RE: Falling Skies
Okay, so the Series Finale aired tonight, and while it actually did a halfway decent job of answering the questions that most people asked, it really felt sort of rushed. If they had made that whole attack on Washington 2 episodes, it might have done this more justice.
What we know: The first question asked in Season 1 was why the Espheni came to earth. While we sort of got hints at why at different points, it was answered today, through their queen. By the way...I hated the idea of a talking Queen. Especially one that looked like a creature straight out of the Harry Potter novels. But oh well. The Espheni first discovered earth 1500 years ago. Earth was considered key in their plans of a Universe wide Empire. It was the only planet in the Galaxy that could sustain life, and it had an enviornment and location that suited them. 1500 years ago, they first invaded Earth with a much smaller force, believing the population to be more primitive. The Queen's daughter led the invasion, and she was killed along with the force. (Their actually is a myth out there about Aliens invading thousands of years ago, Show just decided to tie it in to this. They vowed that when they were a hundred times stronger, they would return and wipe out humanity. The Espheni saw Earth's population sort of like a snake. If you cut off the head of a snake, the body dies. They believed that if they killed off Earth's leaders, that the rest of humanity would give up the fight. Never understanding that humanity doesn't work like that. They became obsessed with Killing Tom for a full season plus because of that reason. The ironic thing is, the Espheni are like a snake. Cut off the head, the body dies. It was shown all 5 seasons, you killed an overlord, the Skitters stopped fighting cohesively. Kill the Queen, the Espheni die off. (Sort of like a colony of insects)
The thing about this series was, had they simply led to this point. Taken the whole Skitter Hybrid Alien baby turned super human out of the equation, focused by the resistance, this sort of ending would make sense. The problem is, Tom killing a large talking Spiker with a super weapon as it tried to suck his blood out like a real spider does...sort of just loooked...well, weird. Bringing back the last member of a race killed by the Espheni as a plot character to help the ending is fine. It's just once Lexi was created...the whole series jumped the shark.
We answered questions though: Matt Mason goes on to write a book about the experience. Hal marries Maggie. Tom and Anne marry and have a real human child. Matt continues his relationship with that girl friend of his. Ben and Weaver survive whole. Anthony becomes a Solider. The Volm become friends and allies of humanity. Tom turns down the Presidency twice ala George Washington, but sort of becomes a key advisory figure that the entire new world leadership comes too. The series ends fittingly enough, with him giving a speech in front of hundreds of thousands of survivors at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, and a new World Order is created where different countries become one species, working together. (In a mythical sort of way, its similar to how Star Trek used to claim humanity stopped fighting itself. Aliens came, we realized we needed to work together to survive, yada yada yada.
It wasn't a terrible finale. It tied in much better to Seasons 1 and 2. It's just the show got so lost in Season 4, that even Pope's eventual death (that correctly did not come at Tom's hands) wasn't enough to bring it back.
Complete side note, but if this series had ever had the guts to kill a Ben or a Hal off, it would have been far better in my eyes.
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2015 10:33 PM by chiefsfan.)
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