Falling Skies

[JohnnyGottaKeyboard]

The best show no one is talking about.

I was leery. For one thing it looked too expensive to succeed (I have the same misgivings about the upcoming Terra Nova). But I actually find myself rather enjoying the writing on this show--which is usually the thing that sucks most about sf on tv. Of course, it is also comforting to see that the alien apocalypse once again managed to wipe out all the gays. Sigh.

 

[Rolkus]

I started watching the first episode, but I couldn't grab it. I might try finish it, but right now, a few other shows have me hooked.

 

[sheilas_world]

Oh, yeah, loving it so far. And I'm also looking forward to Terra Nova.

My only complaint about Falling Skies is that the episodes aren't long enough.

 

[Thesaintterrapin]

First episode, Dull! second episode worse. in between the far too many add breaks absolutely nothing has happened.
Second episode suffered from classic sci fi with lack of ideas, so we'll pit two factions of humans together, with very minimal alien intervention, although this story would normally appear much later.
Talking of the Aliens am i the only one who thinks they look like a first job lot rejects from District 9.
While motion of 2 legged alien jobbies is more akin to a Ray Harryhausen film.
Alas looked forward to Falling Skies but am dissapointed, expected more form a Spielberg production!!

 

[Perks]

I want to love this show and it has things that keep me coming back - for now. Namely Noah Wyle and that Pope character. But the motivation of much of the action is incomprehensible and logic seems to be hogtied somewhere in the basement of this script.

And Will Patton's maniacal intensity is regrettably funny.

I want this to succeed. So I tune in every Sunday and hope.

 

[MttStrn]

I'm really trying to get into this show. I liked the first episode and it's cool they are holed up in Acton where I grew up (though you cannot see the Boston city skyline from anywhere in town contrary to one of the shots they show). I will say that I'm starting to get a little bored and can see so many upcoming storylines like they are oncomign trucks. Hopefully I am wrong.

 

[Manuel Royal]

(I have the same misgivings about the upcoming Terra Nova).

My misgivings about Terra Nova are that nobody involved seems to be giving credit to Poul Anderson's great 1958 story "Wildcat", which is a bit rude since they're using the exact same premise.

I'll take a look at Falling Skies, but something about the previews just made me feel weary rather than excited. Guess it just seems too familiar.

 

[Thesaintterrapin]

I'm really trying to get into this show. I liked the first episode and it's cool they are holed up in Acton where I grew up.

I grew up in Acton, a suburb of London.
No relevence really, i'll shut up now!!!

 

[amlptj]

OH MY GOD!!! FALLING SKIES IS SOOOOO AMAZING!!!! He's trading kids!!! I freaked!!!

 

[Perks]

Best episode yet, but I do wish they'd all be a bit more careful with their guns. Propped up on the side of a makeshift screen partition? Really? The way they're slinging hardware around, the hot doctor should be employed 24/7 with inadvertent gunshot wounds if they want to be realistic.

 

[rugcat]

I rather like this show. I even like Wylie, who I usually don't.

It's true that the plot is scattered and not always logical, but i think they're trying to focus on the emotional aspects of people in this extreme situation. If you buy into that, you'll like it; if not, you won't.

For me, definitely a cut above average.

 

[Perks]

I really like Noah Wyle: a) He was in 'Donnie Darko', so that weighs down the pros column right there. b) liked him in ER c) he did a really great indie film called 'The Myth of Fingerprints', and d) one of the few actors who actually looks believably freaked out when he needs to be, not macho freaked out, or Abercrombie-model freaked out, or look-how-high-my-freakometer-goes freaked out. Just the right amount of freaked out.

 

[Manuel Royal]

Best episode yet, but I do wish they'd all be a bit more careful with their guns. Propped up on the side of a makeshift screen partition? Really? The way they're slinging hardware around, the hot doctor should be employed 24/7 with inadvertent gunshot wounds if they want to be realistic.

Man, if tv shows start dealing with guns (and other weapons) realistically, there'll be a lot of changes ....

 

[JoeSmith]

Just saw the first two episodes. Pretty good.

Although recently I've been wary of new American shows (I'm Irish btw). Whenever there's one I really like it seems to gets cancelled or goes downhill. 'Flashforward' and 'The Event' I'm looking at you.

 

[Alice Grace]

I love Noah Wyle in this show. Other than that, I am still waiting to be impressed.

 

[schadenfreude]

I love Noah Wyle in this show. Other than that, I am still waiting to be impressed.

Accurate.

 

[BarbaraSheridan]

Check out "Pope's Blog" on Colin Cunningham's site.

I do love me some Walking Dead Daryl and semi-whacked out Shane but I'm missing bad boy John Pope

 

[Gilroy Cullen]

Based on the tone of the thread (Notably unimpressed) I'm guessing no one watched the Second Season Premier last night?

 

[DeleyanLee]

My housemate did a marathon (2 1/2 days) total catch-up on the show over the weekend, so she could watch the second season premiere last night. It was pretty impossible not to see some of the show in that process.

I join the ranks of the underwhelmed. While the visual effects are good, it's exactly what I expect out of Spielberg--take an interesting idea and do exactly what's expected out of it at every step, do not take the story to any more interesting story place because it might be too surprising to the masses even it means tossing all story and character logic out the window. Meh.

While she agrees with me on the handling of the story, she's found several big-picture story questions she's willing to keep watching the show for. She wants to know more about the aliens, their history, etc. I have every doubt she'll ever get the answers she wants, but she's happy to keep watching.

Me? I went to bed shortly after it started, but her opinion hasn't changed.

 

[Filigree]

The Mr. is more into it than I am, and he watched the season opener last night. I gave up two-thirds of the way through the first season. I wanted to like it but didn't. Didn't hate it, either. It just wasn't compelling enough, when so many other things require my time.

 

[JohnnyGottaKeyboard]

We still watch it at our house; me mainly to be sociable and not hide in my room at my computer because, well, I do that most of the time anyway.

There are things that continue to annoy me. The endless supply of unmourned red shirts, for one, especially as the ranks are constantly being said to be dwindling and I have no idea where all the new recruits are coming from. And the Randian hierarchy of this family of heroes that pretty much are the only reason the rest of those poor slubs survive. Of course, that could be said of most popular American entertainment. We love our heroes and royal families and the drones are better off ignored (nevermind that the drones comprise 99% of us).

I'm thinking--THEORY ALERT!--that the scitters are going to join with the humans against the fishfaced aliens. It's not the most original idea, but it's a plot, I guess, and they have to go somewhere this season...

 

[Smiley0501]

I watched last night and as a newcomer I was very very confused. My dad kept telling me to be quiet and just watch...however I really think I need to watch season 1. Is there anywhere I can find the 1st season? Thanks!

 

[Gilroy Cullen]

I watched last night and as a newcomer I was very very confused. My dad kept telling me to be quiet and just watch...however I really think I need to watch season 1. Is there anywhere I can find the 1st season? Thanks!

Now available on DVD! Check your local library. :>

Honestly, season 1 doesn't fill in a lot of details. Lots of confusion, mainly because we have movie people trying to make a TV serial...

 

[CrastersBabies]

I got through the 1st season. It took some time. 6 months of it sitting on my DVR because the pilot just didn't capture me. But, as the series went on, I found myself getting more into it, a little bit at a time. There were lulls. Lots of lulls. I felt like it was too touchy-feely at times and focused too much on some of the super G-rated relationships, puppy love, and whatnot.

The mystery of the aliens draws me in the most. Once I found out what the harnesses were (and what they were doing), I definitely perked up.

The 2nd season, actually, seems to be drawing me in a lot faster. I watched part 1 with every intention of watching part 2 the next day, but ended up watching back-to-back.

I like where they're taking Ben. The action felt more urgent for me.

Still not overly dazzled. It could be that there are too many kids running around with their innocent little faces and for the most part, kids in survivor scenarios are a huge turn off to me. It's always so clean and neat (with the exception of Newt from Aliens). It could be that the kid-factor makes it feel too family-oriented? Not that shows need to darken up for people like me, but it keeps me at a distance because I feel there's too much authorial (protective) intrusion when it comes to the kids.

Maybe reading Arya Stark's POV chapters tainted me for life.

 

[BarbaraSheridan]

Maybe the length of time between season 1 end & 2 premiere was too long but while I was looking forward to the premiere I ended up thinking--So this is it? I should have watched Longmire.

I imagine I'll tune back in this week if there's nothing else to do.