r/TheLastShip • u/Luminaire714 • Jul 03 '25
Just started Season 3
So Seasons 1 and 2 were pretty kick ass. Big storyline change with Season 3; I was just wondering does the quality level hold up in Seasons 3-5? One major bummer is they keep killing off the hottest female characters. Unfortunate.
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u/ScrapmasterFlex Jul 07 '25
3 and 4 and 5 are all completely different.
Not necessarily bad - I don't think they did a justice to the prior show/setting-the-stage etc . - but they're different ...
but I'll just point out - the BOOK that the show was based off of, was describing The Last Ship as having just both participated-in & -survivor-of a global thermonuclear war, having come out of nowhere. Like one day, the radio cracks, ' SHOOT OFF THE NUKES !!! ' - and that was that. They survived, somehow make their way to the Pacific Ocean, and find an Island to try to start life on (with many trials & tribulations associated & difficulties herein etc.)
On the show, they went with a Global Viral Pandemic of a novel, previously-unseen Virus of extreme virulence & worse contagiousness. ... but then they wind up curing it, and they have more show to do, so they invent problems (S3 being Government problems, S4 being a combo of more 'personal problems', problems both Within & Without, and S5 being an absolutely-batshit-crazy-war-situation...) to keep the show going.
And one thing - they keep killing off EVERYBODY ... it's almost ridiculous ... if I wanted to watch "Hey, guess what, EVERYBODY DIES!!! - I'd watch Game of Thrones... 🤣"