I rewatched all five seasons of Pacific Blue over the span of a month and can definitely see the gradual decline and reason why it was cancelled. As an impressionable young teenager when the show came out, who was also into mountain biking at the time, this show had the ultimate cool factor for me.
Upon rewatching the entire show recently, the first two seasons are exactly what I remembered: Corny 90's that played on the whole extreme sports theme with segments of skydiving, street luge, trials stunts with Hans Rey, fictional mountain bike endurance racing. There were also lots of the infamous bike chase sequences many remember. The overall premise of the show was mostly petty crimes with hopeful messaging. It has a roundness of characters like the station bike mechanic played by Lander.
The third season went downhill quick, with too much drama and love relationships that hurt the overall flow. The ending to the season is a cheap ploy of emotions.
The fourth season was starkly different... The show lost its two most suave male characters in Ferraez and Rossovich, so it lost a lot of that cool factor. The new cast took several episodes to get into the flow of matching chemistry. The writing in the fourth season is noticeably worse, as it becomes NCIS instead of Pacific Blue with ridiculous plots and undercover investigation work. The fifth season largely follows the fourth. People probably remember the last two seasons the most thanks to the addition of Mario Lopez and Shanna Moakler, but truth is, the last two seasons are the worst.
In my opinion, if you want to watch this for nostalgia factor, just watch the first two seasons. If you watch the entire show in chronological order, you'll be disappointed as the quality declines.
Upon rewatching the entire show recently, the first two seasons are exactly what I remembered: Corny 90's that played on the whole extreme sports theme with segments of skydiving, street luge, trials stunts with Hans Rey, fictional mountain bike endurance racing. There were also lots of the infamous bike chase sequences many remember. The overall premise of the show was mostly petty crimes with hopeful messaging. It has a roundness of characters like the station bike mechanic played by Lander.
The third season went downhill quick, with too much drama and love relationships that hurt the overall flow. The ending to the season is a cheap ploy of emotions.
The fourth season was starkly different... The show lost its two most suave male characters in Ferraez and Rossovich, so it lost a lot of that cool factor. The new cast took several episodes to get into the flow of matching chemistry. The writing in the fourth season is noticeably worse, as it becomes NCIS instead of Pacific Blue with ridiculous plots and undercover investigation work. The fifth season largely follows the fourth. People probably remember the last two seasons the most thanks to the addition of Mario Lopez and Shanna Moakler, but truth is, the last two seasons are the worst.
In my opinion, if you want to watch this for nostalgia factor, just watch the first two seasons. If you watch the entire show in chronological order, you'll be disappointed as the quality declines.