THE LAST SHIP Season 2 - discussion, spoilers and general mayhem
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So they killed off Ravit...
There goes the only reason to watch this show.
200 sailor on that ship they can bring someone up at anytime and they are already teasing a 17 year old seaman recruit. Maybe the President will give consent in the absence of a court.
And in the episode before they remembered that is why the Hawk is on the ship not as a shuttlecraft. I guess they fear as an aviator the Lt Commander behind the face mask would become the rock star and take over the show.
So they killed off Ravit...
There goes the only reason to watch this show.
So Dr. Scott does nothing for you?
I'll admit, when she was healing the little girl I was thinking "I wish I was sick so that Rhona Mitra would feel me up and breathe in my ear..."
But, to each his own.
I was thinking it was cute they took the anti religion character and had her heal people like Jesus or an apostle would. Especially in a world were a religious cult whose baptism was to infect you and see if you were a Chosen One was the big bad
Eh, Rhona Mitra is so 2002... Although, I must admit, that scene in Hollow Man (the one before the rape) did almost give me a heart attack back then...
Inbar Lavi was adorable, though. And I don't even got a thing for girls in uniforms.
Yep, that movie was my baptism into the Cult of Rhona...
My thing with her was that she was just Ziva David 2.0, and she didn't impress me as much as the original.
And that was the second thing that went through my mind. That was definitely some Jesus imagery there, but given the nature of her cure that was almost predictable. And the fact that she started with a child was a nice touch.
Except that Lavi is an actual Israeli, whereas Cote de Pablo is a fairly typical Latina... Not that it matters, it just feels kinda unfair to Inbar, is all.
But yeah, both Ziva and Ravit fall into the "tough and sexy Israeli battle-maiden" cliche.
Right, and I'm not saying I'm not sad to see her go. I liked having her aboard. I just don't see giving up on the show completely because she's gone. There's Jesus-like doctors and phantom helicopters and dogs to watch, and every now and then, there's NAVAL KOMBAAAAAT!
One more hour to take out the American preacher and his gunmen are not SBS. Then what deterrent to rebuilding society can a destroyer stop in season three.
The Ramsey brothers and their argumentative crew were hardly compelling villains, especially coming in after Admiral Ruskov and his Russian Cold War stereotypes. Hmm, El Toro might have made a better continuing villain.
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Nah. It's gonna be Germans. Here's my reasoning.
They're not gonna use Koreans or any other Asians because they seem determined to keep the Nathan James in the Atlantic. That also lets Australians off the hook. Otherwise, they've already beaten South Americans and American Elitists on land and Russkies and Evil UKers at sea and after Russia and the UK the only Europeans left with any kind of navies are the French and the Germans. And villains with German accents are scarier than villains with French ones.
They're not gonna use Koreans or any other Asians because they seem determined to keep the Nathan James in the Atlantic. That also lets Australians off the hook. Otherwise, they've already beaten South Americans and American Elitists on land and Russkies and Evil UKers at sea and after Russia and the UK the only Europeans left with any kind of navies are the French and the Germans. And villains with German accents are scarier than villains with French ones.
My concern would be that evil Germans would basically just end up being modern Nazis. But then Frenchmen would probably being some inaccurate stereotype anyway, so what the hell? At least Nazis can be played up for camp value.
German skipper needs a monocle though. Just cause.
They were operating normally boarded a contagious sailor and it was too late before a strict quarantine went into effect. If we are to believe what happened to the survivor cruise ship in season one and the flashback to Ramsey assuming command of his submarine happened to everybody. Except the few like the Russian admiral who was not locked out by security and secrecy.
Now as for the rest of the ships we have a broke destroyer after two torpedo near misses and a flooded magazine. Assuming the fleet wasn't all at sea, and we saw ships docked in Norfolk, it makes more sense to trade Nathan James in for another just as Starfleet had done with Enterprise and Defiant, rather then whoever survived trying to jury rig repairs. But they will try to repair her and she will be fine just like Voyager.
It's not beyond the realm of the possible that at least one American sub was deployed with a clean crew when the outbreak ramped up (in fact, it's statistically likely). If so, if somebody knew about they would probably tell the sub to stay out and survive till things blew over, and things just never blew over. So the crew maybe surfacing intermittently hunting for food and trying to get news. Probably in the Pacific.
Anyway, could happen. We just have to see if the writers think of it.
Hollywood logic: Name recognition beats common sense. They could easily transfer to a fully functioning Burke if one's available, but they've burned the Nathan James into our psyche's for two seasons now and they'll probably be leery about suddenly using the Oscar Austin or something...
