The original movie followed the book rather closely, but it dragged except for the first 20 minutes and the last 30, the pace could cure insomnia. I read the book repeatedly as a boy, so much so that my father still jokes about it.

When I first heard that A&E remade the sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain as a four-hour miniseries, I immediately made it a high priority for this week's viewing.

It is slow paced, faithful to the book and a lot more interesting. If you are familiar to The Andromeda Strain book or 1971 movie, you might find it interesting to see how it can go horribly wrong. As expected the effects were really good, the people looked good, the computer interface design was flawless. Things have been added to the original story that make no sense and make no sense to add: government black ops, wormholes, message from the future, ecological controversy over ocean vent mining, etc, etc. My own theory says that if you expect it to happen, there won't be a negative response, yet I am terribly angry at this mini series BECAUSE it was exactly what I expected. The problem is that I have anticipated this. Some horrible deaths and some fear of government conspiracy or terrorism is the only way tension can be achieved. People are dumber, science is a joke, people need to look good and the design must be perfect. Therefore it is normal for the book and the subsequent film from 1971 to focus on the science, on the formalism, on the way people think their way out of a situation. At that time, science was hailed as the pinnacle of human achievement and it was thought that anything is possible. During the late sixties, Michael Crichton wrote a novel about contamination with an alien microorganism.

The andromeda strain book