Anybody watching "The Last Ship" on TV?

[USRanger]

How is the following? A co-worker told me to watch it but I never got around to it...

My oldest daughter is hooked on it and begged me to watch it.  By the end of the first episode I was hooked.  Only two seasons completed so far, so it wouldn't be hard to catch up!

[Serenity]

Some of you guys need to veg a bit and realize that each and every show does not have to have non stop action and non stop suspense. Sit back and enjoy the storyline, jeeez.  There are a whole bunch of storylines that could take place that dont have to have guns blazing and a mystery to solve.

The Walking Dead forums are a hoot as well, some people simply ned to chill the F out and enjoy the show and stop execting to be spoon fed what they think is enjoyment for all.

The big complaints I have, (And all of the ones I'm seeing here) aren't that it's boring. Folks are complaining that it's ridiculously unrealistic and the story line is based on impossibilities and foolishness.

[Meatwad]

Maybe next episode will have Santa Claus bringing presents of loop hole filler

[mbailey]

Folks are complaining that it's ridiculously unrealistic and the story line is based on impossibilities and foolishness.

That's the majority of tv and movies though. It's entertainment plain and simple. It's like saying superman isn't believable because the guy is flying. My dad was a major (amateur)historian and watching movies with him was painful...we would be watching a WWII movie and he would sit there and pick it apart. I still remember to this day watching The Longest Day....and him picking apart the uniforms the Germans were wearing "they never used buttons like that on their uniforms" or " that's not even a German medal on his lapel". How he even enjoyed tv is beyond me. No wonder he liked MST3k so much.  All those guys did was sit and pick fun at movies

Probably explains why his Library had over 8500 books in it and his nose was always in one of those books.

(Although now that he is gone I'd give anything to sit and hear him pick something a Apart again)

I take them for what they are....strictly entertainment and not lessons in real life or history.

[Spikes]

My oldest daughter is hooked on it and begged me to watch it.  By the end of the first episode I was hooked.  Only two seasons completed so far, so it wouldn't be hard to catch up!

Cool, I guess I will give it a shot.

[HPriller]

I've been watching a lot of the new TV shows this summer though this wasn't one of them, the ones I'm currently watching are:

1.  Tyrant
2.  Halt and Catch Fire
3.  The Strain

Tyrant is the best of the three I'd say.  Halt and Catch Fire has an interesting setting (80s IBM pc clone wars) that I remember from my youth a lot of what's referenced makes me laugh.  The Strain's zombie vampire conspiracy is kind of interesting, but skirts the limits of my willing suspension of disbelief, though perhaps not quite as severely as The Walking Dead.

[Sabre]

That's the majority of tv and movies though. It's entertainment plain and simple. It's like saying superman isn't believable because the guy is flying. My dad was a major (amateur)historian and watching movies with him was painful...we would be watching a WWII movie and he would sit there and pick it apart. I still remember to this day watching The Longest Day....and him picking apart the uniforms the Germans were wearing "they never used buttons like that on their uniforms" or " that's not even a German medal on his lapel". How he even enjoyed tv is beyond me. No wonder he liked MST3k so much.  All those guys did was sit and pick fun at movies

I really do get that it's just a TV show, and will have technical issue that don't match "reality".  All those things I could probably live with (and do with many other shows and movies I've watched).  What was so awful about this last episode especially is that the characters don't behave in a believable way.  The don't react to situations and events in ways that make sense.  There motivations are unfathomable.  Plus the acting is so cliche.  I swear, if the Captain and the Exec share one more dramatic and intense stare (which they did a dozen times on this last episode), I'm gonna puke!  The technical screw-ups and inconsistencies are either from ignorance (and I can forgive that) or are simply torturous distortions of reality whose only purpose it to get the characters in the situation desired by writers too lazy to find a better plot device.

<Ship's cook>"Captain, we're all out of Cherrios!" <Captain and Exec stare grimly at each other for 5 seconds.>

[Spikes]

My oldest daughter is hooked on it and begged me to watch it.  By the end of the first episode I was hooked.  Only two seasons completed so far, so it wouldn't be hard to catch up!

Cool, I guess I will give it a shot.

Yup...hooked.

[USRanger]

Lol, right on.

[Gman]

James Purefoy = win. 

[Ratsy]

The technical screw-ups and inconsistencies are either from ignorance (and I can forgive that) or are simply torturous distortions of reality whose only purpose it to get the characters in the situation desired by writers too lazy to find a better plot device.

Hey Sabre.  You have just written the best (and most accurate) description of the Air Force Recruiting films I watched just before enlisting in 1974.  I think if we followed the money that is paying for this 'production' we might find ourselves at the Pentagon.  Just saying.

I love this show because it gives my wife pause..."wouldn't an EMP disable all electronics within the radius of the explosion?" and "isn't a battle cruiser more powerful than a destroyer?" and "that's one way to shut down Guantanamo" and "would both senior commanders leave the ship at the same time?" and "if a disease is airborne, what's to stop it from floating across 75 feet of river?".

My review?  Go NAVY!  Where do I sign up to do all that cool stuff and play with the fun technology?

 

[smoe]

My review?  Go NAVY!  Where do I sign up to do all that cool stuff and play with the fun technology?

 

Oh yes, I forgot about the recruiting angle.

Lets hope the show gets a little better. The overall plot is pretty cool, even the evil Russian plot to take over the world and make all people beg for a cure....muhahahaahhaahahahhaa hha.

[ozrocker]

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[Serenity]

That's the majority of tv and movies though. It's entertainment plain and simple. It's like saying superman isn't believable because the guy is flying. My dad was a major (amateur)historian and watching movies with him was painful...we would be watching a WWII movie and he would sit there and pick it apart. I still remember to this day watching The Longest Day....and him picking apart the uniforms the Germans were wearing "they never used buttons like that on their uniforms" or " that's not even a German medal on his lapel". How he even enjoyed tv is beyond me. No wonder he liked MST3k so much.  All those guys did was sit and pick fun at movies

Probably explains why his Library had over 8500 books in it and his nose was always in one of those books.

(Although now that he is gone I'd give anything to sit and hear him pick something a Apart again)

I take them for what they are....strictly entertainment and not lessons in real life or history.

I'm just like your dad. Things like superman, which begin by assuming a non-existant thing (So futuristic sci-fi, etc.) are slightly more bearable, but when we try to depict real life and do it poorly, I lose my mind. It's the burden of knowledge. I imagine if you watched a WWII movie and they had Bf-109s shooting at FW-190s that were labled as A6Ms... well, you'd feel the way I do about The Last Ship.

[GScholz]

Check out Orphan Black if you haven't already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_BCA-vR9E