With the unforgettable characters:
Set in “the near future” (the year 2018 in the first season)
Uff.
Yeah binging 90’s scifi is very soothing.
Until you hit those depressingly real near future depictions.
The third season was a skip forward to 2032 and it was somewhat better, but still pretty stupid.
Like they had an android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain. What the hell was the point of that?
Like they had an android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain. What the hell was the point of that?
I’m sure there’s a contract that says if you employ one DeLuise brother on a show you need to give the other one a bit part.
It would explain Wormhole Xtreme
Don’t diss Wormhole X-treme, there’s a reason it, allegedly, performed very well on DVD.
android character who was a great big guy but had a simple, child-like brain
kind of AI like, when you think about it.
Except I literally mean childlike. He talked like he was a preschooler. It was super stupid.
And I looked it up later last night since I have not watched that shit since the 90s and it turns out actually no, he’s not an android, he’s part of a genetically engineered species of subhuman slave that most people seem totally cool with in 2032 and some people are bigoted towards them. Also, he looked like he was in his 30s, which means that the ‘breed genetic slaves that talk like preschoolers’ program should have started around the time the show was being made. Weird that no one noticed.
Also also, the bigoted term for them is GELF, which is amusing if you know Red Dwarf. Especially since it’s for the same reason.
I didn’t read that whole comment, because I don’t want any spoilers as I might try this show as it’s one of the rare 90’s scifis I don’t think I’ve seen.
Trust me, don’t. If you want mostly forgotten 90s sci-fi, there are so many better choices: Odyssey 5, Jeremiah, Earth 2, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Lexx.
Even animated ones like Invasion: America and Exosquad are better. Plus, Invasion: America has Leonard Nimoy in it!
Seriously, I would put Sliders above either SeaQuest DSV or SeaQuest 2032 and it sucked.
I disagree pretty strongly with Squid here. The first season was great but it went pretty sharply downhill after.
The reason it failed was that it didn’t mimic Star Trek enough, with geopolitics and court room episodes.
But Star Trek could learn something by having an astrophysicist come on at the end of the show and talk space science like this show did with Robert Ballard.
how… ho wwas this?
This show is pretty fire back in the day, they had some hyper intelligent dolphin doing recon for them
The first season was really good. The second was labored at times. The third was… something else.
i just recently downloaded this/added it to my library last year. it did not age well. it was pretty awesome back in the day, but its kinda hard to watch now
I remember being fond of the first season, but it was definitely “wet star trek,” complete with a Tiger Beat suitable version of Wesley (RIP Jonathan Brandis, who got chewed up and spit out by Hollywood), especially by the end of season 2 when I stopped watching, apparently along with everyone else.
I watched all the seasons.
It was kind of poetic that a show about a submarine went so far off the deep end.
This would have been a great show … because we haven’t really explored the ocean depths in real life … I think only 20% of the ocean floor has been mapped so far and of that mapping it wasn’t very detailed.
Nah that’s a common misconception, a lot of the ocean is mapped to enough resolution to know there’s basically nothing there. A lot of the ocean floor is a barren desert with nothing much going on. Some parts have been thoroughly studied, where interesting stuff is going on and where we’ve put infra like all of the undersea cables (which are a lot). All of it is mapped to some resolution and some parts at higher resolution (you can see on Google maps lines where ships have gone through with better mapping abilities). So saying it hasn’t been “explored” or “mapped” is simply false, it has been mapped and has shown to be not interesting. So no nobody went down there, nobody got pictures or centimeter level mapping, but we know how water and sand looks so why bother? It’s this implication of something unknown and mysterious, whilst in reality we’ve just been efficient in what to find. And yes there are new species found in the ocean every day, but you’d need to be an expert to even tell them apart from other species we already know about. There isn’t something big and interesting we don’t know about. It’s a nice story to tell, but it isn’t real.
That said, we still get surprised.
This is a myth, and my heart aches for this show might have contributed to it. We have detailed maps of all the ocean floor, with more or less the same variance as our dry surface maps. We have been to most of the more interesting, extreme and dramatic parts of the depths. Hell, there are oceanographic channels that live stream from deep under on the regular. Sure, there are surely still some things we haven’t found, thousands of sunk ships too small to know exactly where they ended up in, or natural phenomenon we probably haven’t documented yet. But, on the grand scale of science, we know the ocean floor rather well.
Shout out to EVNautilus.
Here’s a neat podcast that talks about this specific myth.
