The idea of someone owning and wearing a "Fuck the Whales" t-shirt sent me into early morning hysterics. I had similar thoughts about the consequences of detonating that nuke. Once you get past the implausible premise, it is an enjoyable show, and I'm definitely curious to see episode two. Love the Captain and the XO--I've been a fan of both actors since Homicide and Felicity, respectively, so it's fun to see them back on TV.
I love how people here keep sugar-coating the utter BS permeating this episode with the word "implausible..."
Not outrageous, just tiresome, since a "proper" description is not the same as an "accurate" one, and an accurate description of a show that spends an hour using real life weapons in ways they weren't designed to be used and supposedly realistic line officers acting in ways they simply wouldn't act qualifies as utter BS, not "implausible."
Or maybe some people don't rank that as highly in terms of importance as you do and can still enjoy the show in spite of its implausibility (there's that word again)? But it's really a ridiculous argument anyway since the word you're complaining about is simply a less vehement way of saying the same thing you are. No one is complimenting this show on its realism (because it doesn't have much of any), so why nitpick the way they say it? It just comes across as needing something to complain about even when everyone is pretty much on the same page (except in subjective terms like whether they can still enjoy the show in spite of its flaws or not).
The pilot was cool but I don't see how this is a sustainable premise for an entire series. Do the characters sit on the island every episode? Do they infiltrate the mainland? Is each episode about a US spy sneaking onto the island?
I liked it a lot, much more than Revoultion. I'll definitely be tuning in to see what they do with it.
We can retcon some of this stuff. There was a huge storm so there were no ships on the water at that time. How can we retcon the cancer stuff?
Like others have pointed out already, the plot is completely ridiculous. But I still enjoyed it immensely. Just don't take the show too seriously.
As awesome as people think Last Resort is, it pales in comparison in every measurable way to the real Last Resort.
Co-Creator Shawn Ryan has acknowledged that this is an important concern: The entire interview is well worth reading. He drops some small information about a few future episodes too. Edited to add: CBR has another interview where the breakdown between story locations is addressed.
Even if they stay on the island there are lots of ways it could interesting. It would not suprise me that some other parts of the army/navy would join them or help the covertly.
If i can enjoy a Michael Bay movie (and Armageddon is one of my favorite movies of all time because it's so dumb and inaccurate) then i can surely get over the implausabilities in this one. Edit: Ok.. i've seen it and it's not worth it. Wooden actors, cliche characters and a really stupid plot. With Bay you have humor and insance action to gloss over the otherwise empty movie.
It was really good, but it has "HBO" written all over it. The show I can see being amazing for 2-3 thirteen episode seasons, but that is it. A season on the island, a season planning on sneaking into the USA, a season clearing their names. That format doesn't work on Network TV. Actually this show would have been fun following Homeland on Showtime. On ABC it should have been a miniseries, and it would have been a damn good one. The little plots of the impeachment, the secretive soldiers, the goodie soldiers always for the USA, the island drug lord. There is a lot going on, and I like it, I just don't see it lasting.
At the end of the eighties they all hid in Tom Selleck's Moustache and claimed that they weren't coming out till all the assholes had left the party.