Falling Skies - Season 2- discussion/Spoilers

[arch101]

Ok, so what's the trap here? Charleston? The Skitter rebellion? How about that fully stocked, clean, unlooted hospital? I can buy that maybe Richmond (and how did they get there so quickly?) might have gotten off light on the destruction, but that hospital is the most pristine human building we've seen since the show started. I'm not buying. Something's up. I still think they're being hearded.
I am enjoying the show. Too bad it will be over soon for another year. At this rate, I'll be 50 before I find out why the Overlords came here in the first place.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The massive draw to that place?

Clean sheets.

Sheets can kill.

Ask the Indians.

 

[Star Wolf]

The massive draw to that place?

Clean sheets.

Sheets can kill.

Ask the Indians.

Not just sheets, but a functioning government, just what any history professor dreams about. With a government someone will pay him to read books and teach while someone else is in the fields trying to grow potatoes.

 

[auntiehill]

Finally caught up on my Falling Skies. I, too, think they're being "herded" to a camp or reservation, of some sort. Charleston is probably just a trap, but the skitter-rebellion is probably true--I think, anyway.

I've really been enjoying this, and I look forward to seeing how it plays out.

 

[Guy Gardener]

No, sir, sorry.

I was talking about the sheets at the hospital.

On the other hand...

There's a million reasons why Charleston is a bad idea if it isn't even a trap, or the promised reservation.

This is what the shadows did.

Made a safe spot.

Waited till it was overflowing with refugees and then fell into Sheridan's trap because he figured out what they were doing.

 

[Sindatur]

Finally caught up on my Falling Skies. I, too, think they're being "herded" to a camp or reservation, of some sort. Charleston is probably just a trap, but the skitter-rebellion is probably true--I think, anyway.

I've really been enjoying this, and I look forward to seeing how it plays out.

Agreed, they are being herded in my opinion, but, the Skitter Rebellion makes sense.

I understood Mason's hesitance and distrust, but, boy, was he aggressive about it.

We also have to worry about his Eye-Dragonfly, and Weaver's "scratch" doesn't look to be just an infection, that "infection" looks very much like Skitter Exoskeleton.

I'm still wondering about the "Go'Auld" Harnesses being put on the back, on the outside, while the Doctor found one all the way on the inside of the Skitter she disected. What exactly occurred in a metamorphasis, to get it from outside the body, to being fully immersed inside the body? Did the Skitters look like they do now, when they were first harnessed, or is their current look due to the harnesses, and what did they look like before? What will the Harnesses turn Humans into if it causes a metamorphosis?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The show's claimed another brother.

Thought Tom the historian was awfully specist not to be able to see any common ground with humans when condemning Red Eye's actions.

The implicit idea that the skinnies aren't the creators of their starships, and that they don't have the tech such advanced beings would, might possibly work. It's also not on screen, not a bit of it.

Except they can't seem to do shit with those mechs and so on. I think the kids could've stuck their asses out of that car and mooned them and still not get detected.

 

[Beagleman]

I'm still wondering about the "Go'Auld" Harnesses being put on the back, on the outside, while the Doctor found one all the way on the inside of the Skitter she disected. What exactly occurred in a metamorphasis, to get it from outside the body, to being fully immersed inside the body? Did the Skitters look like they do now, when they were first harnessed, or is their current look due to the harnesses, and what did they look like before? What will the Harnesses turn Humans into if it causes a metamorphosis?

Pearhaps the body grows around the harness, makes sense if Skitters have exosceletons and moult.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Second generation?

They probably don't even need a woman after they're harvested the genetic material.

But they probably can harness the sperm if they really wanted to.

And then grow skitters in a vat.

 

[Sindatur]

I'm still wondering about the "Go'Auld" Harnesses being put on the back, on the outside, while the Doctor found one all the way on the inside of the Skitter she disected. What exactly occurred in a metamorphasis, to get it from outside the body, to being fully immersed inside the body? Did the Skitters look like they do now, when they were first harnessed, or is their current look due to the harnesses, and what did they look like before? What will the Harnesses turn Humans into if it causes a metamorphosis?

Pearhaps the body grows around the harness, makes sense if Skitters have exosceletons and moult.

Agreed, however, there doesn't seem to be enough room in the body cavity, for the harness to be in the guts like that, and still have the host body attached to it as well? Unless she dug all the way down to the inside of the host's back, which just has an exoskeleton covering it, plus, she was able to simply pull it out, there wasn't any need to detach it.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ratings ticked back up. That should be good for S3.

I think the skitters are naturally spider-like aliens, but not scaly (that's the exoskeleton). If/when humans get an exoskeleton, they will still be bipedal. The first human with an exoskeleton we see will probably be Weaver.

The skinnies may be technological geniuses, or maybe the harnesses (now that we know they're biological) are actually in charge. They roam around the galaxy looking for hosts, and the skinnies are just middle management.

 

[sojourner]

So, in the span of one episode they go from upstate New York to Richmond, Virginia. I guess this season's story is not about the journey.

 

[arch101]

So, in the span of one episode they go from upstate New York to Richmond, Virginia. I guess this season's story is not about the journey.

They could do that kind of distance that quickly if they met NO resistance and had no trouble finding food & fuel. Hmmmm makes me think they're SUPPOSED to be going that way. Huh?

 

[Kirby]

So, in the span of one episode they go from upstate New York to Richmond, Virginia. I guess this season's story is not about the journey.

They could do that kind of distance that quickly if they met NO resistance and had no trouble finding food & fuel. Hmmmm makes me think they're SUPPOSED to be going that way. Huh?

Maybe red-eye and his little group stopped the only resistance that they had. Although I agree, the aliens want them going that way.
I'm just wondering when Pope is going to show up again.

 

[Guy Gardener]

He was on the pilot for Perception yesterday.

Dude likes to work.

 

[Noname Given]

Ratings ticked back up. That should be good for S3.

I think the skitters are naturally spider-like aliens, but not scaly (that's the exoskeleton). If/when humans get an exoskeleton, they will still be bipedal. The first human with an exoskeleton we see will probably be Weaver.

The skinnies may be technological geniuses, or maybe the harnesses (now that we know they're biological) are actually in charge. They roam around the galaxy looking for hosts, and the skinnies are just middle management.

Here's more ratings info:

Falling Skies drew 3.6 million viewers in Live + Same Day delivery Sunday night. The episode also averaged 1.5 million adults 18-49 and ranked as basic cable’s #1 show for the day with adults 25-54 (1.8 million). Meanwhile, the previous week's episode of Falling Skies has grown to 4.9 million viewers in Live + 3, with 2.3 million adults 18-49; 2.7 million adults 25-54.

So yeah, if TNT decides not to renew for a Season 3, it won't be due to an issue with the ratings.

 

[sojourner]

So, in the span of one episode they go from upstate New York to Richmond, Virginia. I guess this season's story is not about the journey.

They could do that kind of distance that quickly if they met NO resistance and had no trouble finding food & fuel. Hmmmm makes me think they're SUPPOSED to be going that way. Huh?

You mis-understand me. My comment isn't a complaint about the time it took "in universe", it's an observation that we the viewers aren't going to have to wait all season for them to reach Charleston.

 

[FPAlpha]

The "twist" was a bit predictable.. it's no new trick to have some internal rebellion going on and there be initial mistrust.

Let's see if the show surprises.. the herding theory is a sound one and something i would do if i were an evil overlord. Why expend ressources to hunt down small groups who have dispersed widely when you have utter military supremacy and the few losses the resistance causes can be written off.

Lay back, wait until there are sufficient numbers in one spot and then hit them (also curious why the Skinnies are not using spaceborne assets like recon satellites to follow groups.. their tech is far better).

However the show is still very interesting and i'll be watching it (also partly because there so few decent SF shows out there). It's not a nail biter like season 1 Lost or something like that but it's ok.

 

[Nelly334]

Is it just me or do the Aliens seem really weak, why don't they carry any projectile weapons normally, it just seems a group of ww1 soldiers with their large caliber bolt action rifles would tear the skitters to shreds, hell their grenades could destroy the armor wearing ones.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Skitters direct the mechs via radioteleapthy?

The mechs are their hand guns.

Think and shoot.

Hey.

That's like in Blue Thunder.

Either the skitters are infinitely more disposable than hand guns and rifles, or the tall aliens are concerned about arming the resistance with skitter weapons. Seriously why haven't the humans ripped out the the heavy canons from the mechs and co opted them for humanities cause?

They melt down mechs for bullets, but they don't know how to use mech guns?

Lets assume that there's a booby trap that neutralizes the mechs firepower as soon as they become compromised?