Last Resort was Awesome.

[Top41]

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.

 

[Admiral2]

I love how people here keep sugar-coating the utter BS permeating this episode with the word "implausible..."

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I love how people here keep sugar-coating the utter BS permeating this episode with the word "implausible..."

Oh, my God, people are using proper words! This is an outrage!

 

[Admiral2]

I love how people here keep sugar-coating the utter BS permeating this episode with the word "implausible..."

Oh, my God, people are using proper words! This is an outrage!

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."

 

[Locutus of Bored]

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).

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Secret Cabals within the US government. I am intrigued, checking this out soon.

 

[Mr Light]

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?

 

[Jimi_James]

I liked it a lot, much more than Revoultion. I'll definitely be tuning in to see what they do with it.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

No big deal, though, right? It's not like 200-miles off of Washington DC is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world or anything. It's not like it's going to be pouring radioactive rain on the East Coast or irradiate the fish supply. It's not like whales travel through there. The guy should have gotten an honorary "Fuck the Whales" t-shirt to wear at his murder trial for the hundreds or thousands of recreational boaters, fishermen, and cargo ship sailors he probably killed and all the people on the East Coast he's giving cancer to for the next couple of decades

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?

 

[Romulan_spy]

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.

 

[Garak]

As awesome as people think Last Resort is, it pales in comparison in every measurable way to the real Last Resort.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Which part of the plot is so ridiculous?

 

[chardman]

Loved it.

Agreed. The Coreys at their finest!

Umm, what? Oh... uuh... nevermind.

 

[PsychoPere]

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?

Co-Creator Shawn Ryan has acknowledged that this is an important concern:

It's a little bit scary, which I like. I never do things the easy way for whatever reason. We had thought a lot about what season one would be before we ever pitched it to the networks. We thought a lot about what the final episode might be, whether it's in season five, season seven, season nine, whatever. So there was enough there just between the two of us having spent a month half talking about it that I felt that we had a show. You never know for sure until you get into a writer's room and you're trying to break episode 32 whether there is in fact a show, so I can't sit here today and say definitively that I know for sure. I know that we've broken the first six episodes after the pilot and they're all different and I really like them and we haven't lacked for stories there. We know places we're going to go in the final 6 of our 13 episode order, but we'll see.

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.

The show is shot in Los Angeles and Hawaii, so be prepared to see plenty of island scenes. After the pilot sets up Last Resort‘s initial premise, Ryan said the series will spend 60 percent of its time on the island, 20 percent on the sub and 20 percent in Washington. The characters in those locations will interact with each other, even if they’re on the other side of the globe.

[...]

Gajdusek and Ryan said during the chat that they feel one of the big things that sets Last Resort apart from Lost is that it’s not dependent on its mystery. Even if they resolved the conflict of who ordered the nukes fired in the pilot, there would still be plenty more to uncover about these characters and their motivations as time went on.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

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.

 

[FPAlpha]

I love how people here keep sugar-coating the utter BS permeating this episode with the word "implausible..."

Oh, my God, people are using proper words! This is an outrage!

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."

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.

 

[bigdaddy]

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.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They nuked America.

There's no going back unless they trigger a global black out.

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Oh, my God, people are using proper words! This is an outrage!

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."

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.

Do noncliche characters exist anymore?

 

[Guy Gardener]

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.