Okay, we are three months out now, but I am starting The Last Ship season four thread. All the traditional spoiler warnings are in effect. Season four is scheduled to premiere with a two-hour opener on August 20, 2017. The link posted above has some minor spoilers on the plot of the season and where we find Chandler and the Nathan James at the beginning.
The Last Ship - season four (discussion, spoilers and speculation)
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Getting a late start this year. But I guess airing in the usual timeframe would have put it in direct competition with Game of Thrones.
It's possible we might be getting a US Presidential election storyline, based on this Tweet from the show's official Twitter. I'm not spoiler coding that, it's speculation based on information the show's producers are okay with us having.
It's possible we might be getting a US Presidential election storyline, based on this Tweet from the show's official Twitter. I'm not spoiler coding that, it's speculation based on information the show's producers are okay with us having.
Giving this a bump because of the trailer having been released.
Aw yeah!
Shocking, the one actor currently on another show is written out after the first episode. I recognize a lot of the faces of the recurring and newly returning characters but still don't remember their names.
So which season will the virus mutate and turn apes into intelligent beings?
So which season will the virus mutate and turn apes into intelligent beings?
Hells, yeah! This was an awesome premiere, the show is definitely firing on all cylinders this week. At this point we're following two seemingly separate storylines with the Nathan James tackling the problem of the infected crops and bad guys who may have a solution but are holding out and gripping the world by its balls, and Chandler still trying to find himself getting mixed up with a sort of gangster of the sea who's been terrorizing the fishing village Chandler's been hiding in. You don't suppose this mysterious "Master" that Giorgio answers to is connected to the bad guys in the Nathan James storyline? And damn, these two episodes do not let up with the exciting fight scenes, starting almost immediately at the beginning.
We got some really fun moments in the second episode after the Nathan James was disabled and the crew were MacGyvering shit together to get the ship working again. These scenes, combined with the bridge banter we had just before the ship was disabled really reminded me of the stuff everyone said in the discussion threads for prior seasons about the show reminding them of Star Trek, and it's especially interesting to see this now that we are a month away from a new Star Trek series premiering.
It amuses me that after an absence for the entire third season, the dog returns for the opening fight scene, only to conveniently disappear afterwards for the rest of the two episodes. I think he's starting to get worse than characters on Voyager like Lt. Carey, the Equinox survivors, and the Borg baby.
And damn, a lot of the guys have let themselves go with some fine beards this season. Granted, for the most part this is explainable, Chandler is now a civilian and a fisherman, and the others probably grew their beards because of the undercover mission, still, damn fine facial hair. I especially like Green now channeling Tex or the guys from Duck Dynasty with that extremely thick beard.
Well, it's been a long summer waiting for this to return, but it has and the wait was certainly worth it!
We got some really fun moments in the second episode after the Nathan James was disabled and the crew were MacGyvering shit together to get the ship working again. These scenes, combined with the bridge banter we had just before the ship was disabled really reminded me of the stuff everyone said in the discussion threads for prior seasons about the show reminding them of Star Trek, and it's especially interesting to see this now that we are a month away from a new Star Trek series premiering.
It amuses me that after an absence for the entire third season, the dog returns for the opening fight scene, only to conveniently disappear afterwards for the rest of the two episodes. I think he's starting to get worse than characters on Voyager like Lt. Carey, the Equinox survivors, and the Borg baby.
And damn, a lot of the guys have let themselves go with some fine beards this season. Granted, for the most part this is explainable, Chandler is now a civilian and a fisherman, and the others probably grew their beards because of the undercover mission, still, damn fine facial hair. I especially like Green now channeling Tex or the guys from Duck Dynasty with that extremely thick beard.
Well, it's been a long summer waiting for this to return, but it has and the wait was certainly worth it!
LOL.. I was thinking the same thing about the beards.. Suddenly the crew have all become hipster millennials! And Adam Baldwin has slimmed down.. And Chandler's hair isn't as grey as it was before.. I know it was a close cropped military cut before, but it's really darker than I expected it to be.. But enough of the superficial stuff..
I think they are off to a GREAT start on this season.. Both story lines are compelling.. I found myself almost enjoying Chandler's more, but damn if both didn't keep me captivated.. All to often I've found that shows like this with competing plot lines leave me fast forwarding through one to get to the other...
I'm so glad this show is back!!
I think they are off to a GREAT start on this season.. Both story lines are compelling.. I found myself almost enjoying Chandler's more, but damn if both didn't keep me captivated.. All to often I've found that shows like this with competing plot lines leave me fast forwarding through one to get to the other...
I'm so glad this show is back!!
What do you mean by that? There's a fifth season currently being filmed.
^ Right, a fifth and final season. It won't be renewed (which I'm totally good with, better to go out on a high note than stick around too long), and since it's currently being produced, there's no way it won't be completed and released.
Edit: Okay, I'm googling around, and can't find sources saying the fifth season will be the final one. But that was an announcement back in '15, was it not? I could have sworn the word at some point was that the show was being renewed for the fourth and fifth seasons at once, but the fifth would be the last.
Edit Edit: Okay, the final fifth season thing seems to have been a BBS guess based on the shortened fourth and fifth season order (from 13 to 10).
Edit: Okay, I'm googling around, and can't find sources saying the fifth season will be the final one. But that was an announcement back in '15, was it not? I could have sworn the word at some point was that the show was being renewed for the fourth and fifth seasons at once, but the fifth would be the last.
Edit Edit: Okay, the final fifth season thing seems to have been a BBS guess based on the shortened fourth and fifth season order (from 13 to 10).
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IIRC, most shows on TNT don't go past a fifth season anyway, so yeah, it probably is going to be the final season. But that's not official yet, so I choose to live in blissful ignorance.
These episodes have been on point with the Last Ship Hooyah action. (The first episode I thought might end up being nothing but that guy shucking corn, just how many ears did they go through? lol) The gorgeous locales are a nice mix up as well this season.
Speaking of gorgeous I stumbled on this when looking up the cast: (yowza!!! Tom Chandler is a lucky man)
Is the black commando who looks like a model new this season? I don't remember her from before.
Speaking of gorgeous I stumbled on this when looking up the cast: (yowza!!! Tom Chandler is a lucky man)
Is the black commando who looks like a model new this season? I don't remember her from before.
Kandie is new, Fletcher (the British guy) is new and the helicopter pilot is new. I'm pretty sure everyone else on the crew of note has been on the show before. I didn't even realize Tex's daughter was the helicopter gunner at first.
Pretty cool episode, we predictably get the two storylines merging, though a bit quicker than I was expecting. Then again, this is a shorter season. Actually a bit pissed, Space totally cut the ending off. I got to see Giorgio's sister contacting him to tell him about who Chandler really is, then they cut into commercials, and when the break was over they ran the end credits.
But yeah, aside from the ones you mention, everyone else of note on the ship has been on the show before, including some characters who were absent for the third season, like Bacon in the mess hall.
Huh, I didn't realize that until you just pointed it out. Sure enough, I've confirmed it on IMDB.
But yeah, aside from the ones you mention, everyone else of note on the ship has been on the show before, including some characters who were absent for the third season, like Bacon in the mess hall.
It was a bit of an easy and cheap applause but still I lpumped my fist at the "Do you know who I am? I'm Tom Fucking Chandler, that's who." bit.
I had to double check, but I figured she was because I saw the Nolan name tag (definitely in episode 2 which aired here this week) but I'm not sure if I'd spotted it the week before.
Miss having Tex in the show, but it is good to have the show back.
As for Sibylla Deen, it was bugging me where I'd seen her before, but it's mostly Tyrant (and an episode of Taxi Brooklyn too)
I noticed in the credits Mike Sussman is now involved with the show. Sussman, for those who don't remember was a writer on Enterprise who actually wrote a number of the show's better episodes like the Mirror Universe story for example.
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