Plot Holes and Bad/Lazy Writing:�� The Last Ship
This will be a reoccurring topic.
I like to watch TV and movies but I can’t help picking them apart for little plot holes (at least that’s what I call these things) or bad/lazy writing. Unfortunately, I’ll be posting a lot of these when the Walking Dead starts again. I love the show, the world, but they could do so much better. Anyway, that blog is for another day.
I’ve been watching the TV series The Last Ship and I love it. Season one was okay with some great episode and some boring episodes. In season two every episode has been very good. Let me be clear in the fact that I don’t know much about military protocol (actually, I only know what I’ve seen on TV) so perhaps this show has a lot of bad writing and holes in the story, but for me it has been very entertaining, until last week’s episode.
On a side note, I don’t think that the commanding officer would actually be going on all these dangerous missions but I’ll let that slide. I’ll suspend my disbelief in that case. The actor who plays Tom Chandler is well cast and is the major character, so we want to see him do things.
The episode (Alone and Unafraid) that aired on 7/26/2015, was entertaining but I couldn’t get over one major issue with the story. This series is a post-apocalyptic story where a plague has wiped out most humans in present day earth. In this episode one of the main “bad” guys, has created more of the virus and wants to get it into the small pockets of survivors. He is looking for those individuals who are naturally immune. Okay, that is all fine and dandy, but the way he chose to get the virus into these small, hidden communities is through stuffed animals. He wants to give the stuffed animal to a child and inside the toy is a vial of virus. I understand what they are trying to do. They want the viewer to see how truly evil these people are. They are not only attacking innocent people but they are doing it through the children. My problem is that I don’t see how that would work in a post-apocalyptic world.
Think about how many stuffed animals your kids have or you had as a kid. Now, imagine that the world has ended. People are dying all over and you either flee with your family to a safe zone or stay in your neighborhood and try and make it on your own, scavenging and such. How many stuffed animals would you allow your children to pack? Probably one or two. That would leave at least another 5-10 per child left in a high percentage of houses. Stuffed animals are not a valuable commodity in a post-apocalyptic world. Children out scavenging would be wary of strangers (as they should be anyway) and they wouldn’t risk taking a stuffed animal from someone they didn’t know. A can of food, some medicine, soap, etc., they might take that chance, but a stuffed animal – no.
Again, I understand what the writers were trying to accomplish but they fell short. They could have used something else, like candy or even a bike. Now, a bike might be useful during the apocalypse. It would help you get from point A to point B faster and you don’t need fuel. Plus, bikes would probably be scavenged by other survivors so they might be scarce. Truthfully, I’m not sure what they should have used and I’m not going to waste more brain power thinking about this (I have my own plot holes in my stories to catch and fill), but I know that they should have worked a little harder and came up with something a bit more believable than a stuffed animal.
I like to watch TV and movies but I can’t help picking them apart for little plot holes (at least that’s what I call these things) or bad/lazy writing. Unfortunately, I’ll be posting a lot of these when the Walking Dead starts again. I love the show, the world, but they could do so much better. Anyway, that blog is for another day.
I’ve been watching the TV series The Last Ship and I love it. Season one was okay with some great episode and some boring episodes. In season two every episode has been very good. Let me be clear in the fact that I don’t know much about military protocol (actually, I only know what I’ve seen on TV) so perhaps this show has a lot of bad writing and holes in the story, but for me it has been very entertaining, until last week’s episode.
On a side note, I don’t think that the commanding officer would actually be going on all these dangerous missions but I’ll let that slide. I’ll suspend my disbelief in that case. The actor who plays Tom Chandler is well cast and is the major character, so we want to see him do things.
The episode (Alone and Unafraid) that aired on 7/26/2015, was entertaining but I couldn’t get over one major issue with the story. This series is a post-apocalyptic story where a plague has wiped out most humans in present day earth. In this episode one of the main “bad” guys, has created more of the virus and wants to get it into the small pockets of survivors. He is looking for those individuals who are naturally immune. Okay, that is all fine and dandy, but the way he chose to get the virus into these small, hidden communities is through stuffed animals. He wants to give the stuffed animal to a child and inside the toy is a vial of virus. I understand what they are trying to do. They want the viewer to see how truly evil these people are. They are not only attacking innocent people but they are doing it through the children. My problem is that I don’t see how that would work in a post-apocalyptic world.
Think about how many stuffed animals your kids have or you had as a kid. Now, imagine that the world has ended. People are dying all over and you either flee with your family to a safe zone or stay in your neighborhood and try and make it on your own, scavenging and such. How many stuffed animals would you allow your children to pack? Probably one or two. That would leave at least another 5-10 per child left in a high percentage of houses. Stuffed animals are not a valuable commodity in a post-apocalyptic world. Children out scavenging would be wary of strangers (as they should be anyway) and they wouldn’t risk taking a stuffed animal from someone they didn’t know. A can of food, some medicine, soap, etc., they might take that chance, but a stuffed animal – no.
Again, I understand what the writers were trying to accomplish but they fell short. They could have used something else, like candy or even a bike. Now, a bike might be useful during the apocalypse. It would help you get from point A to point B faster and you don’t need fuel. Plus, bikes would probably be scavenged by other survivors so they might be scarce. Truthfully, I’m not sure what they should have used and I’m not going to waste more brain power thinking about this (I have my own plot holes in my stories to catch and fill), but I know that they should have worked a little harder and came up with something a bit more believable than a stuffed animal.
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