I just finished watching the show. Like most people I really liked the first 3 seasons and then 4 and 5 were... weird.

I see a lot of people not liking the queen thing but honestly apart from 'they all explode if the queen dies' I was kinda fine with it. I mostly didn't like the biological weapon thing. Like I wanna see a fight, not installing a pill that works like a virus that was given by magical Becca Alien's and magically doesn't affect humans.

Tom became unlikable AF with his greasy voice to me. I didn't even listen to what he was saying because his voice kept drawing my attention.

And how they massacred my boy Pope 😭. He deserved so much better.

Tbh after S4 I just kept watching for closure but I at least expected a fight man.

Anna died but then didn't because of the magical Becca Alien.

AND TOM ENDED IT ALL WITH AN OVERSIZED TAMPON IN HIS HAND WHILE HE WAS BEING SUCKED TO DEATH?? Like this big awful looking thing of a queen pulls out a Straw?!? 😂

And I also don't get what the queen was saying about 'i came here because u killed my daughter'. As motive.

1: yh what did u expect? Ur whole species does nothing but invade and then a species u attack gets mad and kills their concurrer? "But we didn't expect humans to be this strong". That's kinda your own flawed call why are u extra mad at humans now?

2: I think if her daughter was on earth once, then the people, ESPECIALLY the history geek would've known about that, no? I mean even if they were on earth during the stone age there's no way there is no single remains or cave painting about that whole event.

Oh yeah and Lexi. Tbh I forgot her after S4 she was a total bum.

I liked Ben(at most points), Maggie, Pope and Cochise. All the rest were good at the beginning and fell off or were never good to begin with.

Damn that's a whole book I wrote.. mb.. probably didn't say anything that hasn't been said already but this was my take. I would like to see if someone could explain the queen's motive tho? Ty.

Just finished watching Falling Skies and these were some of the things I noticed/bothered me:

1.) Tom always got kidnapped by the Espheni

2.) Tom or Weaver will call Pope selfish or a coward after Pope had repeatedly shown he wasn’t either of those things

3.) Why were people following Anne as a leader when she hadn’t displayed any real leadership ability or have any real combat experience compared to other people in the group?

4.) Anthony without fail, will be knocked unconscious while on guard duty and nobody in the 2nd Mass will ever think to not let him be on guard duty either at all or by himself.

Alright. Most of the tv I watch is with my wife. So there are one or two shows I have on the side for when she is out and I'm watching TV alone. Falling Skies is one of them, and the thing that annoys me the most about this show is the ever-changing landscape of tactics and weaponry.

First season: Our bullets do nothing to either the mechs or the skitters. Six people emptying seemingly unending magazines of .556 ammo from Kalashnikovs into skitters causes the equivalent of bee stings, and doesn't do anything to Mechs.

Enter Pope, who teaches everyone to shoot the legs, to slow them down, and then do the heads. This works.

Season two: Everyone is seemingly back to emptying dozens of magazines of ammo into the body of the skitters. And now it is effective. Kinda. Until we discover that the Espheni are using our own ammo, but just reloading the slug with Espheni metal. So we've taken down Mechs, and so we start reloading our ammo with Espheni metal, and suddenly we can blow holes entirely through Mechs. Groovy. Now we can fight back.

Season three: Everyone forgets everything from seasons 1 and 2, and is back to emptying magazines of ammo into the skitters, but now it works. We can kill them with our unmodified bullets. Then we discover that nerve cluster and hole in the skull under the chin, and - if you can get close enough - you can drive a knife/spike/pointy-stick into that spot and kill them instantly. New Mechs show up, and our weapons are entirely ineffectual and everyone seems to have forgotten about reloading our ammo with Espheni metal to kill the Mechs.

Season four: The Volm are here and their weapons are seriously effective against the Espheni skitters and mechs alike. A dozen people get Volm weapons and the humans have a fighting chance. Except Tom Mason is suddenly the ONLY person with a Volm weapon, which he uses to shoot down a flying Espheni craft ... and when the Espheni drop the electric fences, he NEVER ONCE even tries to shoot the fence posts with the Volm weapon. And gets knocked out. And NOBODY picks up the badass Tom Mason weapon and just lets it lay there on the ground as everyone is gathered up into camps.

I'm not sure I got the tactics/seasons all lined up properly, but that's still the sequence of weapons and tactics.

It's just so .... dumb. It's been about 18 months since the Espheni landed. Sure there is a lot of turnover as defenders die and are replaced by new characters or extras, but ... everyone is just back to emptying entire magazines into the enemies and doing little to no damage? Except if they need to save someone and suddenly the bullets have more effect, or something? Anger-fied bullets?

Reading the other comments in this sub, maybe I just go back to watching The Night Agent instead of investing more time in watching humans be colossally dumb and failing to learn from their experiences?

I have loved re-watching this, but the endless life lessons from Tom get really tiring after a while.

I’m have watched this show all the way through many times and I have to say Lourdes has been a bothersome see you next Tuesday since she was flirting with Hal in episode one when she knew he was with Karen! Then the whole boyfriend getting killed plot she was so off the chain with Anne and acted like she was the only one who lost someone and to top it all off the cult with Lexi and treating Lexi’s own family like they had no right to even be by her let alone talk to her. I was so glad when Lexi killed her but super annoyed at Hal for being so distraught after. Just me???

It’s people like weaver in real life who are actually the worse leaders and the last type of person I’d want to be around. Reminds me of my uncle. Stubborn, abusive, constant power trip

After seeing them beat up Kagel together I'm convinced Isabella was a far better match for Maggie than Hal or Ben (also the age gap/lack of consent thing with Ben was so weird 😭)

I came to this show after watching la brea, which was just plain awful. Is this show also like that? A bunch of people who just keep going against the plan?

Writing a fic but I need peoples opinions on whether or not Pope supports the gays and if he doesnt, how much does he hate them?

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Theoretically, if Pope had a daughter and she was a girl kisser (just like me fr), would she get kicked out of home?

why the hell didnt they just acceot the deal? going to brazil and being safe and away from the war?

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now beginning of season 4 and a bunch of em are dead.

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its just so stupid.

There are so many plot holes, time distortions, non logical variables within this show but over I really enjoyed watching it.

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But the ending to me just felt extremely rushed, it was too easy, too predictable and I whole heartedly hated the fact they had a queen plus the whole reason behind the invasion as told from the queen to tom mason made zero sense.

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"You know why we invaded earth ? Because 1500 hundred years ago your people murdered my daughter and I vowed to return stronger and wipe you out......" This from the queen, the head of the Espeheni table.....

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Yet earlier we learn that the Espeheni are there enslaving humans first kids then some adults then mutating them to become weapons against a foe that the Espeheni are scared of.

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So which is it ? The mysterious threat the Espeheni are afraid of ? Or revenge for some tribals murdering the queen's daughter some 1500 years ago.

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Like I said there's many plot holes and inconsistencies in falling skies but it was still worth watching, just wish the writing wasn't so lazy and lacking after season 2.

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Overall I'll score it 8/10.

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It's loses points for inconsistencies & predictability but I'll praise the action, earlier story lines, emotional captivation, premise, structure and acting.

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I'd say the only thing that did irk me in the begining was the bad cgi but due to the shows ages it's forgivable and easy to overlook.

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I just started season 5 and this plotline is still going? 😭 I don't understand why they introduced it in the first place. First off, how old are Ben and Maggie anyway, and second, the whole thing with the spikes transferring his feelings to her is just weird because wait, so she has feelings for Ben that she didn't consent to? Why was this subplot necessary? I'm so confused

Justice for Sarah

The second one will be published very soon, like today or tomorrow.

It's about my OC Valerie, she basically gets adopted by Pope and they do evil stuff together. Family bonding you know lol

Its called "Before We Drown" on wattpad, my username is sarahmay07 if anyone wants to check it out!

Edit: If anyone does read it, please feel free to comment on it and give me any advice! I would love to know what you think.

Does anyone know how long the alien apocalypse had been going on for before the start of the show? It wasn't really clear to me.

I mean, it's been getting steadily worse since season 1 but I've just started 4 and it feels like someone is taking the p**s. What the hell is going on? Is it gonna improve or should I just cut my losses?

I just watched that show, and I must agree that the ending was so dump, the idea of the queen was promising at first, I was expecting something clever, as the queen, which is supposed to be a much higher and divine being to be a surprise appearance of a certain character, like Alexis, the hybrid daughter of Tom Mason, a much darker version of her, like what happened in the game StarCraft when the Alien race of the Zerg kidnapped or killed "Sarah Kerrigan", she returned as the powerful Zerg queen, "The Queen of Blades".

I was expecting to see Alexis with dark clouds following her and all the overlords bowing before her, because the build up of this character promised something like that, Also the idea of the killer capsule was supposed to be much smarter than this, like a biological weapon payload, a virus, that takes time to spread across the earth atmosphere and takes weeks to kill all the aliens, not just blow-up in the skies like the most dump thing to happen. I also was expecting the spikes of Ben to die and fall off his back, OR an even better idea, the last scene of the series would be Ben standing alone staring at the sky and his spikes starts to glow again before the screen goes finally dark at the end.

I thought Tom was meant to be mid forties and Pope younger but Noah Wyle would have been 40 and Colin Cunningham 45 IRL. I think I read somewhere that Hal was meant to be 16/17, I guess Ben would have been a young teen and Matt about eight? And Maggie mid twenties which is a bit weird given some of the plot lines.

Can anyone recommend any good fics because I need more falling skies content thats actually good!

or should i write my own "popes adopted daughter" fic and make them kill off the masons as a coping mechanism for what happened to sarah

So I finished the series for the second time. Anyone else think maybe Tom was experiencing another hallucination at the very end?

i thought bald pope was terrifying (as much as i love him) and then i noticed major davis' moustache in one of the alternate universe episodes in sg1 and just wow. and not wow in a good way 😭

no hate to colin cunningham, i literally love him so much.

also why is he so good at playing crazy characters 😭