Well a very interesting episode I guess. So Tyr's son is the prophet, chosen one reborn? Wonder how that will affect things. Also somebody in the production department must be a Gamma World fan as the Knights of Genetic Purity was lifted straight from the Gamma World Rulebooks, personality and all. So a rather light but entertaining hour, after having missed all but the first few episodes of season two this season definiately feels different but not too bad. I guess.

Three good episodes in a row. I was getting ready to give up on this show.

Lolar, you beat me to the punch. I have the original Gamma World game, and I was thinking the same thing when I heard these guys.

OK, a couple of questions that I need help on to refresh my memory:

When did we learn about Dylan's and Beka's enhancements? Why were they done and what advantages do they get from them?

When did Tyr steal Drago Museti's body and why? I remember that he did, but I forgot why. Just to honk off the Drago-Katzov's?

Dylan doesn't have enhancements.His mother was
a heavy worlder so he INHERITED certain heavy
worlder traits.
I thought the Gen Kinghts looked more like
Bobba Fett in their armor.Maybe someone wanted
to spoof the new Star Wars movie a bit.
btw:Anyone catch the similarities in prouncation
between Gen Knights and Jedi Knights?
Interesting that Tyr continued to lie to Dylan
and Dylan probably knew that Tyr was lying.
Another point if Tyr's son WASN'T the Nichezean
Messiah then he would have had only a 50-50 chance
of survival;however since he did turn out to be
the Nichezean Messiah then his survival was 100%
guarenteed no matter what,you can't change what
has been predestined to be.Prophecy is not a thing
to be trifled with.

They're back!

_This_ is the Andromeda I was watching obsessively.

Comments and nits later; right now I'm just happy to have an episode that I just plain enjoyed, without the qualifier "Well, that's pretty good, compared to [fill in 2.5 ep).

I didn't really see the Star Wars tie in. I guess I was thinking power armor and mutants. :-) I have the 1981 gray cover set of rules for Gamma World and the personaltiy they showed in Andromeda was straight out of the book sysnopsis in GW. Dylan's mother was a heavy worlder and his father was a god from olympus (sorry couldn't resist.) but what this means is that he has a slightly stronger musculature and a few other enhancements from his mother's side of the family. As for Beka I have no idea.

Tyr stole the body back in first season in "Music of a Distant Drum."

It is the one thing all Niets reverence; the Kodiak pride used to be its guardians & that gave them the special peace. So, Tyr had two (at least) reasons for taking it--In his view, it was his by right, and he wants to be able to produce it at the opportune moment in order to gain control of the Niets. No one can accuse him of thinking small.

He is also now one very scary character. I mean, he always was, but the level of ruthlessness he displayed in this ep--wow!

(No--I am most certainly not complaining; it was very good writing & quite consistent with his character as we've seen it).

Tho I'm still not sure why he didn't tell Dylan that he wanted to save his wife & son--D would have bought that & cooperated with it as much or more than he did the "Stop the genocide" line. (The lie at the end, I understand; it's the earlier one I'm unsure of).

Beka's attitude re Tyr was a surprise this ep. She's smart, but I thought she liked him better than this & would be more inclined to ask him what was going on rather than talk only to Dylan. (I'm not talking the rather obvious chemistry; I mean that they are also friends).

Not being familiar with Gamma World, I thought the Knights were based on white supremicists, nazis, any human group with an obsessive ideal of 'purity', etc.

I thought Stormtroopers when I saw the white suits.

How did the head knight hear of anything that would lead him to believe that Andromeda may have been at the Battle of Witchhead?

When Tyr's wife said, "They said his father (Tyr) is an outsider" I thought, 'Well, yeah. I didn't think the Nietzcheans were into incest.'

during the episode featuring "q" i mean john de lancie as sam profitt. beka displayed the about to change her hair color at will.

Well the Gen Knights in Gamma World were rather close to what was described as well and were intended to be the stereotypical blackshirted strutting "purity of race" types that you read about too often in the news. I guess I'm just not getting the mania as I watched my tape again and still didn't think stormtroopers. Oh well thats me. It seemed like the type of imagery I would have thought the Genknights would have used. Ie white means purity, they are the pure strain humans, etc...... Just goes to show that the good guys don't always wear white. As for how the warleader found out about Dylan and the Andromeda being at the battle of witchhead there must have been some survivors who entered it into their records and when the genknights were purging a neitchien outpost they dumped their computer records and found out about it and put 2+2 together. I would think that the news of the Andromeda's return as well as Dylan's quest has spread from one end of the galaxy (galaxies) to the other. Especially among those who might find themselves on the wrong side of the quest. True like the warleader said Dylan's got a 300 year old ship but her captain and crew are very inventive and have proven themselves quite capable of handling the newer tech. As for the outsider comment I think they meant from outside of the clans or at least the approved breeding pool.

I thought the matriarch did approve of Tyr's genes in the earlier episode.

The main reason for the hatred was Tyr's costing them their home 7 livelihood. I don't think the insults were meant to be well thought out. I just thought that one insult was unintentionally funny.

(Angry people can be funny with insults. Years ago a guy I knew who, during a fight, called his brother an SOB. Since they have the same mother he was also insulting himself, his other brothers, his sister, his mom & his father's taste in women.)

"_This_ is the Andromeda I was watching obsessively."

Me too, Jessica.
And here _I_ was worrying that Tyr Anasazi was going _SOFT_.
Somebody at the Trib MUST've whispered in the Hercmeister's ear: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
And coming up next: Predators?

"And here _I_ was worrying that Tyr Anasazi was going _SOFT_."

Me too. I mean, I liked the fact that he was working with Dylan now, not against him, because it would be incredibly foolish for him to stay on the Andromeda otherwise, now that he knows Rommie would squish him like a bug (probably literallly) if he ever even seemed to have harmed her captain.

But his new tendency to stammar and wonder--well, it was fun, but, worrisome.

THIS guy, on the other hand is truly scary; completely unpredictable in a way that even early Tyr was not.

I only noticed this in the later episode with the Genknights, but I'm presuming it's here also: the creators have given them a triskelion logo that's presumably based on that of the (racist) AWB in South Africa. Nice touch.