The Last Ship [TNT - US]

helimachoptor · 04-08-2014 6:10pm

just watched it there... impressed..

KT10 · 05-08-2014 1:09pm

Hmm, better episode, nice to see something get blowed up again, more blowing things up please, hopefully a full on exchange of fire in the next ep!

InTheTrees · 06-08-2014 1:08am

Last week was okay. Its good to see a story that extends beyond one episode too.

There wasnt too much to complain about except... wouldnt the captain have recognized the difference between the underneath of a russian chopper and an american one?

squonk · 06-08-2014 9:03am

Still really liking this show! The tech looks pretty real as well. It just really occurred to me when they were in the situation room last week monitoring the search for the captain. Big set up for next week now so I just hope they don't bungle it. Lots still to like about this show! It's not clever but it knows how to entertain!

don ramo · 06-08-2014 12:06pm

squonk wrote: »

The tech looks pretty real as well.

thats cause it is real, they film onboard the USS Halsey and the USS Dewey, and the USS Iowa which is a museum ship,

Cork boy 55 · 06-08-2014 7:56pm

I like post-SHTF survival stuff so,

I spotted the tread here and thought I would give it go.

Its very well shot cinematography wise but its basically a Naval recruitment AD
for idiot/kids.

I was expecting Something like on the beach (1958) but got the party
posse

The story is set in a then-future 1964, in the months following World War III. The conflict has devastated the northern hemisphere, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout and killing all life. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout south. The only areas still habitable are in the far southern hemisphere.
From Australia, survivors detect an incomprehensible Morse code signal from San Diego in the United States. The last American nuclear submarine, USS Sawfish, under Royal Australian Navy command, is ordered to sail north to try to make contact with the signal sender.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

"New Kids on the Blecch" is the fourteenth episode from the twelfth season of The Simpsons. In the episode, a music producer selects Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph to be members of the next hit boyband, who record songs containing subliminal messages about joining the Navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kids_on_the_Blecch

Heraldoffreeent · 11-08-2014 9:37am

Plenty Boom Boom this week!!
Its a terrible show, but I love it!

squonk · 11-08-2014 1:54pm

Haven't watched the latest episode yet but, yeah, it's a real guilty pleasure! Putting it in context, Last Resort was an attempt to make a decent show out of a crap premise and it failed miserably. The Last Ship is just about making a crap show out of a crap premise and it's bloody fantastic!

_Kaiser_ · 11-08-2014 9:59pm

That was epic!

Over-the-top nonsense but it's great!

Forget this uber-realistic/gritty depressing nonsense.. more of this cheesy 80s-style stuff is what we need!

squonk · 12-08-2014 9:27am

Great show this week! Plot holes you could drive an artic through. Overly incompetent Russians letting the lads run amok on the ship. It was almost real-life Scooby doo. "They're slipping through our fingers!"

. Smart Russian captain getting outwitted by the yanks! It was almost pure Saturday morning kids TV for a while there. It's just so damn good though! I'm laughing because it's precisely the sort of show I should detest but I love it and can't wait for more!!!!

InTheTrees · 12-08-2014 4:36pm

squonk wrote: »

Great show this week! Plot holes you could drive an artic through. Overly incompetent Russians letting the lads run amok on the ship.

Anyone else get a surprise when the captain and his buddy break out of their cell only to bump into... the US team sent to rescue them!

Woa. How the f did they get there?

Beano · 12-08-2014 6:03pm

InTheTrees wrote: »

Anyone else get a surprise when the captain and his buddy break out of their cell only to bump into... the US team sent to rescue them!

Woa. How the f did they get there?

The note that Dr Scott passed to the captain told him when and where to meet. No surprise at all.

shinny · 12-08-2014 7:20pm

It's American patriotism on steroids, but I loves it!

Coconut Joe · 13-08-2014 3:25pm

Think I'll have to call it a day on this, it should be a guilty pleasure for me plot wise, but it's just too bad. I seem to be in the minority but I much preferred Last Resort

InTheTrees · 13-08-2014 7:01pm

2 more episodes before the end of the season? Hopefully they'll make a little more effort with the writing of the next season.

squonk · 14-08-2014 9:04am

Ah balls! Only 2 more?

. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's nothing wrong with the writing. It suits the show perfectly. We're not talking high brow drama here. It's cheap sparkly boom boom stuff. It works very well!

CatInABox · 14-08-2014 11:50am

squonk wrote: »

Ah balls! Only 2 more? . If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's nothing wrong with the writing. It suits the show perfectly. We're not talking high brow drama here. It's cheap sparkly boom boom stuff. It works very well!

Have to agree, this is one of the few shows in which I actually enjoy turning my brain off. Normally I'm the first to pick up on plot holes and bad acting, but for some odd reason, it just isn't happening with this show.

KT10 · 14-08-2014 11:50am

squonk wrote: »

Ah balls! Only 2 more? . If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's nothing wrong with the writing. It suits the show perfectly. We're not talking high brow drama here. It's cheap sparkly boom boom stuff. It works very well!

Yep, season 2 will be 13 episodes though.

Have to say, enjoyed that, I did have to tell my brain to shut up when the Russian soldiers, firing from an elevated position, at a target 20 feet away, were still unable to hit the yanks despite them having no cover, but meh, good acceleration of the storyline, was thinking they'd drag stuff out into season 2 but glad to see they're not drag assing.

My only hope is they've saved a big chunck of this seasons budget for a balls-out battle in the final episode and we have a Star Trek moment...

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helimachoptor · 14-08-2014 9:20pm

proper go Murica **** going on but i bloody love it!

smcgiff · 18-08-2014 3:51pm

Bit too ER for my liking this week. Not enough Ruskies.

don ramo · 18-08-2014 4:56pm

smcgiff wrote: »

Bit too ER for my liking this week. Not enough Ruskies.

cant see how we'll see the ruskies again this season, took 3-4 episodes to repair what was done the first time, gonna take a season or two for the damage done last week, nevermind that patient zero was roaming the ship also,

decent episode though, nice to see how the infected are being treated on the mainland, and see how some are surviving, though chandlers wife is a bit of an idiot,

it would be great to see the wide repercussions of the virus, but see as the show is called the last SHIP, i dunno how much theyd wanna take attention away from the ship itself,

InTheTrees · 18-08-2014 5:19pm

They had to have that episode didnt they? They could have just declared they had a cure and gone ahead but we'd have been critical. SO they needed an "ER" episode.

It looks like its headed towards "walking dead" territory as they head back to the US and deal with domestic issues with local war lords.

Definitely more 'splosions but it would be a shame if they lose the ship-centric plot and spend ore time ashore.

don ramo · 18-08-2014 6:22pm

as long as they get the balance right between the ship an mainland theyll be fine, i just hope they dont do something stupid like loose the cure for some reason or other, and have to fight to get it back 5 or 6 times,

they now have the cure so season 2 should be dealing with mass producing it, and 3 getting it distributed, 4 cleaning up after, and 5 back to normal life,

Mr E · 18-08-2014 9:44pm

Season finale next week - it will all go horribly horribly wrong.

expectationlost · 18-08-2014 11:13pm

it turning into the walking dead

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thats what you get for signing up to the navy after 9/11, death!

Sudden Valley · 18-08-2014 11:28pm

I guess they had to have the doctor find the cure to prove she was badass enough to be on the ship. Perhaps the Russians will reappear and be the cause of them losing this cure?

squonk · 19-08-2014 9:15am

I found this week a bit slow. but it was the first one so far I've really kind of zoned out on so that's not too bad actually. The main reason though was because I knew they'd have an 11th hour breakthrough and nobody was really going to die. It's just that kind of show! Lo and behold 35 minutes or so in the doctor has a breakthrough to save them all!

Because of zoning out I missed a lot of the detail on land but Walking Dead sprung to mind for me as well and I'm not quite as interested in that as I am in the guys sailing round encountering bad guys and blowing them up! I know they have to widen the storyline a bit but hopefully they'll still remember the show is called The Last Ship!

KT10 · 19-08-2014 4:25pm

Meh, at least they have the cure now but we can all see what the season finale cliffhanger is going to be about, Chandler finding out his muppet missus has infected his Dad and his kids, cue race against time to get them the cure.

Anyone else think the appearence of Titus Welliver is a prelude ot what Season 2 will be about? I smell a bit of the Governor alá the Walking Dead, off him, wouldn't be surprised if he has a compound somewhere, heavily defended etc.

I'm hoping for a balls to the wall battle in the final episode, but with the Ruskies dead in the water, I don't really see it happening...

don ramo · 19-08-2014 9:07pm

KT10 wrote: »

Meh, at least they have the cure now but we can all see what the season finale cliffhanger is going to be about, Chandler finding out his muppet missus has infected his Dad and his kids, cue race against time to get them the cure.

Anyone else think the appearence of Titus Welliver is a prelude ot what Season 2 will be about? I smell a bit of the Governor alá the Walking Dead, off him, wouldn't be surprised if he has a compound somewhere, heavily defended etc.

I'm hoping for a balls to the wall battle in the final episode, but with the Ruskies dead in the water, I don't really see it happening...

didnt even realise it was him, he has his own show starting on amazon in 2015 so how much hell be involved in season 2 will be tied to how successful the other show will be, always like seeing him,

i dont mine if they move to land, maybe 60/40 in favor of the sea even 70/30 would be better, but at the same time its not the last ship, cause the russians had one too;):p:D:D

i wonder if well even see the russians again, with patient zero running around the ship hell probably have the whole crew wiped out within a week, unless the cure worked on yerman they shoved in with him, they better address that next week, before they wrap up,

Beano · 19-08-2014 10:54pm

squonk wrote: »

I found this week a bit slow. but it was the first one so far I've really kind of zoned out on so that's not too bad actually. The main reason though was because I knew they'd have an 11th hour breakthrough and nobody was really going to die. ...

apart from the woman who did

squonk · 20-08-2014 9:13am

Did one die? God I really zoned out!

InTheTrees · 20-08-2014 8:53pm

don ramo wrote: »

i wonder if well even see the russians again, with patient zero running around the ship hell probably have the whole crew wiped out within a week, unless the cure worked on yerman they shoved in with him, they better address that next week, before they wrap up,

Its looked like that was a pretty conclusive end to the ruskies wasnt it?

I thought seeing Patient zero seen amongst the crew was just to confirm the russians are totally finished.

Or maybe he's going to show up again?

shinny · 20-08-2014 10:16pm

I actually really liked this episode. I might be in the minority though!! I knew it was going to end with everything being ok but I suppose we didn't know they'd also get the cure (not just a vaccine), which is a game changer.

I was thinking are they going to kill off the captains wife to make way for rhim and the Dr? You can figure out the Da is going to make contact on the radio but I wonder will the race be to save him and the kids but the wife has gone too far?, conveniently.

P_1 · 25-08-2014 10:32am

Ah so

they're going down the Revolution (RIP) route

. Very interesting finale.

Agent Coulson · 25-08-2014 12:42pm

This is getting very interesting now.

helimachoptor · 25-08-2014 1:58pm

wont get to this for a few days, can someone spoiler what happened in the finale?

P_1 · 25-08-2014 3:13pm

helimachoptor wrote: »

wont get to this for a few days, can someone spoiler what happened in the finale?

You want spoilers or you want everything tagged as one? :pac:

helimachoptor · 25-08-2014 3:25pm

P_1 wrote: »

You want spoilers or you want everything tagged as one? :pac:

write what happened and then stick spoiler tags on it so it doesnt ruin it for everyone!

P_1 · 25-08-2014 7:07pm

helimachoptor wrote: »

write what happened and then stick spoiler tags on it so it doesnt ruin it for everyone!

The Captain's wife catches the virus and ends up dying from it

They make contact with supposedly the surviving government in Baltimore

This surviving government is in an insurgency type war with what they term as warlords

A few heads from the ship go ashore to the surviving government who just happen to have set up shop in a swanky corporate HQ like building that comes complete with a fancy lab and it turns out that the head of this surviving government just happens to be the black lesbian crewmember's mother

Low and behold the doctor discovers something wrong with the treatment they're giving victims on the ground

They've set up 'safe' and 'infected' zones on the ground

Turns out that the 'infected' are actually folk of a lower socio-economic class and they're being killed while folk of more desirable socio-economic classes are being kept safe and in a more gruesome twist the bodies of the dead are being used to generate electricity for the surviving government HQ

The captain saves his dad and two kids from one of the 'infected' zones, Tex goes off on his own with an M16 and the Maryland State Police have seized control of the ship

frostypants · 25-08-2014 7:12pm

helimachoptor wrote: »

wont get to this for a few days, can someone spoiler what happened in the finale?

Why not just not read the thread until you watch it? It's not if you'd understand the posts anyway if they were spoiler tagged so what would be the point?

Anyway, I won't spoil it for you

it was an excellent finale. They took the show on a very interesting direction and I will definitely be back for season 2! Turning out to be a damn good show

Atlantic Dawn · 25-08-2014 8:21pm

Loved the last episode, great twist, wasn't expecting it, looking forward to Season 2.

shinny · 26-08-2014 12:06am

Good but fairly predictable finale.

JP Liz V1 · 26-08-2014 12:24am

Sky 1 has picked up

don ramo · 26-08-2014 1:25am

really looking forward to season 2 now, i was surprised they killed his wife, i thought maybe his father might die if any of them, i thought they would have made contact with more of the crews families, but only so much you can pack into one episode i suppose,

i wonder what the plan for season 2 is now, is gonna still be sea based of are they gonna focus more of the struggles on the mainland, surely mass production of the cure is what is needed, so i cant see how they can do that on the boat, its gonna be really interesting to see where the show goes from here,

and that clapping was cringe worthy

squonk · 26-08-2014 9:03am

Great finale! As far as I'm concerned, we've all had a night to watch the show now so if you're worried about spoilers in this post, don't read on and get the hell out of the thread now.

Good to see the Captain's family saved. The wife was an idiot so was no loss. Very interesting twist with the survivors in Baltimore. Incidentally, I love the way the show is shot. The external sea shots always looks like they were done on a frosty morning by the standards of Irish weather. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here. Presumably now they can pick up supplies of fuel and, he he, ammo? I'd imagine they'll defeat the government forces early next season but end up going back to sea again to find somewhere else with facilities for mass producing the cure. Who knows! Burning the bodies in the power station was a dark twist.

Great show all round! I'll definitely be reinlisting for season 2!

helimachoptor · 26-08-2014 10:35am

Cheers P_1, looks like a decent end of series if a bit predictable but this is now a better series for me than Falling skies

squonk · 26-08-2014 10:45am

helimachoptor wrote: »

Cheers P_1, looks like a decent end of series if a bit predictable but this is now a better series for me than Falling skies

Watching the test card is better than Falling Skies at this point! The Last Ship is one of the most entertaining shows on TV right now. Miles removed from FS!

Peace · 26-08-2014 12:06pm

I slagged the sh1te out of this at the start, and throughout, but they did finish strong.

I can't see how a single lad with a 9mm can take control of a warship. I can imagine a number of episodes next season set in Baltimore as they have invested in bringing in new characters.

The special forces lad being out on the loose will be good to see how he gets on.

Didn't give a crap about the captains wife. Sure we only saw her a couple of times all season.

Beano · 26-08-2014 12:11pm

Peace wrote: »

...
I can't see how a single lad with a 9mm can take control of a warship. ...

I think the police lieutenant said that there were other police officers on the ship.

_Kaiser_ · 26-08-2014 6:11pm

Just watched it there now.. very strong finish. Didn't see the twist coming myself.

One of the best shows this year IMO. Does exactly what it promises.

The Last Ship [TNT - US]

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