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Ersbel Oraph Humans today do not have interplanetary travel. The aliens do have at least interstellar travel. Yet their technology is about the level of the Napoleonic Wars plus lasers. And their strategy is way more backward. They exterminate the humans one by one when the humans go out in raids. Imagine the local pest control expert going for the cockroaches with a laser gun: one by one, never mind the ones that are hidden. The aliens have air superiority meaning they are unable to detect the base with all those open fires.Than everyone is nice and clean. And the children care about who is going to replace the dead in the Saturday morning game. The adults have limited food so they spend the time doing mindful parenting with the children. And the ammo, gas and power are unlimited with the stupid stupid aliens who do not have one heat detector to notice the humans hiding a few yards away. It's a miracle the bureaucratic UN troops have not put the aliens out of their misery.So what is this show about? It's about fear. About foreigners. Foreigners who have come for "our" jobs, lands and homes. It's about having groups of vigilantes trying to kill as many as possible of these aliens to save "the identity". Because, besides the spoken propaganda, the leaders are White. And there are plenty of frames when the Asian or the African is looking up from behind to the superiority of the White leadership. The people are well shampooed, well fed, they are the people from the insurance ad. The middle class fighting on two fronts: the rich 1% who refuse to obey the majority rule, and the foreigners "who took our jobs".It's sad to see the name Spielberg associated with this racist junk. But the guy knows enough about the entertainment market to know where the money is: White rich parents empathizing with their White rich kids who have to pay so much for the University in order to get into management. Occupy!

drystyx This is how to not write a screenplay.This series about alien invasion has been developed on paper, I'm sure, by much better writers. They can't be any worse.There is almost nothing here that works. Can't pinpoint just one thing, except that overall it is totally uninspired, and without credibility of plot and motivation.The writer/director team, and everyone who had a voice in this production, insisted on the most contrived outcomes that are so obviously contrived it is impossible not to groan when watching, unless one is hoarse.For example, in one section, the formula Hollywood hero tries to rescue his son from gunmen who are trying to shoot a bunch of kids (don't ask for any motivation here. There is none). He does so by surrendering his weapon to them, knowing they mean to kill him and the others, then tells the others to surrender. Magically, he gets a gun from them, magically someone else ambushes the captors, and magically it works.Don't try this in real life. If you watch this, you will see the worst military strategy imaginable, particularly on the side of the humans. You'll want the aliens to wipe out humanity if you're objective. The hero is a hateful, self righteous moron who relies on luck throughout, and you can't wait for this boring dullard to die off, but he's kept in too long, and makes a few seconds seem like an Eternity.Another problem is the complete self righteousness and divisiveness of the script. The hero, and in fact all the main characters, are impossible to relate to, impossible to empathize with, just impossible to care about. They are written in such a one dimensional way that it alienates all but the most spoiled of upper class elitists, and those sheep who mistakenly think they are allowed among them.The lack of imagination, the lack of strategy, the lack of inspiration, all totally Hollywood hate formula, along with the usual neo-Nazi preaching. The usual killing of as many hot brunettes as possible is included, which keeps the female portion of the audience happy, but depresses the males miserably.There is no saving grace to this pile of garbage. It's simply sour grapes from rich kids, and unfortunately these same idiots are in real positions of power. Which is why the U.S. military and government is always 40 years behind the savvy lower class guy on the street in logic and strategy.Divisive, racist, hate filled, self righteous, uninspired, one dimensional. All of this makes any budget a sick waste. A low budget movie with these factors isn't nearly as bad as something that actually consumes so many resources.

davidanderson-45295 My capacity for sci-fi is unlimited and my judgment is placed on hold if it's a genre series, but 'falling skies' was a tremendous disappointment. It's mawkish, sentimental, and worse - just dull in parts. The aliens are poorly conceived and executed. They have inter-stellar capability but their robots clomp about loudly and use rotating guns in the style of either the 1920s Tommy guns or the 1980s robocop. One plot line was that it was important to hide the heat from their engines, but what about the people who radiate and also they drove along roads lights blaring from their cars/trucks, etc. If a sufficiently advanced alien race could visit and have demonstrable anti-gravity, then they probably know how to scan the electromagnetic spectrum. The mawkish "family" moments were too frequent, the music too dreary, the narrative too USA-centric. A particularly egregious moment was when the aliens were seen to be "praying/worshiping" the rising sun and there was middle-eastern chant/music playing. As ever, guns and weapons are the answers. Sub rate stuff. If you want some good sci-fi there are better options out there. Stunned that it went on for so many seasons.

Fredrik Carlsson The amount of flag waving and overt patriotism in Falling Skies is by no means lacking. The film clearly take cues from the spirit of films such as Independence Day where it pitches remnants of humanity striking back against a superior enemy.In the midst of the action is history teacher Tom Mason, played by Noah Wyle, and his three sons: Matt, Hal and Ben. Tom, throughout the series, delivers a ton of references to the American Revolutionary War which. Sometimes in the most contrived and forced way imaginable.Tom himself, despite being a mere teacher, turns out to be an excellent military strategist and combatant. Aside from, in the midst of all that, being a great dad, moping over his dead wife and finding a new love. I got to hand it to Falling Skies, on one hand it manages to squeeze in almost every trope possible while still taking you by surprise. More along the line of you thinking: "They really went with that?" than a positive surprise, though.Still Falling Skies actually kept me entertained though, as guilty as I am to admit it because there's a lot that should have driven me away from this show. But eventually it found it's footing, Noah Wyle really seemed to grow into the role and watching his sons grow up on camera made you care all the more for them all the more. Also, it's fascinating to see how Tom and his three sons pretty much excel at everything they do. If ever a script writer was playing favorites the Mason family is a great example.Aside from Noah Wyle there's a few actors worth mentioning. Moon Bloodgood as doctor Anne Glass, for instance, doing what she can with a somewhat underdeveloped role. Sarah Carter as bad boy (or girl) Maggie, with a rough exterior, harsh attitude but a heart of gold. Will Patton as Daniel Weaver, a drunkard but stern military captain who grieves his family. But the performance of Colin Cunningham is probably the one I really want to highlight. He had a small but recurring role as a clean cut Major on Stargate SG-1. Here he turns from disciplined military man into a rough outlaw stereotype named John Pope. Leather jacket, long hair and scruffy beard Pope always looks a little bit like a rebel without a cause and pretty much behaves the same. Ever the outsider Pope consistently works against the establishment often coming to disagreement with Tom Mason, despite that the two men's goals align. It's fascinating to see an actor turn in a role that's so different from what you're used to seeing, so cliché as well and yet he owns it completely and without shame. Ultimately John Pope turns into a really, in lack of better words, cool character that you really find yourself rooting for.In many ways John Pope also defines the show: Rough on the outside, cliché-riddled but still perfectly lovable. Falling Skies gets two thumbs up from me, but I'm hiding them behind my back so you can't see.