Charming and brutal

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

To be honest, I'm an 1980 born guy and absolutely loved the show. There were a few plot issues granted, But overall the show was excellent.The whole thing that I loved about the show WAS the little bit of action/combat, but most of all, the environmentalism aspect. As a 13yo kid, and a boy scout at the time this show came out, It not only taught me a lot, but at the same time was great to watch. It's more commonly known as Seaquest DSV by the way, rather than SeaQuest 2032.Anyways, The whole purpose of the SeaQuest was for Scientific Research, Peacekeeper, and Environmentalism. It wasn't made for combat or such. Well, originally it was, but after Captn Stark decided to do what she did, they refitted the entire ship to focus more on the environment, research, science.About the middle of Season 2, the show started going Sci-Fi and was getting to be far fetched by the end of it. Roy Scheider, aka Nathan Bridger, did NOT like this whatsoever. He basically made it bluntly clear that he would not continue with the show if this continued. The Producers refused to listen to his arguments about the show being realistic in ways, science, educational, fun, entertaining all at the same time.The first 1 1/2 season, about 35 episodes or so, were what Scheider wanted the show to stay like. To him, they were FUN to live, to record, etc. This show was his dream at the time, and then the producers decided to turn it more sci-fi like someone here said, more Trekkie. Scheider told them "I'm OUT" and they tried to find a replacement "Captain" to take his position in the show. In all honesty, the show MAY have continued further with realism, if they'd given Commander Ford the Captain position, but he refused before the offer was made, also due to the Sci-Fi nature it turned into.

I agree with "Kylic" that the boobs at NBC didn't know what they had. However, I don't think the show was that original. To me SeaQuest was a redo of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." If you watch some episodes you might sea the resemblance. Not that I'm complaining: I liked that old show. A quick comparison. The Seaview was the most advanced sub -- as is "SeaQuest". Both explored the ocean, both fought bad guys. Both dealt with E.T.s, time travelers and weird science. The two leading men on each show were at times babe magnets. "Voyage" had a smaller cast especially compared to "SeaQuest" in season 1. But the crews did comparable duty. Though SeaQuest had an ensemble look to it.All in a show a that was badly abused by a network.

Here are my favourite episodes of seaQuest DSV:To Be Or Not To Be (90 minute pilot). Despite being known as a movie star, I wish to say that Roy Scheider did his best acting in this pilot episode. Roy very reluctantly takes command of the supersub and his exchanges with the crew and confusion over the workings of the sub make for great viewing. However, not a perfect ep, no seaQuest ep is perfect, the CGI underwater effects do not work for me as my lifetime exposure to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea has given me views on how a submarine series should be produced.SeaWest (episode 10) The supersub goes to a rather false looking (and false sounding) Australia, underwater. But despite being phony (to an Aussie like me), this story of down and dirty miners is cool. Note: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea never went Down Under! This was the first episode since the all-important pilot to really capture my interest.Greed For A Pirate's Dream, highlighted by great characterisation from the regulars and that nut scientist from episode two returns. The scripting here is very good and we have shades of a disaster movie as the island folk refuse to leave the island despite knowing that doom is around the corner.Whale Song, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea-ish episode as the military orders Bridger to take the sub into combat and destroy a sub. The early scene of the remains of a beached whale is of motion picture standard. The all-male crew of the trouble making submarine has a Voyage/Sea-look. Abalon (see my review of this episode on the episode list link).Higher Power, season final and things really do end, characterisation moments come thick and fast in this gem of an episode.Daggers (year two opener), Genetically engineered people cause trouble in this high energy ep. Meltdown, A 200 foot crocodile makes trouble for everyone...and the ending of this hour is very well scripted. Not a very popular episode with many but this stuck-in-Irwin Allen monsters-reviewer likes it. Lostland, The crew get taken over by the curse of an ancient warrior's helmet and Scheider's bad guy acting makes this. A top episode that captures tiny shades of 1960s Irwin Allen.Thanks to a DVD release, seaQuest is getting new viewers who can be thrilled by NINE minutes of "deleted" footage from the pilot! The footage should never have been removed, however, I admit that one deleted moment on the enemy submarine looks a bit too goofy (a crewman gets zapped to death), this bit just does not fit the pilot...but I like it.

I really liked the first season of this show, for all it's randomness it was still a nice change. Although it needed more work on the relationships between the characters, the first season's characters were the best. I even liked the much-criticised talking dolphin (what 12 year old wouldn't??)Season two - it was all down hill from there (with the man-eating plant, etc) and you stopped caring. Then they went into space and came back 10 years later with a new name. I stopped watching at this point.Could have been done much better.