Falling skies

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madanthonywayne

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There's a new SciFi program coming out this month, it's not on SyFy which is.now the WWE channel, it's on TNT and was produced by Steven Spielberg and the producer from SGU.

It's called Falling Skies. Here's a review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/a...le-and-will-patton-in-tnts-falling-skies.html

And here's the Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjroVVhe8G0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It's nice to see some new scifi coming out what with all the cancellations we've had lately. Perhaps this show will have a chance, since it's not on a major network and has some big names behind it.

I'll be crossing my fingers hoping that

  1. It's good
  2. If it is good, it doesn't get cancelled as soon as i start to like it
 
I know I'm watching it.

I was disappointed by Heroes and quit watching The Event. This better be good!!!
 
madanthonywayne said:
I'll be crossing my fingers hoping that

  1. It's good
  2. If it is good, it doesn't get cancelled as soon as i start to like it
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1. Possible. I like the idea of having the invasion in the past and the aliens being sort of a background, so the viewer is about as in the dark as the characters, maybe more so, like in Lost or Cloverfield.

2. It's got big names behind it, but you know gorram networks.
 
Well I watched parts of it and I wasn't impressed at all. I didn't like the "feel" of the whole thing and the characters were very weak because the writting was weaker. Special effects weren't to bad but that's not saying much when I was expecting much more. Reminded me of Invaders from Mars, War of the Worlds and Tripods all intertwined with each other. A hodgepoge of stuff that didn't hold my attention for very long. :(
 
I'm up undecided so far. The only really interesting character was the leader of the gang that tried to steal the GTO with the gun mounted on it.

Still, I think it's worth giving it a chance, but I'm certainly not hooked yet.
 
Anybody else still watching this? The season finale is next week. Looks like it should be good.
 
madanthonywayne said:
I'm up undecided so far. The only really interesting character was the leader of the gang that tried to steal the GTO with the gun mounted on it.

Still, I think it's worth giving it a chance, but I'm certainly not hooked yet.
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I agree, he is the best charachter. I'm over it already. Not watching it anymore
 
It had potential, for sure.
I only started watching it because it was shot around where I live. They certainly didn't advertise it well. Now that I've watched it, I can't say it's too promising. It's getting bogged down with too much unnecessary pseudo-preachiness. Go figure, Spielberg's involved...

sigh
 
I hate the show. I think it sucks. I watched two episodes and was hoping that it would end up being good. Totally disappointed.

~String
 
glaucon said:
It had potential, for sure.
I only started watching it because it was shot around where I live. They certainly didn't advertise it well. Now that I've watched it, I can't say it's too promising. It's getting bogged down with too much unnecessary pseudo-preachiness. Go figure, Spielberg's involved...

sigh
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yeah
humans are unique in their capacity for.......................... and whatnot
we are god's children
we are speshul
 
Gustav said:
yeah
humans are unique in their capacity for.......................... and whatnot
we are god's children
we are speshul
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Precisely.

Wake up Steven; it needs to be entertaining, not didactic...
 
i highly doubt its gonna make it to a second season. the story is flat on the ground. everyone is a pussy. while their being threaten by fucking extinction and billions are dead, their concerned about...having their kids go to school?huh? really?
and why are the cities still so clean? they should be in ruin with corpses all over the fucking place! BILLIONS of people, but not a single corpse. the skitters (terrible name, i know) eat corpses apparently...oh, and they use scrap metal and slaves...what? invent robots, their better than KIDS! go and mine asteroid, you'll get an order of magnitude more resources than you would ever get from Earth.

i never like a story in which the aliens just invade For The Evilulz, but at least make it exiting for fuck sake. yeah, this show sucks donkey balls.
 
I watched the pilot and the first couple of episodes, but found it boring and drifted away.

It struck me as a 'chick-flick' with aliens in the background. We weren't given any information about the big world-wide picture or about what precisely was happening. Instead we were just dropped into the situation months after the aliens devastating arrival and the camera-angle was always narrowly on a few people's personal relationships. It was never clear to me why anyone was doing whatever they happened to be doing, other than to give them an opportunity to interact and emote. Even then, the acting wasn't gripping enough to make me care very much.
 
I watched a few episodes...but became disgusted with the fact that all of the characters are fully retarded. They seem to do the exact opposite of what they should do....and I end up yelling at the screen. On this show, it seems the best way to get someone to do something, is to tell them to do the exact opposite. "Johnny...what ever you do...DON'T clean your room!"
 
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MacGyver1968 said:
I watched a few episodes...but became disgusted with the fact that all of the characters are fully retarded. They seem to do the exact opposite of what they should do....
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Good point, but: you don't typically experience this while watching any US-based SciFi TV shows and/or flicks?
 
Sounds like it hit that point of fail, where you really don't care if any of the characters die.

Kinda where Skyline was about 5 mins in.
 
Yazata said:
I watched the pilot and the first couple of episodes, but found it boring and drifted away.

It struck me as a 'chick-flick' with aliens in the background. We weren't given any information about the big world-wide picture or about what precisely was happening. Instead we were just dropped into the situation months after the aliens devastating arrival and the camera-angle was always narrowly on a few people's personal relationships. It was never clear to me why anyone was doing whatever they happened to be doing, other than to give them an opportunity to interact and emote. Even then, the acting wasn't gripping enough to make me care very much.
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Seconded. During the intro to the pilot episode, as the children were describing the alien takeover of the Earth, I couldn't help but think "Wow, that sounds pretty interesting. Maybe someone should make a TV show about it????"

I have never understood this tendency of TV writers to take a premise that seems to offer the possibility for extraordinary drama (like, say, living in a grim post-alien-invasion world) and then blow it on boring emotive, inter-personal time filler. Emotion in a drama is fine. Exploring inter-personal relationships in a drama is fine. But for f*ck's sake, you have a bunch of rag-tag survivors living on a planet that was conquered by aliens. WHY ISN'T ANYTHING INTERESTING HAPPENING?
 
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