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Realism

1 August 2014 | by Seirra Dax – See all my reviews

Having served in the Navy (not USN), I can totally relate to the show. The parlance and details depicted are as close as one can get to the real thing. Being a Commanding Officer is not for the faint hearted. Making decisions that require a higher sense is depicted very well. The makers of the show have demonstrated a wonderful eye for detail. The bosun's pipe can be heard at the right time. One thing that does need to be addressed is matching the ship's wake when she is underway. At times the wake generated is not in keeping with the ordered speed. The plot itself is unwinding quite well and leaves one guessing with whats going to happen next. A fantastic effort indeed.

The Last Ship

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Plot holes It is stated that prior to the outbreak, the virus was unstable and underwent several rounds of mutations before its genome stabilized, making the virus extremely virulent, and that was the reason they needed the primordial strain of the virus (before it mutated) to make a vaccine. The whole idea that, in order to make an efficient vaccine, they'd need the primordial strain of the virus is nonsensical by itself. Making a vaccine with a strain that is NOT the one that's infecting people would be totally useless. Moreover, since the final version of the virus has stopped mutating, a vaccine developed using the virus isolated from any infected patients is most likely to have been efficient and fairly easy to do despite its dangerous nature, and it would've been done simultaneously in several countries.

Trivia: There are 13> entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The US Navy allowed the production team to film scenes aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Halsey and USS Dewey as well as the USS Iowa museum ship. The destroyers were sailed several days out to sea so that the cameras could shoot 360 degrees without having to worry about coastlines, buildings, and other ships appearing in the background. Many of the sailors in the background were the crews of those ships going about their duties as cameras rolled.
• The USS Halsey acts as the stand-in for the USS Nathan James for the most part. The ship's dog, on the show, is called Admiral Halsey.
• In June 2016, before a screening of the season three premiere in Washington, DC, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented the producers, cast and crew with the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. The honor reflected the show's accomplishment of, in Secretary Mabus's words, "getting the Navy right." While its a fictional portrayal of a Navy ship and crew, Mabus praised the show's ability to capture the culture of the Navy and the dedication of its people to their core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment.
• Filming of season 4 is paused due Eric Dane suffering from depression.
• Coincidently, the actor that originally was cast as Lt. Kara Foster became pregnant, and due to the pregnancy she was recast.