Infiltrating a landing strip like that without having control of the comm tower? Come on! Any commander would take that into account! They're making their assault, and then they're getting sniper fire from the tower? Writers, please!
7 Reviews
A Super Big Hit! Love the Last Ship!
srobertsmegan9 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I love the Last Ship! Was hooked the very first few minutes of the first episode. This show kicks ass! Not thrilled with them killing some of my favorite....Oh yeah spoiler alert. As I was saying, not thrilled when they killed off some of my favorite, ah, um, screen names, yeah screen names. That's a thing right?
Still idiots!
rsvp3219 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Without repeating my previous harsh criticism of the series in general (I enjoyed seasons 1 to 3. Season 4 is a giant fail), I see the helicopter gunner still refuses to wear goggles despite the wind and debris effecting her vision. I also noticed that although she's connected to the pilot and co pilot via headphones and microphone, she still took her eyes off target to turn and face the pilots every time she spoke.
Also, the biggest indication of stupidity in the ship ranks, all their problems started when they stored the most precious seeds needed to save the planet in a windowed, lit, unguarded, *unlocked* cabinet in med bay! An infiltrator and a traitorous thief had incidentally seen where the seeds were and easily stole them, then the chase to retrieve the seeds begins.
This episode: the seeds are retrieved, returned to the ship...and put back in the same public view, unsecured location! ha ha! Is this what Season 5 will be, chasing a thief again?
Hey, knuckleheads! Split them up, lock them in different safes throughout the ship so if any are stolen again your own scientists will have something to work with! Idiots!
Also, the biggest indication of stupidity in the ship ranks, all their problems started when they stored the most precious seeds needed to save the planet in a windowed, lit, unguarded, *unlocked* cabinet in med bay! An infiltrator and a traitorous thief had incidentally seen where the seeds were and easily stole them, then the chase to retrieve the seeds begins.
This episode: the seeds are retrieved, returned to the ship...and put back in the same public view, unsecured location! ha ha! Is this what Season 5 will be, chasing a thief again?
Hey, knuckleheads! Split them up, lock them in different safes throughout the ship so if any are stolen again your own scientists will have something to work with! Idiots!
An ending to the game
tenshi_ippikiookami28 November 2017
A satisfying, even if not particularly memorable, ending to an uneven, and sometimes risible, season, "Endgame" has our 'heroes' last face to face against the Vellek family, the probably less threatening family ever. In this episode we get again the good old doctor talking to shadows while his daughter tries to save the world from the Nathan James.
From the very first moment of season four, the Greek vs. Nathan James or the Vellek vs. Chandler showdown lacked intensity and high stakes. And this episode suffers from the weak build-up in this season. There never seemed to be a real danger for our team, and the show couldn't replicate the tension or silliness of previous seasons.
This episode, however, does OK in giving an ending to the quest to recover the seeds. We have ship vs. ship moments, heroes vs. villains moments, some OK speeches by both sides and even a couple of attempts at humor, another thing that this season was lacking. It does for an entertaining forty minutes, but little else, and leaves the viewer (and especially the fan) feeling they have been cheated. Let's see what season 5 has to offer, because season 4 was lost in the sea.
From the very first moment of season four, the Greek vs. Nathan James or the Vellek vs. Chandler showdown lacked intensity and high stakes. And this episode suffers from the weak build-up in this season. There never seemed to be a real danger for our team, and the show couldn't replicate the tension or silliness of previous seasons.
This episode, however, does OK in giving an ending to the quest to recover the seeds. We have ship vs. ship moments, heroes vs. villains moments, some OK speeches by both sides and even a couple of attempts at humor, another thing that this season was lacking. It does for an entertaining forty minutes, but little else, and leaves the viewer (and especially the fan) feeling they have been cheated. Let's see what season 5 has to offer, because season 4 was lost in the sea.
Endgame
bobcobb30119 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Not exactly a riveting season finale, but entertaining enough and it set the stage for the next season where they need to find a way to turn the seeds into something that can save humanity.
They had too much action and development in the first hour and that sort of killed this episode, but this is still an underrated show.
They had too much action and development in the first hour and that sort of killed this episode, but this is still an underrated show.
Last episode of Season 4 epitomises the sad decline of "The Last Ship"
jrarichards23 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Having given a very positive review of "The Last Ship" after its first two seasons, I was sad to wade in against the earlier Season 4 episode "The Tempest" on account of its anti-British stance. This actually continues into this final episode of Season 4, but I'm less upset now because - guess what? - a) I care far less than I did before, and b) my earlier doubts and upset now appear in a context in which Nathan James crew members shoot to kill (and stab and strangle and break necks), without hesitation, at "enemies" who are Greeks, Maltese, Russians and Brits - hence the season is now anti-everybody!
Nevertheless, since one Nathan James team member is an Aussie - Wolf Taylor played by Bren Foster, and another new member is Kenyan - Azima Kandie played by Jodie Turner-Smith, and since both of them shoot at Brits and Maltese ... well how's that for Commonwealth solidarity? (Even leaving aside the rupturing of NATO and indeed the rapid development of "America against everyone else"?)
The makers of "The Last Ship" have been playing with this kind of thing from the start, in fact, and apparently have little or no idea that people out here in audience-land actually take this seriously, and are now beginning to wonder just who is funding this kind of propaganda-victory storyline.
And ultimately also inconceivable: Aussies may claim not to like Brits that much, but an Aussie has never, ever shot a Brit in battle, and frankly I don't think that's going to happen, ever.
Call me old-fashioned if you will!
However, in past series the occasional excrusion in this kind of direction mattered so much less because all was fresh and new and we had: a) a lead story based around apocalypse and dystopia, and b) plenty of character development, and c) interesting Navy stuff to look at at every turn.
By series 4, the actually-promising new turn taken by the dystopia - of crop diseases threatening those who came through the virus with starvation - is wasted by being cobbled on to another way-out and really implausible and ludicrous let's-take-out-the-aggression-once-and-for-all string to the bow of our mad scientist Paul Vellek (a portrayal by Paul Weller that got tired real soon). Indeed, interactions between Vellek and his two (!) sons and his daughter should have been cut by 50%, as they were just not good enough. Tiring indeed, but also ultimately meaningless.
Also, the hint that people were starving was pretty much over and done with by episode 2 or something, so this dystopia was entirely intangible for much of the time.
Where character development is concerned, we've come to a dead stop. In the case of Chandler we're actually in reverse, as it's unclear where the current dull, dumb, uninspiring thug came from. He was not like this before - indeed he was an interesting guy we could all look up to. Adam Baldwin as Slattery does a bit better, but other crew are much more in the background than before. While the Master Chief was a real character in earlier series, he is just background here - and so much so that we don't even care that much when he gets a punctured lung!
In previous series, there were real-looking people interacting authentically against the background of the high-tech and low-tech aspects of Navy life and it seemed fun and new and great. This time round, character development has been unhinged from missile firing, and we care so much less.
Apart from the astronomical body count and lack of any mercy now being shown, this series also offered considerable emphasis on fist-fighting as a supposed side effect of the post-apocalypse world. When this was not being distasteful it was just being boring.
Fake southern British accent as he may have had, Jonathan Howard's MI6 guy was a bit of fresh air - but I've already remarked - with distaste - on what was done to that character, quite unforgiveably; and indeed Howard should I feel have objected. Which leaves the lovely but also deadly Bridget Regan in her "Combat Barbie" role of Sasha Cooper as the one remaining highlight, who still seems fresh. A pity she's heading back to Chandler and could not have been allowed to stick with the Brit...
The attack on the Rota base was also an interesting, sad and effective moment, but since that was back in the earliest episodes, I'm well over that by now.
And it's also sad that NONE of it was filmed in the Med at all...
I suppose we were lucky to get three pretty effective series out of this, but it's still sad to see something "go off" as this has. And when I hear that Vellek is back in Season 5, I've no doubt whatever that that's THE WRONG WAY to go!
Nevertheless, since one Nathan James team member is an Aussie - Wolf Taylor played by Bren Foster, and another new member is Kenyan - Azima Kandie played by Jodie Turner-Smith, and since both of them shoot at Brits and Maltese ... well how's that for Commonwealth solidarity? (Even leaving aside the rupturing of NATO and indeed the rapid development of "America against everyone else"?)
The makers of "The Last Ship" have been playing with this kind of thing from the start, in fact, and apparently have little or no idea that people out here in audience-land actually take this seriously, and are now beginning to wonder just who is funding this kind of propaganda-victory storyline.
And ultimately also inconceivable: Aussies may claim not to like Brits that much, but an Aussie has never, ever shot a Brit in battle, and frankly I don't think that's going to happen, ever.
Call me old-fashioned if you will!
However, in past series the occasional excrusion in this kind of direction mattered so much less because all was fresh and new and we had: a) a lead story based around apocalypse and dystopia, and b) plenty of character development, and c) interesting Navy stuff to look at at every turn.
By series 4, the actually-promising new turn taken by the dystopia - of crop diseases threatening those who came through the virus with starvation - is wasted by being cobbled on to another way-out and really implausible and ludicrous let's-take-out-the-aggression-once-and-for-all string to the bow of our mad scientist Paul Vellek (a portrayal by Paul Weller that got tired real soon). Indeed, interactions between Vellek and his two (!) sons and his daughter should have been cut by 50%, as they were just not good enough. Tiring indeed, but also ultimately meaningless.
Also, the hint that people were starving was pretty much over and done with by episode 2 or something, so this dystopia was entirely intangible for much of the time.
Where character development is concerned, we've come to a dead stop. In the case of Chandler we're actually in reverse, as it's unclear where the current dull, dumb, uninspiring thug came from. He was not like this before - indeed he was an interesting guy we could all look up to. Adam Baldwin as Slattery does a bit better, but other crew are much more in the background than before. While the Master Chief was a real character in earlier series, he is just background here - and so much so that we don't even care that much when he gets a punctured lung!
In previous series, there were real-looking people interacting authentically against the background of the high-tech and low-tech aspects of Navy life and it seemed fun and new and great. This time round, character development has been unhinged from missile firing, and we care so much less.
Apart from the astronomical body count and lack of any mercy now being shown, this series also offered considerable emphasis on fist-fighting as a supposed side effect of the post-apocalypse world. When this was not being distasteful it was just being boring.
Fake southern British accent as he may have had, Jonathan Howard's MI6 guy was a bit of fresh air - but I've already remarked - with distaste - on what was done to that character, quite unforgiveably; and indeed Howard should I feel have objected. Which leaves the lovely but also deadly Bridget Regan in her "Combat Barbie" role of Sasha Cooper as the one remaining highlight, who still seems fresh. A pity she's heading back to Chandler and could not have been allowed to stick with the Brit...
The attack on the Rota base was also an interesting, sad and effective moment, but since that was back in the earliest episodes, I'm well over that by now.
And it's also sad that NONE of it was filmed in the Med at all...
I suppose we were lucky to get three pretty effective series out of this, but it's still sad to see something "go off" as this has. And when I hear that Vellek is back in Season 5, I've no doubt whatever that that's THE WRONG WAY to go!
Not Believable
dncorp9 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
First the Helicopter going at least 200 Miles per Hour and the Aircraft would have gotten to Malta many hours before the U.S.S. Nathan James' Rubber Inflatable Boat going 50 Miles Per Hour and already loaded and taken off.
Instead of changing course the U.S.S. Nathan James would have fired a Ship to Shore Vertical Launched Cruise Missile to take out the Control Tower and Sniper that would have destroyed the Airfield Control Tower and Sniper long before the U.S.S. Nathan James could get close to Malta. Same with Targeting the Aircraft on the Airfield. The U.S.S. Nathan James' Ground Team would use Laser Designators normally on any U.S. Military Special Operations Forces Individual Weapons (Rifles) to paint the Airfield Control Tower, and the Aircraft.
Wrong color British Berets (Green is Royal Marines, Intelligence Corps, Adjutant General's Corps), the Brits would have sent the SAS Beige Berets. That's correct Green for British Berets does not mean U.S. Army Special Forces "Green Berets" as far as Beret Colors at other Nations. The British would have sent at least 50 Special Air Service that would have provided 360 Perimeter Security around the British Aircraft, they would have also assisted in loading the cargo using pallet jacks and maybe a small electric or propane forklift.
Russians would have sent their best as the Spetsnaz and not one or two but dozens at least a couple of Platoons (100). The Russians would have insisted on forming a 360 Security Perimeter around their Aircraft and another around the Entire Airfield that's what they routinely did before. as a means to prevent any "Funny Business" from the British or the Greeks.
Sure they are just going to happen to have Thermite Grenades (that are not painted red) and no they do not explode. A more common method would be using a White Phosphorus Grenade (painted white) that will keep burning even underwater and catch everything else on fire.
Learned from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Niger, Syria, many other Nations, you carry a box of tampons. Anybody gets shot you push the tampon in the bullet wound and remove the applicator. You don't leave your Team Members behind to bleed to death.
Disabling a moving Ship (propulsion and or steering) is what U.S. Navy S.E.A.L.s do, not regular U.S. Navy. Usually, this means using those skills from BUD/S, as attaching a mine or explosives to the hull of the Moving Enemy Ship.
Regardless of a Nation's Navy, Standard Operating Procedure is to have a Minimum of a Port Watch, Starboard Watch, Bow Watch and Aft Watch. During Combat there would be a Bow Watch, Starboard Fore and Aft Watch, Port Fore and Aft Watch, and an Aft Watch. Any Boarding Party would have been detected.
During General Quarters, crew members had been previously assigned the task of closing water tight bulkhead doors behind them as they are going to their assigned stations.
Most U.S. Navy Personnel Officers, NCOs, Enlisted only were familiarized with Rifles and Pistols during Basic Training aka "Boot". And never trained to do Combat Tactics On Board Ships. Specific U.S. Navy Personnel handle "Crew Served" Weapons, everybody else do not even know how to load "Crew Served" Weapons. The only Personnel trained and armed to use Rifles and Pistols are U.S.M.C. Marines that used to be the Police On Board a Ship to prevent Mutinies, and were directly Commanded by the Ship's Captain.
Instead of changing course the U.S.S. Nathan James would have fired a Ship to Shore Vertical Launched Cruise Missile to take out the Control Tower and Sniper that would have destroyed the Airfield Control Tower and Sniper long before the U.S.S. Nathan James could get close to Malta. Same with Targeting the Aircraft on the Airfield. The U.S.S. Nathan James' Ground Team would use Laser Designators normally on any U.S. Military Special Operations Forces Individual Weapons (Rifles) to paint the Airfield Control Tower, and the Aircraft.
Wrong color British Berets (Green is Royal Marines, Intelligence Corps, Adjutant General's Corps), the Brits would have sent the SAS Beige Berets. That's correct Green for British Berets does not mean U.S. Army Special Forces "Green Berets" as far as Beret Colors at other Nations. The British would have sent at least 50 Special Air Service that would have provided 360 Perimeter Security around the British Aircraft, they would have also assisted in loading the cargo using pallet jacks and maybe a small electric or propane forklift.
Russians would have sent their best as the Spetsnaz and not one or two but dozens at least a couple of Platoons (100). The Russians would have insisted on forming a 360 Security Perimeter around their Aircraft and another around the Entire Airfield that's what they routinely did before. as a means to prevent any "Funny Business" from the British or the Greeks.
Sure they are just going to happen to have Thermite Grenades (that are not painted red) and no they do not explode. A more common method would be using a White Phosphorus Grenade (painted white) that will keep burning even underwater and catch everything else on fire.
Learned from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Niger, Syria, many other Nations, you carry a box of tampons. Anybody gets shot you push the tampon in the bullet wound and remove the applicator. You don't leave your Team Members behind to bleed to death.
Disabling a moving Ship (propulsion and or steering) is what U.S. Navy S.E.A.L.s do, not regular U.S. Navy. Usually, this means using those skills from BUD/S, as attaching a mine or explosives to the hull of the Moving Enemy Ship.
Regardless of a Nation's Navy, Standard Operating Procedure is to have a Minimum of a Port Watch, Starboard Watch, Bow Watch and Aft Watch. During Combat there would be a Bow Watch, Starboard Fore and Aft Watch, Port Fore and Aft Watch, and an Aft Watch. Any Boarding Party would have been detected.
During General Quarters, crew members had been previously assigned the task of closing water tight bulkhead doors behind them as they are going to their assigned stations.
Most U.S. Navy Personnel Officers, NCOs, Enlisted only were familiarized with Rifles and Pistols during Basic Training aka "Boot". And never trained to do Combat Tactics On Board Ships. Specific U.S. Navy Personnel handle "Crew Served" Weapons, everybody else do not even know how to load "Crew Served" Weapons. The only Personnel trained and armed to use Rifles and Pistols are U.S.M.C. Marines that used to be the Police On Board a Ship to prevent Mutinies, and were directly Commanded by the Ship's Captain.
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