To be honest, I'm an 1980 born guy and absolutely loved the show. There were a few plot issues granted, But overall the show was excellent.
The whole thing that I loved about the show WAS the little bit of action/combat, but most of all, the environmentalism aspect. As a 13yo kid, and a boy scout at the time this show came out, It not only taught me a lot, but at the same time was great to watch. It's more commonly known as Seaquest DSV by the way, rather than SeaQuest 2032.
Anyways, The whole purpose of the SeaQuest was for Scientific Research, Peacekeeper, and Environmentalism. It wasn't made for combat or such. Well, originally it was, but after Captn Stark decided to do what she did, they refitted the entire ship to focus more on the environment, research, science.
About the middle of Season 2, the show started going Sci-Fi and was getting to be far fetched by the end of it. Roy Scheider, aka Nathan Bridger, did NOT like this whatsoever. He basically made it bluntly clear that he would not continue with the show if this continued. The Producers refused to listen to his arguments about the show being realistic in ways, science, educational, fun, entertaining all at the same time.
The first 1 1/2 season, about 35 episodes or so, were what Scheider wanted the show to stay like. To him, they were FUN to live, to record, etc. This show was his dream at the time, and then the producers decided to turn it more sci-fi like someone here said, more Trekkie. Scheider told them "I'm OUT" and they tried to find a replacement "Captain" to take his position in the show. In all honesty, the show MAY have continued further with realism, if they'd given Commander Ford the Captain position, but he refused before the offer was made, also due to the Sci-Fi nature it turned into.
The whole thing that I loved about the show WAS the little bit of action/combat, but most of all, the environmentalism aspect. As a 13yo kid, and a boy scout at the time this show came out, It not only taught me a lot, but at the same time was great to watch. It's more commonly known as Seaquest DSV by the way, rather than SeaQuest 2032.
Anyways, The whole purpose of the SeaQuest was for Scientific Research, Peacekeeper, and Environmentalism. It wasn't made for combat or such. Well, originally it was, but after Captn Stark decided to do what she did, they refitted the entire ship to focus more on the environment, research, science.
About the middle of Season 2, the show started going Sci-Fi and was getting to be far fetched by the end of it. Roy Scheider, aka Nathan Bridger, did NOT like this whatsoever. He basically made it bluntly clear that he would not continue with the show if this continued. The Producers refused to listen to his arguments about the show being realistic in ways, science, educational, fun, entertaining all at the same time.
The first 1 1/2 season, about 35 episodes or so, were what Scheider wanted the show to stay like. To him, they were FUN to live, to record, etc. This show was his dream at the time, and then the producers decided to turn it more sci-fi like someone here said, more Trekkie. Scheider told them "I'm OUT" and they tried to find a replacement "Captain" to take his position in the show. In all honesty, the show MAY have continued further with realism, if they'd given Commander Ford the Captain position, but he refused before the offer was made, also due to the Sci-Fi nature it turned into.