Aye, Wolf, you're right. Neither the movie nor the TV show were great masterpieces of the entertainment industry. But then, for me, neither has to be. "Masterminds" was aimed at a younger audience, and frankly I thought it was fun. As for seaQuest? Except for the first season, even I can admit it sucked. But the idea is a good one, and much fun to play with. seaQuest is one of those shows where the fandom is better than the series ever was. When seaQuest went off the air years ago I completely forgot about it. It's only been in the past few months I've bothered looking up the fandom. And like many of my old favorites (including Knight Rider, Kung Fu: TLC, and Forever Knight), the fic has better characterizations and plots than the producers ever came up with. Heck, I consider one fan's (ie: Gryph) AU of KR more canonical than the series itself! Her AU is by far way better written -- and she's not even a native English speaker!

And Ted Raimi ain't that good of an actor to hold my attention -- even he couldn't keep me in Xena. We'll not even talk about Stargate: SG-1. That's another one of those shows with enormous potential which was allowed to deterioriate into crap. It's too maudlin to contemplate.