SEAQUEST DSV 2032-BRAINLOCK and SPINDRIFT

 

SEAQUEST DSV 2032-BRAINLOCK

We quickly meet, via a flashback, two of Fredrick’s friends Noonan and Nichols (?). During talks, we encounter Deon and Bourne and…do I really need spoilers for a show that’s 27 years old?

 

The thing is I was surprised because it seems as if someone is out to kill Bourne while there are UN like meetings going on between the Alliance and the UEO and non member countries while the chip in Fredrick’s head is sort of malfunctioning and Brody makes yet another mistake during an attack on Bourne’s ship which he and Fredricks are escorting. While Fredricks sticks up for Brody against Hudson’s criticisms, Brody doesn’t stick up for her and this makes him look like even more of a jerk.

 

Spoilers?

 

 

Fredricks is being used, PARALLAX VIEW-like to kill McGath, who is at the meeting to try to get something good passed to protect the UEO rather than have it disbanded, which is why Bourne has teamed up with Deon to kill McGath. It’s stopped, of course, by a combination of Fredricks, Lucas’s tampering with the tampering of her chip, Hudson, and Brody but not only after both of her friend, who have chips put in them (this point was unclear), are killed…they attacked Bourne’s sub and one hits the other and Fredricks seems to shoot the other! In any case, despite Hudson declaring Fredricks and Brody can’t work together, it works out and though Deon is stopped (it also looks like he either stunned or killed the doctor who was working with him to brain control Fredricks), and he will give evidence against Bourne, his old aide, now an enemy shoots him. We’re not told if Deon survives! AAARGH! Again, SQ, not telling us stuff!

 

This episode was good, a sort of political thriller and it sports Ford in his white commander’s suit. Lots of action and almost nothing to complain about…although…SQ’s original premise of exploring the ocean and scientific research and exploration is GONE. This is now a military commando show, political and wel done but no longer an ocean show with sci fi. In one of these recent episodes, Piccolo, too, seems to be falling for Lonnie. Sigh. He’s put in his place by Ford. It is also followed through about him taking a test for sub attack pilot, helped by Lonnie to study for, AND the glasses that are red colored that can help him overcome the effects of his dyslexia are also shown, given to him in another episode by Hudson. The threads of a bare thread soap are more contained in this season than the other two, which aspired to do such but…it seems too little too late to be honest, yet this is a good episode.

 

 

SEAQUEST-SPINDRIFT-no, it’s not an episode of LAND OF THE GIANTS, the show that has Spindrift as the name for its great spaceship but yet another political thriller episode of SEAQUEST’s third season. And a good one.

 

After rescuing two  children from a Macronesian attack (the same Bourne commander shows up a lot in this season—Gen Stassi and he’s a nasty piece of work here, attacking the spindrift ship, killing the kids’ parents and others), Henderson is captured and sentenced to death by President Alexander Bourne. Unwilling to accept this, Captain Hudson organizes a rescue mission, which, at first seems to fail. BUT help from the refugees ….enables Brody, Tim, Hudson, and a Spindrift man to get in to free her. During the episode a VERY young looking Trevor St John, who played in soaps (mostly as Todd in ONE LIFE TO LIVE), plays an unnamed guard who comes to Lonnie’s way of thinking, despite Bourne feeing his family and friends and helps rescue her, only to be shot down in the back by the evil Stassi. Another guard shoots at Lonnie and/or Hudson but Brody jumps in front of the ray and takes a hit that eventually in SQ’s medical center kills him. Yes, he dies. Slowly and horribly.

 

I’m not sure how I feel about that. Yes, it makes the show a dangerous one and one that makes it seem as if anyone can be killed off and from what I read, and remember there’s another one coming that I’m not sure about or that should have been done. In any case, this is ANOTHER good episode, though we only see the death of Brody’s effects on Lonnie and no one else and it makes one feel…cheated.