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I wrote one of these posts up already, but it was too bitchy and whiny and blah, so I marked it private and I'm going to try again:
The Last Ship is a TV show currently running on the TNT channel here in the US. In it some sort of super flu broke out and killed ~90% of the world's population. This Navy ship has a small healthy crew and one doctor who is trying to find the cure. Just the kind of story I like!
Except it's not. There's so much wrong with the show, so much I shouldn't like, so much that makes no sense, yet still I'm loving it.
There are little things wrong with it: The crew caught wild monkeys for the doctor to use in testing. When she stuck her hand in the cage to give them an injection into their bellies, they just sat there and looked at her, no reactions at all. Wild monkeys. Wild monkeys who see the other monkeys in the cages around them dying a bloody death.
And big things: So this crew is the only(?) chance of saving the world. They went into the jungle to get the monkeys, found a dictator, so instead of just taking the monkeys and going, the big, muscular, all-blonde Americans instead went into battle (automatic weapons, traps, violent battle) with the dark haired, dark skinned bad guy. Yes, please risk the fate of the entire world so you can save the 100 people he's abusing. Way to prioritize, guys.
The whole thing is so RAH RAH AMERICA! GO MILITARY!. All the good guys are giant muscular blond men. The woman doctor is of course beautiful. It's everything I dislike, but somehow I like it a lot. I can't explain it.
The Last Ship is a TV show currently running on the TNT channel here in the US. In it some sort of super flu broke out and killed ~90% of the world's population. This Navy ship has a small healthy crew and one doctor who is trying to find the cure. Just the kind of story I like!
Except it's not. There's so much wrong with the show, so much I shouldn't like, so much that makes no sense, yet still I'm loving it.
There are little things wrong with it: The crew caught wild monkeys for the doctor to use in testing. When she stuck her hand in the cage to give them an injection into their bellies, they just sat there and looked at her, no reactions at all. Wild monkeys. Wild monkeys who see the other monkeys in the cages around them dying a bloody death.
And big things: So this crew is the only(?) chance of saving the world. They went into the jungle to get the monkeys, found a dictator, so instead of just taking the monkeys and going, the big, muscular, all-blonde Americans instead went into battle (automatic weapons, traps, violent battle) with the dark haired, dark skinned bad guy. Yes, please risk the fate of the entire world so you can save the 100 people he's abusing. Way to prioritize, guys.
The whole thing is so RAH RAH AMERICA! GO MILITARY!. All the good guys are giant muscular blond men. The woman doctor is of course beautiful. It's everything I dislike, but somehow I like it a lot. I can't explain it.
