There's so much wrong with this episode, I don't know where to begin, or how much to write. I could probably write a document longer than the script. Again, where are your technical advisors and what are they doing?
I don't expect them to be able to get a real Mk 48 torpedo for filming a TV show, but could you have at least painted it green to make it look more like a real torpedo?
The torpedo tubes them selves looked so phony! The entire sub looked wrong, and the situation they find themselves in is all wrong.
As if the scenario with the torpedo tube could happen as described, and a grinder was too loud to use - how about a torch? Pretty quiet when compared to a grinder.
Then, the sub captain talked about how damaging one torpedo tube will hurt his combat effectiveness? First of all, he has 3 other tubes. Secondly, sine the tube Sonny is stuck in is already damaged and leaking seawater from the ocean side, he's not using that tube anyway. To make things even more unbelievable, once they get Sonny out of the tube, the seaward door miraculously stops leaking. What B. S.!
Furthermore, an SSGN's main offensive weapon is their Tomahawk missiles, not their torpedoes. Then, the captain says something about his ship being part of the nuclear triad or something. Sure, the SSGN's carry Tomahawk cruise missiles which can have nuclear warheads, but these are tactical, not strategic. The big-time nuclear deterrent is with the SSBN's and their ICBMs.
Again, I could go on and on, but let me just say this episode was terrible, and yet another insult to our intelligence!
I don't expect them to be able to get a real Mk 48 torpedo for filming a TV show, but could you have at least painted it green to make it look more like a real torpedo?
The torpedo tubes them selves looked so phony! The entire sub looked wrong, and the situation they find themselves in is all wrong.
As if the scenario with the torpedo tube could happen as described, and a grinder was too loud to use - how about a torch? Pretty quiet when compared to a grinder.
Then, the sub captain talked about how damaging one torpedo tube will hurt his combat effectiveness? First of all, he has 3 other tubes. Secondly, sine the tube Sonny is stuck in is already damaged and leaking seawater from the ocean side, he's not using that tube anyway. To make things even more unbelievable, once they get Sonny out of the tube, the seaward door miraculously stops leaking. What B. S.!
Furthermore, an SSGN's main offensive weapon is their Tomahawk missiles, not their torpedoes. Then, the captain says something about his ship being part of the nuclear triad or something. Sure, the SSGN's carry Tomahawk cruise missiles which can have nuclear warheads, but these are tactical, not strategic. The big-time nuclear deterrent is with the SSBN's and their ICBMs.
Again, I could go on and on, but let me just say this episode was terrible, and yet another insult to our intelligence!