Caffae

I agree with This episode was a great close-off, there was some conflict with the cure provision but mostly it was a good end to the series. There wouldn't really be much to continue from for a new season since the main theme of the show is about being the 'last ship' able to save humanity from a dangerous virus and the continuation probably wouldn't be on a ship (since the cure is just being distributed) which spoils the naval theme and the cure is already soon to be widely available so they wouldn't really be the 'last' anything. The resolution of several of the subplots (romance between the lieutenants, relationship between the captain and the doctor and the general plot of the soldiers returning home.) and the main plot has lead me to conclude that the continuation would be rather pointless, and the shooting of the doctor was probably only to provide a basis for the start of season 3 (i.e the immunes are not really gone) which is just annoying. All in all, 'the last ship" was a pretty great series, with a great focus on the main plot and amazing actors. Although the sub-plots were really badly handled (the frequent killing of characters when the audience just started to care about them), and there was a lot of tension that in the end amounted to nothing - for example, Niels (aka Patient Zero) was just killed and the Captain and Dr.Rachel had all that conflicted emotions between them and she just leaves? considering her character it would have been more realistic to have her worry about the shrapnel in his wound and the Captain's characterisation seemed rather off at the end. - so it does give off a feeling of a checklist being ticked for each episode to just provide the basis for the next episode without a proper focus on characterisation and character development. In a nutshell, the show is too focused on plot and not focused enough on character development and the relationships between the characters. I do hope that the doctor survives and that the next season would be more focused on the doctor, hopefully with a villain that isn't so easily killed :)

It's nice to finally have an end to the submarine but again it feels like the character development is wasted - For ravit (the girl 'seal?') and for Ned (The younger ramsey brother). - That is assuming that everyone in the sub is dead? the last scene wasn't exactly clear on that so the show could resurrect them... but Ned seemed to have the dead look in his eyes. Really really hope the elder brother doesn't survive, he is just insane. Anyways after that shower scene that ravit had, I was kinda hoping for more scenes with her (her character is always amusing) so it is a disappointment that she died before her relationship with that guy could develop. Seems to be a trend with "the Last Ship" to have characters developed briefly before they die, :(

It feels like they killed Niels Soerensen too quickly, there were only a few snippets of what he had done but it did develop him as a character and his actions were understandable (except the bit with the children which made him seem completely creepy) as at first he was trying to find a cure, he stayed in a quarantine for what seems to be an awful long time and in this episode they showed up his "good" side - i.e his original intensions were good - afterwards he spiralled from being an unwitting Patient Zero to actively killing people which was interesting and could have been further developed upon as it would have made an interesting side plot. His actions of not owning up to being Patient Zero could be justified as the basic human instinct to survive... although intentionally spreading it was of course wrong, it was not worse than Grandis. - Even though she killed on a much smaller scale, she used people as fuel which is really sick but she died with a 'painless' jab while he died pretty betrayed and really grotesquely. So yeah, I feel kinda cheated as the series would have been more interesting if he had escaped or somehow bargained his way out of it. In addition to that, Dr.Scott's way of getting the information out of him made him seem rather vulnerable (i guess?) and it feels wrong for one of the main characters that are supposed to be on the good side just remorselessly kill someone she worked with using information she had got by manipulating his feelings using such a cruel method.