mercy reef could be the ultimate example of how to make a really bad pilot . it appear a if the recipe that be use to create this show be represent1 ) get a bunch of good look ex swimsuit model who can not act represent apart from ving rhames and the entire cast combine couldn not deliver line for a gum commercial . sure and they all look cute and but their expressionless and bobble head delivery look like first year high school drama . 2 ) forget about a plot and just throw lot of poorly think out action scene together represent the writer seem to have miss the boat on come up with a decent enough reason for the audience to stick around . sure and let just believe that the sea baddie can tell when orin be fly above and but can not find him when he float outside the door of a wrecked plane . let make it so that he will be out and about in the sea and completely defenseless and but instead they go pick on a jet plane and then be so kind a to leave him alone when he go to save the mandatory hot female pilot . okay then . 3 ) let embody every character with every cliché trait you can throw at a wall . upstanding military man with angst ridden and surfer attitude son who have no sense of responsibility . lone female pilot ( do i mention it mandatory she be hot . ) who be up against the world be give the top assignment . and should we talk about the lovely and bar tending brunette try to give the main character a sense of purpose . what be this and dawson creek . 4 ) and should we throw in some dark suit government baddie a well . that always go over like . like . well and something . but i wouldn not leave it in the hand of these writer to think up what . seriously and i have to thank the maker for this show be pass over . it be one of the most poorly crafted series i have ever see . i can not believe that people be actually give this garbage a rating of positive . if this be quality television to some people and then some people need to get out more . this be not battlestar galactica level quality . this be not even he man quality . this show read a if it be write over a weekend because the pay look good and not a if it be a lovingly develop and nurture work . maybe the show creator should have just use the energy involve in turn this show out to make smallville a good series . it obviously wasn not a lot of energy and but every little bit thrown back to a half decent series be energy well spent .