Falling Skies

[luckton]

I'm getting quite annoyed with the commercials showing all this awesome footage of the alien spaceships flying around and shit, along with glimpses into the events leading up to the invasion, and all we're seeing is a band of 'rebels' trying to keep civilians under control.

[Surlyboi]

Ok, now a lot of you are just being nitpicky bitches.

[HaemishM]

NOW? As opposed to any other point in f13's history? Or the history of the Internet for that matter?

[Paelos]

Ok, now a lot of you are just being nitpicky bitches.

[Surlyboi]

NOW? As opposed to any other point in f13's history? Or the history of the Internet for that matter?

Yeah, now. And yes, I realize this is f13 and we're bitchy about everything here, but it's not usually this petty.

[Merusk]

Pettiness is all we've got left. All our A material was coopted by comedy websites.

[HaemishM]

This past week's episode convinced me that they can walk a very fine line between smaltzy and kickass. Moon Bloodgood's breakdown at the board of kid's pics after she


really did it for me. And the creepy scene with


gave the whole thing a bit more of a sinister edge.

[luckton]

I'm just glad they finally rescued the damned kids and killed of cocky-sci-fi-doctor #5156.  Now that they spent their time establishing characters, can we move on to something more palpable?

[Pantastic]

I'm just glad they finally rescued the damned kids and killed of cocky-sci-fi-doctor #5156. 

Cocky and incompetent - he applied all of his brilliance to come up with the communication plan of 'show the alien two pictures, shout at him in English a bunch, then agitate him by showing him a body, and, uh, shout some more I guess'.

[TheWalrus]

That wasn't incompetetance. That was frustration, anger and despair in the face of a situation he saw as the end of humanity with one of it's perpetrators in his capture.

Check out what people do in a minor car wreck then try to imagine something on this scale. Most folks simply cannot handle panic adversity of any sort.

[Pantastic]

That wasn't incompetetance. That was frustration, anger and despair in the face of a situation he saw as the end of humanity with one of it's perpetrators in his capture.

Umm, yes, that was incompetence. How the hell is that supposed to ever lead to communication? His frustration, anger, and despair may be his motivation or excuse for not trying anything sensible, but there's simply no way that the nonsense he did would ever lead to communication. If someone is given a job, and does something that is just stupid and has no chance at working, they're incompetent at the job.

Check out what people do in a minor car wreck then try to imagine something on this scale. Most folks simply cannot handle panic adversity of any sort.

I've been in a car wreck, I didn't hold up two pictures to the other person and start shouting at them in a language they don't understand, then drag a dead dog out of the trunk to freak them out, then shout some more, then mock my passenger when he tried to show insurance information.

[TheWalrus]

You're an idiot.

[Pantastic]

You're an idiot.

You think it's idiotic to call someone 'incompetent' at their job when they come up with a plan that obviously will never work and doesn't even make sense to begin with?

[HaemishM]

I never got the impression Dr. Harris gave two shits about communicating with the alien. He wasn't incompetent (ok, a little) so much as burned to the point of hating all things alien. He'd much rather have just chopped the thing up.

[Threash]

You're an idiot.

You think it's idiotic to call someone 'incompetent' at their job when they come up with a plan that obviously will never work and doesn't even make sense to begin with?

I'm fairly certain his job never entailed communicating with an alien species.

[Pantastic]

I'm fairly certain his job never entailed communicating with an alien species.

His job was to study them and learn as much about them as possible, which would include communication if possible, and he seemed to think communicating with them was his job on at least two occasions, when he held up pictures and when the kid put the harness back on. If his job really didn't involve communication, then he was demonstrating incompetence at doing his actual job by spending a bunch of time on communication and annoyance attempts. Under what plan of action would showing the dead body and going 'yep that annoyed it' be a sensible step? If he felt his job was just to find week points, the competent thing to do would be to strap it down and start poking, not hold up picures, shout, and show it a dead body.

And after watching last week's episode, FFS he got himself KILLED by the alien in a cage. Unless his job was to find a fancy way to commit suicide, letting the creature in the cage kill you qualifies as pretty gross incompetence whatever it was.

[Surlyboi]

Just caught up with the last two eps.

"What gang you run with? Crips? Bloods? Slytherin?"

Fuckin' A. Pope, you funny little douchebag.

[Mrbloodworth]

News flash: Researcher/Doctor during the end of the world looses his cool, compassion and common sense while examining alien being that invaded earth and killed millions. Bedside manner said to be lacking.

[Threash]

At this rate they are going to run out of disposable black men to show the seriousness of the situation very soon.

[luckton]

At this rate they are going to run out of disposable black men to show the seriousness of the situation very soon.

Eh, I'm sure we'll see the 6th Atlanta brigade come up from the deep south eventually 

[lac]

At this rate they are going to run out of disposable black men to show the seriousness of the situation very soon.

Eh, I'm sure we'll see the 6th Atlanta brigade come up from the deep south eventually 

Only two eps left this season, I think. And it looked like they set up his son for the season finale in that last scene.

[luckton]

Season finale next week, two parts both on the same night.

Watched this last Sunday's last night.

[Threash]

You mean we can use the alien bullets which are exactly like ours but way awesomer against them? BRILLIANT!

[DLRiley]

Its kinda more like the aliens are eco friendly murders. 
I mean seriously if your smart enough for space travel your smart enough to go green

[luckton]

You mean we can use the alien bullets which are exactly like ours but way awesomer against them? BRILLIANT!

You can't beat the (Mech) Metal. 

[HaemishM]

Seems like they are trying to make the aliens out to be garbage collectors/intergalactic junk men. Strip the planet of all usable materials, move on to the next one.

[TheWalrus]

Why else would they come here? The polite, mentally stimulating conversation?

[Mrbloodworth]

Seems like they are trying to make the aliens out to be garbage collectors/intergalactic junk men. Strip the planet of all usable materials, move on to the next one.

[TheWalrus]

They're obviously Protheans.

[kaid]

I think the boost to the slave race population is the main reason for their arivial. Making use of native resources just makes sense as its less crap one has to cart from one world to the next.

[lac]

Yea, the logistics of invading alien worlds can be a real bitch sometimes.
This season is ramping up nicely, I wasn't too sure about this after the first few eps but if they can make this finale work I'm sure I'll actually look forward to the next season.

[Threash]

That shot was  , i thought Tom was talking about taking a shot at the immobile structure not hitting a moving flyer hundreds of feet in the air.

[kaid]

Their reactions were amusing though both had that LOL wtf look after he hit the ship and it chain reacted.

[HaemishM]

That shot was  , i thought Tom was talking about taking a shot at the immobile structure not hitting a moving flyer hundreds of feet in the air.

Yeah, someone should have told the writers that RPG's are dumbfire rockets, not heat-seeking missiles. Still, it was a fun enough shot that I forgave them. This episode could have used a lot more pew pew boom boom and less gutwrenching human drama (particularly the 1-hour dickwaving contest in the first part of the finale) but overall, I liked it. I will definitely be watching it next summer.

[Threash]

That thing looked like you could bring it down by blowing up a single leg, two at the most.  And after all that build up not only do they fail miserably at even getting the bombs there, but we see absolutely nothing of the fight.