El Barco (TV series)

El Barco (The Ship)
Genre	Action Mystery Drama/Science Fiction
Starring	Mario Casas Blanca Suárez Juanjo Artero Patricia Arbues Luis Callejo Irene Montalà Juan Pablo Shuk Neus Sanz Iván Massagué Bernabé Fernandez Marina Salas Giselle Calderón Javier Hernández David Seijo
Country of origin	Spain
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	43 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Álex Pina
Running time	75 minutes (approx.)
Broadcast
Original channel	Antena 3
First shown in	17 January 2011[1]
Original run	January 17, 2011 (2011-01-17) – February 21, 2013 (2013-02-21)
External links
Website

El Barco (in English: The Ship) was a Spanish mystery TV series produced by Globomedia for Antena 3. The first series premiered on January 17, 2011. The First Episode "Un Millión de Millas" (A million miles) had 4.7 million viewers gaining 23.4% viewership in Spain.

The series combines elements of drama, mystery and action, a formula that was very popular between 2007 and 2010. Due to its popularity Antena 3 renewed the programme for a second and later a third series. The third season had 16 episodes and ended February 21, 2013.

Plot

A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva, Switzerland during the implementation of a particle accelerator, leaves the crew and students of the school-ship Estrella Polar (North Star) isolated in an post-apocalyptic world. The ship must become their home in this isolated world. However apart from the isolation, they also discover they are not alone and must face "the others".

Series 1

The first season consisted of 14 episodes aired for the first time between January 17, 2011 and April 25, 2011 featuring entirely by Juanjo Artero, Mario Casas, Irene Montalà and Blanca Suarez, along with the rest of the cast was present in the entire programme.

The first season part with North Star sailing to what will be the biggest adventure of their lives when a mysterious storm caused by the implementation of particle accelerator in the middle of the night, then all crew discover that the erth as they know it is gone, that 90% of the surface is water, and to be in that boat is the only way to stay alive. Captain Ricardo Montero and First Officer, Julian De la Cuadra, will now be responsible for the lives of the students school-ship and have to make difficult decisions in extreme situations like giant fish, bird strikes, riots on board, poisonous mists, among others. Shortly after students discovered that there is land to which arrive, Ramiro discover on their own that 10% of the surface is still solid land, so the crew decides to go in search of this area.

Young Ulysses and Ainhoa meet, and form a love-hate relationship. She is already in a relationship by the survival instructor, Ernesto Gamboa, and for several chapters are together. Because of this Ulises also begins a relationship with Dr. Julia Wilson, who also lasts a short time. They decide to end their relationships to be together, but that seems impossible when Gamboa threatens to kill Ainoah's father and sister, so she tells him she does not want anything with it. Also you start to develop a relationship between Vilma and Piti, when he tells Vilma will be the father of her child. Estela falls in love with Gamboa, and when he does not return the feelings, her eyes move on to the captain, but he is already interested in the doctor, which lets her down. Salomé and the First Officer Julian De la Cuadra start a relationship, realizing that after so long to know are falling in love. Dr. Julia tells Julian that has markers and might have cancer. While all this happens, Valeria and Bubbles live intense adventures.

In the season finale, the crew of the 'North Star' received a message from outer space, astronauts ask for help because they will die in three hours.

Series 2

Following the success of the first 14 episodes of last series with an average audience of 4 million viewers, the show was renewed for a second series consisting of 17 episodes, but eventually the last 3 episodes became the third season, leaving this one with just 14 episodes. The new season aired between September 8, 2011 and January 5, 2012.

The second season continues with the captain, deciding help astronauts who are about to land, while an approaching hurricane, which endangers the lives of the crew. After passing through the danger, the crew discovers they are not inside, they are gone. Later the North Star sees other survivors on a raft of Queen America and 4 crewman: Victor, Tom, Sweet And Leonor. Another ship that sank in the path of the storm that started it all, and then discover the intentions of the new crew, which are nothing more than trying to find black box and Ulises De la Cuadra found at sea. After falling off a huge waterfall, the crew faces against a storm that brings a dead Palomares back to life. In another episode find a duck that was walking on land. In a later episode they encounter a Russian ship.

Ainhoa and Ulysses decide to start their relationship despite Gamboa threats to Ainhoa. After an incident in which Ulysses hits Gamboa, Ainhoa leaves him for who does not want to be with someone violent. Although Ulises later repents and asks forgiveness, she walks away from him. When they find the Russian ship adrift and abandoned, Ulysses will find land on that ship on his own, and upon arrival discovered Ainhoa waiting and giving him another chance. Piti and Vilma continue their relationship and evolves over several tests passing, however it becomes a love triangle when Palomares confesses to Vilma that he has feelings for her, but ultimately both relationships end. Salomé and First Officer De la Cuadra are still together, but then they are put to the test when De la Cuadra's cancer results become known. Salomé learns that Julian was hiding all this time and leaves him. Telling him that she is pregnant. Estela is still in search of love and falls for Ulises also appears Sol, another student who does not get along well with anyone. At the end of the second season De la Cuadra and Bubbles are kidnapped and when they return to the Estrella De la Cuadra is cured of cancer, leaving open many questions.

Season 3

Thanks to the incredible ratings of the second series, Antena 3 renewed the series for a third season consisting of 13 episodes, but he added the last three at the last minute, making this series 16 episodes. This series began on October 18, 2012 after a long wait of nine months featuring Juanjo Artero, Irene Montala, Mario Casas and Blanca Suárez, along with the rest of the cast. Series 3 includes multiple additions, among them Jan Cornet as Max, Alberto Jo Lee and Cho Sung, Héctor Alterio as Ventura and Gabriel Delgado. In this series, the North Star makes landfall. This series was filed in Peniscola, simulating the long-awaited island they were looking for. Some scenes are still filmed in Plató as they follow the North Star. The series is also filmed in Elche, in Palmeraie, to simulate the forest around cabin on the island. On February 2, 2013 Antena 3 reported that the programme will end on February 21, 2013 finally after three seasons.

In the third season, continuing the search for land, and now more than ever, Bubble located Manolito, who has returned to the North Star, and examining his career, he discovers that always goes to the same place. Ainhoa tells her father that Ulises has disappeared a couple of days ago and the crew has found a man who happens to be Cho Sung, a Korean from Russian ship. Shortly after the North Star finds a blip on the radar, which eventually the crew discovers is a hotel that has remained above water after the cataclysm and so far, almost five months later in the building discovered that Ulises arrived there, and they meet Max, the leader of the survivors of the building. which turns out to be a hotel in Singapore. After a few days there, Gamboa discovers that the city is under your feet. Max gives the coordinates of land to the captain, and the latter promises to return, but instead of these coordinates asked the captain for Ainhoa stay in the hotel. Ulises offers Max to go in her because Max is aware that Ulises dated a girl before they met. Richard and Julia decide to marry and Vilma begins to befriend Cho Sung. Mr. Ventura, an old man, goes aboard as a stowaway with his grandson "Mouse" on the North star.

After 132 days at sea, the Polar Star finally spots land. De la Cuadra, Salome, Ainhoa, Piti, Vilma, Cho Sung and Max go to the island. A few remain on the ship which sails back to the hotel for the other survivors as promised, but just before returning, Ulises requests assistance through the radio and a shot is heard at the end of his message. On the first night on the island, Max goes to inspect the area during rain when they hear noises outside the tents and disappears the next day discovers that the animal that made noise was a cow. On board the North Star, to reach the building in search of Ulises and the others discovers that no one is still there. They all are gone, and the Captain decides to return to the island to rejoin his crew. They suspect that the French ship, one from Project Alexandria has come before them and on their way back to land. On the island Ainhoa, Piti, Cho and Vilma they go in search of Max, but instead found two masked men with guns, which shoot at them. They come back and they put a camera on the cow to see what's beyond the forest of the island and found a cabin. The cabin does not seem abandoned, so Ainhoa and Piti enter it and hear alarms, shortly thereafter Max is found knocking on the door. Piti will warn others but later he finds that the crew of the French ship has the crew of the North Star hostage and impersonates Gamboa to save them.

Bubble and Gamboa and finds the red folder as the Project Alexandria were looking for. Gamboa is contacted by the Alexandria project and informs them of his findings. Once ashore, Ricardo and others meet with the crew of the island and both groups find out everything that happened. Then Ricardo, De la Cuadra, Salome, Julia, Cho, Palomares, Vilma and Ramiro go to the cabin with Ainhoa and Max. A shootout with the crew of the French ship occurs and Valeria gets shot. Ricardo comes out and burn the red folder in front of everyone, outside the cabin. Piti is discovered to be a fraud, they force Piti to walk with a mask path to the cabin for his shoot him, but he manages to escape being shot by his own crew by placing gum on his forehead which causes De la Cuadra to remember that he put gum on Piti's forehead. The French crew shoot Piti, but do not kill him. Palomares and Ramiro go to Piti in the middle of the crossfire by protecting themselves with a bathtub . Ulysses and Max know instrumental to save Valeria but on the way they are followed by the crew French ship. Ulysses stays to fight with them and Max goes to the ship. Max is sneaks aboard the boat. Bubbles reconnects with Marimar, has an obligation to impersonate Roberto (himself before he had the accident) to save the crew because they have destroyed the red folder. Gamboa, is reunited with his daughter, but is blackmailed by Alexander who asks him to assassinate Ulysses. Gamboa gets off the boat and meets with Ulysses to kill him.

Ventura gets out alive from the boat because Alexander decides spares his life and decides to take the surgical supplies to the cabin. In the cabin the French crew leave, because they have been ordered by Alexander since Bubbles, impersonating Bubbles, gives him the information from the red folder. Ulises other hand, encounters Gamboa, decides to leaves his gun on the ground to go by boat and reach the North Star. He is then surprised by Gamboa in the water with a gun and Ulises discovers that Gamboa will kill him. He calls Ainhoa over the radio to bid farewell to his girlfriend and Gamboa gives four bullets in the chest.

The series ends in an epilogue. The story flashes forward 380 days and shows Captain Ricardo Montero, driving a van. Julia is sitting in front and in back is Salomé with her son ( named Roberto), in the middle is Valeria and the other side sits Julian. They go to a place and get out of the van to see Ainhoa wearing wedding dress and the captain asks where the groom is. We then see an image of Ulysses enjoying the sea, with white shirt showing he's the groom. Then voiceovers from Ainhoa and Ulises begin to tell the ending: "Because no atomic bomb, particle accelerator (can destroy love). Neither can three shots to the chest nor a well-intentioned lie" Ramiro gets with Estela. Captain Montero and Dr. Julia decide to have another child, which make it so Valeria was no longer the youngest. Vilma maries Cho, Cho speaks to the child in Korean and Vilma in Spanish which will lead the child to have a funny accent. Piti became a caretaker and godfather to Cho and Vilma's child. Mouse's grandfather Mr. Ventura died with a smile on his face as was deeply missed by everyone else. Mouse is adopted by Max who says "he wants to be just like him," Palomares built a church with branches but its constantly falls down during storms. Gamboa is never heard from again, but it's suspected that he's living on the other side of the island with his daughter. Marimar and Bubbles get back together, Marimar is not bother by his accident. Ulises and Ainhoa's love story could not be stopped by Gamboa's bullets, we hear their wedding vows. It was revealed that when Bubbles was Roberto Schnieder he created an infection that poisons the lungs, but also created an antidote he hid in the red folder. Everything ends with an earthquake and a new magnetic field disturbance and Captain saying that "has begun again."

Cast

Production

Filming of the Estrella Polar was done aboard the Cervantes Saavedra. It was launched as a lightvessel named Sydostbrotten (Nr 33) 1934 from the Swedish shipyard Götaverkan AB, in Goteborg. In 1970, she was sold, and refitted at the Aveiro shipyard in Portugal.^[2] The refit converted the vessel into an iron-hulled barquentine with three masts and a bowsprit. Her length is now 48.5 m (159 ft), with a 7.8 m (26 ft) beam and 4.6 m (15 ft) draft.

Episodes

Series Overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD releases
			Premiere	Finale
	1	13	January 17, 2011	April 25, 2011	September 28, 2011
	2	14	September 8, 2011	January 5, 2012	September 19, 2012
	3	16	October 18, 2012	February 21, 2013	March 17, 2013

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Original air date	Prod. code	viewers (millions)
1	1	"A million miles"	January 17, 2011	101	4.76
2	2	"Cane casting"	January 24, 2011	102	4.32
3	3	"The ghost pirate"	January 31, 2011	103	4.18
4	4	"A world under the sea"	February 7, 2011	104	4.10
5	5	"The squawk"	February 14, 2011	105	3.83
6	6	"Election"	February 21, 2011	106	4.01
7	7	"Lost"	February 28, 2011	107	3.82
8	8	"Sea fishing"	March 7, 2011	108	4.07
9	9	"A blip on the radar"	March 21, 2011	109	3.99
10	10	"Fog"	March 28, 2011	110	4.30
11	11	"The law of the sea"	April 4, 2011	111	4.17
12	12	"The man from liverpool"	April 11, 2011	112	3.99
13	13	"Waiting for a miracle"	April 25, 2011	113	4.20

Season 2 (2011/12)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Original air date	Prod. code	viewers (millions)
14	1	"Are not alone"	September 8, 2011	201	2.90
15	2	"The dark visitor"	September 15, 2011	202	2.70
16	3	"The last raft of america queen"	September 22, 2011	203	2.91
17	4	"Bobby guts bear"	September 29, 2011	204	2.69
18	5	"Who fears the wolf?"	October 6, 2011	205	3.05
19	6	"Shrimp that falls asleep..."	October 13, 2011	206	3.08
20	7	"Feet in cement"	October 20, 2011	207	3.16
21	8	"Mermaid"	October 27, 2011	208	2.98
22	9	"The priest and the dr. frankenstein"	November 3, 2011	209	3.02
23	10	"The strange case of duck manolito"	November 10, 2011	210	2.90
24	11	"Of ghost one"	November 17, 2011	211	3.08
25	12	"Boat in the mirror"	November 24, 2011	212	2.89
26	13	"Lies and Cabaret"	December 1, 2011	213	3.16
27	14	"Twelft night"	January 5, 2012	214	2.10

Season 3 (2012/13)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Original air date	Prod. code	viewers (millions)
28	1	"Honor the crew"	October 18, 2012	215	3.35
29	2	"The art of war"	October 25, 2012	216	3.03
30	3	"Light which conceals"	November 1, 2012	217	2.57
31	4	"100m² of land"	November 8, 2012	301	3.15
32	5	"The owner of the world"	November 15, 2012	302	2.81
33	6	"Fukushima blues"	November 22, 2012	303	2.98
34	7	"The wedding"	November 29, 2012	304	2.80
35	8	"Who is who"	December 13, 2012	305	2.59
36	9	"The energy that moves the world"	December 20, 2012	306	2.48
37	10	"The rest of the world"	January 10, 2013	307	2.25
38	11	"Things in secret"	January 17, 2013	308	2.25
39	12	"Nothing here"	January 24, 2013	309	2.01
40	13	"Cat and mouse"	January 31, 2013	310	2.16
41	14	"A noise in the sky"	February 7, 2013	311	2.21
42	15	"Out of this world"	February 14, 2013	312	2.32
43	16	"The last bullet"	February 21, 2013	313	2.61

References

External links

• "El Barco" (official website in Spanish)