source: seaQuest DSV
audio: Enya, "Caribbean Blue"
length: 4:02
download: 297MB on Dropbox
summary: The future lies beneath the surface.
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I loved SeaQuest DSV with all my heart when I was eight years old and I watched almost all of the first season as it aired. And then in the second season they axed half the cast (including one of my favorite characters, Dr. Westphalen) and moved it against Lois and Clark, and I didn't watch it as much. It jumped the shark almost literally at the start of season three with a timeskip and casting a mean man as the captain and that was that. I hadn't watched any of it since it first aired twenty-five years ago, but I couldn't pass up the chance to revisit it when I saw it on the list of nominations. This vid very intentionally only uses footage from the first, best season of the show, and it mostly focuses on the bits that stuck with me all these years. I leaned all the way into the 90s theme and used my one of my favorite Enya songs, even after I realized that I'd been hearing the lyrics wrong.
It was deeply fun to go back to this show, and also bittersweet. Roy Scheider and Jonathan Brandis, who were the heart of the whole story and were both quite good in it, are both dead, and only Ted Raimi did anything I've ever heard of after this. The show could have been great, and it's painful to watch all the parts that were actually quite good, especially for the time, and know that the production actively chose not to double down on them. And the future that the show envisioned never happened: setting aside all the strange technology assumptions, which are understandable, the world of seaQuest still has ice in the Arctic in 2019. I can only assume that Al Gore became president in 2001 and that catastrophic climate change was averted, unlike our current timeline where we are barreling toward it at full speed and the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching to death as I write this. Even Darwin wouldn't play the same now as he did then, given what we now know about the dolphin propensity for sexual assault. I wish I had better tidings; it's crazy what we could have had. It's crazy what we are preparing to accept. Right this minute, the future can still be changed--but not without collective action from all of us.
audio: Enya, "Caribbean Blue"
length: 4:02
download: 297MB on Dropbox
summary: The future lies beneath the surface.
My
equinox_exchange assignment, for valika.AO3 page | tumblr post
Lyrics on AZ Lyrics
I loved SeaQuest DSV with all my heart when I was eight years old and I watched almost all of the first season as it aired. And then in the second season they axed half the cast (including one of my favorite characters, Dr. Westphalen) and moved it against Lois and Clark, and I didn't watch it as much. It jumped the shark almost literally at the start of season three with a timeskip and casting a mean man as the captain and that was that. I hadn't watched any of it since it first aired twenty-five years ago, but I couldn't pass up the chance to revisit it when I saw it on the list of nominations. This vid very intentionally only uses footage from the first, best season of the show, and it mostly focuses on the bits that stuck with me all these years. I leaned all the way into the 90s theme and used my one of my favorite Enya songs, even after I realized that I'd been hearing the lyrics wrong.
It was deeply fun to go back to this show, and also bittersweet. Roy Scheider and Jonathan Brandis, who were the heart of the whole story and were both quite good in it, are both dead, and only Ted Raimi did anything I've ever heard of after this. The show could have been great, and it's painful to watch all the parts that were actually quite good, especially for the time, and know that the production actively chose not to double down on them. And the future that the show envisioned never happened: setting aside all the strange technology assumptions, which are understandable, the world of seaQuest still has ice in the Arctic in 2019. I can only assume that Al Gore became president in 2001 and that catastrophic climate change was averted, unlike our current timeline where we are barreling toward it at full speed and the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching to death as I write this. Even Darwin wouldn't play the same now as he did then, given what we now know about the dolphin propensity for sexual assault. I wish I had better tidings; it's crazy what we could have had. It's crazy what we are preparing to accept. Right this minute, the future can still be changed--but not without collective action from all of us.