re: Falling Skies Season 3 Thread

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I'm really starting to fricking hate that little kid Matt.

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Welcome aboard...plenty of room on the "I fricking hate the youngest son" bandwagon. I'm driving.

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And Spielberg is supposed to be producing/directing this shite right? This is disappointing for him.

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I always remind myself that Spielberg is involved and that explains why every 15 minutes or so we get some sort of faux family "awwww" moments or whatever, but it's getting tiresome since I don't really care about many of the characters.

Also, I am finding it really hard to take the show's "dramatic" moments seriously at all. I don't know if it's just bad writing (maybe) or bad acting (definitely), or both...but I always cringe when they try to make things dramatic or get serious. I love Will Patton, but even he sucks at doing this on this show.

All the Pope/Tom bullshite last night was SOOO forced. You mean to tell me that the best you could do to make them fight each other was for Pope to put a dead snake on Tom? Tom would be THAT pissed off about it that they'd duke it out (and pull knives on each other ) in the middle of the forest as they're being chased/hunted by skitters? Whatever. And one minute they're fighting for survival and having decent conversation (I actually liked Pope's little backstory about his kids...might be the first time I haven't hated Pope), and the next they're calling each other assholes and fighting. It just felt really weird.

Still hate the youngest son. A fricking LOT. And they keep giving him more and more screen time. But at least that means we get less Hal and Ben, so that's good.

Was I the only one who got REALLY pissed that they buried that woman and gave her a fricking funeral? You're out looking for Anne and the baby, and time is of the essence, yet you take an hour+ and clean her up a little, dig a hole, bury her, and have a little service? What the frick? And what kills it is that I was waiting for some sort of throwaway line about doing it to keep their humanity, which I could've bought...but nope, the only reason seemed to be because the little shithead son pitched a fricking fit about it. What a little a-hole.

they saw what looked like skitter tracks and human footprints, and just automatically assumed skitters took Anne, and now are gonna send the rebel skitters out since they are awesome trackers? Well then why not just send them out in the first place? That was strange. Also, I love how Ben is some sort of super tracker now, but I just chalk it up to the harness giving him that ability.

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Honestly, I think they're trying to stretch this series out for a few more seasons. A show with this premise would be so fricking awesome if it went in dry, blew its wad, and had like an epic 3-4 seasons instead of several seasons where we have to wait a painstakingly long time to get a resolution on matters that are so cliche. Seriously, I prefer an epic few seasons over a boring decade of a series.

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I agree with pretty much all of that...it's such a good premise for a show, but it feels like they're wasting time with it. It seems like there could easily be enough shite happening to never have dull moments, and fill up a good 3 or 4 seasons of awesomeness, but instead we get little Sha-theed whining all over the place and lots of forced "drama" and "conflict" that is completely out of place and it all feels like time-filler stuff.

However, I still enjoy watching it enough to not stop watching yet. So I, too, plan to stick it out and see what happens.

The show has been renewed for a fourth season.

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And David Eick (who used to work on BSG) will be the new showrunner next year.

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Perhaps that's good news considering a lot of us have problems with how this season has progressed.

Much better episode tonight. Maybe the best this season.

And I'm not convinced Hal is/was the mole.

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And I'm not convinced Hal is/was the mole.

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I almost think it's the new president.

They definitely put a lot of emphasis on her in the oath scene. Maybe doing that so when she breaks the oath it's a WTF moment. I could see it.

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And I'm not convinced Hal is/was the mole.

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i think its the new president , she had seemed suspect from the start

I was hoping for so much more this season, after this last episode (which I though was much improved over the last few) I'm starting to passively watch the remainder of the season.

Too bad they couldn't find a way to keep up the pace of the previous seasons.

I think they stumbled out the gate and never could quite recover.

TNT sitting on their hands, plus MBg's IRL pregnancy, seems like it was more than the production schedule could handle. It hasn't been terrible, but I feel like (story-wise) we should be episode 3? Episode 4?....when, in reality, we're almost at the season finale.

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Also are they just going to kill off the real pres like that? Will they bring him back.

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He'll most certainly be back...he has to. No way they don't at least explain any of that.

I'll keep watching though. Not because it's great, but because I love the premise. Plus, it's fun to sort bitch about and make fun of, so that's a plus. And as bad as it is sometimes, I do still enjoy it...just not as much as I would like to.

Well shite....

I can't be 100% certain, but I think if this season is re-watched, there's going to be continuity problem. At one of the "betrayals" she was shown to be elsewhere at the same time. I'm fairly certain she was eliminated as a possible mole because of it. Or, it was really really shitty editing.

Season's been a letdown anyway, I guess I really don't care all that much