re: Falling Skies - final season is good

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I dont know if I have the wear-with-all to finish this up

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"Wherewithal" is actually a word, bruh.


I watched half the finale last night but was falling asleep, so I need to finish it. But it's been laughbale how bad this season has been. I love the deus ex machina device that the random alien gave Tom a couple episodes ago, and then somehow, fricking magically, Anne and the other dude are able to test and manipulate it and change its intent. I guess the creators just completly forgot that she was a fricking pediatrician before the war, yet she's now some sort of bioligical scientist able to manipulate alien tech with fairly primitive equipment.

And I saw in here that Pope comes back? Get the frick out of here, man...please tell me that's not true.

It was bad enough the amount of Pope in this season, especially with the terrible acting and the character going rogue, but he's "died" like three times now. But I guess it makes sense based on how he "died" last episode...they're having a shootout (with everyone just standing in the open and not getting shot, mind you), and randomly Tom shoots a barrel and it explodes and we see a pile of rubble where Pope was just standing. It was so laughably stupid that I actually cringed when I saw it. And that was after he made it back to the camp pretending to be wounded/dead by laying on his side. So I guess nobody in the Second Mass could recognize Pope anymore? Also hilarious how the black dude (Anthony) is back for like five minutes after betraying the whole unit and especially Weaver, and he expects Weaver to let him join in on the most important mission of the whole war? GTFO of here, mayne.

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I love the deus ex machina device that the random alien gave Tom a couple episodes ago, and then somehow, fricking magically, Anne and the other dude are able to test and manipulate it and change its intent. I guess the creators just completly forgot that she was a fricking pediatrician before the war, yet she's now some sort of bioligical scientist able to manipulate alien tech with fairly primitive equipment.

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Oh did you forget how she got the help of a brewery engineer/biologist/or whatever he was. You know that brewing beer gives you all of the experience and knowledge needed in altering alien bio-weapons.

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I watched half the finale last night but was falling asleep, so I need to finish it.

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Trust me...you don't.

Like I said, this show is the very definition of plot armor and anti-climatic.

I was thinking that Anne was definitely going to die but then I remembered that she's married to a mason. The plot armor of the masons is just fricking invincible.

The show is over. Go now in peace. I was entertained. It had potential in earlier seasons. Kept watching in hope that potential might become actualized. Somewhere in the last 2 seasons it dawned on me that this is degenerated to just comic book level science fiction. Thus lower expectations, thus I could stay until the end, and thus I am not P.O.'d by all the loose ends.

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Trust me...you don't.

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Oh, but I did...and Lord, did it not disappoint. It was fantastically awful. And sorry, this is really long...but I was just blown away with how awesomely bad this finale was.

So I had stopped when they were underground in the tunnels, and came upon those Alien-type egg things. That's where I picked up last night.

First off, it was completely convenient that the black soldier dude was there at the camp, as he grew up in DC and used to go get drunk with his friends in the underground, top-secret tunnels used to get high-level politicians around the city in the event of an emergency. And he was there so much that he could simply map out the tunnel system from memory. Good thing he was there, otherwise the plan was doomed.

So they get down in the tunnels, and see these egg things. They are trying to be SO quiet as to not wake up the creatures, but they end up waking a couple of them up anyway, and they wreak havoc on the team before black soldier cartographer guy decides to shoot a grenade from his weapon. Well, that's smart because it's not like you're underground or anything....oh, right..

So he's dead, and Tom is separated from everyone else, and happens to have the weapon and be on the right side of the rubble. Good thing that happened, otherwise this plan wouldn't have worked.

Also interesting how they were trying to whisper since loud noises/voices wake these creatures up, yet a giant gun battle and a fricking grenade explosion didn't manage to wake those things up. Which is good though, because all the eggs were on Tom's side, so had one woken up and hatched, the plan would have failed.

Random note: I absolutely loved how the Washington Monument was on fire about 2/3 of the way up. I've seen the WM before, and I'm not sure how it could just randomly be on fire. That was hilarious.

So this whole invasion was because of one reason: revenge for the Queen's daughter? Nice. So after all of this, the queen is just mad because her daughter was defeated by humans with bowstaffs and spears. And instead of killing Mason within seconds of seeing him (and then eating him, as promised), she hocks a loogie at him and has him pinned against a wall (right next to the alien device that's supposed to wipe them out) and then she randomly decides to tell Tom her fricking life story. Good thing she didn't kill him immediately, like every other thing she's contacted, or else this plan would've backfired and done nothing. I guess she was like "I'll just drink some of his blood and that way he'll think I'm a gigantic mosquito, lolzz."

Did Anne not know she was hit? And when was that? I assume it was after black soldier Amerigo fricking Vespucci decided to doom everyone to Hell by shooting a grenade in a small, enclosed tunnel. Why would she not tell anyone anything? Especially considering she is a doctor and they had medical kits with them? Good call, you moranne.

So after the Queen's speech and all that, did she not manage to notice that Mason was reaching for some bright arse glowy thing the whole time? Might wanna pay attention to that, your highness.

So wait a second...they (a pediatrician and a beer brewer) engineered this alien biotech to not affect/attack/go after humans, but in the end, it latches onto Tom's hand and THAT'S how it infects and kills the Queen, which in turn hilariously kills every other alien on Earth? (the ones exploding in the air were particularly hilarious) How the frick does that work? It was specifically supposed to not frick with humans, yet it latches onto Tom's hand no problem. That was so laughably stupid. He could've simply tossed it at her, since he knows that's how it works anyway from when he saw Ben throw it at Lexi the episode before (which now that I think about it, Ben was part Espheni, so it should've killed him immediately). Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but why make logical decisions anymore when the plot is so overly stupid at this point anyway I guess..

I loved how Tom picks up Anne and is all like "I have to go somewhere," and NOT A SINGLE frickING PERSON wants to go with him or follows him. Was anybody at all curious as to what the frick he was doing? Or, you know, since you've all made him out to be the most important man on the planet, and you finally got him back into your group, wouldn't it be a solid idea to not let him go wandering off by himself? Just because aliens are exploding ( ) everywhere doesn't mean things are safe exactly. Nah, we'll just let him walk off with his dead wife all by himself...nobody help him carry her or anything, because frick that.

And right on cue, of course fricking Pope shows up. How hilarious was that whole scene? Pope has literally been trying to kill Mason for weeks now, and he has his chance, but he decides not only to not do that, but to give Mason his gun and let him turn the tables instead. And ....welp, nevermind. None of that mattered anyway because Pope was literally on the verge of death. He was on the verge of death, yet somehow managed to not only know exactly where Mason was (which literally no other human being knew), but he managed to get there on his own power...only to die 90 seconds later. Nice.

So now Matt, the most annoying fricking Mason of the family (which is an impressive feat in itself) is some sort of historian for what happened? Awesome. It's bad enough I had to sit through five seasons of that little twat whining about everything, now everyone in the world has to read his bullshite too? Fantastic.

I loved how Tom's speech at the end was literally inside the structure of the Lincoln memorial, as opposed to outside on the steps where MLK's was. You know, where everybody could actually see/hear you? Nah, let's have it inside there where about 30 people can know what's going on and the rest are just chilling outside wondering why the hell they're there in the first place and why there is a giant wall of dead bodies right over there.




This was easily one of the worst TV shows I've ever watched, and what's amazing is that I stuck with it for the entire run of the series. The subject matter was so interesting and awesome that I got hooked early, despite the truly awful acting and plots, and it was so bad that it kept me interested to see how weird it could get. And the show certainly didn't disappoint on that front, especially this last season. And I actually thought the middle seasons (maybe late S2 through early S4) weren't too bad (at least comparatively). Oh, and Tom's "I'm just a teacher" line, and him dropping that he'd already turned down the presidency twice are just so extraordinarily fricking arrogant that it makes me cringe. Maybe Pope was the protagonist all along...hmmm........

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So this whole invasion was because of one reason: revenge for the Queen's daughter? Nice. So after all of this, the queen is just mad because her daughter was defeated by humans with bowstaffs and spears. And instead of killing Mason within seconds of seeing him (and then eating him, as promised), she hocks a loogie at him and has him pinned against a wall (right next to the alien device that's supposed to wipe them out) and then she randomly decides to tell Tom her fricking life story. Good thing she didn't kill him immediately, like every other thing she's contacted, or else this plan would've backfired and done nothing. I guess she was like "I'll just drink some of his blood and that way he'll think I'm a gigantic mosquito, lolzz.

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so the Queen was a Bond villain

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Can someone explain the alien casts? The queen is a spider, yet the overlords are humanoids? The mosquitoes? What hatches from the eggs?

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No idea, man.

So the Espheni are the overlords, but the skitters are not the same species, right? So what is the Queen? If she is the same species as the Espheni, then I get all of them dying, but wouldn't that mean that all the skitters are still alive and well on Earth and still need to be taken out?

As for the flying bug things, I've been reading on Falling Skies Wiki that they are mutated skitters called Black Hornets. And that skitters are based off of (mutated from) the Dornia.

So you originally had the Dornia, which were basically the Espheni's greatest foe. Then skitters came from the Dornia, and skitters eventually morphed into Black Hornets.

So if the Espeheni Queen wasn't even the same species as the skitters/hornets, then why would killing her make all of the explode? Additionally, it should've made the last remaining Dornia chick (that was helping Tom) die as well, but we know she isn't dead because (I assume) she is the one in the lake/ocean that Tom spoke to and who brought Anne back to life.

Man, the more I am reading about this shite, the less sense it actually makes.

So let me get this straight. The Espheni were so scared of an alien race (that turns out to be a race they already conquered and enslaved), that they had to build some sort of power station on the moon in order to power a war machine to fight them? And it turns out there is only one of these scary aliens left alive that was causing so much fear from the Espheni? I mean the Dornia were supposed to be the very first alien race that they enslaved, and the Volm thought they were extinct for hundreds of years (I guess because there again, there is only one of them left). So what in the hell did the Espheni need with a war machine that had to have a power station so large it had to be built on the moon in order to fight against a single alien that apparently could only get to the Espheni with Tom Mason's help?

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No idea, man.

So the Espheni are the overlords, but the skitters are not the same species, right? So what is the Queen? If she is the same species as the Espheni, then I get all of them dying, but wouldn't that mean that all the skitters are still alive and well on Earth and still need to be taken out?

As for the flying bug things, I've been reading on Falling Skies Wiki that they are mutated skitters called Black Hornets. And that skitters are based off of (mutated from) the Dornia.

So you originally had the Dornia, which were basically the Espheni's greatest foe. Then skitters came from the Dornia, and skitters eventually morphed into Black Hornets.

So if the Espeheni Queen wasn't even the same species as the skitters/hornets, then why would killing her make all of the explode? Additionally, it should've made the last remaining Dornia chick (that was helping Tom) die as well, but we know she isn't dead because (I assume) she is the one in the lake/ocean that Tom spoke to and who brought Anne back to life.

Man, the more I am reading about this shite, the less sense it actually makes.

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You have put way to much thought into this show.

That was my question, why does the Espheni Queen look like a spider and the other Espheni, the giant tall humanoid walking Overlords, look the way they do.