Nautilus

Introduction

We don't do binge-watching but on the second day of our holiday, we were looking for something not too taxing to watch. I had started watching this at home but here we just have guest access to Amazon Prime.

While looking on Amazon the first thing that came up was this puzzle box making me think of Hellraiser but it looks mightily impressive, though not totally relevant to this piece.

Where Nautilus Came From

This is inspired by Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea"

When Verne was writing his science fiction stories there were no electronics or computers, although Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage were developing the difference engine, so all technology was analogue and therefore laying the foundations for the identity of Steampunk.

In 1954 when Disney released their take on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" people saw their first view of the Steampunk look although it had not been named as such.

So On To Nautilus

While lots of the visuals refer back to the 1955 Disney visualisation, the overall story reminds me much more of the "Pirates of the Caribean" series as well as "King Kong" with monsters and the evil of the East India Company taking over the world and the horrors caused by the British Empire.

Fiona and I never binge watch but we hit five episodes one after the other yesterday and that only stopped because it was getting late.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable series, the baddies are brilliant and thoroughly nasty in a pantomime way and Richard E. Grant is perfect as the evil White Rajah.

Halfway through this, I would recommend this to everyone.

Thank you for reading, and if you get the opportunity give this a try.