History YMMV / TheLastShip

* UnfortunateImplications:
** In the season 2 pilot, "Unreal City", the power plant workers are plucking off valuables, eyeglasses and wallets from the dead bodies. This is of course sheer pragmatism, but it is rather reminiscent of death camps in World War II.
** And when Amy Granderson is faced with the final and complete collapse of her empire (her "grand social experiment" as Chandler puts it) in Baltimore, she commits suicide rather than face the consequences of defeat, rather like a certain [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler other individual]] who believed in going down with a doomed empire.
** [[MadDoctor Niels Sorenson conducts "experiments"]] with the weaponized virus aimed at children.

* SpiritualLicensee: Possible similarity with SpaceBattleshipYamato (military ship saving the human race) and [[NintendoWars Days Of Ruin]] (last surviving military fighting against AfterTheEnd warlords).

* MoralEventHorizon: Mrs. Granderson crossed hers long before ''Nathan James'' arrived in Baltimore, although she justifies it by claiming it was something she had to do because the majority of humanity crossed the line first.

* IdiotPlot: The "El Toro" arc. If Chandler hadn't been so cagey he would probably have realized that El Toro, like any druglord, only cares about getting people shooed off the grounds as fast as possible and if what they want/need isn't too exorbitant, he'll gladly give it up as the price for just being left alone to keep his subject people in misery.

** Some reviewers are saying that the romance and the characters were RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap with the reveal that Kara is [[spoiler: pregnant]], saying that the development, if handled correctly, adds an element of emotional heft to future arcs for Danny and Kara that the original, hackneyed, ForbiddenRomance didn't have.

** Chandler, of all people, is starting to get his own Scrappydom after [[spoiler:his condemnation of Rachel's murder of Niels]]. The reasons are myriad: besides his looking sanctimonious (not to mention like a bit of an idiot[[note]]His claim of dumping Rachel with civilian authorities is particularly grating, considering what they found in Baltimore[[/note]]) about it, fans are displeased over the fact that he had already given Mitchener a free pass for his transgressions (even vowing to keep them secret) and was willing to give Flea (one of the redneck bounty hunters they captured from the prior episode) a pass as well, yet is treating Rachel as a full criminal in spite of their history together and all she has done. His reasons for keeping Niels alive (a la using him against the Ramsays' propaganda campaign) are also considered weak at best.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The Season 1 finale revealing Granderson as a villain with an army of militarized police aired around the same time that the riots in Ferguson and the criticism of the Police's militarization came to a head. Season 2 seems to be making this worse with Granderson's army of CorruptCops shaping up to be the season's main enemies just as more and more instances of unchecked police authority are being reported in the media. Additionally, the growth of a quasi-fascist cult based on the notion of the naturally immune being "chosen" is clearly based on real-world right-wing movements that hold up their members as some sort of "chosen" group, and season 2 episode 8 adds vaccine paranoia to the list, with them broadcasting propaganda claiming that ''Nathan James'' is distributing a false cure.

** Chandler, of all people, is starting to get his own Scrappydom after [[spoiler:his condemnation of Rachel's murder of Niels]]. The reasons are myriad: besides his looking sanctimonious (not to mention like a bit of an idiot[[note]]His claim of dumping Rachel with civilian authorities is particularly grating, considering what they found in Baltimore[[/note]]) about it, fans are displeased over the fact that he had already given Mitchener a free pass for his transgressions (even vowing to keep them secret) and was willing to give Flea (one of the redneck bounty hunters they captured from the prior episode) a pass as well, yet is treating Rachel as a full criminal in spite of their history together and all she has done. His reasons for keeping Niels alive (a la using him against the Ramsays' propaganda campaign) is also considered weak at best.

** Chandler, of all people, is starting to get his own Scrappydom after [[spoiler:his condemnation of Rachel's murder of Niels]]. The reasons are myriad: besides his looking sanctimonious (not to mention like a bit of an idiot[[note]]His claim of dumping Rachel with civilian authorities is particularly grating, considering what they found in Baltimore[[/note]]) about it, fans are displeased over the fact that he had already given Mitchener a free pass for his transgressions (even vowing to keep it a secret) and was willing to give Flea (one of the redneck bounty hunters they captured from the prior episode) a pass as well, yet is treating Rachel as a full criminal in spite of their history together and all she has done.

** [[Mad Doctor Niels Sorenson conducts "experiments"]] with the weaponized virus aimed at children.

** Niels Sorenson conducts "experiments" with the weaponized virus aimed at children.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The Season 1 finale revealing Granderson as a villain with an army of militarized police aired around the same time that the riots in Ferguson and the criticism of the Police's militarization came to a head. Season 2 seems to be making this worse with Granderson's army of CorruptCops shaping up to be the season's main enemies just as more and more instances of unchecked police authority are being reported in the media. Additionally, the growth of a quasi-fascist cult based on the notion of the naturally immune being "chosen" is clearly based on real-world right-wing movements that hold up their members as some sort of "chosen" group.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The Season 1 finale revealing Granderson as a villain with an army of militarized police aired around the same time that the riots in Ferguson and the criticism of the Police's militarization came to a head. Season 2 seems to be making this worse with Granderson's army of CorruptCops shaping up to be the season's main enemies just as more and more instances of unchecked police authority are being reported in the media.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Even though he was a recurring guest character in the first season, Tex proved to be such a dynamic character that he ended up becoming more prominent than some of the main characters.

* RootingForTheEmpire: Partially. A lot of people agreed with Granderson's measures, namely euthanizing those infected by the plague (keep in mind its 100% kill rate) with a painless and instant cocktail, burning the bodies (which is standard for dealing with diseased corpses) and overall attempting to rebuild society following TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. That being said, her main issue, [[spoiler:besides being power hungry and tyrannical]], is that she acted as a Social Darwinist; rather than taking in anyone not sick (itself an impractical measure given that there would have been a real need for manpower), she selected and chose based on what she deemed useful while turning away those that couldn't match her criteria. And then there was her [[spoiler:attempt to keep the cure for herself and her select few rather than shutdown Olympia and distribute it the moment she learned of its existence]].

* RootingForTheEmpire: Partially. A lot of people agreed with Granderson's measures, namely euthanizing those infected by the plague (keep in mind its 100% kill rate) with a painless and instant cocktail, burning the bodies (which is standard for dealing with diseased corpses) and overall attempting to rebuild society following TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. That being said, her main issue, besides [[spoiler:besides being power hungry and tyrannical]], is that she acted as a Social Darwinist; rather than taking in anyone not sick (itself an impractical measure given that there would have been a real need for manpower), she selected and chose based on what she deemed as "usefulness" while turning away those that couldn't match her criteria. And then there was her [[spoiler:attempt to keep the cure for herself and her select few rather than shutdown Olympia and distribute it the moment she learned of its existence]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The fact that the Russian rebel's choppers are CGI is very obvious, what.s worse is that they are American military choppers.

* UnfortunateImplications: In the season 2 pilot, "Unreal City", the power plant workers are plucking off valuables, eyeglasses and wallets from the dead bodies. This is of course sheer pragmatism, but it is rather reminiscent of death camps in World War II.