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Unworkable Premise?

posted 9 years ago by powersroc
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I enjoyed SQDSV.Fantastic artistic designs,excellent production values & likable cast.
But as we all know it went through producers,writers,cast members & changing concepts that all created a rather messy history.

My question to everyone is can a weekly sf-TV show about a futuristic submarine really work?

Is there enough story potential to keep such a series intriguing week in & week out? Or is the basic premise too limited for a weekly show?

The oceans cannot really offer the story scope of outer space with new worlds,spatial phenomena,alien races,& so forth.

As much as I root for there to one day be a terrific oceanic type of sf series since outer space based shows are far more common.
I do question that they can create such a series that will run out of steam due to the limitations of the ocean setting?

[–] AStrangeOldMan 9 years ago

Can this premise work.
It already did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Bottom_of_the_Sea

No fate but what we make. -Terminator II

[–] powersroc 9 years ago

Guess I should rephrase the question as to whether anyone can do a quality undersea sf TV series?

VTTBOTS devolved after its first season into a monster-of-the-weak show.
And Irwin Allen never let character development,plot holes,good science ever get in the way of any of his stories.

Seaquest DSV did do a number of decent episodes. However,they also accumulated a goodly number of poor ones along the way.

I'd love to see a great sf series set below the seas. Futuristic submarine,or an entire city such as the one in Allen's TV-Movie City Beneath The Sea.

I just don't know if there is simply enough story material in such an environment.

Perhaps some visionary does have an idea for creating & doing a weekly show that would work beautifully.

[–] jakeconhale 9 years ago

I think so, I think it had finally hit its stride in season 3 - it had an entire corrupt world to play in - Deon, the Chodai, Macronesia, etc. Granted, they still had that bizarre Cuban Missile Crisis episode, but things were working. This was the world promised in the pilot, with the confederacy conflicts that never appeared.

Jake Meridius Conhale, at your service!
"Old Man" of the BSG (RDM) boards.