I'm 28 and I love the H20 series lol This may sound a bit insane but I actually bought a replica of the locket the girls wear, I fell in love with it! :D
I'm interested to see what this new series will be like and how they're going to do it :)
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I'm 28 and I love the H20 series lol This may sound a bit insane but I actually bought a replica of the locket the girls wear, I fell in love with it! :D
I'm interested to see what this new series will be like and how they're going to do it :)
There's really no doubt in my mind that its because society dislikes mermen, and thinks of guys with tails as looking kinda gay. I think the little mermaid is a good example. Can you believe there were two sequels to TLM, and they never introduced an merman characters with a name beyond triton? (I'm ignoring urchin from the tv show.) Its pretty mind boggling that little mermaid 2 and 3 were Disney movies that somehow had no romantic plot or love interest for any of the characters. I was sure that they would give one of Ariel's sisters a love interest in little mermaid 3, but no, there were zero merman characters. That totally blows my mind.Quote:
I'm scepticle about the 'fin like feet'. Makes me think that the director doesnt want to bother with a tail. But you just know that the feet will be CGI (I think that's what it's called) and I will be disappointed if they don't get that boy a tail for at least one episode. It can't be that hard. And what's with that? The girls get to be beautiful mermaids but the boy gets jipped and is stuck with weird feet? Not fair. Why can't he just have a tail? The mermen in the little mermaid had tails. Is the actor that ashamed of wearing a tail?
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Originally Posted by malinghi
i agree, the only merman movie ever really to get any public notice was Disney's 13th year. there have no strong merman characters EVER. Triton is really the only merman most people know. OH and Thank you Adam Sandler for making a joke of mermen in Funny People, just set us back a few decades dude!
i honestly think that mermen are under appricated and even though i'm gay as my little pony, sailor moon, and glitter bombs all rolled up into one but i'm tougher than any man you will ever meet and just as pretty as any model on the run way.
If you can ever track down a copy, the Sabrina (the Teenage Witch) Down Under movie had a Merman lead, and he was quite masculine. The tails in that movie were quite unique as well - bright green with black and yellow detailing.
I do agree that mermen aren't usually seen as "masculine". I do hope my second book series changes that (as most of the male leads are mermen), though I doubt it will reach a wide enough audience...
That would be Scott Michaelson. He was in Neighbours in the 90's, then did some morning kids TV, did some TV in NZ and was also in Hercules: The ledgendary journies. Not sure what he's doing now, most likely managing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonflower
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H20 Just Add Water is on Netflix too.
H20 is on Netflix!!! omg. I tried to find bootlegged videos of the first and second season on Youtube. By the time I got to the third... I was done with running into copyright infringement warnings, and messages saying "Sorry this is not viewable in your area". I had heard about the show about a year before It came out. I am originally from Australia, and I was "channel browsing" online, and i saw this new show in 2007, which was only accessible on Youtube at the time. Anyways, I'm going to have to look it up again... I kind of fell off the boat with that show. Good to see it's still accessible. So, as for male representation in the merfolk community, yeah there aren't really many shows or movies featuring them, unless it's like the father of the mermaid in the main plot. I have seen most of these shows and movies mentioned before, but not once have I seen a reference to "The 13th year" which is a Disney live action movie for tv, that features a merboy. Also, I grew up reading Paul Jennings, and watching Round the Twist, and If anyone knows about the story "Nails" that Mr. Jennings wrote, or the corresponding depeiction in the show Round the Twist... Then here, have a clam with a pearl inside!
For those of you who are left in the dark, I present Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbeara...8book%29#Nails
and this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TSHnBk1u58 or rather the first of three clips. So what does this have to do with H20, Mr. JM Shiff, was part of the original cast of this show... Which I find to be very interesting.
i saw a couple of episodes and then it got boring to me. idk i just didn't really like the storyline, but the tails look amazing :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AniaR
I want me some smexy mermen! My bf isent very masculine looking but then again he isent a very good swimmer so out goes that fantasy. I like h20, but I didn't get to see allot of it, if its on netflix then I'm definitely watching!
smexy merman...mmmm. I want that too! And done right, it can look very masculine. Unfortunately, many people are attracted to other bipedal footed humans... :(. Whats sexy about legs???
The mermen in Madonna's Cherish video were smoking hot. I wish more people would picture them than the Zoolander scene...
I love H2O for what it is, a show directred at tweens. My nearly 3 year old daughter adores it. I like how they've kept a show featuring teens basically innocent and free from a lot of the negative stuff you see oin most shows directed at teens. I have no problem with honesty in tv shows, but I think there can also be some innocent fantasy and it does no harm.
So I'm glad to hear there is a spin off. New mermaids, and a merguy? My daughter should love that. I can't wait to see how they pull it off.
I agree, too, about the tails being some of the best. I love how there is so little knees-yness to them. I watched a making of video and one of the actresses said the tails weight about 40 pounds each! I imagine by now, even a few years later, the materials available to make the tails will be lighter. I just hope they retain the 'not jointed' look.
Yeah, that sounds stupid... http://www.imdb.com/news/ni27730630/
Also, it would be REALLY nice to see different colored tails... I'm SO sick of the gold... (Bella, being changed in Ireland, should have been GREEN at least!)
There's a synopsis here: http://h2o.wikia.com/wiki/Mako_Mermaids
And I have to admit, this plot sounds rather weak, and perhaps a little convoluted. And there's not even much written here. And why, if the moonpool grants someone, anyone, powers, would the gals who were made mermaids prior to that, be so threatened that they have to remove his powers? That's just... exclusionary, haha. It is, though.
Well if/when it finds its way online, I will give it a chance, there aren't a lot of mermaid shows out there, and my daughter loves it so.
ETA- H2O is on Hulu in the US.
In all fairness, anything's an improvement over the name "H2O: Just Add Water". Am I the only one who was annoyed by that making no sense? It's basically "water: just add water".Quote:
The spin-off was renamed. "Mako Mermaids?!" What kind of a name is that when its main character is a merman?!
AGH the 'merman' actor is a TOTAL HOTTIE!
haha, yes! Me, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by malinghi
What bothered me was that Charlotte never came back and tried to become a mermaid again... Maybe she was committed or something because she just disappeared after season 2 (when she knew their secret and, I mean, if I were here, I'd be pissed off and want to expose the other girls as mermaids).Quote:
Originally Posted by deepblue
Eh, the plot of those shows doesn't make much sense anyway. The scientist from the first season would have set up camp in the moon pool to figure out the secret if it'd been real... I just hope the new series isn't as contrived as the first (which, it will be). I'd really like to see an actual plot rather than "Don't let anyone find out / Oh, that boy is cute! / My powers are going nuts / The full moon affects us... sometimes... when the episode calls for it..."
Hmm I have mixed feelings about this spin-off. The pilot plot didn't really make much sense. Why would the mermaids turn the guy into a merman? Didn't the girls in the Original series, have the power to turn back into human form? Also that guy had better have a tail!! And no I don't think the girls will have different color tails, from what I've seen in this picture
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__...40761601_n.jpg
They look like the old tails from the original show. Also I have a suspicion that this show may be more "immature" than H20... but that's just my thoughts. You know what I'd love to see... an R rated movie featuring mermaids and mermen, that's made for our crowd! No more kiddie stuff.... ugh!
LOL I've been working on a book series with just that in mind! As far as I can tell, and I've looked, there's never been a paranormal romance series focused on mermaids and mermen. So, that's my next series ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by spottedcatfish
ooh keep us updated on it... I'd love to read it when your done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonflower
Ugh. I keep looking for info on this, but there really isn't much out there. It doesn't even have an official website yet, or an entry on IMDB, and there's no word on when it will premier.
I don't know why I care, cause more likely than not this is going to be a pretty juvenile show, and the "fin like feet" thing is going to be a huge disappointment. Its funny that a lot of places, including quotes by the show's creator, Jonathan M Schiff, totally call the male character a merman, when in fact he's not:
In making the announcement Jonathan M. Shiff said “Now we are thrilled to commence immediate production on our next series. Children all over the world love mermaids – but now a merman opens up a whole new world of fantasy and action.”
I think its funny that for most people the distinction between his lower body having a single appendage that ends with a fin, and his lower body having two legs with long webbed toes is unimportant, whereas for everyone here its a huge deal. Seriously him not having a tail totally blows.
I hear ya on that one. It's just annoying that there's really nothing we can do about it. Despite our love of all things mermaid/merman, we're not the target audience... though, I think most tweens who watch it will be upset at the lack of tail on him as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by malinghi
I'm glad someone mentioned those inconsistencies and such...I am not ashamed to say that even as someone in my 30's I really do love this show and watch it frequently over and over, but the thing about Charlotte and Dr. Denman conveniently never showing up again (which of course in real life they totally would have for those reasons mentioned above) has always bugged me. Then I always laugh b/c with all the supernatural, fantasy goings on it seems kinda petty to pick on the illogicality of the plot-lines...but that's our rational human minds I guess. It still definitely bugs me a bit :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonflower
i really enjoyed the fourth 'pirates of the carribean' movie because it had mermaids in it :)
True, but at the same time, it would have made for a much more interesting show... As an author of paranormal stories, I always try to keep any plots, be they caused by the supernatural or not, as tied up as possible... So when I see gaping plot holes like those mentioned above, it just makes me cringe...Quote:
Originally Posted by WavyMermaidy
H20 was kind of like my guilty pleasure for a while, even though, as others have said, the plot was pretty juvenile, vacant and didn't make much sense. I frankly thought the girls got really snotty at times, especially after Charlotte became a mermaid - despite the fact that I knew she was the 'villain' already. They acted like a high school clique.
Plus I was hoping that the story would make them more like...I don't know, mermaid superheroes in a way, protecting the ocean or something, which they kind of did, but it focused much more on the teenage drama. But still...PRETTY TAILS!
I noticed people were saying they were trying to find the series... pretty much the whole series is on Hulu for free! That's where I've been watching it, anyway...and I'm about to go back as I'm about halfway through the 3rd season.
Maybe I'm just an immature kid at heart or a big prude, but I find the way I like to think of merfolk and the kind of mer-films, mer-shows, and mer-books I like most are considered "juvenile" by some other mers. I mean, the last thing I want to see is an R-Rated mer-movie, or read a super-steamy erotic romance novel with a mer-theme. I actually LIKE the "kids stuff" that most associated with mermaids. Sure, I like it to be a tad more complex and mature than, say, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, but Disney's The Little Mermaid and/or
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid always was, always will be the definative interpretations of merfolk for me. I LOVED H2O: Just Add Water and I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming underwater season of Nickelodeon's Winx Club. Probably the limit of adult content that I like in my mer-tainment is like Splash, Mermaids from Pirates of the Caribbean 4, and the original HCA TLM story, certainly nothing past around PG-13. Anyone agree with me?
No one is asking you to read my books, Kae-Leah.
Another thing that bothered me was Cleo's sister Kim being SUCH a bitch! I mean, she was borderline evil! I've got a sister I don't get along with, but as far as I know, she's never plotted against me like Kim does to Cleo all the time. It would have been really nice to see an episode in season 3 where they had to work together on something and then became friends. Then, when Cleo needed help towards the end, Kim could have put aside her bitchiness and helped out her big sister.
I agree with you, Kae-leah! I'm okay with romance, but steamy just turns me off. To me, it adds little if anything to any plot and is just an excuse to pander to fantasies of an "adult" audience.
Besides, I need some fun fluff in my watching/reading! That's why I still watch stuff from the Disney channel. XP
Moonflower, I definitely agree with you about Kim. I kept hoping they'd become better friends, too! I mean, geez! If my sister were in a position where she could be discovered at any moment and all that, I'd do my best to help her. Even though I would be terribly jealous of her tail and powers. XP
Yay, glad someone does! Thalassa, did ya know you share a name with a character in my series? I love romance, personally, as long as it's pretty clean. I like "fading to black" for sex scenes, getting into details just seems like written porn. I used to really whinge about the lack of clean romance novel options, but then I found an awesome site called LikesBooks(or something like that...) which rates books a "sensuality rating", from Kisses to I think Burning or Blazing. It's been a real godsend for me.
@Moonflower id love to get a read of that book :) I love books those are my guilty pleasure, I can sit and read forever. By the way speaking of books has anyone read the book "Mermaids: The Myths, The Legends, The Lore" by Skye Alexander Im wondering if i should pick it up or not?
I Wasnt fond of H20- probably because the plot seemed a bit too...predicted/juvenile- Then again im almost 31 and Im done with all the childish stuff.. well most of it anyway (yes im not ashamed to say i will sit there and play stuffed animals with my 4yr old niece). I think its time to make more mermaid themed shows geared towards adults, sure there's romance and sexual content and knowing some people- violence. but isint that how life is sometimes.. Someone needs to make a really good show series, that isint all about teenage problems even as a mermaid..
Personally im likiing how all the "Darker" fairy tale movies are coming out..
I haven't finished it yet, but it's going to be a series set in the same world as Penny Dreadful (my book in the link below). If you have a kindle, send me a PM with your kindle email address and I'll send it to you ^_^Quote:
Originally Posted by MermaidLanai
Also, I may have some recommendations for you book-wise if you like paranormal romance. Nothing mer-wise, but it really hasn't been done yet LOL
I would love to have a look at what you've been writing too, Moonflower. Have you ever considered posting it on Fictionpress when it's all done? As for me, sometimes I am in the mood to read more adult romance, and sometimes, like when I watch H20, I am just in the mood for innocent fantasy.
And I agree, I loathe Kim's character. How could somebody possibly be so selfish and conniving? And how do her parents not get that it's always her causing trouble? Are they really that stupid? Ah, well... every series has got a villain. She's one of them.
I'm looking for a publisher right now. They don't like when they don't get first crack at a new piece of work. If you're interested in reading the first chapter of my first book, it's behind the link in my banner below. Keep in mind, this one is not the mermaid-centric one. This one focuses mostly on vampires (though one of my main characters from the mer series does make an appearance).Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleTreasure
I have a FP series too! Check my sig line.
I wish i had a kindle :/ but no.. remind me to throw my husbands guitar pod at him when i have a chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Moonflower
My novel (in my sig below) is a merfolk centered romance/adventure. It's mostly PG-13, but ventures a little beyond that occasionally. It's available in print and Kindle.