I love the Andromeda March and the whole commissioning ceremony. 1:26 Derek Wildstar's bite me look as the Andromeda passes what is probably the equivalent of a low end yard craft he is currently commanding is pure gold. In a way it was sad to see how the Yamato's crew were tossed aside to less distinguished positions in the Cosmo Navy after they had literally risked it all to save the Earth. How quickly heroes are forgotten.
The Yamato crew were thought to be too dangerous for the old politicians left on the earth, because they afraid that their dignity would be faded or erased facing to the splendid heroic acts. Heroes' accomplishments are always overwritten by regimes.
I don't ever remember seeing the Andromeda's commissioning ceremony scene. First time seeing it here. And many of the battle scenes are played out differently than the version I see here. Andromeda had a different captain too.
Haha I used to love this show as a kid. I remember this episode, the Andromeda was cutting edge and supposedly better than the Yamato. Btw I still love this show as a grown 52 year old man and I don’t care what you say. 😂
Interesting in sci-fi how many parallels we see in an older ship vs a newer ship meant as a replacement. Yamato/Argo vs Andromeda Enterprise after her refit vs Excelsior Reboot Battlestar Galactica vs Pegasus
I presume you're talking about the Battlestars 'Galactica' and 'Pegasus' that were used in that "totally despicable re-imagined, Ronald D. Moore remake". And not the 'original' ship(s) from the 1978 series, that was so ruthlessly "kicked to curb", when everyone shamelessly 'gushed' over Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined masterpiece, yes?
Is this theme a metaphor for life, specifically for one generation watching another come up and take over? They are stronger, smarter, and appear supremely confident but something is just...missing, and that is just our identity with the older values, the older life, the older ship. As older folks we've fought our battles, resisted temptation (hopefully), and have attained a measure of sense of self upon which we can rely but our confidence is tempered by our encounter with reality. Youth and their endless optimism that they can remake the world in their own adolescent image. Oh, well. This is rambling. I appreciate your comment.