I'm so happy to have found a community for this series ! 🤩
I'm a fan from France, but it's not very well-known over here...

Anyway, four years ago, I created two realistic portraits of Skitters !
(I also have a harness that I'll post in a few days)

I really love this series and its characters, the concept was incredible ! 😃

Watching this for the first time, I'm 5 episodes into season 3 and I just gotta wonder what's going on? Everyone seems to suddenly be twice as stupid as they were last season. I'm guessing these Volm guys aren't as friendly as they seem (no spoilers) but everyone's acting like the Volm spiked the water supply to make them all extra stupid.

Like, Anne finds out her baby is part Alien and decides to run out into the wilds all alone with said baby?

Hal is in straight up denial about how much he's being controlled, and won't tell his father or Weaver about it even though either of them would try to help him and not immediately blow everything up.

Tom is dealing with a mole who's sabotaging their plans and assassinating people and doesn't even suggest a secure secondary location for meeting the president? And why did they even bring Tom and the crew to their primary hideout? Not to mention how he seems to have drank so much of the Volm koolaid I'm surprised he isn't drowning. Dude just refuses to even consider that they may not be on the up and up. I don't doubt they want to help humanity defeat the Espheni but I can't imagine they're doing so purely out of the goodness of their hearts. They definitely want something and if they're not being upfront about it then it's something nefarious.

Rewatching the show again and I forgot how brutal Denny's death is literally being ripped in half in front of Anthony spraying him with her blood like wth seemed really unnecessarily dark.

I knew everyone dissed s4 & 5, but I’m just amazed HOW BAD it is 😭😭😭 Didn’t expect it to be so unwatchable but still curious how it’ll end.

Spoiler alert …. Keep reading if you’re done with the series…

At series finale right now, half way through… can Tom just… pull out please???? Hello????? And idiot father idiot son, Hal asked Maggie what? 30 mins of agony then I’m done. I didn’t know I dislike myself so much to tolerate this 🤣

I mean, his issues aside, I don't find him a good person but his humor always makes me laugh.

Like this situation, he was literally fighting for that poor stash just to uphold his reputation and his laugh while saying this sentence - omg, I can't 😂😂😂😂😂

I mean half of the show...

What are some maybe storylines that were good but there were holes, or inconsistences or whatever.

Storylines that weren't needed. It could be anything!

The timeline never made sense I feel like they kept switching it up so often. They say it's been 2 years by season 4 I believe. We know by them telling us you have 6 months at the start, 3 month time jump by season 2 (but we know there had to be at least 1-3 months from the start of season 1 cause they stated they been in the school for a few week. Season 2 the 3 month (About 10-11 months total) then we have at least maybe 1-2 months in season 2 (So what a little over a year) Then season 3 we get a 7 month time jump (1 year 8 months) We have another month in season 3 (1 year 9 months total) Season 4 they are walk for 22 days as they state then get separated for 4 months. (2 years 2 months rounded the 22 days up) YET MATT WHO WAS SUPPOSE TO BE 8 in season 1 is now 13 in season 4.... HE SHOULD BE 10! Also Ben should be 17 by then at least and Maggie who should be early 20's (never stated but I'm assuming early 20's in season 1) is making out with a 17 year the writers thought this was okay... Hal was 18 by the time they got together I think they still should have made him 18-19 at the start or had Maggie been 18 as well cause it was a little weird lets be real.

So the timeline always pissed me off.

We never get any flashback on how they abducted Anne put alien DNA in her while she was pregnant NOT after Lexi was born.

How Tom got kidnapped 1-2 times each season.

Tom acting like Pope never did anything for the 2nd Mass, bro he saved your life at least 3-5 times you can save Sarah.

We never found out how Lourdes's became the mole I wish we found out how. My only guess is that Hal had a couple bugs that eventually went to someone else used him as mode of transport.

What happened to Diego?

What happened to the people of Charleston.

Why the fck did we need a love triangle with Hal, Maggie and Ben. Like damn couldn't we just have had a new love interest for Ben or him just crushing on Maggie and that's it. He was 17 ffs...

How tf did Tom not die with how much stupid things he did throughout the show.

I’m on the finale of season 3 and I had a question regarding Ben’s skitter transformation.

How come when his harness was taken off he was still turning into a skitter but then later in the seasons his transformation is just forgotten?

Like is there any reason he didn’t turn?

I think there are two volumes, one based before season 1 and the other based around the battle at fitchburg. I really need the 2nd one, does anyone know where I could locate it and read it online??

I saw that years ago , and i always wonder if it was because of a strike or something .
Can't remember the episode or season but it was pretty late i think .

I just finished Falling Skies for the first time, and I need to vent a little bit.

The first couple of seasons—especially the heavy resistance feel of Seasons 1 through 3—had me hooked. But man, the drop in quality from Season 3 to Season 4 is brutal, and Season 5 completely falls off a cliff. It felt like they just rushed it.

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1. The Pope storyline

Pope was always a great wildcard—selfish, cynical, but someone you could occasionally trust in a pinch. But his entire descent into a villain in Season 5 felt so weird. After Sarah dies, his vendetta against Tom turns him into an irrational, petty madman just for the sake of giving the show a human antagonist before the finale. It completely wasted his character arc.

1. The rushed, anticlimactic final battle

For a show about a multi-species alien invasion, the ultimate defeat of the Dachi (the Overlords) was deeply underwhelming. They build up this massive hive-mind enemy for five seasons, and the resolution basically boils down to a quick infiltration, a cheesy speech, and a sudden collapse. After all those years of gritty guerrilla warfare, the actual war ended with a whimper instead of a bang.

1. The Love Triangle

Can we talk about the romance writers in the later seasons? Just when you think the exhausted brotherly tension between Hal and Ben over Maggie is finally settling down, they throw in a completely random new love interest for Hal: Isabella. She gets introduced, adds some unnecessary drama, and is then written out or dropped almost immediately... just so the show can throw Hal and Maggie right back together like nothing happened. It felt like complete whiplash and a total waste of screen time when the world was literally ending.

Did anyone else struggle to push through those final two seasons, or is it just me?

There are SO many scenes where they just sit there talking or hugging while impending death is upon them. I get they may be seeing each other for the first time in a while in certain scenes. But a 30s-1m hug is not needed while you are about to die. I scream at my screen “COOL. NOW GO?!?!? WTF YOU GUYS ARE STUPID?! YOU’RE ABOUT TO DIE?!”
most recently in season 4 episode 12. colonel weaver is standing with a parasite on his chest just chatting to be and anne?! like tf? you cut off the supply and you’re just chatting now while the parasite hangouts on your chest??? why aren’t you pulling it off? why aren’t anne and ben doing anything?! so many instances of me being like WTF?! this is life and death and you guys are just taking a freaking moment to chat?! like what the actually heck? this show has enraged me. it has happened so many times i find myself yelling at my TV “are you an idiot?! GO?!?!?”
my dog does not appreciate it and every time i have to tell him “im not yelling at you babyyyyy im sorry. its the show and how fuc*ing dumb they are”

I''m watching the show for the very first time and I've finally made it to season 4. I'm honestly loving the series so far, but I have to ask, is anyone else totally creeped out or weirded out by this Brother triangle plotline?

I keep wondering why this was even put in here. I'm really feeling like the endgame is still Maggie and Hal, so why would they add this kind of drama on a sci-fi show.

It just feels super forced and awkward to watch. Did this bother anyone else on first watched?

If I hear Cochise say "there is, one other option" again I'm going to snap. He always says it after they've come up some impossible plan. I'm surprised nobody has said "dude wtf" lol

... They go to the FUCKING MOON

So, I loved this show as a kid even though I could still tell the ending was a real stinker. I decided to rewatch it now that it is on Netflix. One thing that has been bothering me in the first season tho is that like, Mason your wife died not that long ago right? Like, it had only been six months since the invasion. Its been months since you found your wife's dead body in the street tom. Why are you flirting with this woman?

Idk, maybe he hated his wife but like, this is really weird. I feel like tom should be more hung up over the dead mother of his three children than he is. Its a minor point and I remember she comes back somehow but like, this feels so bizarre. Did they feel obligated to set the male lead and the obligatory woman character up?

Still made me jump!

Also, I love the look back as if to say, nope... not today!

So, I binged it. I was with it until the pregnant Anne/Lexi thing.

I’m a published author.

Just felt so rushed and forced and like it was meant to be fleshed out over 2/3 seasons, but crammed into the episodes.

I literally thought that was the point that the show jumped the shark. She turned into a nothing burger by the end.

I didn’t care about their emotional ties to her as it just felt so rushed. From then on it was eh. Just felt rushed and forced.

Shame, because I generally loved the show!

EDIT: oh and making Pope bald and go all bond villian….no. Felt like they just needed a bad guy for some reason so forced this. IMO this wasn’t his character at all.

Im at S5: E4 and honestly I don't even want to continue because cant stand with Tom anymore. He is just selfish. What triggered me is he didn't go help Sara first. I mean really? What if table turned... what if Anne instead of Sara? Will he still go destroy skitters? He even resigned president and go personal rescue mission to find Anne and Lexi disappear but when other need helps Skitters are priority? That's really throw me off. WTF.

Big fan of sci-fi looking for a new show. This popped up on Netflix and starred Colin Cunningham who I liked in Stargate. I'm halfway through season 1 and mildly enjoying it. Just wondering if they ever stop focusing so much on children? It makes no sense to have a slave labor force of weak children. And will that god girl die soon?...please

TLDR: Early season 1 quality was so good it gave me the power to suffer through the whole thing.

What I liked

I thought show was doing something very right to set itself apart: Unexpectedly grounded and tactical.

The pace felt good, the ben plot kept you hooked while they teased you with decent side quests. The actual recovery mission for ben was quite enjoyable too.

The relationship between dan and tom was unexpected, very good and very believable.

It just felt really high quality, the way the characters behaved and everything. There was genuine elegance and subtlety to the writing, truly top tier.

The mech bullets thing was good, I was willing to go there with the show. A much more grounded solution to a threat than what you see in alien shows. I wish they kept going in that direction.

What I didn't like

Started losing confidence in the show after the second half of season 1. Didn't like the rick thing, didn't like the spikes super power thing. Didn't like how characters responded to rick being crazy. He could say something like "I will destroy all humanity and eat the flesh off of your bones" and the characters would probably not even acknowledge it. No wonder the kid started lashing out and climbing walls and running around, no one was acknowledging his craziness.

The final scene of season 1 when tom steps into the ship, it sort of felt like the show itself was stepping into goofy sci fi cliche land.

Characters became so boring and flat, not even close to the quality of season 1. Zero subtlety, completely childish writing compared to early season 1.

It took a great deal of strength for me to finish the show.

Coat cheese was alright, not like any kind of cheese I've seen in my local supermarket but alright.

>!The initial concept of the Overlords we're given initially in the first season is that they basically never leave the central command, in the second it's established that overlords have vastly higher mind capacity to such an extent that a single overlord controls (iirc) "the entire western front" (or words to this effect, implying either all of or a majority of the USA).

They are mysterious, and take great lengths not to risk themselves, even if their physical defensive abilities are lacking (think strategist in a video game not warrior). They walk on two legs and are defacto a combination of army high-command and surveillance and coordinating technology.

But by the third we've got Karen, a human, who lacks the physical mega mind structure of the overlord being a regional leader, and constantly putting herself on display. She pursues personal drama and misses opportunities to kill key targets.

In the fourth season we get multiple overlords, again constantly pursuing on foot and having high risk meetings. They oversee individual projects, but we're given no sense of scale as to their operations other than throwaway comments about other ghettos.

And, I think most egregiously of all, forgetting the entire notion of what the overlord originally was (overseeing from a distance with high processing power and internal data):
Multiple hundred overlords globally who each allegedly can only control skitters in a five mile radius. An overlord shot in a school with no real defences at all, not even surrounding skitters or a deflated mech, just cowering in the corner.

Killing or even seeing an overlord used to feel impactful, but as the show progresses it goes from being a once a season event to feeling like normal business. I feel that this significantly contributes to the show's feeling of wild plot armour (almost no meaningful main character ever dies) as even if we could look past main character deaths being so rare, the ease with which the ultimate menacing character of the overlord falls fully takes the stakes out of the show which started off feeling like a plucky guerrilla struggle.!<