Posted on 08/25/2014 8:13:07 AM PDT by Bratch
Tonight, Sunday, Aug. 24, TNT airs the season-one finale of its post-apocalyptic military drama The Last Ship, which has already received a season-two pick-up.
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Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, Serenity, Independence Day, Chuck) co-stars as Chandler's second in command, XO Mike Slattery. The Illinois native is used to playing military types, and the Navy is apparently happy with how he wears the uniform in The Last Ship and with the show itself.
"They love it," Baldwin tells Breitbart News. "They were thrilled, and the funny thing is, you have a dedicated fan base, and a built-in fan base, from the Navy, because our goal was to portray the Navy as realistically as we could within the scenario and within our Hollywood creation."
Of course, if things aren't done up to Navy snuff, Baldwin and the producers hear about it.
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It's a TV show - you need to give your lead actors quantity and quality of screen time. Sometimes reality has to take a back seat to the narrative format.
Not to me.
The female scientist with the English accent is a hottie.
I love this show. Can’t wait for season 2 (but I’ll have to wait till next summer!). I like the portrayals and the servicemen get the job done. Do what it takes.
Tex has to be Bones
Can’t wait to see how they get out of last night’s mess.
The Captian away from the ship as his crew is being led out for capture. Tex off on his own. The doctor being held.I look for some teaming up with the warlords.
Awesome show!
My best TV show right now.
On the positive side, it's nice that they finished the storyline of season 1 with the cure and a return home.
However, that nicety is also the fatal flaw of this show.
The problem is that it will now become a run-of-the-mill dystopian show, and that means it will fall to routine plot lines.
Consider other recent dystopian shows: Revolution and Jericho.
In Revolution, they tried to piggyback off the success of The Hunger Games with a reliance on swords and bows and arrows. The plot was around how civilization collapsed because all power was turned off. Season 1 ended with the explanation of how the power was turned off and the successful restoration of power. I did not watch season 2, but I suppose it was to be about how the fractured nations deal with the megalomaniacal leaders of the new nations.
Revolution was canceled after season 2.
Jericho was about a small Kansas town that survives a multi-city nuclear attack on the United States by an unnamed enemy. The first season was about maintaining civil order and reaching out to nearby towns for information and trade. The second season devolved into the typical dystopian plot of city warlords fighting over scraps while the larger territories organize into independent nation-states. Jericho was canceled halfway through season 2.
So where does season 2 of The Last Ship go?
Based on last night's finale, we are headed towards the dystopian warlords vs. new nation elite rivalries typical of the genre.
Can the show survive moving from the unknown to the known?
I don't know.
-PJ
I like Tex. He's funny. Of course, I remember the actor from Briscoe County, Jr. (Hello Briiisscooooeee!). He was also pretty decent in Burn Notice (which was funny seeing him and Bruce Campbell together).
I started watching this show I think it’s great. The scene two eps ago when they re-upped had me standing up and cheering in my living room.
Also, the constant reference to God and the praying has the nitwits on the left on IMDB’s message board for this show freaking out.
I’ve considered a ping list for this show but don’t have the time.
Michael Bay is really promoting the standards of America’s exceptionalism on this show. I hope it’s not red herring...
Complete with female who was knocked up during the deployment.
Notice the period. The OP meant that as two separate statements, not one. The show is a little cheesy. But I like the nod to Honor, God, and Country.
I think your descriptions of the powers that be is wrong. It seems to me it will fall down to a battle between Constitutional Patriots and new nation elite, which seems to be pretty much the end game we are heading for now.
I remember when Hunt for Red October hit theaters, and word came out that the Navy had demanded that the displays (particularly the sonar waterfall) be screwed up, because in their original form they were too close to reality and the Navy was afraid of revealing operational capabilities.
MacGuyver was the same way. They had tech advisors from Stanford but would always leave out a key ingredient or two whenever Angus would cook up a bomb or tear gas or something potentially dangerous.
They're not. Re-read the original post. There is a period between the two comments, not a comma. The show is cheesy, but the Honor, God, Country portrayal is not.
Cheesy as in not super high production....But still very good series.
I agree. The show is, I think, very Conservative, politically. And we’ll see more of that next season.
Funny enough, I recently watched Firefly/Serenity for the first time. Incredibly Conservative, anti-government show. I wonder if thats why it got cancelled, despite it’s popularity.
Only the Hollyweird version
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