Falling Skies - Season 5: Discussion and Spoilers

[Procutus]

Man...this wrap-up is terrible...kinda the opposite of Fringe

Yeah, the final season of Fringe looked bloody brilliant compared to this. I too, am somewhat glad it's just about over. I came into this season with high hopes, but I have to admit it's probably worse than last year. I really dislike the way Pope's arc was handled, but I also can't really see him emerge Terminator-like at the end. I think he's dead; it was just really an anti-climatic ending for the character.

 

[sojourner]

I really dislike the way Pope's arc was handled, but I also can't really see him emerge Terminator-like at the end.

I really don't think you have your standards set low enough for the finale.

 

[Aragorn]

Pope survived the explosion because it turns out he's the Espheni Queen!!!!

 

[DWF]

No, the writers room is insane.

Pope has judged that Tom Mason killed his girlfriend.

And Tom punishment is to move to Utah and become a Librarian.

 

[Admiral2]

Pope survived the explosion because it turns out he's the Espheni Queen!!!!

And it sounds like he was possessed by the spirit of Caprica Six during his transformation.

Were you one of the people the producers thanked at the end? (I'm asking everybody in general...)

 

[auntiehill]

Wow, that was fairly anti-climactic , and remarkably predictable.

soldier: Mom taught me the value of sacrifice.
Soldier sacrifices himself 20 seconds later.

Am I the only one who giggled when Pope showed up at the end?

UGH. So glad this is over. It started out so well, and I was totally ready to hang in there, until last season. That just killed it for me. The "star child" was so straight out of original V that it was cringe-worthy. Hubby was determined to stick it out until the bitter end, so we had watch all of them. This past season, with Pope doing everything but twirl a mustache, was just ridiculous.

 

[sojourner]

The best part of this episode was when I got to remove the setting in the DVR to record any further episodes.

I feel like a survivor after watching that.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i'm down with the "Holy Anti-Climax, Batman" sentiment.

This was the "bloodiest battle", but the only 2 who died were guys introduced this season. Had one of the Mason boys died---wow, that would've done it. Anne died -- sorta...but a Kraken appeared & somehow healed her without a miscarriage. (well, other than a miscarriage of justice..or at least drama)

Pope at least sounded like Pope when he died...and since we didn't see the body, the last confrontation was obvious but made sense.

Even though it wasn't a "star child", Tom Mason saves the world, pretty much by himself. Kill an unguarded queen, and then literally *poof*, the Espheni are gone.


It would have been nice if there were 2 or 3 other points where some kind of attack was necessary, with different tasks where each of our crew is necessary. But man, not even Cochise did anything!


Oh, and the reason for the attack -- revenge??? Really? It would've been nice to just have it be a "regular" invasion with completely unanticipated successful rebellion.

Nice to see Jeff Fahey, but he was little more than an extra. Now is he old enough to be a Vietnam Vet???

And in the end, Dingan Botha is just a sargent? Not an officer in charge of engineering or a science division or something???

 

[sojourner]

"We followed our prophecies and went out and conquered worlds. We came to your world, the only habitable planet in the galaxy...".

Um, what?? Then what the hell were all those other worlds you went out conquering? Just WTF?

 

[Aragorn]

So Tom kills the Tricia Helfer queen and every single Espheni life explodes?

And what the hell was the point of Anne dying and coming back? Did anyone stop to ask the aliens they could bring everyone else back that wasn't too far decomposed?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tom Mason saved the world with the power of "stretching"?

####you Falling Skies.

Okies, Tom should have killed that thing that brought Anne back. Maybe he did? How do we know? But it had a head shot for the Asphenni, that would only work if the Queen was Earthbound and didn't see it coming, which required the Asphenni Queen to assume a level of certain victory that could only come from a level of certain human defeat.

It must have shaped or/and allowed the controlled destruction of humanity in such a way (the death of 3 billion people.) so that the battleground would eventually meet the necessary criteria, to begin her endgame scenario and...

You know I'm over thinking it.

#### you Falling Skies.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Am I the only one who giggled when Pope showed up at the end?

I knew it!

 

[FreezeC77]

"We followed our prophecies and went out and conquered worlds. We came to your world, the only habitable planet in the galaxy...".

Um, what?? Then what the hell were all those other worlds you went out conquering? Just WTF?

They must have conquered some weakass worlds cuz Queens daughter invasion got stopped by some South American tribes with spears who then got rolled by the Conquistidors.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Wasn't season 3 about making a shield that would make the planet uninhabitable?

 

[Campe]

Well, that was an underwhelming finale.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

The best part of this episode was when I got to remove the setting in the DVR to record any further episodes.

Amen to that.

And I second Guy's sentiment:

#### you, Falling Skies.

 

[Admiral2]

Am I the only one who giggled when Pope showed up at the end?

I just did an eyeroll. He was pressed into a wall by a gas explosion. He should have been wallpaper.

UGH. So glad this is over. It started out so well, and I was totally ready to hang in there, until last season. That just killed it for me. The "star child" was so straight out of original V that it was cringe-worthy. Hubby was determined to stick it out until the bitter end, so we had watch all of them. This past season, with Pope doing everything but twirl a mustache, was just ridiculous.

Those first couple of years were pretty good, weren't they? I think the biggest problem this show faced was trying to make a series out of a storyline Battle: L.A. managed to finish in a couple of hours. Stretching a concept like that can lead to all manner of crap.

 

[sojourner]

Pope is a freakin Wizard. Not only did he survive that explosion some how, he managed to find Mason randomly standing by the ocean all alone.

 

[Aragorn]

That was the waterfront just outside the military base... which makes you wonder if Tom walked Anne there all the way from DC.

 

[sojourner]

That was the waterfront just outside the military base... which makes you wonder if Tom walked Anne there all the way from DC.

It's still a damn random place for Pope to find him.