Falling Skies

Premiering in June, "Falling Skies" stars Noah Wyle as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force. Moon Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation. The series also stars Drew Roy as Hal and Maxim Knight as Matt, Tom's two sons; and Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group's commissary. Will Patton plays a fierce leader of the resistance

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possibly i may watch this

Yep saw trailer some time ago, looks excellent.

Started last night, was decent.

It's fine for a summer program but there is some really awkward and groan inducing character moments in every episode. Noah Wyle and Moon Bloodgood have no chemestry to speak of, every time they are on screen together it is embarrassing to watch.

Pope doesn't make much sense, he is a well read, intelligent racist hardened criminal who makes Harry Potter references? Still, he is fun and interesting to watch, which isn't true of the rest of the cast.

been watching since the two hour telemovie... while noah wyle was well casted everyone else really wasn't..

the aliens are right out of spielberg's war of the worlds remake seems like..

I haven't liked Noah Wyle in anything I've seen him in since ER.

I tried to watch the first episode, but I couldn't get through it, does it get better?

CGI looks fantastic from the commercials.

Premiering in June, "Falling Skies" stars Noah Wyle as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force.

So, basically V?

There have been so many alien invasion stories lately.

Originally posted by Nephthys
So, basically V?

There have been so many alien invasion stories lately.

its because aliens are easily accessible and cheap

this was picked up for a second season, i believe

Hopefully now that they have his stupid kid back the plot can start moving forward. If the story doesn't advance soon, and the characters aren't given something compelling to do, I might have to step out on this one.

The show was quite promising but has not delivered so far.

I wasn't feeling the first arc, but I have to say with the exception of a few plot points that stretched believability (months into the invasion and they are just now doing a proper alien autopsy?) the last few episodes have been fantastic. I'm can't wait for the two hour season finale, and I have to say that if it wasn't for Breaking Bad, Falling Skies would the best summer program this year.

So should I watch it from the beginning?

Originally posted by Mindset
So should I watch it from the beginning?

The first five aren't very good, there is some really forced relationships / melodrama and cliche characterization but they do have some plot and character information that you might like to have. Maybe watch the last three episodes (which I felt were great and got progressively better), and you can decide if you like it enough to go back and watch from the beginning.

I had watch only few episode of this show and i really liked it.

Bump...

Saw that the season finale for this was on tonight and I've never even heard of it until now. Might have to check it out sometime.

I watched the 1st season and there was a massive gap over here between it finishing and a 2nd season coming out so kinda lost interest. It was decent enough. Pretty much 'The walking dead' but with aliens.

They tried to focus on too many characters though. It takes very skilled writing to have so many characters and still have the viewer give a shit about them all. The Wire and Game of Thrones do it better than anything else. The Walking Dead JUST stays the right side of the line by smartly killing off as many people as they introduce. Falling Skies falls just on the other side of the line and suffers a bit for it in my opinion.

On the whole it's what you'd expect from a sci-fi series with a limited budget. The effects are about on par with seeing the cylon land battles in the new Battlestar Galactica.

Massively disappointed with this series.