Well there is a bunch of guys out there standing still in a group who want to kill me. Should I quietly aim and shoot one or two before they can get to cover? Naw I'll just yell and shoot wildly out the door
Well still watching, and it still isn’t really getting better. Which kind of sucks because the actual sci-fi story line is good. What happened in this episode … a lady gave birth, the military guy helped move the baby, the religious Mexican girl played the piano, the kids played soccer, the Mexican girl sang. Whole lot of exciting stuff right? Oh yeah another black good guy dies, actually two black guys and a white guy die on the good team, but the first black guy who dies doesn’t actually have a name or lines so not sure if he counts.
Oh yeah Pope came back and he is really the only interesting character in the show. It really didn’t make sense that he spared one of the traitors’ lives though. I mean he comes back later in the show and starts killing the collaborators, so why didn’t he take out that one when he had the chance. Maybe because it was close quarters with a knife and they didn’t want to show it…whereas someone shooting a gun and someone else falling down in the distance is acceptable in family television.
One thing that is pretty laughable is that no one seems to aim their guns, they also don’t seem to sneak attack people. When the kids were escaping they could have possibly taken out a couple of the guards, who were totally unaware. Also how about the traitor daughter who yells to warn the others they are escaping. They did nothing to her. They could have at least knifed her real quick to shut her up. Then at the end when they see her a second time, again they do nothing to her.
The funniest part was at the end when the Mexican girl started singing. I actually laughed out loud at that point.
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Is my shirt red?
BTW that storyline about the nice people at the sanctuary who are really feeding strangers to the aliens to keep them off their backs is straight out of Day of the Triffids. It would have been nice if they had acknowledged it in someway – maybe a particularly spooky pot plant.
It sort of is, in the day the triffids they were feeding the old and sick to the triffids right? It was being done by a nun or something.
It was in the book of DotT and recent teleseries but not in the 60s movie. The nun waqss played by Maggie Smith I think. Thinking about it the writer of f-s is a bit of a John Wyndham fan – he uses some of his tropes especially the ambivalent role of the children ala Midwich Cuckoos/Village of the Damned, not to mention endowing them with psychic powers ala The Chrysalids. No problem with that and it might explain the emphasis on the children. That scary girl was definitely the best part of the last two eps and maybe if some of the children side with the skitters and rebel things will improve.
You should see the 1981 series Day of the Triffids http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_%281981_TV_series%29
I believe the sacrificing is in it, it’s much better then the new series
I just wanted to say that I love your tags. People who watch Falling Skies need to have a support group so that we can make it through the season finale together.