It's a new post-apocalyptic series. From Michael Bay apparently. Concerns a plague wiping out most of mankind and the subsequent adventures of a US Navy destroyer as it attempts to find a cure. Trailer promises plenty of battle scenes and whatnot.
It's an interesting premise and might be worth watching from a prepper standpoint. Entertainment-wise I'm not sure. It's actually easier to make a believable fiction series in outer space than it is to take a real-ship (fake name, but filmed partly on a real Arleigh Burke class destroyer) and jam in some made-up characters and fake battles. If this turns out to be some crummy hodge-podge of cheap sets and 30 year old stock footage I'm gonna change the channel real quick.
Any thoughts?
It will be for public entertainment but mislead folks into believing theirs is the only way to approach said topic. Folks have enough misconceptions and since each plot revolves around action and suspense (the medium of success in TV drama), both require hero to resolve all with Black vs White resolve...no grey areas! They kill as easily as they pick their nose, no remorse. I liked these shows once too but try not to anymore as they feed the darker thoughts of the human mind which are already overweight! Try comedy instead... 😀
My husband showed it to me, I thought it looked worth watching.
That is one heck of a long range ship. But they lost me when they showed the clocks behind the woman (The Acting President) on the monitor. The clocks seconds only change for about 10 seconds, then go back to zero. If they can't get something that obvious right, it isn't worth me watching. I'd just get frustrated, since I have OCTD (Obsessive Compulsive Time Disorder).
You've Got To Be Tough, If You're Going To Be Stupid.
I've been watching this series since the beginning and love it. It's meant to be light entertainment. Every show makes mistakes unfortunately, even multi-million $$ Hollywood projects.
I too have been watching the show since the pilot and I agree with LongBranch that it is meant to be for entertainment. I enjoy it and don't take it terribly seriously in terms of what the real world would be like in the same situation. Although, I am sure there are at least a few things that we can learn from it, even if the way the situation is handled is only one view out of the many possible scenarios.
When I first emigrated to Canada and started watching Star Trek, I couldn't believe that Enterprise made a whoooosh sound in space and star ships were set on fire (no oxygen=no fire or sound) but I learned to ignore such errors or deliberate dramatic additions and concentrate on the story itself instead 🙂