Falling Skies - Season 5: Discussion and Spoilers

[Tom]

Where were all those 10 foot Espheni? just the eggs and the queen, no close guards nearby. Ok, i know that the resistance were make a distraction by attacking the wall, but still she should have had some guards. How stupid is the queen not noticing tom trying to get the weapon?

Also, for the whole season why no spacecraft bombing things. When the Moon base blew up it did effect there tech on the ground. But what about all the ships they used to first attack Earth with? You know, the ones they had before the Moon base.

Also, whats up with the Volm? Why couldn't they attack anything with there ship like the one a few episodes ago when Cohese's Dad showed up and died. These guys are pretty much completely useless after season 3

 

[Shawnster]

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

Given that the average age of the combat soldier in Vietnam was Ni-ni-ni 19, 19, ni-19 19, and that the Tet Offensive was January 1968; a young, green soldier that survived that meat grinder would very likely be 66 years old. Jeff Fahey was born in 1952 and is 63.

I echo the sentiment that I feel like a survivor of the last world war after watching that. And, yes, I guffawed at Pope's final appearance.

There is just soo much wrong with this series, especially the finale. Let's introduce 2 new characters the last episode! Let's totally contradict the first season with the way the Ishfini invaded and tried to subdue and conquer Earth before deciding on annihilation. Let's kill off Ann only to immediately bring her back with no explanation! Lets...

Ugh.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I have the final 7 episodes sitting on my DVR but I'm lacking the gumption to watch them. I feel that I owe it to the series to finish it, since I've watched from the beginning. However I didn't watch the last season of Chuck and I liked that more.

 

[DWF]

It's a shame what they did to Pope, for all he went though and did he deserved better than dying a muddy, bloody mess of a person. And I really have to wonder what Robert Rodat's original vision for the show was.

 

[Procutus]

"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.

Yeah, I had a bit of a problem with that myself. I mean seriously, with all the tech and hardware at our disposal now, humanity barely held the Espheni off in the current invasion. To think that a bunch of primitives in 500 AD could do it? That pushes the limit of believability, IMO.

While the very final scene was rather touching, over all I'm disappointed in the way the whole thing went down. I think I was expecting (hoping) for something bigger and grander than what we get. This entire season was anti-climatic and as a series finale, this ep was more so.

This show had so much unrealized potential. I'm both sad and relieved that it's over.

 

[Aragorn]

Read an article that pointed out something I had totally forgotten about. So in season one the Second Mass uses their brains to turn mech metal into bullets to fight back. In season two, the new showrunner decides to throw that away, and then from season three on the humans are basically given magical plot devices by the Volm and Dornia that does everything for them.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the crowd scene, was there anyone from season one two, three and four that we haven't seen in a while?

Which is after all the respectful thing to do, even if I don't have the respect to remember anyone except Lourdes and Ryan Robins.... Although if there was just one dead face in that crowd, just one dead face in that crowd and the final scene was a ####ing death gargle dream fantasy Tom was having as the Esphenni Queen ate him.

Did the names of the full cast at the end jigsawing together into the series logo seem like the sort of respect I was talking about? Only if they got paid, or were asked if that was okay, and they gave their permission, becuase there had to be a sour #### in that bunch who wanted to Alan Smithee the project, or is that just for directors?

 

[Aragorn]

Those were fans they thanked with the end credits, though I'm not sure how they got named.

 

[ThunderAeroI]

Not many fans left then, not that im surprised. God the show is bad. I agree with the above post. Season 1 was good. Season 2 might have been ok. But had they held onto what they had in the beginning we would be in a vastly different state.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Those were fans they thanked with the end credits, though I'm not sure how they got named.

Subscribers to their facebook page?

They say that the names were collected by a kitchenware company?

WTF?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, Pope. I wonder if Tom left him there. He probably woke up on the beach the next morning, said, "Crap, I'm still not dead," and crawled off to do something else stupid.

Well, Falling Skies is over. They really should have spread this finale over several episodes at least. I'm glad to see them finally win the war and start to get humanity back on track, but I was a little disappointed. It all seemed so random. This queen came out of nowhere, as did the revenge-for-her-daughter motivation. She died way too easily. And the other Espheni just blew up because she died? She knew that would happen and she made herself that vulnerable? And Anne is pregnant again? Is she the only woman in the 2nd Mass who never heard of birth control? And she died and was resurrected by the Skitter woman? What was the point of that? And what about the Skitters? I doubt if they all exploded along with the Espheni. There's got to be a million of them still out there. And Jeff Fahey shows up as a crazy Vietnam vet and joins the team-- just for the last episode? What a waste. He's too cool to be just a guest star. They should have brought him on a while ago. It all felt like they thought they would have more episodes and then had their order cut, which we know didn't happen.

Ah, well. It's over and we won. And most of our people survived.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't think that Anne's new baby is completely human.

 

[RJDiogenes]

She has been rather chummy with Cochise.

 

[Guy Gardener]

No, no ...Well maybe? I meant the Kraken, who used to pretend to be Tom's dead wife, that brought Anne back to life, put a baby in there, who is probably the Kraken if it's not the Kraken's child?

 

[DWF]

No, no ...Well maybe? I meant the Kraken, who used to pretend to be Tom's dead wife, that brought Anne back to life, put a baby in there, who is probably the Kraken if it's not the Kraken's child?

Anne told Tom she's pregnant before she was injuried so no, it's Tom's kid.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If Anne died, the baby died.

Bringing a person back to life has to be a little easier than bringing back 12 cells that used to have illusions of grandeur.

Wait.

At death, your sphincter unclenches %30 more than a living person can dilate their poopchute... Basically you releases all the necessary faeces (10 to 20 pounds?) your body usually uses during the digestion process.

A. Anne was covered in dripping waste, and continuing to leak more crap, as Tom carried her "down to" the beach to feed her to an alien monster. A beach mind you that was seen earlier in the series nearby the camp that was a few days ride from the battle of DC... His victory had to have been a day dream!

B. If you try to bring this soldier back to life with out replacing all the faecal matter she lost, Anne is going to spasm and die again instantly, so her corpse was either stuffed with new alien kraken dung, Tom's stool, going halvesies, leaving them with both with half of a full tank of deficant, or they emptied the closest human doner who wasn't the glorious Tom Mason: Pope. Pope was almost certainly wrung dry of his life sustaining excrement to "breathe" life into Anne Mason with Pope poo.

 

[Procutus]

Yeah, Pope. I wonder if Tom left him there. He probably woke up on the beach the next morning, said, "Crap, I'm still not dead," and crawled off to do something else stupid.

Well, Falling Skies is over. They really should have spread this finale over several episodes at least. I'm glad to see them finally win the war and start to get humanity back on track, but I was a little disappointed. It all seemed so random. This queen came out of nowhere, as did the revenge-for-her-daughter motivation. She died way too easily. And the other Espheni just blew up because she died? She knew that would happen and she made herself that vulnerable? And Anne is pregnant again? Is she the only woman in the 2nd Mass who never heard of birth control? And she died and was resurrected by the Skitter woman? What was the point of that? And what about the Skitters? I doubt if they all exploded along with the Espheni. There's got to be a million of them still out there. And Jeff Fahey shows up as a crazy Vietnam vet and joins the team-- just for the last episode? What a waste. He's too cool to be just a guest star. They should have brought him on a while ago. It all felt like they thought they would have more episodes and then had their order cut, which we know didn't happen.

Ah, well. It's over and we won. And most of our people survived.

I quoted your whole post here RJ because you covered just about everything else that was bothering me about the way the finale was handled (and didn't think to put in my post above).

I'm sure there's a reason somewhere why TNT didn't give this show a two-hour finale; the story really needed it, not to mention the fact I would've liked to have seen more militias show up and join this final battle. It was just all so anticlimactic that it leaves me feeling let down in so many ways.

And about Fahey, I couldn't agree more. It was a waste to have him on so briefly. He should've been brought onboard by the second ep, third at the latest.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A whole episode was devoted to one moron with a rifle holding their convoy hostage.

 

[sojourner]

Then they sidetracked into Kangaroo courts for 2 episodes instead of building to the finale.

 

[Guy Gardener]

And that was a complete cluster####, since the first episode, it was almost certain that Jan from the Office was being controlled by a Bug bite, but in the next episode it's revealed that she was a bio-organic simulant... Which I suppose they had to do to avoid any insti-trust when the simulant of Lexxie arrived, but f#########u###k.

Falling Skies has a history of wasting the middle of their incredibly short seasons with drivel about the indomitable human condition.

Remember the two episodes about the rustic orphanage which traded kids to the Overlords for personal safety? 5 minutes of one of those episodes was devoted to a children's soccer game.