Customer Reviews
A great series from my childhood - By: Susan Belcher, 16 May 2008 
This was one of those TV series from my childhood that I worried about buying, things I remember though those rose coloured glassed of childish enthusiasm tend not to live up to the memory. This, however, did.
I remember that I liked the first series, I enjoyed the second better (except for the preaching at the end by Bob "the grave robber" Balard & his oceanographic institute) & the third rocked my world. Unfortunately, even though the third had the best viewing figures the tv network decided to cancel. I remember the 3rd series best (I was, & still am, a Michael Ironside fan).
The second series lost a lot of viewers because of it's 'preachy' views at the end (it was ahead of it's time in the promotion of ecology conservation) - & it wasn't necessarily the save the seal, whale, etc, that bothered the viewers but the condescending way it was put. This ecolgy section at the end was apparently the brain-child of lead actor & mechanical shark killer Roy Scheider, it was also his decision to dumb it down so much that viewers were left feeling insulted & switched off early. All this came on top of the whole submarine kidnapped by the space aliens story-line (another Scheider inspired story) & Scheider lost his lead role to Michael Ironside (season 3).
Season 3 is my preferred format, more action less preach, & we learn more about the sub & other members of the crew, & boy genius, Lucas was alllowed to grow up & become a member of the crew.
The only thing that saddens me about this series is that Jonathan Brandis (who played the so-callled "boy genius" Lucas) like many other child actors found that once he'd grown up he wasn't able to find work in the acting profession, & committed suicide in 2003. A sad footnote to a great family-friendly series.
Great but...not as good as season 1 - By: Andrew Kerr, 04 Apr 2008 This is the second series out of three that follow the adventures of Seaquest DSV. A futuristic submarine under the command of Captain Nathan Bridger (played by Roy Scheider,) that among other things help to maintain peace in the inhabited world's oceans of the not-too-distant future. The eight disk boxed set includes alll the episodes but sadly unlike the first series there are no special features included.
I enjoyed watching Seaquest when I was younger, but this time around I found that the episodes are a lot more 'unlikely' & not quite up to the same standards from the first series. Don't get me wrong as this is still a fantastic & very entertaining program it's just somewhat less believable & even a bit too far-fetched in places even for science fiction (man eating plants never did float my boat.) The two hour first episode is great & one of my favourite episodes from the series, also there are two gems "The Sincerest Form of Flattery," & "Splashdown." It becomes obvious when watching that the ante has been raised in terms of special effects & sets as this time around they are more impressive while not being over the top. Again the acting from alll is brilliant. At the end of the first series Seaquest was destroyed in the final episode, but thankfully they build another one with a few new characters including a Forest Gump like `Dagger' callled Dagwood.
We've waited a long time for Seaquest to be released on DVD & while I have my disappointments about the series & the packaging, I'm still very glad that I bought it & I'm sure you will be too.
