History Series / ElBarco

* ShipperOnDeck: Loads of them. [[JustForPun And they are on deck, too]]. Ainhoa ships her father with Julia, Valeria ships both that and Ainhoa with Ulises, Andrés ships Piti and Vilma...

* HotScientist: The ship's scientist Julia Wilson is really hot.

* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler:The people in the submarine inject something radioactive into Julián to heal his cancer.]]

* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Piti suffers froms this UpToEleven. It is quite clear he really likes (or loves) Vilma, but his hot blood and slight lack of common sense make him say or do things that he really shouldn't have. He is quite fortunate that Vilma is willing to forgive him for those.

* AbsenteeActor: In the first episodes of season 3, neither Vilma, nor Julia, nor Valeria nor Ulises appear at all.

''El barco'' is a Spanish sci-fi mystery TV series, that started on 17 January 2011. It tells the story of the ''Estrella polar'', a school ship that goes into the Atlantic Ocean for what's expected to be a voyage of two months. At the helm of the ship stands Captain Ricardo Montero (Juanjo Artero), who comes into the ship with his daughters, 20-year-old Ainhoa (Blanca Suárez) and 6-year-old Valeria (Patricia Arbues), whose mother has recently died. Julia Wilson (Irene Montalá) is the ship's scientist, Julián de La Cuadra (Luis Callejo) is the captain's right hand, Salomé (Neus Sanz) is the cook, with "Burbuja" (Iván Massagué) helping her, and some of the pupils are Piti, Estela, Ramiro, Vilma and priest Andrés (Bernabé Fernández), among others. A special guest comes in the form of stowaway Ulises (Mario Casas), who is looking for his father, Julián.

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''El Barco'' is a Spanish TV series, that started on the 17th January 2011. It tells the story of the ''Estrella Polar'', a school ship that goes into the Atlantic Ocean for what's expected to be a voyage of two months. At the helm of the ship stands Captain Ricardo Montero (Juanjo Artero), who comes into the ship with his daughters, 20-year-old Ainhoa (Blanca Suárez) and 6-year-old Valeria (Patricia Arbues), whose mother has recently died. Julia Wilson (Irene Montalá) is the ship's scientist, Julián de La Cuadra (Luis Callejo) is the captain's right hand, Salomé (Neus Sanz) is the cook, with "Burbuja" (Iván Massagué) helping her, and some of the pupils are Piti, Estela, Ramiro, Vilma and priest Andrés (Bernabé Fernández), among others. A special guest comes in the form of stowaway Ulises (Mario Casas), who is looking for his father, Julián.

At first, it seems that, after some scuffles between the pupils, everything will be going OK. However, the people at the ship, save for Julia, don't know that the LHC is being turned on. Things go very awry, very soon, when the LHC starts working and accidentally recreates the Big Bang, apparently killing everyone in Geneva and expanding all over the world. A gigantic storm washes over the ''Estrella Polar'', soon acquiring the look of a hurricane, but the ship survives miraculously thanks to being in a series of coordinates where they are protected from the storm thanks to a submarine fault line. Soon, it becomes apparent that the disappearance of the other ships from the radar isn't a coincidence: it soon becomes apparent that the ship might be the only sign of human life resting in the world.

* ActionGirl: Julia and Ainhoa.
* AfterTheEnd: The whole series is based on this.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 3. An accident in the LHC in Ginebra which created a new Big Bang, is the cause of the disappearance of all land. The place where the ship was one of the few places that was somehow protected from the effects of this.
** Now that we know some land has survived, it might be a bit smaller in number.

* BrainyBrunette: Julia Wilson.
* BrickJoke: A sad one: when it seems that Ricardo might have to commit an HeroicSacrifice to save the ship, he asks Ainhoa to tell her sister that he's gone to look for her mother, a million miles away.

* ClassClown: this is Piti's mask, which he wears because his life before coming into the ship was really bad.
* CoolShip: the ''Estrella Polar''.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: after suffering an accident, Palomares' heart stops. They use [[LightningCanDoAnything a lightning]] to restart it. Although his heart has been stopped by ten minutes, and he is hit by a lightning, he has no visible injuries or brain problems from the lack of oxygen.
* ChristmasEpisode: they have one, in which Valeria makes a wish list for the Three Wise Men, Gamboa has a ChristmasCarol-like series of hallucinations, Palomares decides to return to being a priest and [[spoiler:Julian discovers that, while he was kidnapped, he has been injected with something radioactive to deal with his cancer.]]
* CliffHanger: The series ends in one.
* DarkSecret: Julia has one: she's on the ship as an emergency measure to help the ship survive should the experiment at the LHC go bad. Gamboa, the Survival teacher, also has a big one (the first trailers show a corpse in his car's trunk).
** Turns out that the corpse is the real Survival teacher, who Gamboa killed to take the position.
* DeadpanSnarker: Julián is this. And he is very funny.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: it turns out that Gamboa killed the man who was actually going to be the Survival teacher at the ship and impersonated him - turns out that's the body he hid in his car before the ship departed.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Gamboa seems to be aiming towards this.
* DevilInPlainSight: Gamboa.

* {{Fanservice}}: Any scene where the girls are having a shower.
** Also whenever the girls put on some bikinis and go to the deck to sunbathe.
* FreudianExcuse: Before becoming the ruthless person he was, Gamboa had a wife and two children, who were killed by someone who ran them over and did not stop.
** He was also taught by his father that, to become a survivor, he had to be ruthless.
* GeniusDitz: Burbuja is an ManChild with an IQ of 212.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ricardo and Julián. They have been working together for eighteen years, after all.
** Mixed with a bit of HoYay, when Julián tells Ricardo that, if he were a woman, he would be in love with Ricardo.
* HotScientist: Julia Wilson is really hot.

* LoveDodecahedron: Quite the huge dodecahedron. Ricardo likes Julia, who is interested in Ulises, who likes Ainhoa, who is having a relationship with Gamboa ''but also'' likes Ulises. Amongst the pupils, Ramiro is between his on-earth-and-now-dead girlfriend Pilar and Estela, Piti is between Estela and Vilma, and it also looks like Andrés likes Vilma some way.

* ManChild: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. "Burbuja" suffered an accident that left him with the personality of an eight-year-old boy.
* MayDecemberRomance: Ainhoa and Gamboa had one. [[WhatAnIdiot Despite the fact that he threatened to kill her father. Several times.]]
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]]: "Burbuja" is nicknamed like that because he has a bubble on his brain (burbuja means bubble in Spanish).
* MrFanservice: Mario Casas on a ship? Where he likely will have to pull his shirt off? Girls are gonna throw themselves at him.

* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: a variant of this: Ulises manages to get Gamboa to stop pointing at Ricardo with a gun when he reveals he pulled out all the bullets before from.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Burbuja is far more intelligent than what it looks like. He is an ManChild who was a Harvard graduate and worked at the CERN before his accident. [[spoiler:And pretty much designed the LHC experiment that made the world disappear, as well as develop the scientific part behind Project Alexandria.]]
* OhCrap: what must have been going through Julia's mind when she lost communication with her boyfriend.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Burbuja's true name (Roberto) isn't revealed until chapter 1x09.
** Piti's name is not known until chapter 2x13: he is called Pedro.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Piti suffers this UpToEleven. It is quite clear he really likes (or loves) Vilma, but his hot blood and slight lack of common sense make him say or do things that he really shouldn't have. He is quite fortunate that Vilma is willing to forgive him for those.
* ProductPlacement: Taken to such a blatant extreme that it defies the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. The isolated crew and passengers somehow enjoy a steady supply of fresh products way AfterTheEnd. Especially Coca Cola.

* RunningGag: if Ricardo is entering his room without looking down, he will ''always'' hit his shin with an open drawer.
** Piti referencing the fact that he got a piece of chewed chewing gum on his forehead in the first episode.
*** This saves his life in the last episode: when the bad guys try to get him [[FriendlyFire killed by his friends]] by putting a gasmask on him. In a flash of inspiration, he pulls out a piece of chewed chewing gum and sticks it on his forehead. Julián recognizes him in the nick of time (with a flashback to the first episode, no less).

* ShipperOnDeck: loads of them. [[IncrediblyLamePun And they are on deck, too]]. Ainhoa ships her father with Julia, Valeria ships both that and Ainhoa with Ulises, Andrés ships Piti and Vilma...
* StalkerWithACrush: Gamboa is interested in Ainhoa. This eventually wanders into MayDecemberRomance... but when you take into account that he has a big book full of photographs of Ainhoa walking on the streets, meeting with her friends and much more, and he also seems to have written down every damn thing the girl has done in the last several months, it goes from the weird to the really creepy.
** It is eventually revealed that he is not interested at all in Ainhoa, he just had all the info on Ainhoa to find a way to control her.
* TheMutiny: When Vilma seems to be in danger of dying and Ricardo seems reluctant to go back to the nearest port (because there isn't one that they know of) the pupils stage this. Gamboa joins them and threatens to kill Ricardo. The situation is defused when Ulises proves them that, indeed most of the Earth's solid ground has disappeared.

* TitleDrop: Every chapter's name is referenced by the characters. For example, chapter 1's title, "A un millón de millas" (One million miles away), is where Ricardo tells his younger daughter Valeria her mom is.
* TooDumbToLive: The shorter list would probably be the list of those who aren't TooDumbToLive. Among those that are: the Captain that tries to hide the fact that all land is missing from the sailors and pupils and only reveals it when they are about to mutiny, admits amongst his advisors the guy that threatened to kill him and tried to overthrow him and has the ship use up all their fuel very soon instead of saving it for emergencies (especially idiotic since the ship has sails); the girl that starts a relationship with the man that threatened to kill her father, and when the same man says that if she doesn't stop seeing the guy she likes, he will kill the guy and her family, instead of, you know, telling her father THE CAPTAIN what's going on, she does what the man who threatens her orders her; the scientist who takes her sweet time to tell the truth to the others in a critical moment and withholds home-made fuel when they are minutes away from having a submarine volcano erupt from below them; the guy that is in love with the pregnant girl constantly screws up his chances to stay with her... and many, many more.

* RealityWarper: We don't get to see it, but it is revealed that the God Particle can give this kind of power. [[TheyJustDidntCare Because obviously Higgs' Boson was nicknamed like that for its god-like power]].

* RealityWarper: We don't get to see it, but it is revealed that the God Particle can give this kind of power. [[TheyJustDidntCare Because ''obviously'' Higgs' Boson was nicknamed like that for its god-like power]].

* RealityWarper: We don't get to see it, but it is revealed that the God Particle can give this kind of power. [[TheyJustDidntCare Because ''obviously'' Higgs' Boson was nicknamed like that for its god-like power].]

* ActorAllusion: Ulises mentions that his favourite film is "Fuga de cerebros", in which he is a main character. When Estela replies that it did not have a sequel, it is a clear reference to "Fuga de cerebros 2".

* NamesTheSame: not exactly, but it results somewhat hilarious that, from the two actors that come from ElInternado (Blanca Suárez and Irene Montalá), the name of one's character in ElInternado is the name of the other's character in Series/ElBarco.

* PlayingAgainstType: Belén Rueda tends to play nice women, but here she plays an evil, conniving woman that tries to take over the ship. She does use that image of nice woman to fulfill her objectives.

''The travel is only the start of a fantastic adventure...''

->''It's very probable that, right now, we are the last inhabitants of the planet..."
-->'''Julia Wilson'''

* ThePresidentsDaughter: Ainhoa is the captain's daughter. [[MsFanservice And she's hot]].

* TooDumbToLive: The shorter list would probably be the list of those who aren't TooDumbToLive. Among those that are: the Captain that tries to hide the fact that all land is missing from the sailors and pupils and only reveals it when they are about to mutiny, admits amongst his advisors the guy that threatened to kill him and tried to overthrow him and has the ship use up all their fuel very soon instead of saving it for emergencies (especially idiotic since the ship has sails); the girl that starts a relationship with the man that threatened to kill her father, and when the same man says that if she doesn't stop seeing the guy she likes, he will kill the guy and her family, instead of, you know, telling her father THE CAPTAIN what's going on, she does what the man who threatens her orders her; the scientist who takes her sweet time to tell the truth to the others in a critical moment and withholds home-made fuel when they are minutes away from having a submarine volcano erupt from below them when they are; the guy that is in love with the pregnant girl constantly screws up his chances to stay with her... and many, many more.

* TheMutiny: when Vilma seems to be in danger of dying and Ricardo seems reluctant to go back to the nearest port (because there isn't one that they know of) the pupils stage this. Gamboa joins them and threatens to kill Ricardo. The situation is defused when Ulises proves them that, indeed most of the Earth's solid ground has disappeared.

* TitleDrop: every chapter's name is referenced by the characters. For example, chapter 1's title, "A un millón de millas" (One million miles away), is where Ricardo tells his younger daughter Valeria her mom is.
* TooDumbToLive: the shorter list would probably be the list of those who aren't TooDumbToLive. Among those that are: the Captain that tries to hide the fact that all land is missing from the sailors and pupils and only reveals it when they are about to mutiny, admits amongst his advisors the guy that threatened to kill him and tried to overthrow him and has the ship use up all their fuel very soon instead of saving it for emergencies (especially idiotic since the ship has sails); the girl that starts a relationship with the man that threatened to kill her father, and when the same man says that if she doesn't stop seeing the guy she likes, he will kill the guy and her family, instead of, you know, telling her father THE CAPTAIN what's going on, she does what the man who threatens her orders her; the scientist who takes her sweet time to tell the truth to the others in a critical moment and withholds home-made fuel when they are minutes away from having a submarine volcano erupt from below them when they are; the guy that is in love with the pregnant girl constantly screws up his chances to stay with her... and many, many more.

* CliffHanger: the series ends in one.

* EyepatchOfPower: after nearly losing his eyes in the above mentioned incident, Gamboa starts to wear an eyepatch.
* {{Fanservice}}: any scene where the girls are having a shower.

* FreudianExcuse: before becoming the ruthless person he was, Gamboa had a wife and two children, who were killed by someone who ran them over and did not stop.

* GoneHorriblyRight: the LHC was built to study the Big Bang. They got it working, only to have it go out of control.
* HeroicSacrifice: when the ship gets stuck on a rock, and the only way to save it is to flood one of the rooms, the room where Ricardo, Julián and Piti are stuck in, Ricardo decides that the only thing they can do is to sacrifice their lives to save the others. Fortunately, Ulises manages to TakeAThirdOption.

* HypocriticalHumor: when Julián brings his son's mother's ashes to the bridge, Ricardo tells him that the bridge is not place for someone's ashes. When, during the storm, Ricardo brings his wife's ashes to the bridge, Julián remarks that the rules must be different for the captain.

* AbsenteeActor: in the first episodes of season 3, neither Vilma, nor Julia, nor Valeria nor Ulises appear at all.

* AfterTheEnd: the whole series is based on this.

* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler:the people in the submarine inject something radioactive into Julián to heal his cancer.]]

* BrickJoke: a sad one: when it seems that Ricardo might have to commit an HeroicSacrifice to save the ship, he asks Ainhoa to tell her sister that he's gone to look for her mother, a million miles away.

* IdiotBall: characters take turns in holding it.

* LightningCanDoAnything: after Palomares' heart stops, the crew straps him to a contraption to catch a lightning and restart it. It works.

* MeaningfulNickname: "Burbuja" is nicknamed like that because he has a bubble on his brain (burbuja means bubble in Spanish).

* CPRCleanPrettyAndReliable: after suffering an accident, Palomares' heart stops. They use [[LightningCanDoAnything a lightning]] to restart it. Although his heart has been stopped by ten minutes, and he is hit by a lightning, he has no visible injuries or brain problems from the lack of oxygen.
* ChristmasSpecialEpisode: they have one, in which Valeria makes a wish list for the Three Wise Men, Gamboa has a ChristmasCarol-like series of hallucinations, Palomares decides to return to being a priest and [[spoiler:Julian discovers that, while he was kidnapped, he has been injected with something radioactive to deal with his cancer.]]

* ProductPlacement: Taken to such a blatant extreme that it defies the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. The isolated crew and passengers somehow enjoy a steady supply of fresh products way AfterTheEnd. Especially CocaCola.

* NamesTheSame: not exactly, but it results somewhat hilarious that, from the two actors that come from ElInternado (Blanca Suárez and Irene Montalá), the name of one's character in ElInternado is the name of the other's character in ElBarco.