I've just gotten into Falling Skies..

[Reverend]

Falling Skies is one of the few shows I have ever walked away from. It hurt me because it SHOULD have been good, it SHOULD have been AWESOME... but it just wasn't. I thought maybe it was something wrong with me, maybe if I just tried harder it would get better and would stop being so terrible. But finally I had to be courageous and realize that it was never going to get better, and all I could do was save myself.

But there are times I still miss it, and want it back.

The show was always rather trash concept though.

Some of the best things ever in modern media have been trashy concepts executed well (Star Wars leaps to mind.)
A trashy concept executed poorly is...well, garbage, which is what 'Falling Skies' sadly became as it went along.
The first season was hardly a flawless season of television, but it was enjoyable and a solid base on which to build....which they utterly failed to do at almost every turn.

It actually reminds me of 'Earth: Final Conflict' which was an interesting but flawed show that got progressively less interesting and more flawed as it went along.

 

[Relayer1]

I think it was early in season three that I bailed. I have no idea why (or how) I stuck it so long.

I resent every minute I wasted on it.

 

[DWF]

I found the first three seasons to be pretty good, but then the show's creator and first show runner Robert Rodat was replaced. And like most shows when that happens the original ideas are thrown out the window.

 

[Marsden]

I like to pretend that this series is the events that lead to Battlefield Earth 1000 years later.

Then the circle of suck is complete.

 

[Starkers]

I watched Falling Skies to the bitter (and it was) end.

Did I enjoy it a lot of the time, yeah kinda, but as others have said this was a show that should have been great and was, at best, kinda meh.

It was diverting, but I probably should have baled on it long before the end.

 

[Velocity]

I didn't think it was too bad on the whole, I like the idea of people of Earth fighting back against invaders, but the Lexy storyline was as bad as the next to last season of Angel.

 

[auntiehill]

I really enjoyed season 1 and liked season 2. Season 3 had me a bit bewildered ("Where the hell is this going?") and season 4 had me exasperated. (Holy Fuck, it turned into V: The Series. The Original. The Starchild. UGH.")

Hubby, the completist, insisted on watching the entire thing until the bitter (very bitter) end. By that time, I wasn't exasperated; I was PISSED OFF. Like "These Are the Voyages," pissed-off. Every time they had the chance to do something creative, brave or even just believable in terms of the character, story and narrative, they blew it. No, they chose to do things that were ridiculous, out of character, or just stale, old cliches.

Bail out, now, fellow poster. BAIL.

 

[Starkers]

In the end I was disappointed, but not surprised, that it ended with a

Spoiler: S5 spoilers

Tom Mason speech and none of the Mason boys buying the farm (I'd have liked Hal to get wasted personally). The show should have either fully redeemed Pope or killed him way earlier because what we ended up with was a waste of a character (and quite frankly it was disturbing just how on the money Pope was half the time about Mason.)

I think the best description I can give it is a show that constantly seemed to be treading water. Even a couple episodes from the end it was meandering around indulging in soap opera relationships and speechifying.

It does annoy me that this got 5 seasons when something like Defiance is likely to just get 3.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

What annoyed me was that I got into the show late but slightly before its quality took an obvious nosedive. I then fell into the trap of watching the remaining putrid cesspool until the end as I didn't have the strength of will to exit.

 

[Anwar]

In the end I was disappointed, but not surprised, that it ended with a

Spoiler: S5 spoilers

Tom Mason speech and none of the Mason boys buying the farm (I'd have liked Hal to get wasted personally). The show should have either fully redeemed Pope or killed him way earlier because what we ended up with was a waste of a character (and quite frankly it was disturbing just how on the money Pope was half the time about Mason.)

I think the best description I can give it is a show that constantly seemed to be treading water. Even a couple episodes from the end it was meandering around indulging in soap opera relationships and speechifying.

It does annoy me that this got 5 seasons when something like Defiance is likely to just get 3.

Not likely, Defiance has been canceled.

But we can take solace in how Defiance did more with its 3 seasons than FS did with 5 and Defiance had a much better ending.

 

[Starkers]

I wasn't sure, I'd heard it was likely cancelled but didn't know for definite. It definitely did more in the time it had.

 

[Kirby]

I liked the first season, and thought the second season was ok, but the whole magic baby thing took me completely out of the show. Dire crap.

 

[Starkers]

I really don't know why Sci-Fi shows keep doing the magically aging baby crap.

 

[Admiral2]

I really don't know why Sci-Fi shows keep doing the magically aging baby crap.

It's probably put on them by the network, like: "There's not enough science fiction stuff and Moon's pregnant. Write it in and make it a super-evolved baby! Yeah! Geeks love those!"

I thought the premise was just fine and the show would have gotten better if it had just stayed human resistance against the invaders, but instead there was the aforementioned superbaby, alien allies to stand around and be useless, et cetera...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I really don't know why Sci-Fi shows keep doing the magically aging baby crap.

For the same reason soap operas do it: It's hard to employ very young children as actors.

Not just because of child labor laws, but it's just awkward in general. Kids have to be tutored, nannied, closely monitored, etc., which adult actors generally don't need.

So the showrunners just make the characters age rapidly so an older actor - presumably easier to work with - can be cast.

 

[Anwar]

It was nice to see one of the Harry Potter actors doing something after that series ended though.

 

[Guy Gardener]

There should be a law against that.



I saw something recently where someone young was lamenting about how unsettling the future had become because all the cute Harry Potter stars had hulked out into disturbing freaks (ie: no longer 10.)

Scarlett can be seen these days holding hands with her girlfriend on The Vampire Diaries.

 

[JD]

I enjoyed FS. It wasn't great, but it kept my interest enough for me to keep watching, and want to see what happened next.

I couldn't imagine just blind buying a(n almost) whole show box set without having seen it. I do tons of research before I even start watching and show, and then I either stream it from Netflix/Amazon Prime or rent the discs from Netflix. The only way I would blind buy something like this is if I had no other way to see it, and I was absolutely dying to.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I enjoyed FS. It wasn't great, but it kept my interest enough for me to keep watching, and want to see what happened next.

I couldn't imagine just blind buying a(n almost) whole show box set without having seen it. I do tons of research before I even start watching and show, and then I either stream it from Netflix/Amazon Prime or rent the discs from Netflix. The only way I would blind buy something like this is if I had no other way to see it, and I was absolutely dying to.

Having said that I am enjoying it despite laughing at it so much.

I think studio suits meddled in the show a lot as did Noah Wyle once he had been given some creative control..

 

[Aragorn]

So which show had the worse ending, Dexter or Falling Skies?