With the unforgettable characters:
Set in "the near future" (the year 2018 in the first season)
Uff.
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The 90's were peak optimism. It's all downhill from there
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.
From that little room in the back of the video store which was closed off behind a curtain.
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.
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"Darwin hates Brandis. Please, kill Brandis or kill Darwin."
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.
Also, I had no idea that his bit at the end of his 30 Rock episode was satiring that in particular.
how.. ho wwas this?
This show is pretty fire back in the day, they had some hyper intelligent dolphin doing recon for them
Named Darwin. They had some way of translating his dolphin sounds to a weird synthesized voice that was probably voiced by an actor.
I only watched it because I fell in love with Stacey Haiduk watching her as Lana Lang in Superboy
The first season was really good. The second was labored at times. The third was... something else.
But it's got Mark Hamill so that's not nothing.
Was he the dolphin?
No, he was a shapeshifting reptiloid alien trying to get back home
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've been wanting to as well out of nostalgia but I know it will be bad by today's standards, or even adult standards in general.
So I'm not going to do it.... Yet.
I did exactly the same thing.
I feel obligated to subject myself to this. But I appreciate the warning.
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.
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There were dozens of us who watched season 3.
Dozens!
The episode where Roy Scheider talks to Jonathan Brandis about using a condom was one of the most cringey things ever put on American TV.
I have never seen this show.
Live action Sealab with joxer/ted raimi
That's Countess Regina Barthalomew front row second from the left.
So this is what she and Moriarty got up to.
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A completely forgettable simulacrum
No! R2D2 got lost in the stargate! Quickly, Spok, send in the troopers to save him from Lord Zedd!
Sir, I'm afraid the troopers got their hands full with Emperor Ming at the moment.
Oh man, I forgot this ever existed. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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