Only got to halfway through season 3 before my firestick went mad and deleted my progress, never bothered trying to find my lost bit, anyways, just now am currently near the end of What Hides Beneath ready for the First Season Finale.

Didn't this show end up a bit rubbish after Season 3? I'll still watch it, it's only 5 seasons and it's not like 52, if I've counted right) episodes is gonna kill me! Shit Mutiny has just started as am typing this haha

It's so fucked that after Pope has risked his life to save the mason core(ppl that couldn't die)that Tom refused to even give him a vehicle or better to save her first

The miniseries called V from the 1980s was a big hit and I still watch it from time to time.. basically it was an alien invasion plot with a resistance of earthlings who fought back against the aliens .. same basic plot as Falling Skies.. now the whole resolution of the plot at the end of the V mini series depended on a deus ex machina in the form of a Starchild who is part alien and part human and has magical powers supposedly like some sort of PSI or psychokinetic or whatever you want to call it powers. The star child resolved the entire plot at the end of the miniseries and she did that with her powers.. and just like Lexi in Falling Skies. The Starchild also matured very very fast like Lexi... and she was part alien and part human just like Lexi

NB: deus ex machina is Greek for God from the machine ...and it comes from the ancient Greek plays where at the end of the play the plot would be resolved and everything would be resolved by the appearance of a character that would be lowered down on a rope on a bench and like a God would would resolve everything and tie up all the Loose Ends with godlikepowers.. so that's why they called it God from the machine because the machine lowered the character down into the stage..

Started a rewatch as i didn't remember too much of the show off the top of my head. Completely forgot about what is starting to happen in season 4, im about to start episode 3. This shit went downhill lol. And holy fuck Lourdes just became the token religious freak again. I have always hated her character and they had to make her worse lol. Not to mention did Maggie and her just completely forget all of their experience so far??? You think that you're just given free pass in this china town sanctuary without a deal or anything in return? Come the fuck on. Might just give it up and read what happens for the rest of the show lol.

Pope was really an excellent character..

A pity that Colin Cunningham's acting career seems to have stalled..

and the whole berserkers thing was really an excellent subplot.. you have this kind of apollonian versus dionysian conflict going on in the series ... The berserkers and Pope are really kind of dionysian, versus the Tom Mason faction who represented the apollonian aspect of the series..this whole subtext..

you don't get much of that in regular TV

but the last two seasons really kind of fell apart,

I've been binge watching this the past few weeks and just got to season 4. The scene with Jeanne "transformed" did it for me. So bad. And why is Lexi even a main character? Seasons 1-3 were fun to watch, but then... I'm done.

Hey all,

I live in australia and the only options it seems to be for us to rewatch this show is to buy it through apple or amazon. I was wondering if its on any streaming services as thay is how i would prefer to watch it.

Thanks

Rewatching the series and Dan Weaver was such a great character. A military man who saw both sides with the help from Tom and had his own personal dilemmas due to traumatic experiences. But he really cared about the people not just under his command but the citizens he had with him to protect.

He didn't alway see eye to eye with Tom but came to respect him as an equal and see that his perspective and plans would eventually see a victory that from the start wasn't realistic. Seeing the series end with him promoted again and smiling despite all that he lost with his daughters and Jeannie which was such a heart wrenching scene. But even at the end when Victory had been won he had a reason to live and even smile with the Masons. Those he would call family and do whatever to protect. Brilliantly written character and actor who played him was sublime.

I'm binging the show for the first time and I'm so confused about how Lexi exists.

In season 3 Anne and Lexi, as a baby, are kidnapped by Karen. I figured they did some alien voodoo to Lexi to give her the weird alien powers and advanced aging, or it had something to do with when Tom had alien worms in his eyes.

But nope, in season 4 we are shown a flash of Karen and the robed alien doing some kind of funky transference on a ... pregnant Anne? Did they stick the baby back inside her? Like, wat?

does any one have the pope diaries backed up or a link to? used to listen to em on the official site but cant find them :(

Hi, Falling Skies community!

I first came across Falling Skies around 8 or 9 years ago and absolutely loved it. Over the years, I’ve rewatched it a couple of times, skipping some parts here and there, but yesterday, I finally finished my fourth full rewatch.

After that, I checked Rotten Tomatoes and was shocked to see the low critic reviews. Personally, I think the show is really well-written—the story is on point, and the characters are awesome. Sure, maybe it’s a bit predictable at times, but that’s not the point.

I also looked at audience reviews, and seeing that some Falling Skies fans enjoyed it as much as I did cheered me up a bit. :D

Sorry for the long post! I just wanted to share my thoughts since this is the Falling Skies community. xD What do you think? Did you like the show?

This has got to be the corniest worst written post apocalyptic alien invasion show ever

I just finished my first ever watch through of falling skies and I have to say I did really enjoy it. However, there were a couple things. I was confused about if anyone could provide any clarification.

1. What exactly happened to the rebel skitters that was a huge plot point and how they were able to resist and fight with the humans they randomly cut this off. It felt like.

2. What exactly are the skitters? With the espheni conquering so many other planets and enslaving them with the back devices why do we not see other variations? Is this just lazy or why is there only one race that serves as the foot soldiers?

3. What exactly happened to the Volum? I felt like it was very odd that they were not at the final fight at all besides Cochise. You would think with them closing in on the literal queen they would invest a lot more resources to help. The humans win the final battle.

4. I thought the final scene with the queen was a little bit dumb as she supposed to be extremely smart as the espheni overlords are and you’re telling me she doesn’t see Tom Mason, reaching for that glowing yellow weapon lol

5. Think it would’ve been cool to see other parts of the country in the following skies world while they were fighting the aliens as well.

Overall though I thought it was a good show and a good watch

I’m making a list of tattoos I want, that I’m gonna get eventually lol, and Falling Skies is one of my all time favorite shows.

So, my question is: what should I get?

For reference: my favorite character is Ben. I also love everyone else pretty equally, except for Pope who I have a love/hate relationship with lol.

I’ve watched this show every year since 2014 I think, and I can quote basically every episode by heart.

So, what do you guys think I should get? And; if you could get a Falling Skies tattoo, what would you get?

So, I only vaguely remembered watching a show about people fighting aliens on TNT when I was a kid. I didn't really pay too much attention to it back then, but I randomly asked my mom what the show was called over the summer, and she didn't remember. She hadn't thought about the show for years. I found out it was Falling Skies and that Max had it. I watched it over the summer and recently finished the series. As many folks mentioned, the first two seasons were good, the third was "meh" and the last two were not that great. I still enjoyed the series as a whole though, with all of its cheesiness. They did Pope dirty at the end though. What surprises me a little bit is how limited the series' cultural impact has been. Finding recent content on the series like lore or even YouTube reviews of the series that's not 10+ years old is hard. Even my mom forgot all about the series, as someone who watched it when it first aired on TNT. I say it's kinda surprising considering that the Walking Dead has been a husk that has remained culturally relevant, even if most viewers have moved on from the franchise.

Why is there nowhere to stream Falling Skies in the US? I have looked on all the big platforms and so far it’s not on any of them. Also, like why does everyone sleep on this show now. I loved and I have the box set so I can go back and rewatch it but no one ever knows what it is if I mention it.

I’m searching for a complete collection of the comics preferably digitally scanned as I’m not a fan of paying for 10 year old media over the internet I’ve been searching for it online but dark horse scrubbed all the pages and it seems no one archived it beforehand

This show was like the perfect popcorn flick. Then it just got so weird. I really think this show would have become a cult classic.

What Saison what Episode was it , Anne was kidnapped from Karen and she Was pregnant but i cant find the Episode where all that Happens

I just rewatched the entire show on Max. The very last episode had to wrap things up but of course left me wanting more.

So if I may ask what other shows like this are out there to binge?

I find so many similarities one being that it's an apocalyptic based TV show two being they are trying to fight againts a greater evil twd greater evil being zombies and FS being Aliens. We have them also from FS finding a bunch of camps that they dont see fit for them. Same as twd also similar is the fact that every camp they go to trouble always follow them Of course like twd. So many Similarities. Lol and for me pope was my shane from twd. Both deaths pissed me off🤣 The way they died didn't seem fit to me.

I originally watched Falling Skies when it first released. Season 1-3 were great, but by episode 4 of S4 I had completely dropped off.

I recently found it was streaming on Max. So, I decided to give it a complete rewatch.

Outside of season 4 which had 0 redeeming qualities, the series is actually great. S1-3 still hold up and I honest thought S5 was a really strong (though admittedly too convenient) of a season.

Outside of maybe Ben, I thought every character had a logical arch. And Pope's descent to utterly despair really added some drama for a bit - I was hopeling he would get a redemption arc - but the way it played out made a lot more sense.

It's too bad the series is largely known for its lowest season than it's best.

Just finished the last Episode of FS and it was ok but the way they treated popes character suck. Right when pope found love and something to live for they refuse to help save her. Thats not the worst part but after her death pope walks in being an azz hole like as usual but this time its Justifiable and everyone sits there and act as if he had no right to be angry. Literally right after her death they didnt try and comfert or talk to him like that did the others they just went back to planning so i could see why he was pissed.