Opens in Biscayne Bay Florida. Everyone is dressed like its really cold. This location is near Miami where it seldom gets below 50-60 degrees.
3 Reviews
Opening is all wrong
CindyH_in_SC17 August 2019
Helping people
tenshi_ippikiookami19 December 2016
Giving the fan a relaxed episode for once, "It's Not a Rumor" has the crew helping to distribute the vaccine and making contact with people all around the USA and Europe to help things start working again. At the same time, long forgotten and last seen on the Russian ship Niels... well, he's back (and it seems being alone has made him crazier than ever). And there seems to be a new threat in the horizon...
The episode gives a lot of time to the crew, to let the viewer connect with them and see their inner struggles as they reconnect (or try to) with their lives and their loved ones that have survived the pandemic. It is all already threaded territory, seen a million times, with not a shred of originality, but it does a good job in making us see the characters as people (even if the character's development is cartoonish as they come; excerpt number 1: Chandler goes back home and the first thing he does is put the flag back up; just in case we didn't know he felt a patriot). The show is also falling a little bit in Chandler-as-god (whatever references to Noah and his ark, it is clear he is more of a Jesus) which diminishes somewhat everyone else in the series. And we got some more of those the army-is-our-family speeches. Subtlety is not a word the writers of the show know.
However, it is all interesting, the new threat seems a different one from our globetrotting adventures with your bad guys from abroad that was so popular in season 1 (yes, Niels apart) and the actors make all engaging enough.
The episode gives a lot of time to the crew, to let the viewer connect with them and see their inner struggles as they reconnect (or try to) with their lives and their loved ones that have survived the pandemic. It is all already threaded territory, seen a million times, with not a shred of originality, but it does a good job in making us see the characters as people (even if the character's development is cartoonish as they come; excerpt number 1: Chandler goes back home and the first thing he does is put the flag back up; just in case we didn't know he felt a patriot). The show is also falling a little bit in Chandler-as-god (whatever references to Noah and his ark, it is clear he is more of a Jesus) which diminishes somewhat everyone else in the series. And we got some more of those the army-is-our-family speeches. Subtlety is not a word the writers of the show know.
However, it is all interesting, the new threat seems a different one from our globetrotting adventures with your bad guys from abroad that was so popular in season 1 (yes, Niels apart) and the actors make all engaging enough.
More Cringeworthy Mistakes
bill-21588 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Not as many goofs in this episode as others, so I gave it a few stars. Still, the mistakes are nauseating. There's one scene where the captain promotes someone from LT. JG to full lieutenant. The master chief is there with another lieutenant. After the captain hands the newly promoted lieutenant her bars, the master chief shouts, "Attention to promotion!" What??? What idiot made that up?
Then, the other lieutenant and the new lieutenant start swearing the oath of enlistment. What?? Why? She wasn't being sworn in. She was already an officer in the navy. Also, officers are officers until they resign their commission. And you don't swear the oath of enlistment when you get promoted, no matter if you're an officer or enlisted person. Just a stupid, stupid scene.
I watch the series because I like military-themed shows, especially if they are navy shows. It's a shame there's so much stupidity to endure while doing so. If there were any technical advisers for the show, I'd like to write to them and ask them if the creators of the show just ignored them, or if they are just that ignorant about the navy.
Then, the other lieutenant and the new lieutenant start swearing the oath of enlistment. What?? Why? She wasn't being sworn in. She was already an officer in the navy. Also, officers are officers until they resign their commission. And you don't swear the oath of enlistment when you get promoted, no matter if you're an officer or enlisted person. Just a stupid, stupid scene.
I watch the series because I like military-themed shows, especially if they are navy shows. It's a shame there's so much stupidity to endure while doing so. If there were any technical advisers for the show, I'd like to write to them and ask them if the creators of the show just ignored them, or if they are just that ignorant about the navy.
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