Falling Skies

[Iron Maiden]

i gotta say PH, you make some good points. They are gonna have to really step up their game for me to still have a remotly posative opinion on the show.

[Iron Maiden]

Gotta say, was not thrilled with the latest episode, I am starting to see major flaws in the aliens:

They have conquered Earth, where are the colonists, tracking equipment, reinforcments?

They don't seem to be very offensive.

When the skitter got killed in the hospital, it did not seem to attract others, even when it did make noise.

I am losing faith in this show quickly.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I'm down to fast forwarding thru all "human interest" whiny and pouty conversations. That's a clear sign I'll be done with the show soon.

The major eye-rollers for me last night;

-not showing how the doctor was overcome by the creature when he was screwing with it with his flashlight.
-when she goes into the cage with a shock stick and scalpel to 'take-on' the alien
-they are able to infiltrate the Skidder lair at will
-the ruse of wearing the disabled back-pack creature UNDER his shirt. buhahaha

I'll be somewhat surprised if this gets a second season.

[Iron Maiden]

This episode seems to have redeemed part of the series for me. It wasn't filled with many scientific blunders, but the lack of people during the skitter scout patrol and the drug raid in the beginning seemed very un-plausible. I do like the theme they are setting up with Clayton and trading the kids to the skitters, should prove to be an intresting episode next week.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I still have huge issues with how exposed they make themselves on a daily basis. A blatant example was when the Asian dude is driving off on the bike and is going scouting and says, "Two shots if safe and three if not." So basically he's going to shoot his gun THREE TIMES if he's not in a safe place.

The other is the kids in the bus playing chess don't hear the CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK till the friggin' robot in on top of them?? Then lights the entire bus up with, what I assume is, its high powered ordinance and the kid survives?

Then they said in past episodes, they had "so much trouble killing the skitters" but one get its head completely vaporized when he's about to grab the kid???

Stuff like that makes me regard it as an entertaining cartoon.

[Iron Maiden]

I would assume that the skitters are not as spread out into teh country side as we would lie to believe, and that whatever was used to kill that skitter was one bad-ass shotgun.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

Well, a 12 gauge shooting a slug or Triball, is
one serious weapon for the 'average joe',
under 200 feet, AND a weapon easily obtainable.
You would think that would have been discovered
long before the time-line suggested in the 1st
episode and no longer a 'mystery' of how to kill a Skitter.

[Iron Maiden]

You make good points again, but then again how many 12 guage shells are laying around by the time the show starts?

Also, you said earlier you would be surprised if the show got another season, it did.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

Also, you said earlier you would be surprised if the show got another season, it did.

Yes, I am surprised. I suppose it is the human interaction that provided the success. Much like LOST.

[Iron Maiden]

That's what i'm guessing.

Add a twitter group to a bad show, and all the twits will tweet greatness.

[Iron_Maiden]

This episode was somewhat reddeming. However, it did have its share of cliches and predictable moments. I enjoy the character of Pope, and hope he continues to playa major part in the series. I'm also intrested to find out how the situation at the end with Rick will turn out.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

To me, last night's episode was the same as the others. Predicable scenes. But again, there were the eye rolling, 'only in a TV drama' type scenes such as;

- Pope being untied the entire time he's talking to his captors.
- Conveniently no guards when the kids and the black father (Mike) make their escape. EVEN after the 'evil' leader highly suspects him of doing a double cross.
- Captain Weaver doing an external cephalic rotation. But I'll give a pass on that one I suppose.
- The lengthy conversation the black father has with his son and Hal behind the truck, oblivious to their surrounding of men with high-powered rifles aiming at them.
- Pope getting hit in the leg with what I believe is a .223 round, and more or less, shakes it off and travels with the group back to the cabin.
- When the 'bad group' is apprehended at the log cabin, the leader has his hands deep down his back in his shirt collar (holding a gun) and no one notices. That one had me laughing it was so ridiculous.
- And of course, my ongoing complaint of riding loud dirt bikes everywhere they go, basically screaming to the world, "Here we are, roaming around free, without a care in the world."

It's like the writers were recruited from an urban-drama series like 90210 or The Closer, but before they began writing Falling Skies, they read a couple of sci-fi novels for preparation.

[Iron_Maiden]

Intresting episode.

Liked the scenes about the mech bullets, the harnesses, and the silver dudes, who look like soething out of Star war or The Day the Earth Stood Still. However, some predictable moments, like the revelation about the harness, and some weak acting by Hal's youngest son, though Pope continues to entertain. Also, I note some serious tactical falws in teh way the people move around Boston, the fact they left heri bikes so far away, and the fact they do not know how to walk down a street without being seen.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

The guffaw that struck me was the mention that the red-haired crazy woman was able to "get the jump on them" when they were chit-chatting in normal conversational volume and walking down the center of the street like they had not a care in the world. To me the immersion and believability is so broken and ridiculous.

Also Pope saying all they need to do is "melt down" the Skitter metal and make bullets. Sooo, a round that will pierce some other-worldly armor, yet all you need to do is 'melt it down' to make ammunition. Quaint.

As you mentioned, and continues to baffle me on the idiocy, is driving around on dirt-bikes.

What approach seems more realistic?



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WOO HOOO! Come and get it you dirty Skitters!

[Red Devil]

sure the title isn't Falling Pies?