Seaquest DSV

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Lepplady

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I've started bingewatching this series on Netflix. Dunno why.

I loved season one, but I'm not loving season two. I like the addition of the Delouise boys, but the two chicks they added irritate me. I HATE it when they throw "cute and bubbly" onto a show to attract a younger crowd. (Incidentally, that's why I stopped watching NCIS: LA. I loved that show until cute-and-perky-with-the90s-flip-'do showed up. I really, really can't stand her. How many computer geeks do they need??)

Back to the point, the doctor from the first season of Seaquest was a major part of the crew, and was a love interest for the captain. Then season 2 rolls around and she's just gone. No explanation or anything. A parapsychologist takes her place, and now the captain's making googly-eyes at her. He went from being a widower haunted by the loss of his late wife, tentatively allowing love back into his life - to a horndog that chases down every skirt on the boat. Kinda disappointing.

Also disappointing is the writing. The first season was intellectual and included storylines that, well, frankly, didn't suck. They took a decent stab at what technology in the future (now) might be like, and actually came pretty close with some of it. If only they could have foreseen flat keyboards and consoles. *sigh*

In season 2, it seems like they're cranking out implausible sci-fi that any ten year old could debunk. Keyboards or no keyboards.

And the "cute and bubbly" new helmsman just makes me want to hurl.

I love Darwin, the talking dolphin, and the characters the Deloise boys play. Roy Scheider is brilliant, as ever. I'm still saddened by Jonathan Brandis taking his own life at such a young age. But the new girls have me wondering if I even want to finish season two.
 

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Blimey. I remember Seaquest DSV. I particular remember a lass with really bright blue eyes. Fair turned my head when I was 20 or so, she did. (IMDB tells me her name was Stacy Haiduk.)
The second season didn't appear over here for quite a long time, if memory serves, but I remember reading an article in one of the now-defunct TV/SF magazines (Starburst, maybe?) that the second season had been renamed as Seaquest 2032...with the joke being that, since it came on at 20:30, 20:32 was the time when most people switched off. That, and a 'filling the gaps' read-up, told me everything I needed to know and I didn't waste any of my precious free-time on it.
 
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Blimey. I remember Seaquest DSV. I particular remember a lass with really bright blue eyes. Fair turned my head when I was 20 or so, she did. (IMDB tells me her name was Stacy Haiduk.)
The second season didn't appear over here for quite a long time, if memory serves, but I remember reading an article in one of the now-defunct TV/SF magazines (Starburst, maybe?) that the second season had been renamed as Seaquest 2032...with the joke being that, since it came on at 20:30, 20:32 was the time when most people switched off. That, and a 'filling the gaps' read-up, told me everything I needed to know and I didn't waste any of my precious free-time on it.
I think it was the third season that got renamed. Roy Scheider wasn't in season three, and it was very different. It wasn't about exploring the sea and science. It was much more militant. Season 2 was just goofy (killer plants and the last two kids on earth playing video games? Really?), and season 3 being all military just killed it off. It's a shame. The first season showed a lot of promise.
 

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I didn't even know they'd got to a third season! lol
Season 1 did hold a lot of promise (and now I come to think on it, watching S1 landed me a fellow-fan g/f for a while), but even then they seemed to have problems in fleshing out the world. It was a bit like the old Star Trek in that respect, in a way. Just a load of people crammed together in a ship, and while bigger things in the world/galaxy beyond got mentioned, they never felt weighty or real.
It'd be interesting to see what a reboot might do, though. They're resurrected worse shows with flimsier ideas, after all.
 
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I didn't even know they'd got to a third season! lol
Season 1 did hold a lot of promise (and now I come to think on it, watching S1 landed me a fellow-fan g/f for a while), but even then they seemed to have problems in fleshing out the world. It was a bit like the old Star Trek in that respect, in a way. Just a load of people crammed together in a ship, and while bigger things in the world/galaxy beyond got mentioned, they never felt weighty or real.
It'd be interesting to see what a reboot might do, though. They're resurrected worse shows with flimsier ideas, after all.
I'd love to see a revisit of this show. They'd have the technology to make the ship seem more believable, at least. The raised buttons and switches on the Seaquest make me cringe.
I'd be sad to see a Seaquest without Jonathan Brandis, though.
Sad face.
:too_sad:
 

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I'd love to see a revisit of this show. They'd have the technology to make the ship seem more believable, at least. The raised buttons and switches on the Seaquest make me cringe.
I'd be sad to see a Seaquest without Jonathan Brandis, though.
Sad face.
:too_sad:

Yeah, to be fair I don't think anyone really saw just how quickly tech was going to advance back in about 1993 (I mean, I remember seeing data padds in ST:TNG and thinking 'Nah', yet within 15 years or so we had the Kindle, then tablet PCs ), but buttons and switches? :biggrin2:
Jonathan Brandis did seem to have quite a future ahead of him back then. Just made it all the more tragic, really, and how big he would have got is one of those great unknowns. Of course, at the time I didn't like him much because the aforementioned g/f fell into a kind of swoon whenever he turned up. Or was mentioned. Or appeared in a magazine.
 

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I'm not sure if transporters can ever be viable, given that whatever you send is a copy of the original information (which is destroyed at the point of sending), so every use means you'd become a copy, then a copy of a copy, and so on until the dataset became diluted to the point where it corrupted (transporter 'accidents'! Great! ;)). Though yeah, they would take the hassle out of going places, which might make the risk worth taking for some.
Replicators, now...those I'd love to see. And sonic showers.