‘The Last Ship’ season 2, episode 9 review: Rachel takes on Niels for the sake of ‘science’
If you wanted to see an episode of “The Last Ship” with a huge ending, you went to the right place Sunday night. While there were moments in this hour that admittedly frustrated us (the time with the kids felt like a distraction), you cannot deny that the Rachel / Niels stuff at the very end was both shocking and appropriate given this rugged world these characters lived in.
What Rachel did here in taking his life, seemingly for the sake of furthering along her own research, is not something she would have done back in the early days of the show. This was emblematic of a harder side of her, one that has clearly been through some terrible stuff and has figured out that she needs to figure out some new ways to survive and move forward. The thing that makes us worry a little bit about her character’s future is that given her history with Niels, there may have been a part of her that subconsciously enjoyed doing this at the same time. She had plenty of reasons not to like him, but was this as a way to die a little harsh?
Elsewhere in this episode we started to get more of a sense that Michener could be a compelling leader, and that is going to be useful for what is to come. The goal now for Chandler and company has to be a way to establish unity, and to make sure that nobody allows the Immunes to take over completely.
Of course, it’s hard to discuss too much else when we are still trying to get that Rachel ending out of our head… Episode Grade: B.
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August 11, 2015 @ 11:03 am
Well it seems like Rachel has changed a lot but she kind of had this background of putting the science in priority one, because every time Chandler or anybody else asked her about her boyfriend she was kind of ignoring and trying to avoid talking about it and specially the moment Neils said,”I suspect that you tired of quickly” proves that she was so into science and maybe ambitious about it which she chose to leave her boyfriend and this shows that she is ready to sacrifice many things for science even killing someone.
The series is trying to keep our attention on Niels as well as many times we saw Niels telling others that she stole his research, I’m not saying Niels is a good guy eventhough he was really smart, he was kind of naive too and he didn’t really have bad intentions , just a scientist seeking fame and glory.
Btw it is my idea and i think that the series is going in the direction of showing that the whole time we were distracted with Niels and didn’t really focus on Rachel and now she is showing her other side but I really hope I’m wrong cause i love her role and I don’t like to lose her in the series or maybe her turning to the bad guy……Sry for talking too much.