Seaquest DSV

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Any SFF fan knows about Seaquest DSV. As I kid I loved this show. Just the fact that I usually had no idea what was going on but still loved the show is a testament to it's greatness. On it's debut critics called it "Voyage to the Bottom of the Ratings". Ha.

I just recently found out that Season One was released last December. I wholeheartedly plan on getting it.

Let's see:

Talking Dolphin .... check!

Ultra cool futuristic underwater vessel ... check!

Interesting SFF plot ... depends on who you ask, but check anyway!

 

You're welcome

Its odd how I remember this show vs. how it actually is. I didn't pick up the DVDs as they were pretty hard to find but Sci-Fi did a marathon on the day the DVD was released. Nothing was near as enjoyable as when I was a kid and absolutely smitten with the show.

 

Exactly. As a kid I loved the show. I don't know why. Maybe it was the cool ship, or the talking dolphin. All I know is I enjoyed it to no end.

 

I remember bits and pieces of this one and it always seemed interesting. Couldn't get into it at the time but I may have to revisit it agian one of these days.

 

I loved this show as well and I felt it got the shaft by NBC in Season 3. I felt it was just getting it's legs in the ten year jump.

I was saddened to hear about Brandis' suicide two years ago.

 

Well, finding out about Brandis' suiide sure takes the fun out of taking the piss out of the show, but I'll try nonetheless.

I watched the first season of the show on Saturday evenings, without thinking much about it, and although it seemed okay, I recall a fan backlash going on at the time against teenage super-geniuses in shows at the time; I think there were three shows getting it in the neck:

The teen and his dolphin in DSV;
Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Cannot recall the other show.

Anyways, I caught the show again many years later one night when a navigator was looking at a readout which told him how many years back in time they had come, and I was struck by the thought, "who the frag designs a submarine with a dial that tells you how many years you have travelled?"

It is hard enough to swallow on Star Trek, but when designing a sodding submarine, who has the foresight to see that possibility coming up?

 

Anyways, I caught the show again many years later one night when a navigator was looking at a readout which told him how many years back in time they had come, and I was struck by the thought,

Maybe he was reading a newspaper article or something?

 

Remarkable! According to the high precision digital chronograph, it's July 9th 1947. which would explain why the chronograph has turned into this pin-up calendar.