Or maybe I should say "sail"?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
zooeyhall — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 08:22 AM)
Or maybe I should say "sail"?
I recently purchased the DVD set of this series, and watched it on my big screen home theater.
I was an awestruck 12 year old back in the sixties, watching this on TV. Fifty years later, I was pleasantly surprised to see it still packs a punch. Especially the first season. It holds up surprising well.
Which brings me to a thought: do you think a modern remake or revival of this series is something that might be successful?
"If" it could or would be done, which modern actors would be good choices for the lead roles? -
alpha128 — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 12:57 PM)
I was an awestruck 12 year old back in the sixties, watching this on TV. Fifty years later, I was pleasantly surprised to see it still packs a punch. Especially the first season. It holds up surprising well. - zooeyhall
I never watched this show until the first season was released on DVD (I own both parts). I subsequently watched Season 2 and some later episodes on-line. I agree that the first season was very well done and was the peak of the series.
Which brings me to a thought: do you think a modern remake or revival of this series is something that might be successful? - zooeyhall
Isn't that essentially what
Seaquest DSV (1993)
was?
I don't know. Maybe they could give
Voyage
the
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
treatment and just keep the basic premise and characters. The creators would also have to come up with an overarching story. These days viewers expect serialized episodes and the original
Voyage
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LAV25USMC — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:39 AM)
Maybe they could give Voyage the Battlestar Galactica (2004) treatment
TNT runs a show along those lines already called "The Last Ship". I haven't watched the show but from the description it seems to have many of the BS Gallactica elements. I imagine most would likely call it a knock off of The Last Ship (only underwater).
That said, I certainly wouldn't mind a revival or at least a movie, since doing movies of popular 60's & 70's TV shows is still a somewhat "in" thing. -
alpha128 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 11:57 AM)
TNT runs a show along those lines already called "The Last Ship". I haven't watched the show but from the description it seems to have many of the BS Gallactica elements. I imagine most would likely call it a knock off of The Last Ship (only underwater). - LAV25USMC
Actually, I have watched all of
The Last Ship (2014)
, and it hasn't reminded me of either
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
or
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
. If anything, the latest season reminded me of
Star Trek (1966)
. That's because the main character,
CO CDR Tom Chandler
, kept picking up a gun and going on all the dangerous away missions, just like
James T. Kirk
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ddc300 — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 06:10 PM)
Seaquest DSV was Steven Speilberg's take on VOYAGE. They even hired Roy Schieder because he was a thoughtful, 'Richard Basehart-like actor' (this is a direct quote from a book on the making of the series, "Seaquest: DSV").
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alpha128 — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 06:56 PM)
Seaquest DSV was Steven Speilberg's take on VOYAGE. They even hired Roy Schieder because he was a thoughtful, 'Richard Basehart-like actor' (this is a direct quote from a book on the making of the series, "Seaquest: DSV"). - ddc300
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing. -
Blueghost — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 04:27 AM)
Voyage was a product of its time, and like the other guy said, Seaquest was essentially VTTBOTS updated for a 90s audience, with some Star Trek the Next Generation overtones.
The issue is that the ocean still has mysteries, but people are just a bit more educated now than they've ever been. So how do you write a TV show that's not necessarily plausible, but at least believable in some way to be entertaining.
That's what Voyage was when it first aired. It's not really plausible by any stretch of the imagination, but people bought into the shows reality, but only partly because we didn't now as much about the sea as we do now.
I hope that helps.