Falling Skies

[Talpidae]

Nope, I'm done.  This show is fucking retarded.

[luckton]

Oh, hey, look at that.  Alcatraz gets canceled, Terra Nova gets the ax, No Ordinary Family gets hacked, and this is the one show that gets saved?

*sigh*.  So anyway, it's back.  Two hour season premiere was last night.

[Draegan]

Did all the child actors die yet?

[Threash]

That one scene where they are about to torture the doctor lady and professor dude gives in? twice and episode every single episode next season, book it.

[Surlyboi]

I liked the last few episodes, but the alien three-way may lead to some bad shit.

[Tannhauser]

I enjoyed this season.  They expanded on their mythos and still kept a good focus on the characters.  Plus, Moon Bloodgood is gorgeous! 

[Ironwood]

She is just a little Super-Hawt, it's true.

[HaemishM]

I like this show, but it is so predictable. Like if you've ever seen a sci-fi invasion movie before, you know what's going to happen about 15 minutes before it ever happens, if not sooner. The 3rd faction looks cool, but we still don't even know what the first factions are doing there, much less a third ass-kicker faction.

[Surlyboi]

I enjoyed this season.  They expanded on their mythos and still kept a good focus on the characters.  Plus, Moon Bloodgood is gorgeous! 

Actually, all of the main women are cute, from Moon, to Jesus girl to "I'm a badass with a crush on clean cut American freedom fighter kid" girl.

[Threash]

My favorite was the scout chick who got captured and turned cartoony evil early in the first season :P

[Surlyboi]

She's even more cartoony evil now. And she wants her man back.

[sickrubik]

My biggest problem with Falling Skies lies with me entirely. I was really hoping for a Band of Brothers style series about an Alien Invasion.

Beyond that, this show is just too loaded with bad writing. The whole last arc was filled with terribly written characters, including Terry O'Quinn.

[Nevermore]

It's not entirely you.  It's just a poorly written show with a silly, cliche-filled plot.  All cartoony-evil chick needs to do now is grow a nice long alien mustache to twirl.

[sickrubik]

It's not entirely you.  It's just a poorly written show with a silly, chiche-filled plot.  All cartoony-evil chick needs to do now is grow a nice long alien mustache to twirl.

LOOK, I DON'T HAVE TIME TO SCREW AROUND IN PHOTOSHOP OKAY.

[Threash]

Focusing more on family drama rather than alien invasion/dinosaurs/zombies is how they keep the budget under control, it was the same with Terra Nova and Walking Dead.  The problem is nobody gives a shit about their stupid family drama, specially when it involves little kids.

[sickrubik]

Focusing more on family drama rather than alien invasion/dinosaurs/zombies is how they keep the budget under control, it was the same with Terra Nova and Walking Dead.  The problem is nobody gives a shit about their stupid family drama, specially when it involves little kids.

The difference with walking dead is that they HAD the budget, but AMC yanked a bunch of it away even though they made huge profits on the first season.

Also, zombie shit is always best when it's about the survivors and morality/humanity. The zombies are almost an abstract. I personally love drama... when it's written well. This is not. This a gaggle of shitty poorly written characters who shift personality to fit the scene.

[HaemishM]

This a gaggle of shitty poorly written characters who shift personality to fit the scene.

Yeah. And stock sci-fi scenes mixed with gut-wrenching human drama.

I've seen worse, but it could be so much better.

[Evildrider]

Focusing more on family drama rather than alien invasion/dinosaurs/zombies is how they keep the budget under control, it was the same with Terra Nova and Walking Dead.  The problem is nobody gives a shit about their stupid family drama, specially when it involves little kids.

The Walking Dead is all about the characters, even in the comics.  As a matter of fact, the Walking Dead title is in reference to the survivors and not the zombies.

[Ironwood]

Say what you like, but the Mech sound effects creep me the fuck out.

[lac]

Since it's based on an actual cow sound you might have bovinophobia. Maybe you can bring that up on the next doctor visit, just to make sure.

[Ironwood]

I doubt it.

Tho that youtube clip sounds nothing like how they sound when I watch.

Oddly.

Also, War of the Worlds horns were kinda creepy too.  I guess biomechs invading that have horns are going to bother me.

[Surlyboi]

It's that low, bassy, rumbling moan. And yes, in real world circumstances, be they this or War of the Worlds, it would be absolutely horrifying. Especially since it's almost always a prelude to shit getting real.

[Nevermore]

The only thing I get from that is that aliens that have interstellar travel capability don't understand the concept of a muffler.

[Surlyboi]

Don't need a muffler. That's not what the sound is for. It's purely psychological. At least I the case of Falling Skies, it's meant to make your less seasoned troops crack, shit their pants and break ranks.

[Nevermore]

The bagpipes of alien invasions? 

Sorry, doesn't work for me.  Sounds like an enormous HERE WE ARE instead of something that's intimidating.

[Tannhauser]

Well it's hard to hide a 14' tall mech, might as well give it a boss horn.

[Ironwood]

Especially when the footsteps sound like the cast of Stomp being gunned down.

[Surlyboi]

The bagpipes of alien invasions? 

Sorry, doesn't work for me.  Sounds like an enormous HERE WE ARE instead of something that's intimidating.

The bagpipes of alien invasions that are fully capable of decimating your entire battalion while your bullets ping harmlessly off it's armor. Fuck yeah, that's intimidating.

Look at it this way, you're some medieval archer or some shit, that suddenly finds himself face-to-face with a goddamn M1 Abrams with the Dukes of Hazzard horn, or even a fucking ice cream truck jingle just after it put a couple of rounds of 120mm through your front line defense. Tell me you wouldn't be intimidated.

[Nevermore]

The bagpipes of alien invasions that are fully capable of decimating your entire battalion while your bullets ping harmlessly off it's armor. Fuck yeah, that's intimidating.

Until you discover how to make the magic bullets of alien mech armor penetration.   

Bagpipes, bugles and drums have a long tradition in warfare, but they were all largely used for communication.  Your cavalry charge bugles might intimidate the natives who've never heard it before the first time, but once they know it that particular advantage is lost and it only serves to give away your position and the element of surprise, which is why modern armies stopped using it once they developed better methods of communicating.  Now maybe I'm wrong and modern infantry/armor units use loud techno to scare the enemy, but somehow I doubt it.  The goofy hum in the show because some people think it sounds 'cool', not because it's practical or makes any real sense.  Much like most of the stuff in the show.

[Ruvaldt]

Don't forget the rebel yell.  There are plenty of examples of noise used as intimidation, and not communication, during warfare.

[Nevermore]

Oh, come on.  Billy Idol couldn't intimidate anyone, he was just a poser. 

[MediumHigh]

The bagpipes of alien invasions that are fully capable of decimating your entire battalion while your bullets ping harmlessly off it's armor. Fuck yeah, that's intimidating.

Until you discover how to make the magic bullets of alien mech armor penetration.   

Bagpipes, bugles and drums have a long tradition in warfare, but they were all largely used for communication.  Your cavalry charge bugles might intimidate the natives who've never heard it before the first time, but once they know it that particular advantage is lost and it only serves to give away your position and the element of surprise, which is why modern armies stopped using it once they developed better methods of communicating.  Now maybe I'm wrong and modern infantry/armor units use loud techno to scare the enemy, but somehow I doubt it.  The goofy hum in the show because some people think it sounds 'cool', not because it's practical or makes any real sense.  Much like most of the stuff in the show.

You don't need loud drums when we have really big and really loud guns...

[HaemishM]

So I watched the 3rd season finale of this show.

I'm done. I barely hung on through this entire season as they trotted out shitty sci-fi invasion retreads one after the other then pasted smaltzy shit family drama on top of it. But the finale was just pants on head stupid and did nothing to convince me it will ever get better. The only character worth missing will be Pope and they relegated him to gruff audience voice for comedic relief and only real sane fucking guy in the bunch long ago.

[Ironwood]

Oh.  Series 3 just started here and the wife likes it, cause, you know, Noah.

Are you saying it's bad ?  The baby stuff so far is bad.  Like, really bad.  It gets worse ?

[MahrinSkel]

Oh.  Series 3 just started here and the wife likes it, cause, you know, Noah.

Are you saying it's bad ?  The baby stuff so far is bad.  Like, really bad.  It gets worse ?

Oh, you poor bastard.  At least we had hope, a faint glimmer that at some point the stupid, pants-on-head retarded formulaic recycling would stop and they'd hit us with the Twist, the big Reveal that would show we hadn't been wasting our time.  But now we know better, and if we're not happier for it, at least it's over.  But you, you just have to watch it unfold, without even the slightest glimmer that at some point the incredible, soul-sucking piles of shit will stop coming and it will finally get good.

It's not going to happen.  The light at the end of the tunnel isn't even an oncoming train, with the promise of ending your misery.  It's just...

--Dave