Last Resort on ABC - Page 18

FYI , i really like this show and will miss it ,As for under the dome this show was originally scheduled to be shown on showtime but cbs liked it so much they thought it would be better suited for broadcast on CBS.

Last Resort got a mention in this week's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column at ESPN. Obviously, the author is/was a fan.

http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/story/_/id/8865189/tmq-imagines-harbaugh-childhood-full-sibling-rivalry

Thanks for the heads up. I check the Espn.com site almost every morning and this morning read about the Harbaughs in today's TMC column. I quit reading, however, after that first section. My mistake.

Great read! Loved the author's far-longer retrospective of 'Fringe' as well.

who can tell me what the ending is going to look like tonite?

The good guys win?

I am hoping for the best but fearing the worst for the series finale. I hope we will get a satisfactory ending that neatly wraps up the series. Knowing how this sort of thing is so often handled at the end of TV shows' runs, however, I fear a cliff hanger ending thrown in only because the showrunners are refusing to take NBC's no for an answer.

That is pretty bad... if NBC is also canceling "Last Resort"... First time I've heard of a network that doesn't air a show canceling it!

Incredible ending!

With 20 minutes left I was sure it was ending with a cliffhanger. Good job!

Amen! Despite the many weaknesses it exhibited during its run, the series finale of Last Resort was one of the best, perhaps the very best, series finales I have seen. It's amazing what television writers can accomplish when they have time to prepare and know that they have to wrap up their story. Great stuff! 10 Stars out of 10. All is forgiven.

all i want to know is did she kill the president?

Seems like she did. Good finale, would have liked a 30 second blurb after the fact from a newscaster or something with a recap, the multiple cut-aways made the chronology a bit weird.

Far more entertaining and satisfying than it had any right to be, considering the circumstances. Well done!

I guess I missed something a few weeks ago when the van w/ the XO's wife in it blew up. How did she get out of that?

The sub at the end is beached on a shoal when it's blown up, yet in closing, it shows the conning tower/sail sinking to the ocean floor.

And then there's all of the nuclear mat'l that got scattered all over.

Other than that tho, I was satisfied w/ the conclusion. Pretty sure she shot the Pres.

Sort of reminds me of the Battlestar finale where they rushed to clean up all the plot conflicts very quickly. I suspect it was the last 20 minutes that was tweaked. Not sure how I feel.

I can understand that the Washington chick paid for the sneaky plot to get the wife back but I think that was a tweak.
I find it hard to believe the Washington chick could have brought a gun into the party to kill the president. I would have much preferred the godfather part 3 approach where she picked up something like a pen and stabbed him in the neck.
The captain going down with the sub seems a little too convenient. He figures there is no way he could come out clean but how can he be sure.
How was the xo supposed to get far enough away to not be damaged by the explosion.
All in all a little rushed but at least they allowed it to end.

I'm sorry guys. This was an absolute mess. Cramming as much as they could into tiny time periods with stupid plot twists over and over again wrapped up by neat interviews. I was stunned at the clumsiness.

I was wholly impressed as well. This is one of, if not the best, instances of managing to conclude an entire series in a single episode that I have seen.

Obviously it was rushed, but you have to give them credit for managing to accomplish what they did in the time they had available. I doubt anyone here is saying it was a perfect example of a finale; it was just far better than any of us imagined would be possible in a one-episode wrap up.

We heard a shot after she pulled the gun, so yes, she did.

That was why they added the line where her father tells the security guards not to frisk her because she's on their team. Since she wouldn't have known beforehand that he would say that (unless she had discussed it with him in advance), I'm not sure how she planned to get into the room, either, but oh well. At least she got revenge for that other guy she had to shoot earlier.

No. Since Last Resort had only a 13-episode half season, ABC didn't cancel it; they merely refrained from ordering another 10 episodes. They could technically revive it with another 13-episode half season in their fall schedule, and the show won't be officially cancelled until it doesn't show up there. Obviously there is no chance that it will appear again, at this point.

ABC said they were going to air the final episodes during the summer, but since they also said they were going to air those same episodes in January before reneging the first time, their word isn't worth much.

Rushed or not I did enjoy the ending. Bittersweet as it was. Lots of conflict resolution, a few open ends left well open. They did not wish to kill the Chinese ambassador, French womans love, the island being exploited. etc.

Yes for what they had to work with, I did enjoy it very much. Wish they did the same with Park Ave 666

At the end of that episode they show her being held by the guy who was in the van with her. My guess is the guy planned on using her as a bargaining chip, but they never got to it in the show.

Looked to me that they got the cancellation word at the 40 minute mark. .. The bearded "traitor" was in command, Sub surfaces, he falls down, moves, and gets shot by the Captain. The final scenes in the Sub we're good especially the look on AB's face when he put the shades on... Frank Pembleton.... So he stays with the ship to set off the Mark 48's??? Two explosions from the FA/18 attack.... HMMM. The Cob kisses the ground, miraculously healed, the LT has no-one waiting for her, and who was the turned female crew member saluting?? Did the XO know his wife was alive???? Pretty well done

The sub must have had a ton of redundant systems since the LT practically destroyed the control room (do subs call it the bridge?) while she emptied her evil assault weapon.

Glad to see the show go out with a bang, as it were. But I also wondered about the wisdom of blowing up a submarine full of fissionable material, i.e. the reactor core and plutonium-core missiles. For the same reason Marcus wouldn't have blown it up himself, although it's not unreasonable to think he would have scuttled it in deep water, or even in the harbor. I don't think the Chinese ships would have been much of an issue as the Navy would have had numerous ships on station just outside Marcus' exclusion zone and could have parachuted in SEAL teams to secure the boat in advance of the Chinese arrival. The ending seemed to be hastily fashioned to allow Marcus to "go down with the ship".

I tend to think the unfolding plotlines and ending would have been considerably different had they had the time to finish it on their own terms, after one full season or two (even I'm not sure the premise could have been sustained longer than that and I was a big fan). I always envisioned the conspiracy plot playing out over the course of the whole season, with lots of twists and turns, and Marcus eventually being vindicated and returning the Colorado to, if not a hero's welcome, then at least a satisfying reunion with the Navy brass. Instead and unsurprisingly, everything felt rushed and kind of forced. It would be nice to hear Shawn Ryan talk about how they pitched the whole season and what their original plotline was. That doesn't happen very often and probably won't here but it would be interesting, to me at least.

But at least it did end, and tied up the loose ends after a fashion. It was a full-steam-ahead action-packed hour as were most of the episodes. And the final scene with Marcus and Sam left nary a dry eye in the ol' Archihouse.

R.I.P. 'Last Resort'. We hardly knew ye'.
Edited by archiguy - 1/25/13 at 11:51am

Only one nit to pick. As above, I, too, can't see the Navy destroying the sub with rocket fire. An active nuclear reactor, uranium/plutonium materiel in the warheads of the missiles (and possibly some torpedoes). And they blow it up to scatter all this radioactive material into the atmosphere? I know this is just a tv show. But, still, that doesn't make sense. An ending scenario I envisioned--it comes down to the scene where AB tells the XO to leave. AB then calls the Navy to say he surrenders. The sub is beached-can't easily be moved. So, SEALS move in. AB offs himself standing on the con. The Navy buttons up the sub, tows it back to harbor so it can safely be refurbished and/or decommissioned/scuttled. Otherwise, I enjoyed the series. It really could have been great. Look at the pilot episode-that should have been a two-hour show. Very good tension there. The whole series could have expanded on that. Oh, well--

By no means do I think it was the terrific finale, even the best, that some here do, but I am very grateful that they got the chance to tie it all up.  For me, it was tied up in a very hurried fashion (forced on them, to be sure) and with many implausible plot turns and miracles.  Still, I would remain committed to such stories in the future if the networks would consider doing this more often rather than just letting a story screech to a halt.  Great TV/ending - no, but worthwhile after watching all season - yes!

I just finished watching the final show and think they did a good job with the ending.

pretty good ending as a wrapup. you definitely can tell in the episode where it was decided to hurry up to finish the story

the part I liked the best was Chaplain staying on board, honorably going down with the sub. the actor made him look genuinely happy, as he said "at home". great stuff! at least that's how I interpreted his laughing. he knew he couldn't hot-wire a torpedo.

the daughter getting the President - the implication by her dialog was she knew she would likely not make it out alive once she shot the Pres but one wonders if she would have survived until the evidence came out.

my wife thought the show was too fast, a lot of the dialog & terminology went past her. but I really liked the show, wished there was a season 2. just like Jericho, it should have lasted longer than it did. at least Jericho got 2 seasons.

Not really; 'Jericho' only got a season and a half, and that half was with a greatly reduced budget that showed up on screen. 'Last Resort' only got half a season. I'm constantly amazed at what manages to draw a respectable audience of American televiewers and what doesn't. Maybe if the Colorado had had a different killer on board each week and Marcus was actually a cop or forensic analyst... heck, it probably would have gotten 5 seasons.

By the time it finally got to its finale, I thought that Last Resort richly deserved its one and done fate. I will remember the series somewhat fondly, though, because of how entertaining its finale was.

Good finale, you can see the added scenes after they got word. Wonder what it really would of been if they got renewed. Will miss the show.

The last 5 minutes or so the timeline really got bunched up and overlapping as they attempted to wrap everything up so quickly. Too bad they couldn't have stretched that hour into two -- it might have had a much smoother flow to it.

'Last Resort' was a really big, bold swing for the fences, and I love that! But for each expensive failure, the more difficult it's going to be to get a show like this greenlit. More and more, the broadcast prime-time schedule is going to be filled with the equivalent of bunts and bloop singles. But that's all the masses want, apparently.