A bit of unexpected news.... TNS has ordered a fifth season of Falling Skies. It will also be it's final season. No word on why the decision to end the show after 5 seasons but, with this number of season on, the production costs are likely getting pretty high and ending the show will free up both money and a time-slot for new shows.
Wasn't the younger brother, with the kids, on BSG?Watched two weeks' worth of episodes last night...quite a bit of good stuff. Trying to remember where I've seen one of the two brothers...face looked really familiar, and so did the plot twists that I saw coming from a mile away.
That's a problem I have as well. In some scenes I'm not sure if the 'big reveal' is a good guy or a bad guy.I was having trouble following the communication scene between the aliens...I almost thought I saw two warring factions in the same talk?
Because even bad guys need love.Not sure why they had to bring in a new character to join up with Poe, though...
Wasn't the younger brother, with the kids, on BSG?
I think the conclusion will be taking place with the build-up of going to Washington DC. There is still a lot of ground to cover so I suspect that we'll end with a quickie 'Boom, took out the leader, war is over!' type ending. Personally I was kind of hoping that they'd end it what we saw in the most recent episode with the Mason family on trial. No happy endings, no celebrations, just a stark ending to this chapter in humanity's fight against the aliens. It is, afterall, a war.New (final) season started off well, but it seems to me like the last couple of weeks have gone way off the rails...especially in this past week's episode. With only 3 episodes left, they'd better pick up the pace if they're going to end the war (and the show) without a planetary-nuke-from-orbit.
That was my thought as well. They took a few episodes from the final season for a general rehash of an earlier idea and all it did to the overall story line was to provide the background as to how/why the 2nd Mass' now has some real military power to it for the upcoming Washington conclusion. Bah! That could've been easily handled in one episode.Also, are they resurrecting former plot lines? Didn't they go through this same type of thing with soldiers during their time in Charleston?
When Tom escaped while the rest were captured, I started to think that maybe they were going that direction.Personally I was kind of hoping that they'd end it what we saw in the most recent episode with the Mason family on trial. No happy endings, no celebrations, just a stark ending to this chapter in humanity's fight against the aliens. It is, afterall, a war.
I like some alien invasion series, especially liked 'Dark Skies' {cut short with only one season}, 'First Wave' {three seasons with an acceptable ending}, and 'Threshold' {cut short after only a half a seasnn}, but I'm wondering if I could really stand a five season alien invasion? - So tell me, is it really worth watching {would be watching it one episode after another}, does it have five seasons worth of exciting sci-fi to offer or does it tend to meander into too much drama and even soap opera? - Please reply
I managed to get through three seasons of this one but gave up during season four. Simply terrible writing and characters, par for the course with television of course. Have no real interest in finding out how it all resolves itself at the end.
War of the Worlds wasn't too bad
Alien Nation was okay but broke after they started making the movies
"V" was good
Rather ominous start to the episode with the youngest Mason penning what I imagine was post-war memoirs.
It seems like every time they captured Tom, they keep him around just long enough that he can escape and do damage...that was the case through the whole series.Was the Queen thinking "I'm going to kill you... but first we have a little chat while I ignore the fact that you are likely not alone and there may be danger looming. I'm also going to ignore that strange glowing thing that you are desperately trying to reach. For you see, Mr. Mason, not only are we taking over your planet but also your movie villain tropes!"
And what I didn't get about that scene...she was taking his blood, right? I assume so, since the bio-weapon filters back up her legs. But they made a huge point of the weapon being safe for humans, so how did it attack Tom to get into his blood so that she would filter it back into herself? Also, wouldn't he have been left devoid of blood, or suffer some sort of ill effects for whatever bio-weapon matter was still in him?Kill's the queen... well, that was a bit anti-climatic.
To be fair, I think most of the other Mason Militias were already attacking DC directly, but held back by the wall. Honestly, when those bikers showed up, I wondered if we were being treated to another episode of "send a human in to gain the Masons' trust."Wait, how come we didn't see the bikers attacking the wall as the diversion. Looked like a diversion wasn't even needed. And all the talk about "Mason Militias" results in nothing but a handful of bikers showing up for the final showdown?!
He even had Vader's ROTJ breathing down...Oh, and there's Pope, because why the heck not. How the heck did he even get there? OK, *maybe* Mason's travel can be explained by an unseen car ride but Pope's sudden arrival at the same spot? Did he hitch a ride on the back bumper or something? And why does he look like Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi when Vader is dying and removes his mask?
Definitely plenty of holes in that scene...not sure if maybe the writers were already checked out, and just phoning in the ending or what. I couldn't figure out the global travel, either. The pregnancy could have been about 4 months, and Ben wouldn't have aged all that terribly much.Now, quick, let's flash forward to an idyllic meeting of people from all over the world. Did transportation systems suddenly get restored to allow global travel? Ann's still pregnant so an awful heck of a lot has taken place in pretty short time. It can't have been much time that passed because Ben, the youngest son, is the same. And did the bikers really need to wear their exact same outfits? Do they ever wash them? Who came up with that new UN logo? Did they have some type of contest or something? Oh, wait, it's not a meeting, it's a speech at the Lincoln memorial and we can see DC is being rebuilt. Just how much manpower is available for massive reconstruction projects and where were they during the fighting?