The Last Ship [Possible spoiler alert]

The Last Ship by William Brinkley
(1st edition cover)

At some point this year, the series The Last Ship will be aired. It's based on the book of the same title, with slight changes to the storyline.

Here's part of the story line, which I suppose is on the back of the book:

"The unimaginable horror of total nuclear war has been let loose upon the world, and only one ship, the Nathan James, with 152 men and 26 women aboard, has survived. Her captain narrates the electryfing story of this crew's voyage through the hell of nuclear winter, their search for survivial, and the fate of mankind when they find an uncontaminated paradise."

The storyline of the book is based post-apocalyptic survival of the crew of the ship USS-Nathan James. Supposedly it's the destruction of the world as we know it due to a nuclear missile exchange between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The storyline and plot of the book is interesting, and personally it has peaked my interest in the book and the series based on it. But there is a problem. As I expect with any adaptation to the big or small screen of a book or a series of books (A Song of Ice & Fire), there to be some changes. I can live with some, but there are others that make it a bit hard to swallow. [Note: not going to talk about the things that I like or don't like about the t.v. series A Game of Thrones] In the case of The Last Ship, I don't like one of the major changes that they've had made to the plot line, although understandable, I still do not feel it does justice to the novel that it's based on. Here's the trailer:

As you can see in the trailer, in the series, there is a world wide pandemic and close to the end a nuclear mushroom is shown. In the book, is no such thing as a pandemic, therefore I don't know why they have put that in. Also in the trailer, it's shown that a survivor is shown to be on board the ship and asks for an antidote. It's not clear if that person survives or not or if there is an antidote. But if the virus is infectious to infect and wipe out the world population, why aren't any of the crew members infected? These are questions that jump up if you have read the book or have a bit of common sense. And will be interesting to see how they make it work into the storyline of the series.

I'm not happy about the fact that they added that factor in to the storyline and it might even work, but considering that the principle storyline didn't have a "virus" factor added, I don't understand why they had to add it. Is it because they didn't want to make Russia or any other nuclear power a bad guy? They could've made it a rogue state, a crazy general or any other factor, I mean, there are movies based on stuff like that (some good and others you want to shoot yourself after watching).

Either way, I plan on reading the book and watching at least some of the episodes of the series to see how good it is, maybe they even pull it off and make a good series (maybe ¬¬ )