I did become a little frustrated with the protagonist, Trina, at times. Due to her divorce she spends a lot of time wallowing in self pity and drinking her sorrows away. She wasn’t the kind of person I’d want to hang out with in real life and she’s not the kind of character I enjoy reading about. (For reference, I had a similar complaint about The Girl on the Train).

The film's score was composed by John Barry, who at the time was most famous for his work on the James Bond film series. [14] In the same manner of a Bond film, Barry collaborated with a high profiled singer for the film's theme song. American singer Donna Summer teamed up with Barry for the film's signature song, titled "Down Deep Inside (Theme From The Deep)". Summer was a singer under contract to the film production company, Casablanca Record & FilmWorks. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award [15] and a hit on the U.S. Dance Chart, as well as a top-five singles hit in the UK, and a top-forty hit in the Netherlands. This was a delightfully weird book that nevertheless was such a beautiful exploration of grief and depression in a world where the gentle overseer only wanted to make everything better and bring happiness, no matter what. Lonesome Jim is the last surviving Floreana Island tortoise. [Note 2] Hope for the species is revived when Bob Gorman and his daughter, Jess, find a second Floreana island tortoise, Eve, and bring her to the Nektons. They all go to Floreana Island and introduce her to Jim, but both tortoises go missing overnight. They are traced to the underwater home of a rich businessman, Sebastian Conger, where it turns out that the second tortoise was a robot. Conger imprisons Kaiko and Will, but Ant and Fontaine sneak aboard, break them out, and escape with the tortoises as the World Oceans Authority closes in on Conger. They leave Eve with Jim to keep him company. Technicolor options rights to award-winning graphic novel series, The Deep". www.technicolor.com. 22 January 2013.

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Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep’s utopian influence—until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seeptech to make this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving Trina devastated. The Monumential Turtle is a gigantic turtle, initially mistaken for the island of Tartaruga, until it awakens and dives below the surface. It later appears in "The Purple Tide", where it nearly eats the Arronax by mistake; however, the turtle is one of the more benevolent monumentials, as opposed to their usually quite hostile nature. The Deep is a CGI animated television series based on the comic book created by Tom Taylor and James Brouwer [1] and published by Gestalt Comics. The series was developed by executive producer Robert Chandler, optioned by Technicolor, [2] and produced by A Stark Production of Australia and the Canadian animation studio Nerd Corps Entertainment (credited to DHX Media). [3] Commissioned by ABC, it premiered on 7two on 1 December 2015 and began broadcasting in Canada the following month on Family Chrgd. On 8 February 2018, a third season of the series was announced. [4] On 26 July 2021, a fourth season was announced with 13 new half-hour episodes. [5] Synopsis [ edit ] The Nektons visit Kenji Nokumura, who has had "aliens" steal his fridge and later his water tank. Whilst investigating a strange object nearby, Will is kidnapped by it. They follow the object to a cave where they find a colony of gigantic, bioluminescent hermit crabs, the largest of which takes the Nektons rover for its new shell. It turns out that the crabs were using Kenji's fridge and water tank for shells, along with a mini-sub, concrete water pipes, and any other hollow objects they could find. Trina and her wife, Deeba, live blissfully under The Seep's utopian influence—until Deeba begins to imagine what it might be like to be reborn as a baby, which will give her the chance at an even better life. Using Seeptech to make this dream a reality, Deeba moves on to a new existence, leaving Trina devastated.

Enter Trina, our protagonist. Trina is a trans artist and she kind of goes through the emotional wringer in this. Trina doesn't quite buy into The Seep as much as other people and she's increasingly skeptical of this new way of life and through her and her skepticism Porter explores some very human, very relevant ideas. Trina works really well as a protagonist and I had a lot of sympathy for her and what she had to go through. There's a palpable sense of isolation and ever-increasing paranoia in this story. If the aliens exist on a level of conscious thought, they know what you want before you even voice it. It's disturbing, but with technology increasing the pace of life and guessing consumers' wants and needs before they even know, how far off the mark are we from that sort of interaction, really.

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Professor Fiction builds an artificial intelligence, called A.I.M.Y, into the Arronax and the Nekton's other equipment to "help and protect" the Nektons. Unfortunately, it becomes overprotective, then unresponsive, and tries to prevent them from performing a rescue, as it deems it too dangerous. After being told that its idea of "protecting" is not "helping", it shuts down, unable to reconcile its goals. Proteus, a member of the Guardians, comes aboard the Arronax. He seems anxious to help them find Lemuria, but it soon turns out that he has led them into a trap, and he kidnaps Ant, steals their piece of the Ephemycron, and escapes in the rover. He tries to get Ant to assemble the Ephemycron from the two pieces found so far, but as it is incomplete, it doesn't work. Fortunately, the Guardians arrive, as they had been following Proteus. However, Proteus escapes with both pieces of the Ephemycron. Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—but nonetheless world-changing—invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible. The production was responsible for a number of technical firsts, including Al Giddings' Petermar camera system and the use of specially modified 5000-watt "Senior" luminaires to provide cinematic lighting underwater. [13] The world's biggest underwater set was dug at the summit of a historic Bermuda hill formerly known as Hospital Island at Ireland Island South. [11]

I would read more by this author in a heartbeat-- and by the way, big ups to whomever designed that cover because it's gorgeous. I love the flowers.Heartbroken and deep into an alcoholic binge, Trina follows a lost boy she encounters, embarking on an unexpected quest. In her attempt to save him from The Seep, she will confront not only one of its most avid devotees, but the terrifying void that Deeba has left behind. A strange new elegy of love and loss, The Seep explores grief, alienation, and the ache of moving on.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, stating that "The story, as well as Peter Yates's direction of it, is juvenile without being in any attractive way innocent, but the underwater sequences are nice enough, alternately beautiful and chilling. The shore-based melodrama is as badly staged as any I've seen since Don Schain's The Abductors (1972), which is to remember incompetence of stunning degree." [23] Roger Ebert praised the film for its photography and presenting a romance in a new setting. [24] The aesthetic and character aspect has also changed from the paper counterpart to the television one. The Deep in the comics was a dark-skinned man; however, in the television one he has pale, white skin. The Deep in the comics despite being less innocent than the TV counterpart, is much more mature and self-confident. While his television version is much more immature and insecure. In the comics it doesn't appear that The Deep has amorous or arousing zoophilic feelings towards marine animals.Arronax: The Nektons submarine. Described as the "world's largest submarine", it serves as the Nektons home and has a library, medical bay, and laboratory, kitchen, several bedrooms, a moon pool, and various other facilities. It has a system of tubes and cavities connected to fish tanks in several rooms, which Jeffery can use to travel around the submarine. It has a "water-powered" engine, [11] and batteries, [12] as well as a traditional screw propeller for forward propulsion, [13] giving it a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50mph). [14] Its hull is made from titanium, allowing it to withstand high temperatures [15] and highly corrosive environments. [16] Whilst exploring a reef, Ant hears a strange song. As they leave the reef, another fish is confused for Jeffery, and he gets left behind. Meanwhile, the Nektons find that the song is from an extremely rare whale species. However, Devil Daniels thinks it is a siren and sets out to capture it and inadvertently captures Jeffery as well, who has befriended the whale. After some persuading, Daniels agrees to take the whale to introduce it to the only other known individual of its species. The Nektons encounter a large colony of mimic octopuses, which unusually, practise aggressive mimicry. They imitate the Nektons and their equipment to lure them into their lair. After initial confusion, they realise what is happening and barely escape the combined onslaught of every octopus in the colony. In season three, the Nektons discover Lemuria, and the main story becomes irrelevant. In season four, the family seek out William Nektons parents, who found Lemuria several months before them. Like previous seasons, not all episodes are part of this arc. Williams parents are found eaten by a monumental nautilus (very much alive), the nautilus is searching for a key to the sea, which keeps everything in balance. Raja Chulan a myth (age: about 800 years), in the chronicle of the deep. He wanted to explore the underwater, and the guardians wanted to find Lemuria, so they built him a glass case which could be lowered from a barge. He married an underwater princess and discovered the long lost city of Dika.