# The Last Ship, S1E1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445 "2014-06-23T14:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/61 "2014-07-29T15:08:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Which is the worse show: Last Ship or Under the Dome? Well, Last Ship lacks an annoying teenager with a gigantic fivehead, so I have to go with Under the Dome. > [@eenerms](#): > > Throw in Falling Skies and The Strain;) Now you are just being cruel. Can’t we just agree they are all bad? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/62 "2014-07-31T19:33:40Z")
The previews kept me from watching; sounds like I’m not missing much. The book is pretty good, though, set on a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered destroyer during and after WWIII in late 1988, as told in the first person by the captain. > **[Amazon.com: The Last Ship: A Novel: 9780142181430: Brinkley, William: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Last-Ship-Novel-William-Brinkley/dp/0142181439)** > > Amazon.com: The Last Ship: A Novel: 9780142181430: Brinkley, William: Books ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/63 "2014-07-31T20:08:59Z")
I’m holding out for Ebay. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Abet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Abet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abet)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/64 "2014-08-01T03:03:08Z")
Must be a pain in the butt when the ship is in lockdown and you have to wear one of those biohazard suit then you have to go to the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/65 "2014-08-01T14:59:25Z")
Am I right in that in the Navy no one on a ship called the USS Nathan James would refer to it as the Nathan James? It’s gonna be the Nate or Ol’ NJ or Jimmy or some such nickname… ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/66 "2014-08-02T01:38:51Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Well, Last Ship lacks an annoying teenager with a gigantic fivehead, so I have to go with Under the Dome. > > Now you are just being cruel. Can’t we just agree they are all bad? 🙂 …can we toss in shark-jump-specials like “Criminal Minds”? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/67 "2014-08-11T02:19:47Z")
At long last we can finally answer that old question; what if Adolf Hitler and Typhoid Mary had a baby! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/68 "2014-08-25T02:02:08Z")
So Mrs Gunderson is committing mass murder to fuel the power plant (among other things)? :dubious: Can’t say I’ll tune in next year. ---
**Author:** ![Abet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Abet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abet)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/69 "2014-08-25T05:10:10Z")
how the heck can they use dead bodies as fuel. Is it new technology? Maybe the 727 billion barrels of US govt reserves are not available. :smack: [Office of Petroleum Reserves | Department of Energy](http://energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves) Tex got a stolen kiss from Dr Scot. And she didn’t even resists. And so some cop was trying to steal the ship. With a handgun. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/70 "2014-08-26T01:46:38Z")
Still glad I’m not watching. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/71 "2014-08-26T01:52:18Z")
I rather like it. Better than the other shows we are watching,\* Defiance\* and _Falling Skies_. But why in the holy hell, on TV, do they stick a two inch needle all the way into someone, rather than find a vein as they do with me at the Doctor’s laboratory, or just under the skin as I believe they do with vaccines? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/72 "2014-08-26T04:29:42Z")
This actually turned out a bit better than expected - a) palpable tension - they actually killed a few folks and kept up a pretty good pace. b) they didn’t drag out cure/vaccine - c) making it into a sailboat! ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/73 "2014-08-26T04:58:36Z")
I actually like the show. It’s not great entertainment, but I like apocalyptic stories and military porn. It hits enough of the buttons to keep me watching week to week. This last episode was a little confusing. Okay, so someone who’s function as the remnants of the local government goes power mad and wants to hand-pick a rebuilt society. Okay, I’m with you. So they… knowingly… fake… lab results… to themselves… and lie to themselves that the cure they’ve been working on isn’t just some sort of poison. For what reason? They’re actively corraling up people and giving them the fake cure, and again, why? People are dying like flies out in the wild. Why even involve yourself? And one guy taking over the ship was silly. They could’ve had a dozen or two deputies on the ship being immunized or something and made the takeover plausible. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/74 "2014-08-26T12:27:15Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > And one guy taking over the ship was silly. They could’ve had a dozen or two deputies on the ship being immunized or something and made the takeover plausible. I don’t know if crewmen go about armed on board, I suspect not, but surely if you fired a weapon the bridge would be full of very large marines and sailors very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/75 "2014-08-26T12:35:13Z")
I must admit the first episode was quite intriguing. But after that, it all just seemed to devolve into one big mess. The plot just didn’t make sense to me and I really couldn’t follow what was going on. It all just seemed highly confusing to me. I watched as much as I could but eventually, I just had to give up and do something else because I just couldn’t stick with it. Just too confusing. ---
**Author:** ![aa6vh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@aa6vh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aa6vh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445/76 "2014-08-26T21:02:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I don’t know if crewmen go about armed on board, I suspect not, but surely if you fired a weapon the bridge would be full of very large marines and sailors very quickly. The cop on the bridge mentioned that his cop buddies were scattered through out the ship, and were ready to start shooting crewman should the bridge crew not surrender. Although I am surprised that the navy would allow armed outsiders (even though they were lawmen) to be on the ship without releaving them of their guns. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-ship-s1e1/691445.md?page=3)