What did Kevin Sorbo do?

I read that Sorbo wasn't fond of the serialized writing of the series that was established from the beginning and campaigned to make the show more episodic and more Dylan-centric. As a result, showrunner Robert Hewitt Wolfe was eventually fired and the show quickly went to hell in a handbasket.

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http://www.agonybooth.com/tv/Gene_Roddenberrys_Andromeda_Series_Review .aspx

After Andromeda was put out of its misery (and ours), Sorbo changed career directions by starring in Christian-based movies, such as God’s Not Dead. Fine, but what irks me is that he eventually said that removing Wolfe from the show was a mistake, which begs the question of why he championed it so much when it originally occurred. In recent years, Sorbo has also claimed that Hollywood stopped giving him roles because he’s a Christian, and the fact that he’s simply a lousy actor has nothing to do with it.


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I never watched the show when it was on. I kind of resented the idea that Sorbo was doing a new series, because I was such a big fan of Hercules.

He underestimated the intelligence of the viewers which led to him getting several of the best writers involved fired and then dumbed down the show because we the viewers were too stupid to grasp complex serialized shows.
He also had such overblown ego that he at the same time changed the show so that it was all about his character.

Basically, he did what he had to do as star of the show. Lead actors often have the "executive producer"-title attached to their contracts, since it allows them better royalties from re-runs.

As leads and exec prods they also have it written in their contracts that they have to act as the public faces of a project, endorsing whatever the main line of the production company is supposed to be at one time or another.

Tribune and several of the writers, including Wolfe as first head writer and many on the original writing staff, had differences, mainly about how ratings started stellar and then dropped continuously for the first year and a half. And since they couldn't meet on eye-level, Tribune fired Wolfe. Sorbo went out and did his job, taking it upon him to explain it to the press and the fans. The fans did not take it kindly.

Then, when the studio did not come up wit a head-writer replacement, a power struggle occurred between one half of Wolfe's writing staff (Kiene / Reinkemeyer) and the other (Stentz / Miller). Stentz / Miller won when Kiene / Reinkemeyer got fed up and left, whiche resulted in the former ones (both convinced Wolfe-afficionados) merrily insisting on fleshing out Wolfe-scripts into existence. Ratings continued to drop. So by the end of season 2 the studio appointed Robert Engels as new head-writer. And Sorbo went out and explained it again all to everyone asking.

Stentz / Miller were first glad about Robert Engels, then not. Over the course of season 3. they delivered very mixed bags of quality - which is understandable, seeing that they were spending most of their time lobbying their and Wolfe's cause with the fans. Engles himself was also delivering mixed bags of quality (even more mixed than S / M), which did not endear him with the fans, since HE was spending most of his time on writing confusing scripts and not communicating with them. While Sorbo went out and explained it all to... WEll, by now you know the drill.

Then Stentz and Miller left with a big and very vocal bang, complaining to the fans on how Sorbo had not fought for their cause with the studio, with Engels, publicly, etc. (In their heart of hearts they probably believed Sorbo was really Dylan Hunt.) And Sorbo went out... and so on and so forth.

In short: Sorbo became the spokesperson of every abrupt change the studio decided upon, as he was contractually bound to do. So the fans, helped along by many insinuations of Wolfe, Stentz and Miller who were roaming the fan boards, blamed it all on him.