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"The Last Ship" shoots itself on the foot for the second episode. It is lame, it is stupid, and it's a waste of time.

At the end of the first episode we had the ship en route to Guantanamo Bay. Well, in this episode we get there, and, surprise, surprise, some prisoners are still alive, and not very happy about some US soldiers appearing there. Will our crew survive? Will our shady scientist be caught? Will Baldwin's friend Chuck appear?

The episode trips over itself all over the 40 minutes it lasts. The plot development is lazy, the action not very good and silly in a bad way, the acting average... On top of that, the show seems to have taken an overly patriotic focus, all the baddies being non-US people, and all so pro-military it makes not much sense. The dialogue is worse than bad; it seems to have come out of the worst Chuck Norris movie ever.

All in all, it is still too early, but "The Last Ship" seems to be intent on making itself not very interesting.

Yes there are technical errors... However, it is good mindless fun, you know television. An old fashioned spaghetti western at sea. Senior officers going ashore AKA Star Trek. Bad, easily dying Russians old fashioned cold war fun. Remember the self destruct timer always stops at 1.

Give it a chance, they are still fleshing out the plot and doing character development.

It beats reality shows.

Unless of course you like watching " How I survived dancing with the iron chef without the help of Jerry Springer, Judge Judy and their posse of lesbian, baby mommas and incestuous midgets.