Re: Falling Skies: "What Hides Beneath" Discussion:Comment **SPOILERS*
Another good episode.
Hmm, they went with the obvious plot twist regarding the "true" alien overlords (who look like Kaminoans), though I'd still have preferred they be microbes or a virus, rather than another literal species of aliens. I guess I can't expect this show to deviate from the expected quite that wildly. The audience will get the idea much more easily with a new alien type that's bossing everyone else around.
Maybe, but Skitters were also around during the attack so maybe other species can be harnessed and converted. Unless they are children, but from the future.
The skitters are no doubt some multi-legged alien species that were the previous victims of the Kaminoans. They're probably octopus-like and much less threatening looking underneath their exoskeleton - pink and soft, perhaps? I don't see the value of the harnesses changing their number of legs, and I love the idea of freaky-looking aliens not being the bad guys after all.
The benefit of this plot twist is that it opens up the story potential to humans figuring out a way to free the skitters from harnesses, and even potentially bringing in a skitter as a recurring character, and exploring its individual personality, figuring out how to communicate with it, etc.
And getting a bit more crazy now, could the humans and liberated skitters commander a spacecraft and take the fight to the Kaminoans? I'd love to see the skitter homeworld!
At the very least, it complicates things for the human fighters, knowing they're shooting at brainwashed slaves rather than evil aliens.
These threads figured this all out from that clue from the think tank in the first episode.
Yeah, the achilles heel of this show continues to be the obviousness of the plot twists. Same thing with the two-partner, we shouldn't be able to figure out the twists just from the frakking previews!
However, the Kaminoans plot twist really needed to happen. Otherwise, this show would just be "humans fight aliens," and going into S2, that's going to be a repetitive bore. Now that the skitters are possible allies, story possibilities open wide up!
In an ideal world, I would have preferred a twist that was far less expected, but also one that would open up the story to fresh avenues. I guess that's too much to expect.
Pope suddenly turning into bomb maker supreme, as well as temperamental chef supreme and skitter killer supreme and bad ass supreme is getting to be way too much.
I agree, way too convenient. He's in danger of becoming the Swiss Army Knife character.
Ann appears to be leaping to the conclusion that the skitters were children,
Children of a six-legged alien species. The harness encases them in body armor - useful for a slave army - but there's no reason to change the number of their legs, so that must be their original form. The Kaminoans have been roaming the galaxy, enslaving species and using them as slave armies. Pretty clever/diabolical of them.
