Bob PeryeaSeaQuest DSV - The Devil's Window
March 2nd 2009 15:58
The Devil's Window (Season 1 Episode 1) 2.5/10 \
So, like I told you earlier, I'm watching Seaquest. I reviewed the pilot as being OK. This episode starts the down-hill slide that I believe is inevitable.
The Seaquest is ordered to assist this doctor guy with studying the "black smokers", the volcanic vent holes in the trench as the center of the Atlantic. Something goes wrong, the ship is about to collapse, Darwin, the dolphin, is let out to feed and gets sick, and the doctor whose project this is, is a loud and annoying A#%.
Let me list the problems with this episode:
1) The hull of the ship can either withstand the pressures at the bottom of the ocean or not and leveling her off, which is their solution, shouldn't change a thing. The pressure is constant and completely surrounds anything at the bottom, period.
2) Dolphins can't survive the pressures in the trench, period. Forget that he gets sick from the bacteria that live around the black smoker, he is brought back to his mother (who they found by listening to the entire Carribean) and she gives him a seaweed that cures him. (Really, I coudn't make this up! Some drug-addled Hollywood mind had to!)
3) The doctor continues to scream even after an admiral tells him that the captain is in charge. This is obviously not a military organization. No one would talk back to an admiral like that and not get thrown off the ship (or in the brig).
There are many lesser issues that come up but you get the idea. There is no suspension of disbelief.
This episode is so far from realistic that it makes it hard to watch. And to make matters worse, there is a message from a guy at Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institute at the end. They couldn't afford a science advisor?
I know this stuff because I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
What the frig were they thinking?
2.5 out of 10 is generous.
More to come. I will mine this dump until I find the gems, if there are any.
So, like I told you earlier, I'm watching Seaquest. I reviewed the pilot as being OK. This episode starts the down-hill slide that I believe is inevitable.
The Seaquest is ordered to assist this doctor guy with studying the "black smokers", the volcanic vent holes in the trench as the center of the Atlantic. Something goes wrong, the ship is about to collapse, Darwin, the dolphin, is let out to feed and gets sick, and the doctor whose project this is, is a loud and annoying A#%.
Let me list the problems with this episode:
1) The hull of the ship can either withstand the pressures at the bottom of the ocean or not and leveling her off, which is their solution, shouldn't change a thing. The pressure is constant and completely surrounds anything at the bottom, period.
2) Dolphins can't survive the pressures in the trench, period. Forget that he gets sick from the bacteria that live around the black smoker, he is brought back to his mother (who they found by listening to the entire Carribean) and she gives him a seaweed that cures him. (Really, I coudn't make this up! Some drug-addled Hollywood mind had to!)
3) The doctor continues to scream even after an admiral tells him that the captain is in charge. This is obviously not a military organization. No one would talk back to an admiral like that and not get thrown off the ship (or in the brig).
There are many lesser issues that come up but you get the idea. There is no suspension of disbelief.
This episode is so far from realistic that it makes it hard to watch. And to make matters worse, there is a message from a guy at Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Institute at the end. They couldn't afford a science advisor?
I know this stuff because I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
What the frig were they thinking?
2.5 out of 10 is generous.
More to come. I will mine this dump until I find the gems, if there are any.
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