Mako Mermaids/Island of Secrets News

**malinghi** · 09-16-2014, 01:34 AM

"hey lets make EVERYONE a mermaid and EVERYONE finds out about EVERYONE."

I have this image in my head of the team after the first season wrapped:

"Hey, Mr. Shiff! Turns out we were 10 grand under budget! We can afford to hire a decent writer for next season!"
"Spend it all on mermaid tails."
"But Mr. Shiff, we-"
"MORE MERMAAAIIDS!!"

**MerEmma** · 09-16-2014, 11:59 AM

^ Hahaha, sounds about right to me. ;P

The trailer was pretty damn spoiler-filled, I'll tell you that...looks like I know what'll happen this season! I'll tune in anyway, but it doesn't seem all that exciting. :B

**lynsea** · 09-16-2014, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by malinghi

I have this image in my head of the team after the first season wrapped:

"Hey, Mr. Shiff! Turns out we were 10 grand under budget! We can afford to hire a decent writer for next season!"
"Spend it all on mermaid tails."
"But Mr. Shiff, we-"
"MORE MERMAAAIIDS!!"

OMG, I'm dying here. That has to be the truth.

Shelly: Honestly the best way to see the show would be to get that free month of Netflix and watch it within the space of that month before cancelling your account before it gets charged.

**Ariel-Starfish** · 09-16-2014, 12:18 PM

Lol actually I almost not concentrate on the storyline anymoe, just the parst where they are swimming in tails :grin: the trailer makes me want to see more!

**MarkF** · 09-16-2014, 01:14 PM

Looks to me from the trailer that only Evie is the only friend to become a new mermaid. "Nixie should be freaking out." As for friends discovering, I don't see how'd they avoid that.
In H2o I never understood why Cleo never told her Dad, they were pretty tight. Seems to me with the fishing fleet they could have added more story directions.
The Pod coming by works for me and it gives additional characters to pop in and out of the series as they need story line. The show is scheduled to end when they finish season 3.
I wish they could find a way for the H20 cast to visit.

I think the title could be "The pod comes to visit"

**lynsea** · 09-16-2014, 05:58 PM

Ok, so I'm rewatching H2O and I think I now know why I have so much of an issue with Mako Mermaids (apart from the obvious... acting). The watchers can relate so much more to the H2O girls than they can the Mako ones. These are humans who have a weird change thrust upon them. We can more easily put ourselves in their shoes making us more comfortable with the characters and fulfilling any fantasy element we wish our own lives had. The Mako girls, however, are weird and foreign because they ARE mermaids trying to adjust to the human world. The think things like cats are weird and it's a lot harder and less interesting for us to take step back from our own feelings and say "yeah cats are weird." It's a lot easier and more fun to imagine ourselves as mermaids and thinking "how can I avoid the full moon." Anyway just my two cents.

As a side note, a canadian/USA mermaid? How the heck are they going to explain that one?

**Echidna** · 09-17-2014, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by lynsea

The watchers can relate so much more to the H2O girls than they can the Mako ones.

It was the other way around for me!
H2O had its moments, but I could never really relate to any of them.

The story/acting of Mako was maybe a bit weaker, but I really liked the protagonists were true mermaids instead of turned human teenagers.
I loved they had different things to be aware of (and some fantasy stuff, like the snow rash etc) instead of the same old, same old of H2O-like films.

I'm excited to see the next season.
Here's hoping it does not repeat too much of the first season, that would be quite the letdown lol.

**Trident True** · 09-27-2014, 07:02 AM

GUYS HERE IT IS.... OMG. tell me if you still think it has the same STORY LINE.

**Echidna** · 09-27-2014, 08:13 AM

Looking good so far!

I'll probably buy it when it's available on amazon.
Waiting for someone to do a youtube upload, and finding none (or a crappy cellphone one) is always so nerve-wrecking.

**lynsea** · 09-28-2014, 12:16 PM

Watching this again, there are at least four new mermaids (Erik, Mimmi, Ondina, Evie, etc.)... oh silly Shiff.

**MarkF** · 09-28-2014, 12:32 PM

I read somewhere that it doesn't start till January.
Do we have to wait the whole season for Netflix to get it?
I don't see it on Hulu.

**lynsea** · 09-28-2014, 04:52 PM

The episodes usually all come out at once on Netflix in two parts. For this last season, the first 13 episodes came out at once followed by the second half of the season a few months later.

Im rewatching season one at the moment and I'm realizing my biggest issue with it. In H2O the mermaids are a great example of powerful independent girls. In Mako, the merman is always portrayed as the most powerful of everyone. Even three mermaids are not able to overpower a Zac. Maybe it's just me nitpicking but I really like the message H2O gave to younger kids and I think Mako isn't really doing the same thing.

**MarkF** · 09-28-2014, 08:50 PM

I wonder when we will see it?

**Mermaid Jaffa** · 09-29-2014, 05:11 AM

I'm hoping it'll on our tv screens sometime this summer.

**Trident True** · 09-30-2014, 08:39 AM

I heard January sometime for Australian residents, BUT the rest of the world will probably see it first before Australia. they seem to let us wait here. its like waiting to die...

**SeaVixen** · 10-09-2014, 10:47 PM

I watched the full season 1 on some website I came across at the beginning of the year. I don't have Netflix and was desperate to find it somewhere and got lucky. A YouTube video had a link in the description that took me to a site not in English that had all the episodes (in english) so I spent 2 days watching them all back to back. I hooked my laptop up to my flatscreen and it was Great!

**Mermaid Neri Elvina** · 10-10-2014, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by SeaVixen

I watched the full season 1 on some website I came across at the beginning of the year. I don't have Netflix and was desperate to find it somewhere and got lucky. A YouTube video had a link in the description that took me to a site not in English that had all the episodes (in english) so I spent 2 days watching them all back to back. I hooked my laptop up to my flatscreen and it was Great!

Thats triloo or what ever it's name was, right?? I had to do the same!!

**Miyu** · 10-10-2014, 05:05 AM

trilulilu

I have that site bookmarked, because apparently it's the only way I can watch Mako Mermaids since I no longer have Netflix (and Hulu+ doesn't have it)

**SeaVixen** · 10-10-2014, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by Miyu

trilulilu

I have that site bookmarked, because apparently it's the only way I can watch Mako Mermaids since I no longer have Netflix (and Hulu+ doesn't have it)

Originally Posted by Mermaid Neri Elvina

Thats triloo or what ever it's name was, right?? I had to do the same!!

Yeah that's it! I wanna see season 2 now