The Last Ship - Military pr0n in the apocalyptic world

With the central government dissolved, and the top military brass assassinated, the Nathan James is on its own. I don't know what Capt. Chandler has in mind by heading for San Diego, but it's probably the biggest conglomeration of Navy facilities on the west coast. Resources should be plentiful.
Again, the action in St. Louis rivaled that in Asia. I was sorry to see Takehaya go, but at least he got his revenge by skewering Peng with a Japanese sword. Nice touch.
Kara's inability to kill Shaw was mistake that almost got the Presidential rescue team killed. Kara knew Shaw was dirty after she sent a goon squad to take her out, yet she let their old friendship keep her from pulling the trigger.
Looks like Tex's daughter inherited her dad's weaponry skills.

Neighbours. You can either love them or hate them. In Peng's case, he hates everyone. Vietnamese, Philippines, Koreans and so on. They don't have a place in his world. He wanted to erase all of them. Almost as if there could be no other oriental races. Even their history offended him. But the thing is, you cannot erase past that easily. You can try to rewrite the history and do some damage to statues, but you cannot vaporise whole place from everything, because the information is retained in the books, and minds of other races.

Therefore, if you have to go forward with a genocide, you have to do it quickly and ruthlessly before you leave the place for the nature to erode away. So, whole wiping Japanese history was such a stupid idea from Peng as information and technology would have been so much more valuable.

It was his first fault. The second was bringing his bodyguards, instead of more soldiers and making sure Nathan James was out from the picture, before committing to the stupid idea. Still I have to say whole operation was done brilliantly and it pleased with its well thought action. XO's quip: "It's same in every language," after he fired the missile on Chinese ship was brilliant.

In fact, I loved most of this episode even though the white house POTUS coup d'etat was most stupid thing. But I guess that was the only solution to make the government PoV to work at these last episodes.

I'm glad that the show finally explained the plan that bears classical US strategies on how to take over the country and subject it to a regiment change. Only I would not have thought it could happen in the old United of States.

The play is what they done on the other countries. In a way, the game is same that has happened in so many other series. Yet it is different, because the depth in those, haven't been in the level of this series. And still I cannot fathom on amount of greed that lies in US governmental positions.

It is almost as if these things are the biggest treasuries the world can have post the first apocalypse. Or that is at least what the leaders in the White House are thinking when they ordered the assassination of Nathan James.

In the bigger picture, the loss of one ship is nothing compared to the scale of losing NCO.

US has more ships than what they can handle.

What they don't have is experienced commanders. Ones that know what to do in situations like the one Admiral Chandler faced, when he learned about the kill order. So, it's no surprise that he continues pulling moves and keeping Nathan James dark from de'coup leaders.

Thing is that after the hit, they should have done damage assessment, and the kill confirmation, and not just assume that the target was wiped off from the map. It's not like Vietname's or Japanese didn't teach them that lesson in previous wars. But then again that is the thing that the normal people don't realise.

Instead of waging the war with all its rules, toasting on champagne and celebrating the victory is same kind of foolishness that Saddam's Minister was waging, when he tried to spill propaganda to the eyes of the world, while Abrams rolled into the downtown of Baghdad at the propaganda.

The problem is that with this episode The Last Ship is stepping into the second US civil war with out calling it out loud. In a way, I guess it was just a time before that ugly beast put out its head. Only, I don't think that is what's going to happen, taken there's only one episode left in this season.

What do you think?

I strongly suspected, when I saw the preview for this episode last week, that it would be the Chinese destroyer posing as the Nathan James that was taken out by the missiles. I was relieved to see that I was correct. That scene had been set up when they planned the takeover of the Chinese ship and made the comment that their target was basically a knockoff of the James.
This vision of what the United States could so quickly become in the aftermath of a population-decimating epidemic is unbelievably negative. I can understand why labor would be in short supply, but entire populations being willingly shipped to work sites because they were promised food is just pathetic. Are we really so inhumane that we would confiscate food supplies as a means of control? I hope not.
I can't decide who is more evil -- the power-hungry Allison Shaw or that thoroughly nasty bi*ch Roberta Price. I would love to see their uneasy relationship erupt into a mutual annihilation scene.

"It seems everytime we put the country back together it falls apart." - Admiral Chandler.

I could not have said it better, because it's so true. Although I suspect that even with this elimination things aren't going be so rosy in upcoming seasons. Maybe the military should be taking over leading the country as it is still troubling time in this post-apocalyptic world. At least in that way they would be in a position to make sure that the leadership stays until it can be handed down to a stable civil government.

Maybe they should even think about allowing larger countries splinter into smaller nations, just like it was back in the days, when there weren't that many people living on Earth. In that way they wouldn't have problems of the big country.

What I loved in this episode was Nathan James creating a smoke screen from burning crude oil in their engines. It is an old method, while newer method is using the smoke launchers that they've in those ships to counter anti-ship missiles. Then again they could have just used the vulcan c-rams to take down all of those incoming missiles. Or even showcased to us their High-Energy Laser system that they boasted about in this season first episode.

Any ways, I loved every minute of this action packed episode. Especially how the power of White House throne corrupts people. It should teach viewers that nothing is pure in our world. But will it change anything in this election cycle? I doubt it.

In The Last Ship there will be enemies both foreign and domestic until the series finishes.

Shaw shot Price, and Chandler shot Shaw. Sweet. Neither character knew when to shut up.

take out the country's regional leaders just in favor of others?

Slattery goes mad with power (whether that be as CNO or President) and Chandler has to step in, in order come back. Slattery of course, could tell Chandler that ever since he left, wherever he goes or whatever he does, things have been a mess and it had to be done.