No Place Like Home

Surprise, surprise, "The Last Ship" offers a surprisingly strong finale, which ticks all the boxes and will keep the viewer waiting for more.

Chandler's family is sick, Alisha Granderson's mother is in Baltimore and they seem to have some kind of government, Titus Welliver's Thorwald looks mean and menacing... But we have got the cure, right? All is going to end well, it has to. No? No?

The plot teases us with a new bad guy, Thorwald, and the new danger; the warlords that have been popping around like mushrooms and want to be in control of things. And then hits the viewer with a lot of interesting and inspired plot developments. The fast pace won't let the viewer breathe, and, curiously, all the characters get interesting arcs and stories (all the relevant ones, at least). The direction is good, and the action more than just people shooting in the dark (all those bad shooters in previous episodes...).

"No Place Like Home" is lots of fun, and delivers on the promise of the show. And it ends with a lot of interesting questions that will need to be answered in future seasons. A great finale.

So this show is pretty great. It's mindless entertainment and so I wish it were a little more cerebral- can't lie. But it's still good. My first real issue is that tho I can conceive of various situations where a Naval Commander would get sentimental w the crew he's going to probably have to go throw serious life-altering situations, I can't understand WHY the writers would take a group of doctors and without more than a nod have them START CLAPPING?? It really brought a lot of buffoonery to the forefront. And now I'm just expecting a bunch of idiotic writing. Which is a shame bc I kept forgiving some ridiculousness. But this was like adding a brick of butter to an ice cream sandwich. Way too much.

Doctors DO NOT CLAP. They start asking questions and get to work. Wasting 20 min clapping for someone they've never met?

I feel like we are at the part of TWD where it's the same scenario over and over and no one remembers what happened the last time they went into a convenience store - at night - by themselves.

I hope it gets better again.