Archives
Lot 0049

• 1:00 — “Carbon block”, aka coal.
• 2:45 — Go Fish
• 3:00 — Okay, so.. it’s not coal.
• 5:00 — There’s no real thing as “cooling off” in space, so none of this really makes sense.
• 19:00 — “They’re alive!” is a reference to Frankenstein – (1931 movie)
• 29:15 — Gas can = Jerrycan

• 29:30 —

  • Carbon nanofiber
  • Deuterium
• 33:15 — I don’t understand what’s happening.
• 39:45 — “Tap a keg“

The episode title is likely a reference to Total Recall – (1990 movie)

“The door opens.
The edges meet.
Step through and you find yourself lost.
Stay where you are and you go nowhere.”

Wayfinder Hasturi
a.k.a the Mad Perseid
afc 217

• 0:45 — Cut his hand off?
• 3:00 — Okay.. so a new magic power for the force lances, invented just for this purpose. After this much time.
• 18:20 — Bad lip syncing.

• 19:30 — Why wouldn’t the automation give her power?

  • If it was six days, then he’ll be dead of thirst soon.

• 221:5 —

  • Sleep and dreaming
  • Dream interpretation
• 29:15 — His shot glass was full before.
• 31:30 — Id, ego and super-ego
• 40:30 — Psychedelic experience

“Title is not who he is,
the manifestor of what they cannot dream;
he takes no name where none fits.”

original Projenitor Diatribes
CY 8434

• 1:30 — Do they really expect to migrate millions like that? Even with the Andromeda? What’s its total space available?
• 4:45 — Wouldn’t they have manual control?
• 7:00 — If only there were some sort of teleportation system, like doorways that gate people between worlds.
• 8:00 — “I see dead people” is strongly linked to The Sixth Sense – (1999 movie)
• 11:30 — I’m sorry, but just how close is the sun to the planet?
• 11:45 — Odds? That makes no sense.. it would be less than 25% of the population, not a percentage chance of success.
• 16:15 — These are references to her enlarged breasts, because of her pregnancy.
• 19:30 — Why/how would she have a super-body? I thought she was made from inferior spare parts.
• 19:45 — This is possibly a nod to The Matrix – (1999 movie)
• 20:15 — 10 G would indeed kill him. Wasn’t this established earlier? Wasn’t it also established that gravity-changes would effect everyone?
• 22:15 — Epidermis. “Epidermal sacks” doesn’t seem to mean anything.
• 25:30 — The Andromeda is not full-armed.

• 26:00 —

  • “Hall pass” is from a hall monitor
  • Grounded

• 26:30 — The references to list, checking twice, and naughty and nice:

  • Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town – (1934 song), first recorded by Harry Reser and sung by Tom Stacks
  • Covered many times since, this is an extraordinarily recognizable song with lyrics that have entered cultural memory.
• 39:15 — I’m confused, weren’t they slipstreaming to get to Seefra-1?
• 40:45 — Romy’s memories weren’t in the way at all.

“Hubris made the angels of heaven into devils…
and their obstinacy keeps them in hell.”

From the Kuruvian Texts
cy 319

• 0:45 — Oh good, the Vedran chamber is indeed in use. It took a couple of extra episodes to mention this.
• 4:30 — I recognize that guy. Indeed, he was in an earlier episode. Or maybe I’m remembering this very episode.

• 6:00 — Arcology is a reference to an earlier episode, which I would link-to if I cared a lot more and had a memory that reached back that far.

  • season 4 – collection 5, cd2, ep1/2 mentions it, though I don’t care to figure out what episode that was.
• 8:00 — I figured she’s play that card, but why would they know about her?
• 9:30 — Are his bone blades flexible?
• 16:45 — I didn’t see her bucky cable their ship.

• 32:45 — “Mickey”:

  • Mickey Finn (drugs)
  • Incapacitating agent
  • Date rape drug
• 35:00 — This is a variation on the right to die. People should be, and have been, allowed their informed consent to kill them. It becomes a problem if others are lied-to or if people who cannot give consent have died this way, as with children.
• 37:45 — That fucking hair-flip thing was annoying from the very first time it was done.
• 39:45 — Lose him? But that’s just an arm lock.

“When events test men, angels then appear.”

Wayiest Verse
CY 1015

• 4:30 — What? This is the first time that the sun’s consumption has been mentioned.
• 18:45 — “We are not the droids you’re looking for” is from one of the episodes of Star Wars – (1977 movie)
• 19:00 — Haven’t we established they have super-speed and super-strength? Wouldn’t each of them be one simple hit each?
• 24:00 — The androids had weapons earlier, why are they gone now?
• 28:15 — Casual misandry.
• 36:00 — So now they have super-speed.
• 37:45 — “I guess that’s what they call a black hole.” .. makes no sense at all.

“I see through you,
now that the cycle of possibilities is infinite,
headed toward nothing.”

Seefran Love Song,
341-at9

• 2:15 — Casual misandry.
• 13:15 — Survivor guilt
• 28:15 — I don’t recognize her. It’s been too long since I’ve continued watching..
• 29:45 — Why would his children be older? I thought it had been four days..
• 32:00 — Uh, what about Becca?
• 37:30 — Oh god the writing is making the acting so stiff.

“The cycle of possibilities is fleeting.
The lash of an eye in a hurricane.”

Seefran Love Song,
341-at9

• 6:30 — Summerville is a reference to something. I just don’t know what.
• 13:00 — More dubbing.
• 15:15 — But he has the projenator’s corpse, and the matriarch.
• 15:45 — She was supposed to be on command.
• 23:30 — Those are lyrics from John Riley – (folk song), most readily-recognized by the version by Joan Baez – (1960)
• 24:30 — So where were they, and why weren’t they on command?

• 26:30 — It would have been nice for the reveal that some Nietzschian clan didn’t believe/like her, and other would turn on that one..

  • On that note, I had been thinking that a good battle plan would have been to single-out one particular clan and devastate it to demoralize the others. Getting small, less-powerful or less-committed members would have been a good idea.
• 32:30 — None of that made sense.
• 38:30 — Look at what? That “fleet” wasn’t impressive.

• 39:45 — What? I thought he was being brought in to med-deck. Why is she going out.. to bring him to a different ship?

.. so.. now what? Just some magical endy end end?