I can get behind this as I have a good idea where its going.
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I watched it last night. Pretty good. Will watch the next episode for sure.
So far meh. I'll give it a chance though.
I could only stomach the first half. Bad acting, uninteresting and unrealistic plot. I quit watching after I realized I was hoping the whole world would just end including the silly destroyer.
I watched it all, but really nothing was that exciting....something I'll likely watch but in no way is it must see tv.
Should we switch this thread's focus over to Sting's The Last Ship, then?
no.
fwiw the first season of TNG has been on BBC lately. man..... those first 5 or 6 episodes are rough to get through.
even Breaking Bad didnt really get going until season 2.5.
so far a better episode. I really think they needed a 2 hour premier for this.
much better. has a good part of Walking Dead quality to it.
you know... when they arent being stupid.
What I find funny is if the ship is the last hope of the world, I would think the captain would be important to keep alive....not sure sending him out in the landing party is a wise decision:)
Same with the female scientist/doctor.....sure one soldier was wounded and needed help, but do you send the only person who could save the world to fix him up? I think it would be acceptable loses of losing one person versus billions:)
I know it is just a tv series, but those little things drive me nuts:)
The more I think about it the dumber this show seems. In the first episode while they were operating under EMCON, why couldn't they at least receive news and information? If the world was going to hell in a hand basket, you know there would have been a shit ton of chatter and EMCON doesn't stop you from listening to stuff. Also, if they were under some sort of ultra-restrictive EMCON rules, why the hell were they conducting target practice with missiles? How do you do that and maintain EMCON? Dumb.
They didn't send the helo to positively ID the incoming ship?! :uglystupid2:
dude... its Michael Bay.
And "Stay frosty"? That was the most painful line I've ever seen Adam Baldwin utter.
Only to be topped a few minutes later by the captain's "Revenge is a dish best served cold".
Seriously, I'm waiting for the Transformers crossover episode. Maybe they can add Megan Fox to the crew.
I'm just watching the first episode online now. Adam Baldwin was easily the actor I was most excited to hear about being in this, but thus far the script has made him pretty two-dimensional. He couldn't even act stunned convincingly enough to tell the Captain his boy was dead. Then, pretty much everything mirth says. Then I have to remind myself by quoting Star (dude, it's Michael Bay).
I was not interested in seeing this when I saw it wasn't the same as the book...the nuke they threw in there just now was pretty ham-fisted, an obvious allusion to the book's nuclear war but dammit, I'm just not feeling it.
So far I am disappointed. I hope this gets better.
Wasn't the ship they found in the book a yacht and not a cruise ship?
'Stay frosty' HAHAHA
this was actually doing well until the aluminum foil trick. ::)
I'm abandoning ship on this show. It's already jumped the shark.
I've only seen the first two episodes - haven't seen the third one yet, I guess it came on last night but I wasn't home to catch it.
There's SO much in this series to not like. I might watch one more and see if it gets better, but if not, I'm punching out.
EDIT: Found this review, which is pretty spot-on:
http://areyouscreening.com/2014/06/18/television/the-last-ship-tv-review-tnt
QuoteThe show kicks off with an outbreak of illness in Egypt, and Dr. Rachel Scott (Rhona Mitra) shows up to get samples. Without a great deal of explanation, you get the impression from her demeanor that she is probably some actual scientist's lackey, especially since she doesn't do anything that everyone in the room couldn't have done for her. No amount of follow up ever changes that first impression, no matter how many times the show tells you that she's very interesting, and that's especially true because it never really does. She acts haughty and entitled in that way that not particularly clever people think smart people act, but to be fair, that's probably exactly what she was told to do. The script notes say that she's really the only woman we're interested in, so she's probably kind of a bitch.
:2funny:
This show is painfully stupid, even by Michael Bay standards. Putrid.
a little better tonight.
I don't know, although I continue to catch glimpses of it, still hard to really get into. Spoiler for those that didn't see it yet, but in this episode they load up boats with their top men (including the captain and next in command) and the only person that can save the world, going into a country they have no clue about, without radio contact.
I think this leadership team has to learn to delegate this duty better:)
I know just a tv show and the main cast is who people want to see, but makes it hard to watch.
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on July 21, 2014, 05:25:28 AM
Spoiler for those that didn't see it yet, but in this episode they load up boats with their top men (including the captain and next in command) and the only person that can save the world, going into a country they have no clue about, without radio contact.
GR, you've pretty much nailed every Star Trek episode, ever. ;)
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 21, 2014, 06:04:48 AM
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on July 21, 2014, 05:25:28 AM
Spoiler for those that didn't see it yet, but in this episode they load up boats with their top men (including the captain and next in command) and the only person that can save the world, going into a country they have no clue about, without radio contact.
GR, you've pretty much nailed every Star Trek episode, ever. ;)
Actually, that was one of the things that the writers of ST.TNG set out to change, after having seen Kirk beam down with every landing party. Also, IIRC, Janeway mostly stayed aboard Voyager unless there was something really extreme going on, such as aliens seizing her ship. Still, those shows did send down the First Officer quite a bit which is still risky to the health of a ship's command structure.
I should have clarified that as ST: TOS.
The only good that came of bridge crew beaming down in ST: TNG was Yar biting the big one.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 21, 2014, 06:34:14 AM
I should have clarified that as ST: TOS.
The only good that came of bridge crew beaming down in ST: TNG was Yar biting the big one.
Blasphemer! Yar was the hottest one on the ship. :knuppel2:
Ehh...
I always had a thing for Marina Sirtis - even met her in person at a ST convention back in 1990 or so. :smitten:
And Gates McFadden was a MILF...Yar was down there on my scale of perceived hotness, but I won't disparage you your choice, sir. There's worse, of course, out there.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 21, 2014, 06:58:13 AM
Ehh...
I always had a thing for Marina Sirtis - even met her in person at a ST convention back in 1990 or so. :smitten:
And Gates McFadden was a MILF...Yar was down there on my scale of perceived hotness, but I won't disparage you your choice, sir. There's worse, of course, out there.
Yeah Gates is a hottie as well. Marina became the hotter as the series went on.
tonights episode is a LOT better. I cant put my finger on it exactly but this might be were the series gels together.
in fact, Id go as far as saying that this is the episode that shows like Terra Nova and Defiance never had.
I refuse to be tricked into returning to this show.
I'm a bit skeptical myself...
if you based your opinion of all of Babylon5 on the first few episodes how wrong would you have been?
Perhaps. I'm still stuck on episode 5 or 6 of B5 while I get through four seasons of Game of Thrones. I won't be sidetracked again, which is just as well as it will give the streaming site I use to watch it all a chance to build up a history.
I might give it a chance again, but if one of Bay's characters has one more quote from a Cameron movie...
Haven't seen the most recent ep; but I've liked the series so far, when I can resist picking at the ignorance, laziness and outright plot cheating. The writers know what the Prairie/Masker system is (or at least that's the implication) but think tin foil hidden behind a ship will prevent a radar from noticing two blips, one stationary and the other moving toward the "canal" channel? (Is "canal" how people in Cuba pronounce "channel"??)
Sometimes a spare line of dialogue or so would account for weirdities. Why no helo or at least drone support for the boats going upriver? Because av-gas is rare now.
Still, there are so many times the world would have been doomed except for plot cheating. :crazy2: :crazy2: :crazy2: :crazy2: OMG we can't have the virus warming up beyond 42 degrees so we'll dip it several thousand feet down while we're stationary in warm Caribbean water, hurry hurry get it down there, yay it works by one degree...! Annnd we'll just teleport it back to the surface to keep all the dangerously warm water between us and it from ruining the samples by raising the temp a few more degrees during ascent...
Despite all that (and with Dad an ex-Navy guy picking at it, too), Dad and I like it. Its heart seems to be in the right place and we like the general tone.
Also, for all its (many, many, many) foibles, it's a legitimately science-fiction story (with some legitimate military-science so to speak sprinkled in). There's a clear scientific process at work with steps to be achieved and some innovation along the way. Not much of that in movies or TV.
I dunno. I think it's the TV equivalent of Michael Bay's
Pearl Harbor.
QuoteOMG we can't have the virus warming up beyond 42 degrees so we'll dip it several thousand feet down while we're stationary in warm Caribbean water, hurry hurry get it down there, yay it works by one degree
What what whaaaat? Uh...do they not have refrigerated/freezer spaces on that billion-dollar 'Last Ship?'
No...don't answer that. This is like a train wreck. I want to look away so so so much, but...
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 08:20:43 AM
if you based your opinion of all of Babylon5 on the first few episodes how wrong would you have been?
I liked the early episodes of B5 and I preferred Michael O'Hare as commander over Boxleitner or Scoggins.
Besides, the TV landscape is greatly changed from when B5 first aired. There are so many top notch series now, that I just don't have time to put into something that is mediocre.
Consider this, if Star Trek TNG were first airing today would it make it past that first dreadful season?
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 28, 2014, 03:43:09 PM
I dunno. I think it's the TV equivalent of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor.
QuoteOMG we can't have the virus warming up beyond 42 degrees so we'll dip it several thousand feet down while we're stationary in warm Caribbean water, hurry hurry get it down there, yay it works by one degree
What what whaaaat? Uh...do they not have refrigerated/freezer spaces on that billion-dollar 'Last Ship?'
No...don't answer that. This is like a train wreck. I want to look away so so so much, but...
engine fire shuts down pretty much all main electric which is plausible if you follow the show.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 04:03:56 PM
engine fire shuts down pretty much all main electric which is plausible if you follow the show.
Okay okay, sheesh. :coolsmiley:
All im saying is that I think its coming together.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 04:03:56 PM]
engine fire shuts down pretty much all main electric which is plausible if you follow the show.
That's one of the more plausible parts of the show then.
The last episode got the ship acting like a god damn Navy ship and is one of those nice details.
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 28, 2014, 03:38:25 PM
Sometimes a spare line of dialogue or so would account for weirdities. Why no helo or at least drone support for the boats going upriver? Because av-gas is rare now.
Except that the Burkes have gas turbine engines burning some variation of avgas. I'm willing to bet that a Seahawk could burn the ship's fuel and it's entirely possible that they use the exact same fuel already. I believe the Seahawk uses JP-5, not sure what a Burke uses without some Googling.
Not the people behind the show would put that much thought into any of it :P
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 05:04:58 PM
The last episode got the ship acting like a god damn Navy ship and is one of those nice details.
If I watch it and it's dumb, I'm going to be very much put out.
BTW, I finally watched Godzilla and that had the military acting very dumb too. >:(
You can be such a hairy twat on Mondays. :knuppel2:
Pretty much any day ending in 'y'.
That was better. Not sure I'd call it good, but better than it was.
where ya at with it?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 09:13:54 PM
where ya at with it?
Watched the most recent episode. Skipped a couple but I doubt I missed much.
The details still bother me. No way that was even half of the ship's company assembled on the flight deck. A Burke has a crew of at least 300. There were maybe 80-85 people total in that scene. I know that's nit-picky, but the show has messed up so many other things that at this point everything is very noticeable to me.
Adam Baldwin is wasted in this show. Pretty much all he does is grimace. He does that well enough, but I wish they gave him more than a few cheesy lines.
One question, do Burkes really carry enough MOPP gear for the entire crew? I don't know and I couldn't find much online.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 28, 2014, 03:43:09 PM
What what whaaaat? Uh...do they not have refrigerated/freezer spaces on that billion-dollar 'Last Ship?'
They did but (in one of the actual sensible plot points, sort of) an attempt to run through a coral-choked channel let seawater into part of their engine which led to a runaway spread of plankton (or something like that) which killed most of their generators (and one of the engines for turning a screw? -- a little fuzzy about that). The upshot was that they were running the ship's engines like a car without a radiator belt: an hour at a time max and then they had to stop. But the engine doesn't just turn the shaft, it also runs the AC. And the water desalinators, not incidentally.
Dad and I both thought there couldn't have been quite as much of a problem with water recovery as they were making out -- if they were recovering water from canned pear juice they could do it from pee (right...?), and moreover they were VERY EXPLICITLY in an area with 180 inches of rain a year -- but that was the explanation of the AC; the engine finally blew from routinely overheating so the AC was shot until they could finish repairs. I quipped early on that they would have to deploy the sails, like in one of the early GIJoe five-part 'movies' for the Joe aircraft carrier. This... turned out to be... um... the solution?
I mean, I know what they did, and I understand the principle -- once the sails were deployed the ship not only moved along but the screw turned by reverse impelling, thus giving power and AC back to the ship (even if only diverted to limited areas like the lab and not most of the bridge). I just have a really hard time believing the sails they deployed could pull even a relatively small ship like that destroyer, much less do so without mast and rigging support (which without spoiling things too much were overtly lacking), much less continue to do so without flagging or shifting. (Amusingly, at the time the 'sails' are deployed there's clearly a squall on the way in -- thus the stiff wind in real life for filming -- which would have solved their water problem pronto. In fact the show pretends that a cold front from a low pressure system in the Caribbean, EXPLICITLY CALLED OUT AS THE REASON TO EXPECT A WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO SAIL THE SHIP, would be as dry as a bone. :tickedoff: )
I mean, damn,
even the 1980s GI Joe cartoon was more realistic about what it would take to sail a modern navy ship -- they built ad hoc masts and rigging! It didn't help that establishing shots of the ship afterward clearly showed the screw(s?) pushing the ship slowly along the path of the wind, creating a usual slow-speed wake behind the ship.
If someone on the production swears they actually had chiefs on that destroyer rig sails to pull the ship along under those conditions (briefly) while one of the screws was engaged for impeller purposes, I guess I'd believe their word, maybe. But it sure strains credulity in other regards.
That guy at CinemaSins would have a field day with this show.
EVEN SO! -- and this week's ep was by far the best of the lot (my guess would be it's the episode most borrowed from the book so far, too) -- I appreciate the thousand little verisimilitude touches on the show. If the story wasn't so overtly and constantly daring you to reject its nonsense, which admittedly those of us who know something about the topics would usually spot more readily... but not all of the plot nonsense is something the casual viewer wouldn't be in a position to know about. I don't have to have read a dozen modern naval novels or have a former master chief as a Dad who served on a destroyer, to know that an area with ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY INCHES OF RAIN A YEAR would not drop that rain only on one tiny island. :buck2:
But again, tonight's episode also stressed there's a fairly pure 'science-fiction' plot in the middle of it.
And a great turn by the Baltar on the ship, trying to Loki his way to freedom. :D (Much of the plot reminds me of Battlestar Galactica.)
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
The details still bother me. No way that was even half of the ship's company assembled on the flight deck. A Burke has a crew of at least 300. There were maybe 80-85 people total in that scene. I know that's nit-picky, but the show has messed up so many other things that at this point everything is very noticeable to me.
And they explicitly said they were down to the mid-200s. Still, yeah, they've done the full half-muster a few times. At least this time they make sure to show this is all the off-duty crew, with everyone else still at post -- at first I was willing to gripe but then I saw they had in fact accounted (in principle) for the rest.
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
Adam Baldwin is wasted in this show. Pretty much all he does is grimace. He does that well enough, but I wish they gave him more than a few cheesy lines.
Now, see, I don't think he's wasted at all. Generally I've thought the veteran actors, especially him, were pulling their weight sufficiently.
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
One question, do Burkes really carry enough MOPP gear for the entire crew? I don't know and I couldn't find much online.
You don't think a hammer costs $40K, do you? Wait, that was back in a much earlier movie, adjust for inflation. :2funny:
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 05:09:31 PM
BTW, I finally watched Godzilla and that had the military acting very dumb too. >:(
Oh.
My.
God.
(Zilla.)
Do not get me started. I avoided the temptation to
write up post an annoyance sheet on that movie -- it wasn't just the military being dumb, though that, too.
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 28, 2014, 10:17:32 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
The details still bother me. No way that was even half of the ship's company assembled on the flight deck. A Burke has a crew of at least 300. There were maybe 80-85 people total in that scene. I know that's nit-picky, but the show has messed up so many other things that at this point everything is very noticeable to me.
And they explicitly said they were down to the mid-200s. Still, yeah, they've done the full half-muster a few times. At least this time they make sure to show this is all the off-duty crew, with everyone else still at post -- at first I was willing to gripe but then I saw they had in fact accounted (in principle) for the rest.
I missed the part about the reduced crew. Still, at the reduced level that wasn't even a half muster. And what's the point of reassuring the crew when you assemble at maybe a third of them and give them a speech with using the comm system so the rest can at least hear you?
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 28, 2014, 10:19:18 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 05:09:31 PM
BTW, I finally watched Godzilla and that had the military acting very dumb too. >:(
Oh.
My.
God.
(Zilla.)
Do not get me started. I avoided the temptation to write up post an annoyance sheet on that movie -- it wasn't just the military being dumb, though that, too.
The movie was a disappointment to put it mildly.
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 09:13:54 PM
where ya at with it?
Watched the most recent episode. Skipped a couple but I doubt I missed much.
The details still bother me. No way that was even half of the ship's company assembled on the flight deck. A Burke has a crew of at least 300. There were maybe 80-85 people total in that scene. I know that's nit-picky, but the show has messed up so many other things that at this point everything is very noticeable to me.
Adam Baldwin is wasted in this show. Pretty much all he does is grimace. He does that well enough, but I wish they gave him more than a few cheesy lines.
One question, do Burkes really carry enough MOPP gear for the entire crew? I don't know and I couldn't find much online.
yes your being stupid. no, there would never be a whole ships company on the deck at once unless theyre tied to a pier. you missed a bunch of middle ground by not watching episodes.
look, I like watching The Walking Dead. I consider it a documentary on what NOT to do when the shit hits the fan. tons of plot holes and stupid mistakes. its still a good show. stop being a little bitch and watch the series. its a frikin SHOW.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 10:28:04 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2014, 09:13:54 PM
where ya at with it?
Watched the most recent episode. Skipped a couple but I doubt I missed much.
The details still bother me. No way that was even half of the ship's company assembled on the flight deck. A Burke has a crew of at least 300. There were maybe 80-85 people total in that scene. I know that's nit-picky, but the show has messed up so many other things that at this point everything is very noticeable to me.
Adam Baldwin is wasted in this show. Pretty much all he does is grimace. He does that well enough, but I wish they gave him more than a few cheesy lines.
One question, do Burkes really carry enough MOPP gear for the entire crew? I don't know and I couldn't find much online.
yes your being stupid. no, there would never be a whole ships company on the deck at once unless theyre tied to a pier. you missed a bunch of middle ground by not watching episodes.
look, I like watching The Walking Dead. I consider it a documentary on what NOT to do when the shit hits the fan. tons of plot holes and stupid mistakes. its still a good show. stop being a little bitch and watch the series. its a frikin SHOW.
Piss off turd brain. I know they wouldn't muster the entire crew while underway. And I don't need to watch every episode of a show this asinine to keep up with it or to accurately evaluate it's quality.
go back and second guess LeForges warp core fixes you half wit dingle berry.
Sorry, I forgot you have the TV watching tastes of a 16 year old girl. Enjoy Captain McDreamy.
listen Mr. Anal, the whole idea of tv is to suspend belief.
I get it. Look, I was totally on board with the Professor's coconut radio.
see... now your just lying.
you loved playing with the professors coconuts.
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:22:13 PMAnd what's the point of reassuring the crew when you assemble at maybe a third of them and give them a speech with using the comm system so the rest can at least hear you?
To continue being fair to that particular scene: he wasn't just addressing them with a speech piped to the intercom. He assembled as many as he thought he could get into the helo bay where the doctor was working on the ultra-contagious world-ending mutating virus.
...
........
Okay, that makes it sound dumb again. But she was in her pressurized lab, and the captain was trying to make a point that he would be truthful and open from now on instead of hiding things away. Those members could go talk about what they saw and heard from the doctor instead of what they theorized/suspected was happening.
I appreciated the point and only wondered twice in that scene what happened to their helicopters, at least one of which should still have been in the helo hanger (since they used it to fly out to within 100 yards of a Russian heavy cruiser they had just skiff-bombed in order to pick up some crewmen they had sent on a not-suicide mission. That was the last time I remember seeing the helo, so until I learn otherwise I'm just going to pretend the Russians promptly BLEW IT THE HELL OUT OF THE AIR and under cover of the burning wreckage the helo crew and the skiff-boat slammers rowed a dingy twenty miles or so back to the destroyer that same night.)
Quote from: JasonPratt on August 05, 2014, 01:13:28 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 28, 2014, 10:22:13 PMAnd what's the point of reassuring the crew when you assemble at maybe a third of them and give them a speech with using the comm system so the rest can at least hear you?
To continue being fair to that particular scene: he wasn't just addressing them with a speech piped to the intercom. He assembled as many as he thought he could get into the helo bay where the doctor was working on the ultra-contagious world-ending mutating virus.
...
........
Okay, that makes it sound dumb again. But she was in her pressurized lab,......
Pressurized lab?!? That's the last thing you want to be next to when it's filled with world killing bugs!!!
Pressurized means it blows all the nasties out of the lab! :uglystupid2:
If correctly set up, it would be a low-pressure lab, designed to insure that any air leaks were going in, not out.
That's correct. But "pressurized" means higher pressure than the surrounding areas.
I'm a science nerd, I build these things, trust me I know the terminology.
Gawd, is this show still on?
Quote from: Barthheart on August 05, 2014, 08:06:07 PM
That's correct. But "pressurized" means higher pressure than the surrounding areas.
I'm a science nerd, I build these things, trust me I know the terminology.
I only have a few semesters of organic, inorganic, and biochem under my belt. Then I dropped out of college and forgot everything so I completely defer to you on any sciency things. :)
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 05, 2014, 09:08:39 PM
I only have a few semesters of organic, inorganic, and biochem under my belt. Then I dropped out of college and forgot everything so I completely defer to you on any sciency things. :)
Sounds like you're ready to produce a TV show with Michael Bay.
Have his people call my people. Then they can do lunch.
Quote from: Barthheart on August 05, 2014, 08:06:07 PM
That's correct. But "pressurized" means higher pressure than the surrounding areas.
I'm a science nerd, I build these things, trust me I know the terminology.
Blame me in this case; the show didn't call it that, and while I knew what it was going for (reverse pressure) I took a guess at how to describe it briefly. Sorry.
Quote from: JasonPrattThat was the last time I remember seeing the helo, so until I learn otherwise I'm just going to pretend the Russians promptly BLEW IT THE HELL OUT OF THE AIR and under cover of the burning wreckage the helo crew and the skiff-boat slammers rowed a dingy twenty miles or so back to the destroyer that same night.)
And then the next episode featured (one of?) the remaining giant helo(s) prominently.
I feel the plausibility here would increase if we ever saw establishing shots of them working the remaining (??) helo out of its aft cabin next to the aft cabin the biochemist is working in.
Quote from: mirth on August 05, 2014, 08:26:58 PM
Gawd, is this show still on?
Well, it's a summer miniseries so there isn't anything to 'cancel' exactly.
what if the helo was airborne at the time and they just chain it to the deck when its not.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 07, 2014, 09:22:04 PM
what if the helo was airborne at the time and they just chain it to the deck when its not.
Av gas is precious and rare now, so they don't even fly their drones a lot.
Still, I
could see this series trying to use that as an explanation!
and the two hangers are separated from each other so the seahawk could have been in the other hanger. :coolsmiley:
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.steelnavy.com%2Fimages%2FClassicBurke%2FBur5739.JPG&hash=96a526247423dbee62f93369808882884fb5bb7b)
fun episode
Hm. I think what confused me was that they went through a fairly small roll-up door in the middle -- but it would make sense if that was in the center extrusion (in the photo) with two rollup doors, one leading to each hangar.
one thing thats crossed my mind is the wonderment that some studio just hasnt outright bought a surplus Navy ship to use for tons of scenes across all genres.
Next-to-last-ep was quite decent and better than average by the standards of this show, setting up finale.
I continue enjoying all the little verisimilitude touches from filming on an operational ship. The making-of docs on the DVD, by all rights, should be awesome.
Last ep for the season clearly wasn't the series finale: it will return next summer.
Some more rank stupidity to move the plot along, but less than in some previous eps: really, XO? You think surrendering the whole freaking crew to the afterdeck is the best way to deal with one guy with a gun on board and snipers supposedly surrounding the ship??
So The Last Ship series was going to continue tonite, but due to similarities to the Orlando shooting, won't. Rescheduled for sometime in the future.