Falling Skies - Season 5: Discussion and Spoilers

[Shawnster]

No, it doesn't suck that much and it pretty much started out in B-Movie territory. When you've got an alien invasion force that can bomb you back to the stone age in a a week versus a rag-tag local militia, you pretty much know what you're in for.

Korea? Vietnam? Gulf War 1? Gulf War 2? Afghanistan War on Terror? Heck, even Soviet war in Afghanistan.

History is full of invasions forces that can bomb you back to the stone age verses a rag-tag local militia. Life imitating art doesn't have to suck.

 

[Caretaker]

I'm probably going to end up being wrong about this, but I really think that the being that Tom encountered is not a new alien at all, but rather what the Skitters really are like, before becoming harnessed and enslaved. Part of this is based on the fact that Tom seemed to recognize the being.

And I hope that it doesn't take the entire season to find out who or what they are.

That was the same speculation I had last summer after the season finale had aired. One of the producers had confirmed online that whatever it was Tom encountered was definitely not a new alien species.

 

[Sindatur]

Ever since we found out the Skitters were harnessed, I've always had sympathy for them. That made this last episode really tough for me. I understand The Skitters are the enemy, but, the absolute pleasure Tom and some others are taking slaughtering them is heart wrenching to me and the way he was waving the head around was truly awful. Anne's kill, where she kept saying, "Just Let Go" really drove it home too. So, yea, it wouldn't surprise me at all, if that being was an unharnessed Skitter

 

[Beagleman]

Ever since we found out the Skitters were harnessed, I've always had sympathy for them. That made this last episode really tough for me. I understand The Skitters are the enemy, but, the absolute pleasure Tom and some others are taking slaughtering them is heart wrenching to me and the way he was waving the head around was truly awful. Anne's kill, where she kept saying, "Just Let Go" really drove it home too. So, yea, it wouldn't surprise me at all, if that being was an unharnessed Skitter

That's exactly how I feel.

ETA: I hope that will be a plot point, that Mason is crossing the line but I'm not sure with this show's track record...

 

[RJDiogenes]

Judging from the reactions of some of the characters during that scene, I'm hoping that's exactly what they're doing.

Of course, if the being that saved Tom is an unharnessed Skitter, that raises the question of why she is inciting Tom to kill them rather than save them.

 

[Procutus]

Of course, if the being that saved Tom is an unharnessed Skitter, that raises the question of why she is inciting Tom to kill them rather than save them.

My guess would be that at this point, the Skitters enslaved to the Espheni are beyond saving. To those who remain unharnessed, death might be considered preferable, rather than letting their altered fellow beings remain in that state.

Likely I'm wrong, but it's my best guess for now.

 

[RJDiogenes]

It does make sense, except for the rage part. If it's all about mercy killing, why pump up Tom-- unless they're manipulative and evil themselves.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Yeah. I could totally understand an unharnessed Skitter telling Tom to mercy kill the Skitters on Earth, much like Picard taking the attitude that killing his crew who had been assimilated was an act of mercy.

But then it becomes weird because it seems as if whoever is guiding Tom didn't just convince him to kill, but has turned him cruel about it, to where he'll torture and barbarically kill the enemy in a berserker rage.

It could just be the inconsistent writing of the show though, so you never can tell.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Either it's a plot by a Skitter with special telepathic abilities to make humans so savage, that they could turn on each other (and/or turn off the Volm), and inspire people to fight AGAINST Tom & company...or an unharnessed Skitter that thinks that is the ONLY way to defeat them.

I REALLY hope they bring up this issue and confront it...it makes me hate the humans.

 

[Aragorn]

I think this episode needed some more characters saying they're hungry to point out how they have no food after their food storage exploded.

 

[Procutus]

The bug with the human eye was freaky as all get out, and I just somehow knew it wasn't dead. I hope that we don't spend the majority of the season just finding out new ways the Espheni are creating frightening mutations in an attempt to take out the remaining population.

And wouldn't they require some kind of tech to pull off these genetic experiments? I'm just sayin'.

 

[JD]

I enjoyed the premiere, but honestly found this one rather meh. I really hope they deal with Tom's whole merciless thing, because it is making him really unlikeable. I understand he's probably being controlled or something, but right now that's not helping my gut reaction.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Neither Anne nor Weaver are very happy with Tom's new gung-ho attitude, so I think it is something they will deal with. Weaver was royally pissed off about the soldiers torturing the Skitter.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Can someone tell me what Anne and Tom were looking at when they followed the human eyed bug? My DVR cut off just as they were walking to the top of the hill.

 

[JD]

I was wearing my glasses which I don't see out of very well, but I think it was a huge group of Skitters.

 

[Tom]

I was wearing my glasses which I don't see out of very well, but I think it was a huge group of Skitters.

Massive group of Skitters and the flying mutants

 

[Sindatur]

I was wearing my glasses which I don't see out of very well, but I think it was a huge group of Skitters.

Massive group of Skitters and the flying mutants

Yup, I didn't register Skitters, but, yea, definitely flying Aliens, and I was thinking they might've been adult versions of the Human Eyed bug.

 

[Procutus]

I already deleted the ep, but I think I saw Skitters in there as well as the flying mutants.

It basically looked like one giant hive of buggy-alien activity.

 

[RJDiogenes]

They were looking down into a little valley which was swarming with a huge mass of flying Skitters. Or maybe a combination of regular Skitters and flying Skitters. It wasn't pretty, I'll you that much.

 

[Procutus]

Ah, for the good old days when aliens were little green men in spacesuits, with no disgusting bio-tech or giant bugs to do their bidding.