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1)
Dear Anonymous Poster who commented in my post about the Nostalgia Wank a few days ago:
Since you are on my flist, and I guess by now you have stopped looking if I'd ever answer your comment, ( I'll answer it here: )

2) Quickly, before I'm going to get lynched by angry Sentinel and Star Trek fans: I just deleted a bunch of comments that were weeks old, because I didn't have time to answer them before, and now it seems kind of late to reopen some discussions.
If you really think that I owe you an answer somewhere, please let me know. I really didn't want to ignore anyone.
I also suspect that I deleted some comments by accident, and now I can't find them in my mailbox anymore, which just shows that I need my own secretary.
If you want to apply, commenting doesn't seem like the most successful way to get the job. *g*

I watched the Andromeda Season 3 opener today (If the wheel is fixed? or something), and wow, that was amazingly like a bad fanfic. You know, the kind of fic with an idea that's not bad, interesting in fact, so you keep reading. You know that a better writer could make it work easily, but this one has got the details all wrong. Too many cliches, and just a little too predictable.

If the season opener says anything about the rest of the season, I'll skip straight to season 4.
And what happened to the kitten?

I have finally figured out the slash relationships of Andromeda Season 1.

The pairing of choice seems to be Dylan/Harper.
I never understood this. I can see why Harper would want Dylan, but then, Harper seems to want everything that moves, no surprise there.
But why would Dylan want Harper?
Well, he doesn't.
Harper (and I apologise in advance for offending many Andromeda fans with my next statement) is an annoying little geek with probably next to no sexual experience. He is the kind of guy that I would run away from screaming, if he looked at me in a club. He is desperate, and there's nothing worse than being desperate.
Also, imagine what would happen if Dylan really would sleep with him: unless Dylan is really into D/s, it could get boring very fast. Harper would be too excited to do anything right, and Dylan would have to order him around to get some kinda sex. And you know, I can see Dylan being into D/s, but on the other side.

Right, next pairing: Harper/Tyr.
So not happening. For exactly the same reasons: Tyr is far too much Alpha-male to be with little, desperate Harper. I haven't figured out yet if Nietzscheans would have non-reproductive sex at all, but if they did, Tyr would want the other Alpha-male, Dylan.

Which leads me to possibility number 3: Tyr/Dylan.
Oh, they want each other, no doubt. But they can't. Making the first move would be a weakness, so Tyr wouldn't do it. Dylan, sure, but I think he can't, because of his position as captain. He probably has some moral code that doesn't allow him to start affairs with his crew members. So they just dance around each other, beating their breasts whenever they feel the need (figuratively speaking of course), the human trying to prove that he is better than a Nietzschean, the Nietzschean trying to prove that he is better than the human thinks he is.
It's a nice power play, with only one problem:
No resolution in sight for all that UST.

And that leads me back to Harper, and finally my solution for that mess:
They both fuck him.
They both fuck him, and they both know that the other one fucks him, but since they can't have each other (and would never admit that they want to), they use Harper.
Harper doesn't mind to be used, at least he gets lots of sex that way, Dylan can tell himself that Harper seduced him and that he really didn't have a choice, to appease his moral issues, and Tyr - well, in love and war.... I'm sure he'll come up with an excuse.

So, there, my solution for Andromeda Season 1.

N.B.: I really like Harper, I do. I'm just pointing out how he comes across in season 1. I know that he is a genius, and I know that he deserves better than to be the playtoy for the two Alphas - kinda like a rubber chicken for the dogs. Later seasons will remedy this. I hope.

While the m/m slash situation on the Andromeda is pretty screwed, the f/f side is simple: Beka, Trance and Rommie have nice, cosy quarters with HUGE beds, where they have wonderful, loving, sexy, relaxed, hot threesomes whenever they feel like it. You know, just women loving women, soft skin and perfume, silky hair, all the time in the world...
Sometimes I almost feel sorry for the men, who always have to show that they are the strongest and best before they can move to the sex.

Now, if someone could finally find me some good fiction in this fandom, I'd very much appreciate it.

Edited: I just remembered that Jane St. Clair wrote two wonderful Andromeda fics. Neither of them is slash, though.