well like any new show it leaves you wanting more. The CGI could really do some work. i found myself looking at small things that should overlook due to bad CGI. At time the acting was so bad that it got distracting and at points it was shameful that the childish suspense was thoughtless. Be careful investing to much time into this one. Good idea for a show, nice execution on the technology but poor acting and childish suspense might lead you glad for a closure in 2 pars.

Watching Part I of Andromeda Strain became an exercise in comparing it with real life. From the very start the first most obvious flaw was the moment Jack Nash met with his Editor of the paper revealing facts about his hot story with a "security guard" standing over him. In real life that security guard would have been a "source" for leaking this information to the public. In my mind. Why was the dog, running amok on the streets of Piedmont, Utah, still alive hours after exposure when other animals died instantly - then the same dog dies from exposure much later? Didn't make sense unless I missed something. The basic premise of an entire community being wiped out instantly without the rest of the world being wise was a bit of a grasp, especially in today's technological society. As a medical professional I already know we have documented strains of resistant "super viruses" wiping out populations as a result of our own failure to properly administer potent antibiotics. (MRSA, VRE are two examples) Parts of the dialogue throughout is sorely lacking, weak and borders on the ridiculous. But this is an exercise in hollywood sensation in order to bring in those megabucks and it will probably work. If you're a realist you'll view this with a critical eye.

Total crap!!!
This was four hours (especially the last 2) of putting forth every left wing nut conspiracy theory.
Why tamper so much with the original story?
Why so much emphasis on every character rushing to leak to someone?

Dear A&E, please give me four hours of my life back!!!

Can someone please explain the following? First off, how are Andromeda's sulfur base and mutating capabilities powerless over acidoses in the drunk and the baby?

Second, how is it possible to defeat or kill the entire strain with 6 helicopters?

And lastly, how is it that the computer system within the wildfire facility, the same system capable of detecting a microscopic strain like Andromeda in the air unable to detect that the finger being used to deactivate the self-destruct protocol is not even a live finger? Hmmm. PLEASE!! I could go on and on.

This movie was so bad! What a waste and Ridley Scott! You should be ashamed!! You could have done sooooo much more with this excellent storyline.

I want my money back! Good thing it was free

I should have kept my appointment with the Proctologyst....

I wish Andromedia was real as long as it killed the producers to this loss of time production first - This is an insult to the orignal.

It paled in comparison to the original movie version of the Crichton novel.

Another "military bad, science bad" exercise in silliness. I didn't believe any of the characters. Real people do not act that way. Did I actually see the lead scientist working out while the fate of the planet was in question? Heh.

Didn't everyone notice the Time Loop factor in all of this?

I'm not a mathematician but to me this would be the second time that the People from the Future sent the Virus to the past. Think about it. There was no way that they could have known the containment code for storage the first time they sent the virus. Only the second time they sent it could they have known, because the Virus will eventually break out yet again. But there is a problem with this theory. It says to me that it will break out again and the guys from the future are warning where it's coming from (specifically the storage casing it was placed in at the Space Station). This makes no sense because...

In the end the Virus must still have to have an Origin.
It is even a moot point to even tell the Audience that it is in the containment Area aboard the Space Station because in the Future the Virus will still...

A. Be created in a Lab by someone or a Group
B. It is sent to Earth from an Invading Species bent on Destroying Humans and all life.

What I'm stating is, the Virus Will break out regardless of it being on the Space Station at the time in the Future. I thought at first that Dr. Charlene Barton would be the deciding factor in preventing the Virus but this isn't so.

These series of events will happen again and again unless there is some divergence in time preventing this from recurring.
As it stands, and I didn't read the book or if it has a sequel but to me this is just going to loop over and over again.

The people in the Future will have to tell those in the past who will create the Virus or if Aliens created it and to tell them how to stop it in the Future. I think from the moment they are stopped in the future then the past as well as the Future (Present) will be saved.This might be the only way of stopping the Paradox.

On another note:
I was wondering did Dr. Tsi Chou really have to immerse his whole body in the Coolant to get to the thumb? To me I think he could have just reached over with just a little effort. Also why so Cryptic from the future if they knew the organization would take it yet again. Kinda lame not to tell them, for so much trouble! Also does it take so much code to make a rotating insignia? It would have saved them alot of trouble and encoding if they just made a static jpeg, lol. This way they would have had more room for actual text.

In addition to the flaws noted, how would an extremophile like the bacillus infernum (sp?), which "only lives" in the sulfur-rich, low O2, high pressure environments around oceanic thermal vents, survive in the oxygen rich, low pressure environment on the surface. Not to mention, for it to have spread at, what, 60 mph or better on dry land, both the bacteria and Andromeda must have an incredible reproduction rate.

Definitely not the best adaptation I've ever seen for a book.