This is one of the few TV shows that I have watched from the beginning. I won't spoil the content of this season's final episode for those of you who do watch it and haven't seen it yet but let me say it contains one of the best plot twists I have ever seen in a story.

I just hope this scenario never gets the opportunity to really happen. The last episode this season embodies evil in it's purest sense.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Never heard of it... I don't think we have it on TV here.

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Lori and myself have been watching it.
Very well done and frightful at the same time.
With things going the way they are in this world, it could turn out to be rather prophetic.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

From what I've read on Wikipedia, it looks good but no exact airing date here in the UK atm, just Autumn 2014.

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The basic premiss is that a deadly fast acting virus has been tampered with and made even more deadly and initially impossible to kill or control. It has spread around the world and wherever it goes the mortality rate is between 80 and 90%. A US Navy destroyer has been dispatched to the edge of the arctic ice shelf to gather primordial samples from the birds that initially incubated the virus and the crew has been spared from exposure to the virus. On board is a female Dr who is conducting research into finding a vaccine and/or a cure.

It is a very interesting premiss but I see a few holes in the logic. From what I have read if a virus is too toxic it usually doesn't have time to spread very far. Also I think such a deadly virus would trigger a worldwide ban on international travel before containment is lost.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

The basic premiss is that a deadly fast acting virus has been tampered with and made even more deadly and initially impossible to kill or control. It has spread around the world and wherever it goes the mortality rate is between 80 and 90%. A US Navy destroyer has been dispatched to the edge of the arctic ice shelf to gather primordial samples from the birds that initially incubated the virus and the crew has been spared from exposure to the virus. On board is a female Dr who is conducting research into finding a vaccine and/or a cure.

It is a very interesting premiss but I see a few holes in the logic. From what I have read if a virus is too toxic it usually doesn't have time to spread very far. Also I think such a deadly virus would trigger a worldwide ban on international travel before containment is lost.

Well, of course one can shoot holes in the plot at times. But as with most fiction, there are always times one has to partake in the 'suspension of disbelief' thingy in order for the story to be told.
There are times, for example, that I sense that the contact between the infected and the healthy is just a bit too casual.
But one has to assume that proper measures are undertaken, even if offscreen.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Honestly the premise of the book on which this show is apparently based on sounded more interesting than the show. But yeah, I haven't seen it, so I can't really judge. Maybe I'll watch it if it ever comes to Netflix over here.

So who is watching it here in the UK, it's been on air for several weeks now as we are up to episode 6.

I think the Title is wrong...they have already met a Russian ship..so they are not the last..

There are numerous inconsistancies in the story to be honest...the biggest being that all the labs with hundred of staff and billions of dollars at their disposal have been unable to find a vacine for the virus, yet we are to believe that this overworked Doc with minimal equipment and resources is going to find the cure...give me a break.

The part of the story where the world is not sharing research on the virus to give an excuse for the "Evil Russian" Admiral is questionable, in such an outbreak the world does cooperate, as we are seeing with Ebola, perhaps not as fast as should be, but with a virus as depicted with the kind of mortality rate they state, then the world would be forced to come together, so another weak part of the plot.

Then we have the Destroyers..the Nathan James, an Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer (DDG), state of the art and equipped with ship to air, ship to surface and ship to ship missiles, then we have the Russian Destroyer, an Udaloy I or II class anti-submarine type that was originally conceieved in the 1970's and the last of the eight in service laid down in 1990 and put into service in 1994.

Both types are classed as multi-purpose Destroyers, and the Russian's are often referred to as Arleigh-Burke equivilents, but this is misleading. The sheer firepower and the fire control systems on the US vessels outclasses the Russians ships 10 fold. In the scenaria in Gitmo anchorage where the USS Nathan James is "trapped" by the Russians, one ship to ship missile would see the demise of the Russian vessel. The premise that they would be scared of the Russian vessel is somewhat insulting to the US Navy. Clearly both vessels are capable of inflicting serious harm to each other under the right circumstances, but the US vessel is the heavy weight boxer up against a middle weight..

Just as well the Nathan James was not up against a Daring Class (Type 45) Destroyer of the RN...they would have serious reasons to be concerned then.. :)

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While it is true that the scenario in the TV show is technically far fetched there is one part that may be playing out close to the truth in the Ebola crisis. In the last episode of the first season of The Last Ship it is revealed that the people who have ended up in charge on the east coast of the USA are deliberately letting people die from the virus even after the existence of a cure is made known to said leadership. Being an attempt to let the masses die while an elite corps of highly intelligent people are provided with the vaccine.

Now it comes out that there has been a vaccine for ebola all along and it was kept under wraps. For what reason? It's not hard to see this as an attempt to allow the populations of troublesome countries in west Africa to be decimated whether it is true or not.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.