Fairies and Mermaids on TV

[T'Girl]

You public library system might have it.



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[Takeru]

It was weird hearing Holt and Tonkin talking with their normal, Australian accents when I first started H2O, especially when I was watching The Originals the same day.

I like the sequel (or reboot?) series Mako Mermaids better and it offers a different perspective because it's not about girls becoming mermaids, it's about mermaids getting legs and going on land, the concept is obviously similar but you learn more about the mermaids, some things about their history, customs and culture and what happened to the mermen (only a few bits in season 1 and a bigger part of the story in season 2).

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You can watch it whenever you want (IF you want of course) it doesn't spoil anything for H2O, the stories are completely separate.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Night Tide turns out to be in the public domain, and is stashed at archive.org.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

It's on Amazon UK for around £30 ($45) for a very basic new paperback. Hardbacks and illustrated covers go up to ridiculous amounts.

Yeesh, I guess I was lucky when I bought mine a couple of years ago, it was only £7 from Amazon.

 

[JD]

I like the sequel (or reboot?) series Mako Mermaids better and it offers a different perspective because it's not about girls becoming mermaids, it's about mermaids getting legs and going on land, the concept is obviously similar but you learn more about the mermaids, some things about their history, customs and culture and what happened to the mermen (only a few bits in season 1 and a bigger part of the story in season 2).

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You can watch it whenever you want (IF you want of course) it doesn't spoil anything for H2O, the stories are completely separate.

They actually just recently started showing Mako Mermaids on the US Disney Channel, but I haven't gotten a chance to check it out. It is also on Netflix. Originally it was a Netflix exclusive here, but that obviously isn't the case anymore since it's on Disney now.
It's a sequel. I was just reading about it on Wikipedia recently and they announced they're going to be having the actress who played Rikki on H2O reprising the role on the last two episodes of the next, and final, season.

 

[Greg Cox]

Night Tide turns out to be in the public domain, and is stashed at archive.org.

Because it is indeed in public domain, it also tends to pop up a lot on cheapie DVD compilations of spooky movies.

 

[Christopher]

There's the Creature from the Black Lagoon, would seem to qualify as a "mer-man."

I dunno about that, because merpeople are generally assumed to have human-level intelligence. The Gill-Man, despite the name, was portrayed more as a sophisticated animal than a fishlike person. That's what I found interesting about the Creature trilogy, the fact that the Gill-Man was less of an eldritch horror like the Wolf Man or the Mummy and more a natural phenomenon that could be explored and understood by science.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Because it is indeed in public domain, it also tends to pop up a lot on cheapie DVD compilations of spooky movies.

In that case, I might even have it lying around somewhere-- I've got a couple of those "hundred movies for ten bucks"-type sets.