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Post by nia on Jul 25, 2013 3:45:13 GMT -5
I loved this episode that I actually felt like making a comment. Man, after seeing this, I really wish we could have seen Noah just doing a more "regular" show without the ugly beard and the constant fighting and aliens. Most of those episodes really don't work for me - it's like the same thing over and over. The storytelling really isn't very good at all. The same rolling around in cars with guns, shooting at stuff, constant paranoia of aliens, and the plot never seems to move. When there are shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men on basic cable, I feel like they should have much better plots and themes than constantly shooting aliens and them taking over human bodies constantly.
I liked this episode just because it was so different. Thank god!
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Post by dutchy on Jul 25, 2013 3:55:11 GMT -5
Yes, we've seen three seasons filled with the same footage now. Personally I think that Falling Skies is a war series. They even use this green "army" filter with hardly any color.
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Post by claired80 on Jul 25, 2013 10:17:23 GMT -5
It's been two years now since the invasion took place. The surviors are constantly in fighting mode and the city of Charleston has turned into a permanent army base. They don't seem to feel the necessity to clean up the rubble from the streets and to rebuild their city. I am more interested in everyday things such as food, clothes, communication, education etc. It must be a hard job providing for 5,000 inhabitants without daily supplies from shops and wholesalers. While I don't miss to not know what happened in the first months of the invasion, I agree with you that they left holes about how they manage to have a quite "normal life". FS has grown to have quite a big scifi fan base, and if you read critics, people are complaining about episodes like Strange Brew (too slow, not enough action, not enough aliens...). My bet is that they are trying to satisfy this audience, without giving away the drama (that's a very fine line! :  I see that writing an episode explaining the daily basic survival is not easy, but there's definitely something missing here for me. Just showing a few goats and having Hal saying to the Picketts that they have crops is not enough... I feel like the writers consider it an already played storyline (briefly in season 1, they were searching for gas, for food... )  Hey, at least they got horses, which is easier to explain than riding motorcycles with endless gas. But a lone guy making the electricity work all the time? I don't buy that... What seems like endless medical supplies and ammunition either. They will have to run out of those at a point! I quite like it  And what I like most is the few times they don't use it to create a totally different atmosphere (beginning of Strange Brew of course... ) Something else a bit bothering me: what's with Ben's spikes? He doesn't want them removed, but we know the crusty green skin on his back was growing between seasons 1 and 2. Did that magically stop? |
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And what I like most is the few times they don't use it to create a totally different atmosphere (beginning of Strange Brew of course... )