Saw it on Netflix and since it had English subtitles I figured I would give it a try.Lets see if we can break this down without giving too much away, A brilliant scientist devises an experiment, finds out that the evil rich guy wants to rule so he steals some data and hopes they won't go through with the experiment, but they do and it goes wrong, DISASTER...But wait, Brilliant Scientist has a plan to save some people, they get on a boat for a 2 month long scholarship cruise, The DISASTER happens, and they wander the ocean for more than the planned two months.The evil rich guy has HENCHMEN, and they try to get the Red Folder from the Brilliant Scientist...They find an Island, Evil Rich Guy has more HENCHMEN,There are more ships, some are good, some are bad, some we never seeThere is romance, betrayal, giant sea monsters, big waves, whirlpools, Three seasons total, the first two were decent, the last was less so, as it seems they either ran out of money and or knew they were being canceled so they tried to wrap things up quickly.Overall the stories were pretty good, although like Lost in Space you wonder why they didn't just dump Gamboa into the ocean, There is quite a bit that is not explained until the last 15 minutes of the last episode of season 3. Being that all the dialog is in Spanish and I don't understand much Spanish the English subtitles made this a very watchable show. Some of the episodes are much better than others and some of them drag a little and seem overly complicated, this may be how the Spanish Networks wanted it done, I don't know. If you like shows that are somewhat silly and improbable with a decent plot you will probably like El barco, if you don't like the silly plot twists, the love triangles, the betrayals and the improbable disasters than you might want to skip this one.

This could have been so good, but ended up so disappointing. What could have been a great sci-fi action series ended up being a pre-teen soap full of the most unbelievably stupid characters ever written. I actually felt sorry for the actors.The only bright spot is the Bubble character; that actor does an amazing job and the writers took some time to make him into a dimensional human being. The others characters are shallow and have the emotional intelligence of a 12 year old. Most of the episodes are narrated by the 5 year old and she is one of the smartest ones there.Almost every scene that COULD be fast paced and interesting is cut away and a sappy romance is inserted. All of the action is halted and we have to look at cut scenes where they centre in on the character's motionless faces...to convey depth of feeling, I suppose, but in actuality it makes the characters look stupid.It's like a Harlequin Romance novel dressed up as Science fiction.None of the science is even remotely believable. They even make basic mistakes in 3rd grade level science, like saying mallards don't migrate. Since when?

Worst TV show I've ever seen.I Watched it a few times, just to "give it a chance", and I have to say that it made me laugh at first, and not because it was intentionally funny, or because of the jokes (and there are a LOT of them, every couple minutes), but because of how unreal, absurd and pathetic the whole thing was. The acting, the plot, the lines, the situations... all were, at the best, pathetic. I mean, really? A post-apocalyptic adventure where you have unlimited supplies? Everybody is clean, well fed, wearing make-up (even the dying girl on the ICU was wearing make-up and had her hair done...), going to wedding parties. Pathetic and stupid stuff. Well, and one little observation: not one single black guy or gal was saved from the end of the world and given a chance to board the ships? I haven't seen one single black person around... That is what I call a racist post-apocalyptic world...or TV show. Honestly, go watch something else than this pathetic show.

"El Barco" (The Boat) was a highly entertaining if somewhat illogical Spanish TV show that mixed sci-fi, suspense, action and romance in a mostly well written package. A group of about 12 carefully selected kids in their early 20s embark on what is supposed to be a 2 month experience living in the high seas along with the boat's crew. With the boat already sailing, one night strange things happen: a strong magnetic wave makes all things made of metal inside the boat to rush to the ceiling and causing the navigational instruments to go crazy. A huge tsunami/squall threatens to tip the boat on its side but miraculously survives. Through further episodes the crew and its passengers find out that the tsunami was part of a series of events that caused the complete devastation of all land mass on earth, turning the planet into a huge sea world. Apparently, the crew and passengers of the boat (named, "the Polar Star") are the only survivors on the planet. We later find out that a mass of land did survive so the boat starts to desperately head for it."The Boat" lasted for only 3 seasons. The first season was fast paced and mostly well written. In this season, something of grave danger threatens the boat and its crew and by the end of each episode things always get solved, no cliffhangers. Cliffhangers were used in the last 2 episodes. We get to know the main characters through flashbacks of who they were and what they did before embarking on the Polar Star. Season 2 lowers the quality of the show with distracting parallel stories that ultimately did nothing to advance the storyline, even though some of the show's best episodes are within this season. Season 3, the last one, seemed to crumble under its own weight by trying to give closure to the multiple stories the writers threw at us. As the show went on, it seems the writers felt free to use the cheapest of ploys to get the storyline moving. At this point, I hadn't seen the American TV show "LOST", but I knew 'The Boat" bore a close resemblance. In "The Boat", characters suddenly appeared to have a common past, secret abilities, ulterior motives, etc. The main characters are Ricardo Montero, the boat's captain; Ainoha, the captain's daughter; Ulises, a stowaway kid who happens to be the Captain's right hand aide, Julian De La Cuadra's estranged son: Julia, the boat's doctor and one of the few people that know what happened to the earth; Roberto "burbuja" (bubble), a kitchen aide with cerebral palsy who also happens to be the boat's most intelligent passenger; Gamboa, an infiltrated "survival teacher" with special instructions to prevent the boat from ever reaching land.Apparently the world came to an end due to a scientific experiment with a "particle accelerator". The people behind this project were warned that this experiment had a high probability of going "wrong" and the consequences could be "catastrophic" on a worldwide scale. My logic is: why do an experiment with such a high risk of failure? What is it for? Who profits? Who loses? If you kill the entire planet, who are you going to rule over? To me, this was the whole point of the show: why did those scientists blew up the world? In season 2, we find out there is a baddie, one who was behind the project "Alexandria" (code name for a "plan B", should the project accelerator go wrong), and this baddie is the father of one of the Polar Star's passengers, the sexy Estela. All along the show, we hear about this "project Alexandria". It's odd that one should put so much emphasis on a "Plan B", instead of making the original plan work. The show never explains what was the intention of the particle accelerator, the original "Plan A". By the end of Season 3, it was almost impossible to give a logical conclusion to the multiple storyline's the show's writers entangled themselves into. The last episode was a rush job at best, leaving a ton of unanswered questions that the writers tried to explain in a cheap afterword epilogue. It's as the writers' thought a 4th season would address all the inconclusive data, but that season never happened and thus they painted themselves into a corner. For all it's worth, "The Boat" was still highly entertaining despite some obvious plot holes and a very unsatisfactory ending (at least for me). Despite all of this, it's still the best Spanish TV show I've ever seen.