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Aquaman / Mercy Reef

H3ct0r L1m4

13:17 / 19.05.06

here's a trailer for the AQUAMAN/MERCY REEF pilot that the new CW network didn't pick up. watch it before it gets deleted

Lou Diamond Phillips and Ving Rhymes are in it. looks better than I expected, but then I loved THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS...

here's hoping the torrent appears, and that it gets picked elsewhere. it's been a while since TV had some good underwater live action.

H3ct0r L1m4

13:25 / 19.05.06

CBR has much handy screen grabs and more info.

Spaniel

13:32 / 19.05.06

Shame. Looks like there was some mindless fun to be had there.

Tamayyurt

14:15 / 19.05.06

It actually looks better than Smallville. Hell, I would've watched.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:38 / 19.05.06

Wow. It did look good. What a shame the Asses That Be at the CW passed on it.

Think they can get it aired anywhere else?

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:15 / 19.05.06

Let's not be disingenuous here: if this had been picked up, there would be a six-page thread about how sucky it looked and how it was defiling the nobility of the King of the Sea by making him into a surfer boy, and how this was symptomatic of the sickness of modern America, all before the first episode had even aired. As it is, it's an evidence of how the... goddamn... networks!... just don't understand...

FinderWolf

15:25 / 19.05.06

I want this to get picked up (it is possible the CW could do it as a mid-season replacement, CBR notes) just because I want to see Aquaman in a TV show for the sheer novelty of it. And I bet the Smallville creators could it make it halfway decent.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

15:26 / 19.05.06

Hey, I'd be willing to put aside the snark and give the show a go. Flyboy, you're right about that thread coming into existence, though. My God, are we all that jaded?

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:34 / 19.05.06

And I bet the Smallville creators could it make it halfway decent.

Yes, they've done such a good job of Smallville, after all, and that had the terrible disadvantage of not having every episode compelled to feature fish and of having had its ludicrous mythology already kicked into popular acceptance by Marlon Brando. Also, no Lou Diamond Phillips! If the gold of Smallville could be spun from such unpromising dross, just imagine what could have been done with Atlantis being hidden in the Bermuda triangle, Lou Diamond Phillips and a weekly fight with an intelligent shark, possibly with robot arms. Who even dares to dream?

H3ct0r L1m4

16:06 / 19.05.06

Fly, I never liked BROKEBACK SMALLVILLE'S CREEK. tried to watch 5 minutes from the pilot, but... nah.

so this looks much better to me. Aquaman as a teen surfer? anytime. if only he nad gills or skin between his fingers... =)

FinderWolf

15:34 / 20.05.06

Interesting...a bit too much of the 'there's a dark ddaarrrrkkk secret world with crazy creatures that's TOO HARD FOR YOU!' in the trailer, but it looks like it has some potential.

The opening v/o to me sounded a LOT like Annette O'Toole's voice...anyone else think this?

Triplets

04:55 / 21.05.06

Let's pretend Mercy Reef has been picked up.

Finder, you can begin by pointing out what's wrong with Aquaman's speedos/vest/eye colour/footwear/ass cheeks.

13:37 / 21.05.06

That trailer actually looked pretty damn good. Here's hoping the show somehow actually makes it to TV at some point.

The trailer linked to at the start of the thread has been taken down already, but there is (as I type this) one here and one here.

Murray Hamhandler

01:43 / 22.05.06

Correction: the trailer did not, in any way, look good. It looked like the Justice League pilot, part deux.

Please note that I am not inherently anti-Aquaman. I am, however, anti- almost everything that's ever been done with Aquaman, because everyone who does anything with Aquaman seems to agree with Aquaman's detractors that Aquaman = inherently shit.

Correction 2: Apologies. Upon reflection, the trailer more closely resembled Baywatch Nights.

eargang

16:04 / 22.05.06

I wouldn't say the trailer looked bad but it did feel like a Smallville carbon copy, especially with the voice-over that sounded so much like Annette O Toole it hurt.

The way I see it, the only way they could set this up is if the main character was, like in his appearance on smallville, actually an environmental terrorist. However, I don't see that working as I doubt a lot of advertisers will buy time around a show that promotes sabotaging their plants.

H3ct0r L1m4

16:18 / 22.05.06

spoilerish pilot script review

and

there's still the possibility of it being aired in the midseason, they say.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:56 / 22.05.06

the ship is called Quint.

Nice touch producers.

Hieronymus

20:13 / 22.05.06

While I don't give much hope to the writing skills of Mike Millar and Alfred Gough, the whole Bermuda triangle-Atlantis connection is a very interesting, borderline X-Files way to sink into the mythos. Something quite alien about it, as it should be.

And that review really makes it sound interesting enough for a first viewing, doesn't it?

H3ct0r L1m4

16:47 / 08.06.06

review from a tv insider. if the guys has anything to him, apparently we've seen the best from that pilot in the trailer.

grant

19:19 / 08.06.06

Ving Rhames.

Alas.

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