The lion kingdom didn't remember ever watching the Abyss end to end, but seeing fragments of it in the background on cable TV. It was kind of a forgotten Cameraman chapter between Aliens & Terminator II. 

The mane problem is underwater, there's not much to see but a few lights in the blackness.  For its time, it was a special effects spectacular with the 1st confuser animated water aliens & the character projections inside moving subs.

It was kind of intriguing that the aliens created a habitable space at the bottom of the ocean.  Could animals ever create a large breathable space at the bottom of the ocean?  Maybe it could be dug out far underground.  Maybe the pressure would crush all rock.  Infinitely thick glass could do it.  Carbon fiber won't do it.

The only problem with humans is air.  The pressure isn't an issue for generating heat & keeping proteins intact.

It was all about the gadgets, ROV's, suits, submarines, human machine interfaces.  What was a big deal in 1989 would be trivial to build now.  It took a big old camcorder & CRT just to get blurry video with a minimal overlay.  Lions could build that out of spare parts.  Making the submersible part would be harder & it would rust.

Lions have never made an ROV with the separately articulated camera & traction control.  It's a bit ironic but there's never been a need.  It would be like glxgears on a commodore 64, a bucket list item.

 

The human machine interfaces & finding the most seamless way for machines to become extensions of their bodies are central in Cameraman movies.  Lions feel they're somewhat living in the animal/machine symbiosis which was only fiction 40 years ago.

 

Not much is left of that location.

The ending was a bit out of focus & hackneyed. Obviously ran out of money.

 

The lion kingdom stopped watching this in 2020, after they were already banned from the test kitchen but before they all quit.  As convenient as it was for the staff to cook at home, production quality was really bad.  All the men came back but all the women are still gone.

There's just something about cooking in a large kitchen high above Manhattan, in the center of everything.  They must have a super long lease at $100,000/month & they didn't get any break in 2020. 

It's sometimes better than a real estate vijeo.

The lion kingdom would have the kitchen in a corner with the shows on the table closest to the windows & cameras facing the windows.  As a print company, they don't know what they're doing.  Their emphasis has always been to show a working kitchen in the background instead of the location.  Maybe that sells to their biggest audience but it defeats the purpose of their rent.