Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

jvaldeztoo Remember great TV series such as Sea Hunt, Aquanauts and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? You would think an interest in underwater fiction would be at the top of the list a lot sooner than 1993.As such, Seaquest had a lot going for the show and its not surprising its fresh look at underwater fiction really jumped the mark for hype in its first season offerings. What slowed it down was a lot of background story and tedious placement setting up the show (much of this could have been cut out of the stories) with a lot less action than you might have expected usually mandated from other Sci-Fi series of the time (Star Trek TNG was wrapping up and Earth 2 was to debut on air a year later). And I think, for the most part, producers recognized this and went into to high gear to bump things up a notch.But the show went too sci-fi hokey, even cheesy, departing from the beautiful world that season 1 had so intricately put into place. With new actors, a talking dolphin (Darwin), and annoying hardware, these new episodes reflected changes in acting vision, and clearly some actors are "remade" from what was previously intended in my opinion. In fact, by mid-season 2, episodes are so different, that one wonders if it is a spin off of the original Seaquest series. By now, with the show so poorly initiated and driving Roy Scheider to the brink of quitting (So how do you continue a show when the lead quits? Network execs make him do a few appearances in the next season so no one notices, right? Sort of, but lame, very lame) and thusly, season 3 could only offer a badly needed dose of action in the eyes of actors, audience and execs. But this is where I think things truly go awry, killing an otherwise good idea.Instead bringing up the level of drama that challenges our fears and mystery of the sea to make it more exciting and invigorating, we only get a barrage of the supernatural ghost stories, fishermans' fantasies, space aliens and outright ridiculousness almost too much to bear. I could forgive a little fantasy here or there and even imagine it, but some of it is just shoot 'em up cartoonish crap that for the life of me seems as if it is full of scenes where costuming is focused on how good actors look in their suits rather than any hint of an entertaining story. Not fun.Sadly, it's there. It's a show that coulda, woulda, shoulda but didn't.

rockyb61 I really enjoyed the first series (and am enjoying it again on DVD), but it never really stood a chance in the UK. When it first started it had the Saturday tea-time slot (after the sports results and before the evening schedule). I'm not sure about the other regions, but on Granada (NW England) part way through series 1 it stopped being weekly - on one week then missing the next. Then it stopped completely. Some time later it reappeared on Saturday afternoon (going against the BBC's main sports programme Grandstand) and picked up from where it had left off. It then disappeared again. A year or so later, HTV (the ITV franchise for Wales, which I also received) started showing series 3 on Saturday afternoon's, which was seriously confusing for someone who hadn't seen series 2, but they didn't show the complete series. Granada subsequently showed a couple of shows from series 2, but not at a regular time and not for very long. I hope they release series 2 and 3 on DVD just to see what I missed when they were(n't) first shown.

xindi005 I am by ,unashamed admission, a big sci-fi fan. Any show that has a cool premise, stylishly sweet S/F/X, and of course a real meaning behind the futuristic gibberish. Many series have tried to fit this category, but only a few have earned the right(to me anyway) to be called as Harve Bennett(Star Trek Movies) coined "thoughtful science fiction". The series that come to mind for me are the Star Trek saga, Babylon Five, and SeaQuest DSV. The first two, of course, are based in space with using that backdrop as reference for telling today's problems, SeaQuest, however, did the same thing, but only put it just a few years ahead of us.Many have said that SeaQuest was a bad series and there have been rumors that even the series star, Roy Scheider, never liked the series. Though I cannot confirm or deny Mr. Scheider's comments, the series in a whole had a lot of promise.In it's first season, SeaQuest DSV was very creative and it gave those of us who never even cracked open a science book, let alone watch the discovery channel or TLC, the chance to learn something of the sea and the wonders inside it in a very intriguing format. I also like the design of the ship(or Sub for those that are picky); it was very cool and forward-thinking looking. Though some of the similarities to ST:TNG(namely having a super-genius kid on the show) sort of got on my nerves, but it was not difficult to overlook. This first season ended very excitingly too(won't say more than that). SeaQest, as a series had a decent start. If only they kept it in the same pace and the stories stayed in the science-possible format. The second season, though interesting in it's own right, season two was not consistent with the first season, save for the music and having basically the same cast(many of those in the first season did not go onto the second or the ill-conceived third season).The second season was passable and if they kept with that premise, it would probably have continued to a fourth season, but instead the third season went even further away from the original premise, giving a badly done post-apocalyptic future that really shouldn't have been done and this was also another cast change that just mad the series work even less( for heaven's sake, they changed the captain to someone that made season one and two Jean-Luc Picard from TNG seem like a playboy) NBC did the right thing in pulling the plug into this third season because it just got worse and dumber by each episode. A series recently did the same thing that the producers of Seaquest did and it's "new course" only bought it one season more than Seaquest.Simply putting it, SeaQuest was a good show gone disappointingly bad. If it was possible(with the untimely and tragic death of Jonathan Brandis(RIP) it may never happen), a revival of the series with it's original premise intact would be nice to see, but as mentioned before, this may never. For now onto eternity, those of us who did enjoy the series for it's uniqueness can at least enjoy the series on DVD(if only the set had SOME features on it, but that's another story).Long live SeaQuest, We still miss ya Jonathan, rest well.

Skerdog I've been watching the replays of the episodes during Sci Fi Channel's recent marathon, and I must say that I was struck by the "in your face" environmental activism in nearly every episode I've watched so far. The shows are still entertaining, but they border on annoyance with all the holier-than-thou preaching about how horrible mankind is.I am also reminded of how dark the underwater scenes were back then...at first I thought maybe I had a bad TV, but no, they're just dark. Does ANYONE know what the SeaQuest actually looks like?And you'd think with all the flack that Gene Roddenberry took for having Wesley Crusher "save the Enterprise" each week on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" that the producers of DSV would have learned their lessons and cut back on Jonathan Brandeis' (God rest his soul) role.