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Does anyone else get reminded of Lee Holdridge's BEASTMASTER theme when hearing the seaQuest main theme? I get reminded of Battlestar Galactica when I hear the BEASTMASTER theme, honestly.
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Jun 24, 2020 - 6:22 AM
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JGouse0498
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SeaQuest Season 2 is probably the hardest downturn in terms of writing quality I've ever seen from a television show. It flat out sucks. But the one thing that really improved was the music: Debney and Davis really brought a lot of fire to that show. I distinctly remember an episode where the crew is attacked by some sort of squid or tentacle monster and Davis has a roaring action cue that predates his score to The Beast by a year or two. I vaguely remember that plot (my goodness, it's been so many years!), but, yeah, the stories started to really get ridiculous. The last two episodes in particular just really jumped the shark in terms of the aliens and the water planet. I was just reading an old article from 1994 where Roy Scheider had rather blunt, colorful, and critical words to describe that second season ("childish trash"). I guess when he successfully jumped ship (no pun intended), they realized they needed to course correct for Season 3--except instead of going back to the show's roots of being more rooted in science-fact rather than fantasy, they went for all-out militaristic and ended up crash-and-burning hard. *** The article, in case anyone is interested: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-09-13-9409130211-story.html
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Jun 24, 2020 - 6:38 AM
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LeHah
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Does anyone else get reminded of Lee Holdridge's BEASTMASTER theme when hearing the seaQuest main theme? I get reminded of Battlestar Galactica when I hear the BEASTMASTER theme, honestly. SeaQuest's theme always sounds like The Abyss to me? I vaguely remember that plot (my goodness, it's been so many years!), but, yeah, the stories started to really get ridiculous. The last two episodes in particular just really jumped the shark in terms of the aliens and the water planet. I was just reading an old article from 1994 where Roy Scheider had rather blunt, colorful, and critical words to describe that second season ("childish trash"). I guess when he successfully jumped ship (no pun intended), they realized they needed to course correct for Season 3--except instead of going back to the show's roots of being more rooted in science-fact rather than fantasy, they went for all-out militaristic and ended up crash-and-burning hard. To say Roy was unhappy with Season 2 is a pretty vast understatement. Terrific actor, don't get me wrong, but Lord was he wound tight. All you need to know is his blow ups over this and Jaws 2 to see the guy was extremely (over)serious about quality control in terms of his projects. I remember the Alien subplot stuff as being bad but not nearly as bad as the crew finding Neptune or an underwater black hole(?!). Thats what happens when you replace your producers midstream (Mind you, the replacement producers also made other fine television shows - just SeaQuest Season 2 is not on that list!) I remember checking out of the show when S3 started but have since heard that most people said it was the best in the series. Couldn't get past that godawful MIDI music for the title card, absolutely ghastly, even for its time
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For what they were, the alien episodes in year 2 were pretty good. The season finale, while very far from the original concept of the series, was kind of devastating. Especially when you consider that was how they intended to close the series: all but two of the characters dead and the ship destroyed on another planet. The third season premiere had the unenviable job of changing course and wrapping that up, and it was awkward, but still a good episode. The series got more mature and less ridiculous as it went on. Sadly, giant undersea monster stories wokred well in the 60's and in Sam Raimi produced syndicated shows (which were tongue in cheek at best), but were an ill fit for SeaQuest. The show really got bizzare that season.
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Jun 24, 2020 - 7:12 AM
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JGouse0498
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To say Roy was unhappy with Season 2 is a pretty vast understatement. Terrific actor, don't get me wrong, but Lord was he wound tight. All you need to know is his blow ups over this and Jaws 2 to see the guy was extremely (over)serious about quality control in terms of his projects. You've got a good point there. In fact, I think "wound tight" might be an understatement! For Jaws 2, Universal had to twist his arm and enforce his contractual obligation to return. I remember checking out of the show when S3 started but have since heard that most people said it was the best in the series. Couldn't get past that godawful MIDI music for the title card, absolutely ghastly, even for its time Again, many years since I've seen it, so I just pulled it up on YouTube. UGH!!! That truly is horrible!! Honestly, I only remembered the Debney theme. Please tell me the rest of the Season 3 music isn't that caliber
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Again, many years since I've seen it, so I just pulled it up on YouTube. UGH!!! That truly is horrible!! Honestly, I only remembered the Debney theme. Please tell me the rest of the Season 3 music isn't that caliber While I honestly liked the season 3 theme, it wasn't nearly in the same league as the original. The music by Russ Landau was awful in the second season but a little bolder in year 3. However, it was primarily synth driven (or sounded that way). When David and Debney left the series, they took the musical soul with it.
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"It's not even good fantasy. I mean Star Trek does this stuff much better than we can do it. To me the show is now 21 Jump Street meets Star Dreck." ...Tell us how you really feel Roy
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Another fault with the liner notes for Seaquest.. The notes make reference to a ' hologram butler '.There was a holo display in Bridgers quarters but it was no holgram butler.It was an image of an old Professor mentor of Bridgers that he nicknamed ' The Old man '.Bridger sometimes used this interface to seek council.
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