Tag: Falling Skies

August 11, 2011

Falling Skies – Mutiny / Eight Hours

 

I think the most telling piece of feedback that I can relay from the Falling Skies finale is that I came out of it thinking, ‘Well that’s done,’ rather than ‘When the hell is this coming back,’ or ‘Phwoar!’ as I maybe should have. Throughout this whole debut season that is the kind of reaction that I’ve had to Falling Skies; I’ll watch it – and that puts it above a whole lot of other stuff out there – but that’s really as far as my enthusiasm will go, and this episode was as good an exemplar of that mediocrity as you will find.

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August 5, 2011

Falling Skies – What Hides Beneath

WordPress decided to eat my review for this episode and I’m too tired to re-write it so I will just quickly summaries some of my thoughts on What Hides Beneath instead.

-Though the show has proven me an idiot for thinking that it would ever leave the School the briskness of the planned attack has restored my faith in the shows pacing.

-This was very much a character based episode which is great in theory but the execution did leave a lot to be desired.

- The work that the show did with its non-human cast was, however, all pretty stellar: the conflict between the rescued kids and that genius twist with the Skitter has set up a lot of very intriguing material for the shows upcoming second season.

-Overall this episode was indicative of the season so far; if you wanted to look for flaws then you could find more than enough with ease, if however you just relax and try to enjoy the ride you most probably will. The upcoming Season Finale will have to fall pretty strongly on the positive side of the fun-flaw scale though if they want me to come back next year.

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July 27, 2011

Falling Skies – Sanctuary Pt.2

Not really much to say about this episode as it, for the most part, simply continues on all the plot-lines from the first episode; and so I have already made all my points there. Sure I could repeat them here but to be honest I’m pretty tired, so I’ll just throw out some dot points instead:

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July 18, 2011

Falling Skies – Sanctuary Part.1

Falling Skies Skitter Sanctuary

My reaction towards this show must seem schizophrenic at best; depending on the episode my reviews are full of either praise or bile with nothing in between, though the show itself is nowhere near as inconsistent as that would suggest. It’s a mediocre show and has remained that way throughout it’s run but I do get excited when it escapes the traps and bindings coupling it with such mediocrity, I also get more than a little vehement when it walks straight into them but on a whole these movements are only ever footsteps besides a straight line; venturing to the left, than to the right, back to the left, etc. but never actually moving off that one particular path. This episode though fails to fit into that admittedly already strained metaphor, in that it didn’t veer to the left – slipping into the pits – nor to the right – transcending them completely – it simply skated straight down the middle.

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July 11, 2011

Falling Skies – Silent Kill

“You Care.”

“Surgeons would not consider that a plus.”

“But Patients do.”

I came into this episode presenting the show, in my mind, with something of an ultimatum: impress me here or you’re dropped and thankfully – thankfully because I do really want to like this show, despite what my constant harping criticism may suggest – that is exactly what it did. The episode opens as a recon team has just returned from gathering all the narcotics necessary for the rescue of the children, or at least the closest six. This fetch quest format was most likely the major impediment to the shows success since the pilot and so skipping  the final step was about as good a gift as the show could give a boy like me; I took this as a sign to stick with the show and so stick with watching it I shall, though don’t think that means it will be getting any kind of free pass, there is still much criticism to come. Read the rest of this entry »

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July 8, 2011

Falling Skies – Grace

And so it goes that another very promising pilot quickly falters in the confines of full production. I know that it is only early days yet but the fact that this review is so late to being written speaks volumes on my level of interest; as does the fact that I, an avid watcher of first airings, waited until today to finally see this fourth episode of Falling Skies. I had reasonably low hopes for this show, just wanting from it something akin to Jericho – a pulpy but entertaining summer series with a hint of depth and darkness – but quite frankly it is failing to meet even those expectations thanks to minor and major failures from every level of the production team. I have previously spoken about those failures in a general sense but today I’m going to point out the specific area’s in which the show is weaker than a Skitters soft palate.

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June 29, 2011

Falling Skies – Prisoner of War

Though Falling Skies is by no means a ‘smart show’ it decided to spend it’s second week on screen convincingly constructing an episode around ‘intelligence’ in all its forms. First and foremost it set-up a whole host of cloggy expositional scenes , despite giving us the impression that the info-dump was over after last week’s lean and mean sophomore ep:

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June 18, 2011

Falling Skies – Pilot

Initially I wrote this program off kind of quickly; the combination of cast (Wyle and Bloodgood aren’t known for their stunning dramas), channel (neither for that matter are TNT) and pulpy genre concept ( given that failures like The Event, V and Flashforward were still airing / on the mind at the time) soured me from the moment of the shows announcement. However, as we near its premiere date (Sunday night, or Monday for us Aussies) I began to hear more and more about the show that got me interested in giving it a watch.

First of all is the name Spielberg. Now obviously his involvement was invoked quite often in the announcement and it didn’t ecite me then because his name is thrown around TV so much these days, that in terms of marketing it is almost the equivalent of selling your show as ‘In Colour!’. Though Spielberg’s prior attempts to foster sci-fi serii have been unsuccessful, he hasn’t been a complete televisual failure; he did after all bring us both The Pacific and A Band of Brothers, two (based on what I have seen of the latter) of the best – and really the only – war shows that the screen has seen. Thankfully then Falling Skies isn’t a Sci-Fi show, thankfully it is instead a spiritual successor to those esteemed programs.

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