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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:are you complaining about adam baldwin's justification for being on the show??
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Acquilae posted:I love how the captain has to attend every single mission they go on. That is the one thing that bugs to death, why why! does the captain have to go on all the missions?? He is as dumb as Kirk.
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Aug 4, 2014 03:12
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Viewers Like Me posted:He is
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Aug 4, 2014 03:20
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Someone needs to make a tv show "Tom Clancy Fever Dream". Kinda like this but just one more foot over the edge.
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Aug 4, 2014 05:12
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Viewers Like Me posted:That is the one thing that bugs to death, why why! does the captain have to go on all the missions?? He is as dumb as Kirk. Hey, at least Tex called him out on his heroic bullshit.
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Aug 4, 2014 09:00
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The Last Ship is actually a future documentary for the current Ebola outbreak.
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kirk it up a notch
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Aug 4, 2014 16:39
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So that Norwegian scientist did something to the virus that made it more deadly and his girlfriend spread it unknowingly throughout Europe, that's what I was getting from that scene at the start.
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Aug 4, 2014 16:45
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Apparently the good doctor has never heard of Typhoid Mary.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:oh poo poo the helicopter is back for a surprise appearance Khablam posted:The helicopter only spawns when a main character needs it for some reason. It has seriously just appeared and disappeared since the pilot. Jack Skeleton posted:Apparently the good doctor has never heard of Typhoid Mary. The screenwriters are so loving bad on this show, it's amazing.
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Aug 7, 2014 14:54
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Yeah, they show us the Norwegian doctor who is obviously not sick but a carrier of the mutated strain (that he created), and then show us the Jamaican girl who is not sick...and as soon as they get to the ship they take no precautions whatsoever. I mean, it worked out because she was immune, but it was a pretty bad oversight by the writers.
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Baloogan posted:Someone needs to make a tv show "Tom Clancy Fever Dream". Kinda like this but just one more foot over the edge. My secret dream is that they make a HBO quality level TV show out of the whole Ryanverse (- everything after Red Rabbit). I would kill for some cold war poo poo. And please get Kiefer Sutherland to play John Clark.
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Aug 7, 2014 21:02
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I'm all for dramatic tension but I don't understand why "sink the goddamn Russians" hasn't been the priority from the jump. At the very least attempt to negotiate via the radio that still works. If the whole world isn't big enough for Captain Not-Khan to go and find his own slice then perhaps the DESTROYER should do something about that.
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Aug 8, 2014 03:12
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It's billed as though, even if the NJ won the encounter, damage to the ship may impede her mission, and that takes precedent. This makes sense given it's a cruiser to their destroyer, even if it is "an older design" or whatever they call it.
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Aug 8, 2014 08:45
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This past episode was much better than the previous episode, which at best was a voyager episode (e.g. all the events tie up neatly in a bow and its basically a reset as if it never happened). I mean hell voyager did that exact same stupid premise. Oh some crew members might leave, the captain gives a heartfelt speech, and then poof no one wants to leave the ship.
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Aug 8, 2014 16:33
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Stuff is actually happening!
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Aug 11, 2014 02:30
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whoah, that was pretty crazy - was not expecting actual resolutions and consequences. Isn't everyone on the Russian ship infected now though with the Swedish Scientist escaping? It looked like the ship blew up, but I guess some of them will get onto lifeboats or something? Or maybe Kapitan Khan has a secret submarine as backup...
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Aug 11, 2014 04:09
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Off to a good start this episode, an H60 reporting his gear down and locked (they dont have retractable wheels). Reminds me of a guy who asked a bell helo to check his wheels down and the pilot replies that he doesn't have wheels he has skids. Our guy radios back 'check skids down then'.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:30
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spronk posted:whoah, that was pretty crazy - was not expecting actual resolutions and consequences. Isn't everyone on the Russian ship infected now though with the Swedish Scientist escaping? It looked like the ship blew up, but I guess some of them will get onto lifeboats or something? Or maybe Kapitan Khan has a secret submarine as backup... My guess is the Russian ship isn't completely done for, although it did look like it mostly got blowed up. But it's supposed to be big.
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Aug 11, 2014 05:38
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I'm trying to think why they didn't just shoot up the Russian ship after they left, and all I'm coming up with is "gotta have a bad guy".
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Aug 11, 2014 07:11
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Xenoborg posted:I'm trying to think why they didn't just shoot up the Russian ship after they left, and all I'm coming up with is "gotta have a bad guy". They need a fully equipped Russian naval ship to offer as a enemy? Off the top of my head I could think of dozens of water based serious threats the James could face, without making it a "evil Russian bad guy drinking from fine china and eating fancy food" They could run into pirates who've looted a govt military ship, or rogue military force, or any number of better reasons. Instead it has to be the legendary Russian Admiral who's running around with patient zero in his hold.
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Aug 11, 2014 08:48
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The Kraken. Poseidon, God of the Sea. Somali pirates. Andrew Ryan. Cthulhu. Mirror Universe USS Nathan James. The Red October. The ghost of Blackbeard. Bald Dennis Hopper with an eyepatch.
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Aug 11, 2014 09:00
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Gonz posted:The Kraken. The time-shifted DSV.
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Gonz posted:
Nah the Captain is exactly the same, but the evil Russian captain is his twin brother. 
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Aug 11, 2014 12:34
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Navy ROE are pretty clear on this. You're allowed a limited response to hubris, but only to the point that the enemy is humiliated and desperate. You can only sink an enemy ship during season finales.
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Aug 11, 2014 13:51
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Blackchamber posted:Off to a good start this episode, an H60 reporting his gear down and locked (they dont have retractable wheels). This isn't even spergy, they make a point of their destroyer being deadly for it's size based on high tech weapons in the pilot, which is pretty much the same point. The kind-of-blew-up-the-russians-but-not-all-the-way part is hammy, too - why wouldn't you cripple the cooling system to the reactor?
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Aug 11, 2014 23:40
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they made mention that a meltdown wasn't ideal
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Rocksicles posted:they made mention that a meltdown wasn't ideal Or do they expect all the tension in the show to come from the same ship the whole time? Perhaps if they are stuck re-making Star Trek episode concepts, maybe the Russian captain is more Tomalak than Khan. Khablam fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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Aug 12, 2014 00:39
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Didn't they make a point of blowing up the propeller screw? That seems pretty great for a "limit their movement" perspective but less good from a "stop them from nuking the Southeastern Seaboard" perspective. They had the location, bearing and speed of the Russian ship and it would have been awesome if they summoned up the helicopter to launch every ASW torpedo they could launch without giving away their position. I understand "no because plot and/or wizard" is a valid reason for doing anything but I think they're missing an opportunity to milk the paranoia of the premise for all it's worth. Tom Clancy sold millions of books to people who wanted to pretend they were in the Navy. That poo poo is fascinating, and it hits what has to be TNT's demographic sweet spot. You can lay recycled Star Trek B plots over just about anything, so why not hire a few actual Navy pukes to make it real.
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Khablam posted:Sure - it's not ideal if you're on the boat at the time, but then we see multiple charges being set off once they're clear, in critical areas like the front top deck and random hallway B. Why not anywhere vital? Over thinking it dude, just float with it.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:34
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Rocksicles posted:Over thinking it dude, just float with it. Doesn't matter though, the show is still entertaining enough to bother with. Hopefully it doesn't try to take itself too seriously.
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Aug 12, 2014 10:55
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Khablam posted:Yeah but that's the problem, I'm watching it in 'bad summer show' mode yet the plot issues are so stark I still can't ignore them. Too seriously? After the "For all of you your enlistments are up, we'll let you leave with supplies because you've honored your contract, just meet us on deck tomorrow" followed by all of the specific crewman showing up, then giving the captain a flag and saying "We all want to reenlist"? If the writers aren't aware that this is Tom Clancy-esque military porn the this show will soon collapse under the weight of its own pretensions. If they are, it's going to be amazing.
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That was a solid episode  rip the engineering guyalso if i ever got captured by bad guys i'd just sing My Name Is (eminem)
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Aug 12, 2014 22:19
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That delivered what I want from a summertime action apocalyptic navy show.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:That was a solid episode I wonder how far you could get into "My name is Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid Kid Rock!" before the rifle buttstroke comes down.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:That was a solid episode More like RIP all those poor engineers on the Russian ship.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:42
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Octy posted:More like RIP all those poor engineers on the Russian ship. Yeah, first they get shot up, then get blown up.
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Sober posted:Yeah, first they get shot up, then get blown up. Then infected, serves those pinko's right for messing with the U S A!
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GaussianCopula posted:My secret dream is that they make a HBO quality level TV show out of the whole Ryanverse (- everything after Red Rabbit). I would kill for some cold war poo poo. I want Red Storm Rising, the series. Going to need one hell of a budget though.
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richardfun posted:I want Red Storm Rising, the series. Going to need one hell of a budget though. As much as I agree with you and want that to happen, it will never happen. Unless some insane billionaire funds the production of such a series out of his own bank account. It would be the most expensive TV series in history (if done to scale).
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