We watched the first half of the new Andromeda Strain mini-series on A&E last night…

So far I’m pretty impressed with it.  There are obviously some departures from the original story.  In some regards this mini-series is closer to the book than the first movie, in other ways there’s more of a departure.  But there isn’t anything horribly, painfully, obviously wrong with the mini-series so far.

I’m not sure I like how they threw in the stuff about the singularity and whatnot…  Making it seem more like an alien attack than a government snafu…  But it’s early yet and maybe that’ll turn out to be another lie/cover-up.

I am greatly enjoying how it has been updated to fit our modern world.  The technology doesn’t look quite as dated as the old movie did.  It’s easy to update something like that in your mind as you read a book…but once it’s on film it is harder to visualize a modern setting when they’re showing you technology that’s just plain out of date.

The acting is, for the most part, pretty decent.  There are a couple people I’m not enjoying too much, but that’s true of just about any movie out there.

So far I’m very happy with the new mini-series and very eager to see the rest of it tonight.

Posted on May 27 at 8:24 AM