There is not much room to stop and take a breath in this action packed episode of 'The Last Ship'. Well I guess I found this one to be the fastest paced episode to date. I am not a super action show kinda guy however this series just keeps growing on me and I am enjoying action material once again - like when I was a teenager! And for the common Hollywood style going over the top - it all seems to keep pretty believable. I mean for a 'Homeland' series lover I never thought I could appreciate this show so much. I really like how this episode continues to cross all the globes borders and include more and more of our planets nations to realistically present how a virus epidemic could look like in the twenty-first century. Thank You America! Hans Maack - Vancouver, B.C.
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RIP Valkyrie
ohroonoko20 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Thank you for your contribution, Valkyrie. Your usefulness has come to an end. Time to die because having you stick around is just sort of awkward for the writers. So long, and thanks for helping us sink that submarine that one time.
Going political
tenshi_ippikiookami3 January 2017
We have a cure! Dr. Scott is dead! Well, but the USA makes sense again! Let's go to Asia!
If we hadn't had enough with Russians, Latin Americans and Europeans... well, there is a place the show still hasn't gone to... Asia! And what can we do with Asia? Be as silly as possible and make everything out of your images of what Asia may look like, instead of what it may actually be. People that have complained about Orientalism and similar in the West, would have a blast with this season's story-lines and depictions. I wonder, if this show is still watched in like fifty years, how people would look on the plot developments and cultures' depictions.
Forget about the incredible risible party in Vietnam, where the 'rich and powerful' mingle with the 'locals' to share the 'cure'. We also have the Hong Kong meeting of Asian leaders (Japan is having problems and can't come), where there is a theory going around that China's new leader, Peng, is keeping the cure to gain control of the region and be its new leader. We get Bridget Regan's Sasha speaking a hundred languages (which is an acceptable excuse for her character to be there and meet Chandler again; let's forget about whatever happened between them because Sasha would have been really young) and comments about tigers and wolves fighting (Lau Hu vs Wolf is going to be one of the showdown's of the season, no doubt). It all makes for a convoluted mess that one has to hope is understood as fiction from everyone involved (in the show and in front of the screen)
Ironically (not really), all these images and descriptions are around a very entertaining, I-will-not-let-you-breathe plot with lots of actions, shady characters and great use of the locations to raise the stakes. The dinner, with Chandler vs Peng, makes for a very entertaining moment. And then we get a new 'enemy', which the show teases may be Peng's people, but that whoever understand some of those languages Sasha speaks, will see through. To summarize, "The Scott Effect" will be a good time for fans of the show.
If we hadn't had enough with Russians, Latin Americans and Europeans... well, there is a place the show still hasn't gone to... Asia! And what can we do with Asia? Be as silly as possible and make everything out of your images of what Asia may look like, instead of what it may actually be. People that have complained about Orientalism and similar in the West, would have a blast with this season's story-lines and depictions. I wonder, if this show is still watched in like fifty years, how people would look on the plot developments and cultures' depictions.
Forget about the incredible risible party in Vietnam, where the 'rich and powerful' mingle with the 'locals' to share the 'cure'. We also have the Hong Kong meeting of Asian leaders (Japan is having problems and can't come), where there is a theory going around that China's new leader, Peng, is keeping the cure to gain control of the region and be its new leader. We get Bridget Regan's Sasha speaking a hundred languages (which is an acceptable excuse for her character to be there and meet Chandler again; let's forget about whatever happened between them because Sasha would have been really young) and comments about tigers and wolves fighting (Lau Hu vs Wolf is going to be one of the showdown's of the season, no doubt). It all makes for a convoluted mess that one has to hope is understood as fiction from everyone involved (in the show and in front of the screen)
Ironically (not really), all these images and descriptions are around a very entertaining, I-will-not-let-you-breathe plot with lots of actions, shady characters and great use of the locations to raise the stakes. The dinner, with Chandler vs Peng, makes for a very entertaining moment. And then we get a new 'enemy', which the show teases may be Peng's people, but that whoever understand some of those languages Sasha speaks, will see through. To summarize, "The Scott Effect" will be a good time for fans of the show.
All time favorite
rappermahi10 January 2021
Let's talk about ranks
bill-215810 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
OK. I've been out of the navy for a while. Maybe things have changed but let me give you my thoughts anyway. I always thought the Nathan James was "top heavy". The captain had the rank of commander. That's correct for a destroyer. The executive officer, Slattery, was also a commander. XO's on destroyers are usually lieutenant commanders. Then, the chief engineer, Garnett, was also a commander. Department heads, like the chief engineer, are usually lieutenants on destroyers. Now it's possible the XO was recently promoted to full commander and is awaiting rotation to his own command. I can buy that. However, a full commander (Garnett) would never be a department head/chief engineer on a destroyer. This was all in effect before the pandemic, so we can't say it's because all the rules changed or were abandoned because of the virus.
Next, the new president appoints Chandler to CNO (Chief of Naval Operations). He gets promoted from commander to captain (the rank, not the commanding officer of a ship). But traditionally, the CNO is a 4-star admiral. Now, in this post-apocalyptic word, I guess anything is possible, so I'm just pointing out what is usual in the real navy. In the show, Chandler says it was his choice to only be a captain, but in the real world, you don't get to pick your rank. You get the rank befitting the post, or you don't get the post.
Slattery gets promoted from commander to captain (in rank) and is given command of the Nathan James, replacing Chandler. Well, that kind of shoots down my theory of him recently being made full commander but only being the XO of the Nathan James. Commanding officers of destroyers are commanders, like chandler was. Commanding officers with the rank of captain would command at least a cruiser. Again, I guess anything goes in the world of this show. I'm just stating how things are in the real world. Knowing how many other mistakes are made in every episode of this show, I'm willing to bet the creators and writers of this show didn't know anything I wrote above.
I also never saw anyone below the rank of petty officer 3rd class (E-4) until the last episode of the second season. Up until that point, everyone had either bars (officers) or crows (E-4 and above).
In hardware mistakes, at one point someone says their helo is loaded with 22mm and hellfire missiles. Now the navy version of the Blackhawk helicopter is called a Seahawk. Seahawks are usually fitted out for ASW (Anti-submarine Operations). I'm not sure they can be fitted with Hellfire missiles. In addition, to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a 22mm weapon. In the U. S. Navy. Calibers generally go from 20mm to 25mm. In an earlier episode, they show the Seahawk firing some kind of weapons straight ahead, like a gunship. I don't think this is possible either, and I think it's more the creators and writers making things up, as usual.
I saw that Harry Humphries, former Navy SEAL, is the military consultant starting with season 3. I haven't seen any improvements so far. Either they didn't listen to him, just bought his name for the end titles, or he forgot everything he ever knew about the navy. He has been out of the navy since 1971.
Why am I still watching? I watch because it is a navy-themed show. Also, it's now like a game to see how many errors I can find.
Next, the new president appoints Chandler to CNO (Chief of Naval Operations). He gets promoted from commander to captain (the rank, not the commanding officer of a ship). But traditionally, the CNO is a 4-star admiral. Now, in this post-apocalyptic word, I guess anything is possible, so I'm just pointing out what is usual in the real navy. In the show, Chandler says it was his choice to only be a captain, but in the real world, you don't get to pick your rank. You get the rank befitting the post, or you don't get the post.
Slattery gets promoted from commander to captain (in rank) and is given command of the Nathan James, replacing Chandler. Well, that kind of shoots down my theory of him recently being made full commander but only being the XO of the Nathan James. Commanding officers of destroyers are commanders, like chandler was. Commanding officers with the rank of captain would command at least a cruiser. Again, I guess anything goes in the world of this show. I'm just stating how things are in the real world. Knowing how many other mistakes are made in every episode of this show, I'm willing to bet the creators and writers of this show didn't know anything I wrote above.
I also never saw anyone below the rank of petty officer 3rd class (E-4) until the last episode of the second season. Up until that point, everyone had either bars (officers) or crows (E-4 and above).
In hardware mistakes, at one point someone says their helo is loaded with 22mm and hellfire missiles. Now the navy version of the Blackhawk helicopter is called a Seahawk. Seahawks are usually fitted out for ASW (Anti-submarine Operations). I'm not sure they can be fitted with Hellfire missiles. In addition, to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a 22mm weapon. In the U. S. Navy. Calibers generally go from 20mm to 25mm. In an earlier episode, they show the Seahawk firing some kind of weapons straight ahead, like a gunship. I don't think this is possible either, and I think it's more the creators and writers making things up, as usual.
I saw that Harry Humphries, former Navy SEAL, is the military consultant starting with season 3. I haven't seen any improvements so far. Either they didn't listen to him, just bought his name for the end titles, or he forgot everything he ever knew about the navy. He has been out of the navy since 1971.
Why am I still watching? I watch because it is a navy-themed show. Also, it's now like a game to see how many errors I can find.
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