>>9241855Andra was forgettable and pointless. The only thing she does is be Teela's girlfriend for a girl power trip. Her ultimate purpose is to eventually take the place of Man-At-Arms (or possibly He-Man), until then she's just background filler. A good example of the rule writers have about "if you can't think of anything your character should do to keep them in your story, you should probably kill them off", but Smith won't do that until she takes the role of Duncan/Adam or whoever.
Episodes 2 & 3 she doesn't do anything besides being Teela's pointless sidekick, Teela didn't really need her help for anything so what's her real purpose? Episode 4 she turns Roboto into a bomb, which somehow doesn't hurt Roboto, but it's as pointless as how they made Beastman useless against the zombies, authors just pulling a reason out their asses to justify Andra being there. Then there's her helping with the black smithing in episode 5, another ass pull. Duncan said he could smith the two swords together, but he's competent so the story has to have him be somewhere else for the most contrived reasons. Roboto says he can smith the swords, and when it's finally time for that, there's another ass pull of why they can't. In comes Andra with the only thing she does in episode 5 where she sciences up the hallway somehow, so Roboto can blow himself up creating the sword.
Her only arc was "I want to be a hero" but they dropped the ball on that when she stopped Tricolops from mechanizing more people, and saved the fountain village from Triclops. She could've basked in the glory of being a hero there, completed her arc, but that's not what this character was created for. One of the writers even mentioned that she got race bent because she was red head. She feels pointless and more of a committee made character created to check off diversity boxes. Black science queer baiting warrior hero main character & take role usually held by male main character