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The Last Ship - jsgrimm45 - 08-06-2015
I started to note could be wrong that The Last Ship is Star Trek type series. I see a lot of same plots line. Does anyone else note that or I'm off base?
RE: The Last Ship - Lou - 08-06-2015
(08-06-2015, 04:47 AM)jsgrimm45 Wrote: I started to note could be wrong that The Last Ship is Star Trek type series. I see a lot of same plots line. Does anyone else note that or I'm off base?
I stopped watching it the first season. My impression of it was that it was very un-orriginal. There is probably a name for the type of show that it is - i don't know the name. but Star Trek is in the same category. If you're old enough you might remember Wagon Train.
Basically its a bunch of guys heading somewhere, and each week they encounter another obstacle to getting there. In most of these shows they never get there - they get cancelled first. Actually now i'm curious, I wonder if they ever made it to whereever they were going in Wagon train. I suppose they could have gotten there and gone back east for some more passengers for the next season. (just looked it up in Wikipedia and yep, they made it to California, every season.)
And the destination can be a metaphor. The destination can be something like graduating. I think the Walking Dead also fits into this category. So does Band of Brothers.
I have mentioned this before in talking about TV shows but I get turned off by shows where there are more "internal" obstacles than "external" obstacles. I felt that Star Trek had mostly external obstacles and that the Last Ship was mostly internal .