Playtime

Episode aired Oct 23, 1994
TV-PG
44m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

140

YOUR RATING

Action Adventure Family Sci-Fi

Seaquest travels through an underwater black hole to 200 years in the future. Once there they discover a super computer who created the black hole to bring them to the future to help save th... Read allSeaquest travels through an underwater black hole to 200 years in the future. Once there they discover a super computer who created the black hole to bring them to the future to help save the last two people on earth.Seaquest travels through an underwater black hole to 200 years in the future. Once there they discover a super computer who created the black hole to bring them to the future to help save the last two people on earth.

Director
- Robert Wiemer
Writers
- Rockne S. O'Bannon
- Lawrence Hertzog
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

140

YOUR RATING

Director
- Robert Wiemer
Writers
- Rockne S. O'Bannon
- Lawrence Hertzog
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Goofs
When the crew arrive at the abandoned compound, it is stated that "Except for us, there's not another life form within a hundred miles of here", yet moments later when they start running from the 'large spinning thing, that moves through the air at high velocity, and throws explosive fireballs from each tip', you can clearly see some Pigeons walking near the base of a lamp-post.

Quotes
Tony Piccolo: Hey, check this out: the United Commenwealth of California sought re-entrance into the United States. The vote, as it broke down among the remaining thirty-nine states, was four affirmative, thirty-five negative. Said the governor of New Jersey: "California is a strange place inhabbited by strange people. It took almost three hundred years to get them out, let's keep it that way".

Connections
References The Final Countdown (1980)

User reviews6

Featured review

3/10

Good start, big let-down

The first 15 minutes of this episode are OK, the time travel, the remains of human society, a supercomputer and mechwarrior-like robots fighting (although those were cheap CGI-effects, but still worth a watch).

After that, the storyline falls apart rapidly and plot holes appear very quick. Instead of a really human history we only see some videoclips from the past 'cause that's all Lucas can in the database. Instead, he starts to flirt with the machine, and boy, when he carefully caresses the wires of it with a wicked smile I almost feel ashamed for the poor actor...

Iris and Aaron, the last of mankind, spend their entire life alone and isolated, can't stand a human touch - but within a day they forget all that and fall in love (thanks to Piccolos picnic basket I suppose...).

The worst part of the story is the time travel. The SeaQuest can't travel BACK in time 'cause the PAST is gone and they are trapped in the FUTURE. Sorry, what? How the hell can there be a FUTURE without the existence of a PAST ?! That's freakin' impossible! Worst of all, they have to secure the future of mankind to save time and re-activate the timeline. Really? Has anyone of these authors seen any "Star Trek" episode? Or a movie, let's say, "Back to the Future"? Or owns a working watch?! You can change the FUTURE in the PAST (or in the PRESENT). Whatever you do in the FUTURE can't change the PAST! And more of all IT CAN'T STOP THE PAST FROM EXISTING!!! OTHERWISE THERE IS NO PRESENT; NO FUTURE; NO NOTHING !!!

My goodness. The final scene is just embarrassing. To bad. Good start, but the rest is just a mess.