ABC's "Last Resort"

      I hope you have all heard about the TV show on ABC called Last Resort. I've been watching it faithfully every Thursday at 8pm. If you don't watch or haven't heard, the show is about a Navy sub commanded by a character named Captain Marcus Chaplain. In the very first episode the sub was given strike orders to hit the Pakistan with a nuclear missile. The orders came over an unauthorized channel and were questioned by the captain who then did not act on them. This display of treason, as many are calling it, caused the sub to be fired at by another US Navy submarine. The USS Colorado, a fictional submarine manned by Captain Chaplain and his crew, is forced to then retreat to a nearby island for protection. There they commodore a NATO station for means of communication with the rest of the world. The crew, as you can imagine, is very restless about what is going on and many of them do not wish to continue with their captain. The "XO", or Lieutenant Commader, Sam Kendal, is another closely followed character in the story. He has a wife, Christine, who faithfully stands by her husband and defends him against the ugly face of the press. There is a wide array of other characters that are part of the story, including a team of Navy SEALs that were picked up by the sub shortly before it was given the strike order.
         
        Let me just tell you I am completely hooked on this show. I'm so mad that it will be ending soon, too! It was cancelled after, I assume, poor ratings. Episode ten of the only thirteen will air this coming Thursday. Then again, this show did make me want to cry on several occasions and gave me heart palpitations. I loved the inside look at the Navy's chain of command and how then run things. Though, I'm sure everything is a bit skewed so that the real Navy doesn't get mad at ABC for displaying their operations to every television in America. I so love following the story of the XO and his wife. There is so much I could tell you about this show we could be here for hours. I'll keep it short, though. There are so many little things going on that you have to pay attention too. There's Captain Chaplain and his family sorrows of losing his own son in the middle east, the French woman who runs the NATO station and her crush on the XO, the Navy SEALs and their shady mission, the current islanders that oppose the coming of the Navy, and more.

         I will definitely miss this show when it is finishes up in January. I'm so upset that I will never find out the end of the story and what happens to the Captain and his crew. Especially the XO and his wife. Captain Chaplain is a good example for us all. He stands for what it right and won't just take any order unless he knows it is right. This touches upon what I mentioned before when Anthony's class got their grades screwed. The Navy doesn't want free thinkers like Marcus Chaplain, they want loyal followers. It is so obvious that they had to make an entire television series showing America what really happens when you don't do as you're told. Not to mention, how when one man makes a decision it affects the lives of thousands of people. Captain Chaplain is making a point by planting himself on this island. He is standing up for everything in the world that is right and just.