The Deep - BBC1

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dirty boy

14,703 posts

210 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Rubbish, but oddly compelling to watch.

I stuck it out, and now find myself having to watch the next episode just to find out what that big thing was.

I presume some sort of military operational sub?

becksW

14,682 posts

212 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Has no one yet commented on the wild inaccuracies / ridiculousness of the Sub Yet?
Its the size of Red OCtober on the Outside, and the size of a large Hotel on the inside.

Oh yet it fits on the back of a North Sea Supply vessel.
Oh and how did they get it off the vessel ?

Fecking stoopid....
Oh dear, that makes it even more unlikely that we'll enjoy it, my hubby will no doubt pick up on the same inaccuracies, he always does frown

jmorgan

36,010 posts

285 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Oh and how did they get it off the vessel ?
Wedged a bit of 4be2 under and heave ho. Simples....

dirty boy

14,703 posts

210 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Has no one yet commented on the wild inaccuracies / ridiculousness of the Sub Yet?
Its the size of Red OCtober on the Outside, and the size of a large Hotel on the inside.

Oh yet it fits on the back of a North Sea Supply vessel.
Oh and how did they get it off the vessel ?

Fecking stoopid....
And how the merry fk did it survive that vent falling on it!

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

199 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Has no one yet commented on the wild inaccuracies / ridiculousness of the Sub Yet?
Its the size of Red OCtober on the Outside, and the size of a large Hotel on the inside.

Oh yet it fits on the back of a North Sea Supply vessel.
Oh and how did they get it off the vessel ?

Fecking stoopid....
Well I enjoyed it strangely, despite the terrible acting, poor cgi, wild inaccuracies - my favourite was the liberal use of the drain-pipe - strange crew selection, etc etc.

I will be watching the next ones just to be extremely cross when the reveal is a massive anti-climax.

  • *******SPOILER*********




At least they killed that whiny bh, so it wasn't all bad.

Gun

13,431 posts

219 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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dirty boy said:
I stuck it out, and now find myself having to watch the next episode just to find out what that big thing was.

I presume some sort of military operational sub?
I'm the same, now I know it's ste I can just switch the brain off and revel in all the terrible acting and cheese. Think of it as a TV B-Movie along the lines of Shark Attack 3: Megaladon!

I'm going to say that other vessel is some top secret Government research ship that's doing experiments on the vents.

Streetrod

6,468 posts

207 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Ok I checked my brain at the door of my home cinema and hunkered down in front of my 7 1/2 foot screen with a bowl of freshly made popcorn (did you see what I did there?)biggrin Oh I'm such a show off.

Anyway as has been said the acting was crap, the CGI even worse when blown up onto my screen but I still for some odd reason fancied Mini Driver.

Will I watch it watch week? Well yes as I am a real sucker for rubbish like this

troc

3,770 posts

176 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Streetrod said:
but I still for some odd reason fancied Mini Driver.
Me too, then again, my wife drives a mini.........

GTIR

24,741 posts

267 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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I watched a bit but really wanted to kick the tv in when James "Yellow Pages" Nesbit was on his ipod listening to his winging dead wife, who the fk downloads the death of their wife to an ipod? confused

What complete ste.

Had to look up that bint "Maddy", as she is quite cute (and dead so I hear).

Utter rubbish.

chris watton

22,477 posts

261 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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After the high anticipation I had for Triffids, Survivors and The Silence, and being totally let down, I gave this a miss!
Anyway, Zoe Ball (standing in for ken Bruce on R2) said earlier that it was fantastic, and had emails from listeners stating how great it was, and can't wait for the next episode! I wonder if those emails are from a BBC server.........

Leithen

10,941 posts

268 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Saw the trailer, immediately thought - Cheap TV rip off of The Abyss.

Didn't bother seeing if I was right or wrong....

dirty boy

14,703 posts

210 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Gun said:
dirty boy said:
I stuck it out, and now find myself having to watch the next episode just to find out what that big thing was.

I presume some sort of military operational sub?
I'm the same, now I know it's ste I can just switch the brain off and revel in all the terrible acting and cheese. Think of it as a TV B-Movie along the lines of Shark Attack 3: Megaladon!

I'm going to say that other vessel is some top secret Government research ship that's doing experiments on the vents.
Could be a vessel funded by BP to stop anyone getting near the vents and solving our global energy needs any time soon?

Wait until Obama finds out about that!!!

Laurel Green

30,783 posts

233 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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^^^^^^ hehe He can put that in his pipevent and smoke it. yes

Parsnip

3,122 posts

189 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Horrible CGI, stupid story and horrible acting. Hated every one of the characters - especially the captain woman. Was really hoping they would all just die without dragging it out for a few more episodes. I usually like Jimmy Nesbitt's "angry shouty Irish man" routine - he was fantastic in the Jekyll and Hyde thing he did a few years back, but this is just utter tripe.

Utter, utter crap - how this ever made it onto TV I will never know.


Murph7355

37,761 posts

257 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Utter crap.

MiniMan64

16,945 posts

191 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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GTIR said:
I watched a bit but really wanted to kick the tv in when James "Yellow Pages" Nesbit was on his ipod listening to his winging dead wife, who the fk downloads the death of their wife to an ipod? confused.
Their all such professionals on board this magical sub though, there are three teenagers who apparently do nothing except play on laptops, scream and die, there's a single engineer, seriously comprimised in his job who pays no attention to his job because his dead wife is floating around outside and there's a dumb captin who is shagging a lost ER doctor.

How on earth did this make it to TV?

hidetheelephants

24,501 posts

194 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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dirty boy said:
Gun said:
dirty boy said:
I stuck it out, and now find myself having to watch the next episode just to find out what that big thing was.

I presume some sort of military operational sub?
I'm the same, now I know it's ste I can just switch the brain off and revel in all the terrible acting and cheese. Think of it as a TV B-Movie along the lines of Shark Attack 3: Megaladon!

I'm going to say that other vessel is some top secret Government research ship that's doing experiments on the vents.
Could be a vessel funded by BP to stop anyone getting near the vents and solving our global energy needs any time soon?

Wait until Obama finds out about that!!!
+1 I was so incensed at the general stness of it that I overlooked the preposterous plot of 'we're all doomed to economic/climate meltdown because the oil's running out/CO2 is killing all the penguins, so let's bet the farm on some technically ambitious, brobdingnagianly expensive and thermodynamically questionable greenwash wonder solution to all the world's energy needs'; stop it BBC, it's childish and tiresome.

DAVEVO9

3,469 posts

268 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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How many of you watched it on HD?

I watched the first few mins on BBC HD and thought something was wrong with my TV!

The PQ was pants!

Didn't bother after that.. Seems it was rubbish anyway with what you all say.


becksW

14,682 posts

212 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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DAVEVO9 said:
How many of you watched it on HD?

I watched the first few mins on BBC HD and thought something was wrong with my TV!

The PQ was pants!

Didn't bother after that.. Seems it was rubbish anyway with what you all say.

Yep, not impressed.
Plus half the crew are 15yrs old and why would you employ someone so obviously highly strung as that girl to live on a sub!
Why would the captain be so dumb as to give nesbitt character a recording of his wife whilst they were on a mission!

Oh and the usual outsider who is not telling all.

Yet I know I will end up watching the others just in case.

Edited by becksW on Wednesday 4th August 23:48

Parsnip

3,122 posts

189 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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hidetheelephants said:
brobdingnagianly
That is a most excellent word. Even had to look up its pronunciation. Hats off to you sir