Falling Skies : Spielberg's New TV Series

[Wes R]

I'd have liked it better of the lead had been more of an anti hero instead of a family man, felt too much like Spielberg's War Of The Worlds to me.

 

[CB2001]

I saw the premiere episode. Honestly, it's like they decided to take the original V series, jumped into the "long after the visitors took over the Earth" period and then added the aliens from ID4 into the mix.

 

[TK1536]

I didn't care for it. Pass.

 

[Gator Fett]

Watched it last night and am willing to give it a spot on the DVR for now.

Impossible to watch anything live on TNT with all the commercials. :sick

I've liked Noah Wyle since his stint on ER, and didn't see Dr. John Carter at all when he was on screen.

I also like Will Patton, but every time he spoke, I kept expecting him to list off the Laws of 8. :lol

 

[Westies14]

I fell asleep pretty early during this, but I was exhausted (to be fair to the show). We'll finish watching it this week. What I did see felt a lot like the Walking Dead, with CG and aliens in place of makeup and zombies.

 

[streetjudge79]

I kept falling asleep watching it. Found it pretty dull and lifeless.

 

[smurf]

I watched it. I was disappointed that it didn't start with the initial invasion. That is usually my favorite part with this kind of genre. I was having a hard time staying awake. I hope it will get better. I don't think my wife will watch with me anymore, she seemed pretty bored. She did love Battlestar Galactica and constantly tells me how much she misses that show.

Sweet

 

[Wes R]

With some luck it'll pick up some but it does feel like they took bits and pieces of different movies and shows and put them together. It would be nice to have a good scifi show on. I like Noah Wyle in his Librarian movies so we know he can do action stuff.

 

[Kerr Avon]

It was okay. Good enough to give it a few episodes and see how it develops, but nothing locked in as dedicated viewing yet.

What'll seal this series is why the aliens seem to want the kids. They need to have a good reason for an invasion. We'll see.

 

[dfrey79]

I was bummed they didn't show the invasion earlier. I'm guessing it will come in a flashback or something. Some of the trailers looked like footage from that. It wasn't bad. I'll watch a few more.

It was funny, they said it was "limited commercial interruptions", but I didn't get that. :lol

 

[Wes R]

It would be a neat twist if they were after children because it is easier to train them as slaves or they're tender and thus taste better to the aliens. But in that case they'd want women too so they could just breed more to eat.

 

[ONEYE]

I may watch one more show. I wasn't that impressed. It was not a two hour show, more like one hour, with one hour of commercials. The show borrows too much from things we've seen in other shows & movies. It's sad that the famous people involved in Falling Skies can't come up with original/new ideas. This and much of what you see on the SyFy channel are rehashed, unoriginal and predictable shows or pure crap (i.e. Octoshark, Dinocroc, etc.).

 

[Wes R]

I hate to say it but it's like Spielburg just puts his name on stuff now when it would be better if he would stop producing and start directing.

 

[Kerr Avon]

It would be a neat twist if they were after children because it is easier to train them as slaves or they're tender and thus taste better to the aliens. But in that case they'd want women too so they could just breed more to eat.

I'm completely speculating, but maybe the kids are harnassed, then put into the mechs? Have they said if they ever got a good look at the remains of a mech after it was destroyed? It'd at least explain why they have two legs and arms instead of six like the aliens.

 

[Wes R]

That makes sense and would be interesting for a change. I do like the creature and machine designs and you can't go wrong with mechs in a tv show lol. It makes sense that you'd invade, taking the young and easily trained and use them as foot soldiers. I'm assuming they'd have to be controlled or brainwashed before being put into a war machine.

 

[DrkMatter]

Major fail for not showing the invasion. I understand it's cable and TNT, and funds for original programing is more limited. But how can you have a show about aliens invading Earth without showing the initial invasion?
And as others have noted, a snore fest to boot.

 

[smurf]

Major fail for not showing the invasion. I understand it's cable and TNT, and funds for original programing is more limited. But how can you have a show about aliens invading Earth without showing the initial invasion?
And as others have noted, a snore fest to boot.

The invasion is what totally draws you in. It connects you to the characters better seeing their tragedy and sympathize with them with what is happening. Instead they just throw you in the middle of it all with no connection to anyone. Right now I don't care about any of the characters. Hopefully they with start doing some flashbacks so we get to know these people. If not, I'm going to be bored fairly quick.

Sweet

 

[cboath]

I'm completely speculating, but maybe the kids are harnassed, then put into the mechs? Have they said if they ever got a good look at the remains of a mech after it was destroyed? It'd at least explain why they have two legs and arms instead of six like the aliens.

I like the idea - and they layed the groundwork that there's something else too the mechs. The 'teacher' took Wyle aside and told him his HS class had a brainstorming session (which was a teaching technique he used) and a student brought up that when we make robots we model them after ourselves and are trying to see how close we can get to duplicating humanity - or at the worst - we make the bipedal. So why are the robots of a 6 legged race just bipedal? They ended that scene right there, so there's something to it, they just don't want us knowing yet.

 

[trooper1m]

Isnt speilberg only an executive producer on this?

 

[Apollo]

Meh!

I was not impressed.

Will give it another go but if the next episode is anything like this one forget it!