Sea of Serenity

When Disney used to show good made for TV movies back in the day, one of my favorites was called “A Ring of Endless Light”. Loosely based off of a book, its about a young girl named Vicki who has a mysterious ability to communicate with dolphins. They understand her and she understand them, though it isn’t really explained save that it might be hereditary because her grandmother had similar abilities.

The movie mostly revovled around Vicki, the dolphins and the two guys who she had a weird love triangle with.

It was a surprisingly mature and pretty emotional movie - I remember how shocked I was when the girls grandfather literaly died on screen with her there. No, seriously. He had luekimia I believe and he alluded earlier in the film that his time was coming but that was pretty damn depressing. The movie was also about dolphin conservation, especially the harms that came from using drift nets, and it featured a dolphin rescue center and one of the dolphins featured in the movie had a live birth. There weren’t any mermaids in the movie, but Vicki did have a dream where she was one and swimming with the dolphins (one of whom transformed into the science guy she liked).

The inspiration to make Keena’s mother a marine veternarian and have her work at a dolphin rescue center came from this movie. That was really the main thing I remembered about it until I saw the movie again years later. I had all ways pictured Keena’s mother as someone who worked with dolphins first hand and this movie was the catalyst for that. Just thought I’d share since I haven’t posted in anything because I keep forgetting I’m busy.