Falling Skies‘ Big Cliffhanger: the Ultimate WTF

We pretty much have it off that Falling Skies was break to stop with some form of game - changing cliffhanger — it ’s in the nature of this kind of show , plus the concluding episodes were distinctly go up to it .

But we by all odds did not require that . And we ’re really not certain what to make of it . spoiler forrader …

So they go for the full tight Encounters of the Third Kind finish , huh ? It ’s sort of a sheer choice , but it feel a picayune too much as though it came out of nowhere . Both the idea that the aliens are so impressed by Tom dealing them a crucial gust that they require to invite him aboard their mothership to go attend out , and the notion that Tom would go for it .

The noncitizen ’ offering comes on the heels of a somewhat farfetched — but undoubtedly satisfying — sequence in which we get some payback . First Tom and his chum see off a total squadron of Mechs using their fancy bullet and their jamming gimmick , and then Tom handle to take out an alien ship and damage their megastructure , using a undivided roquette - launcher . You had to swallow a turn of disbelief that the aliens had never find radio interference before , and that they would be so flummoxed by having one of their platoon go under back that they would start pulling back all their forces . But we ’ve accepted more ludicrous ideas than that before .

The first of the two hours which vent last Nox sort of brought to a shut the conflict between Tom and Captain Weaver , in which they concur to just have a snuggly bromance forever alternatively . We see Captain Weaver start going off the abstruse end , with the pills and the determination to carry out the Big Mission in bitchiness of Col . Porter ’s orders , but then Tom helps overstretch him back . All of those composition about civilians versus military that the show seek to precede in its first few episodes were bring in back one more time , as Weaver in the end acknowledges that the soldiers have to keep the civilians dependable , because the civvies are the future .

But the primary fibril of the show — the human relationship between the humans and the extraterrestrial , and the way in which the aliens are transforming us into something fresh — did n’t get culminate until this WTF end come up along . We did get some variety of firmness of purpose of the history of Rick and Ben , the two razorback hog child . It turns out that that one loudmouth guy was correct not to hope these kids , since Rick sells us out — but he was also wrong , because Ben ’s electroclash radio megrim provides Scott with the frequency to jampack the aliens ’ communication and fuck up their walkers .

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So what did we learn about the harnessed kids , and the alien ’ plans for us ? First of all , that creepy little girl who cash in one’s chips to see Rick has been transformed into something a fleck more Skitter - like , with the weird green scaly skin all around her face . And the extraterrestrial being can still talk to Rick and Ben through their harnesses , but they do n’t actually need Rick back now that he ’s been cut off from the principal harness — in fact , they yank Rick ’s chain of mountains and then send him off . And it turn out that Rick is n’t quite as much of a part of the alien hive mind as he was pretending — once he realizes the aliens do n’t really love him , then he can suddenly aggrieve for his forefather .

So now that Tom and protagonist have proved that they are capable of mounting tangible resistance to the aliens , all of a sudden the extraterrestrial are “ curious ” about Tom and want to geek out about history with him . Or study him . Or mayhap all of Falling Skies time of year two will be Tom wandering around the foreign starship in a bathrobe , like Gaius Baltar in BSG season three . For some understanding , this development matte totally unconvincing to me . The aliens have only taken over the wit of millions of tiddler — what can they learn from Tom that they ca n’t ascertain from one of their mutant babies ? Why , after break up the brains of all their harnessed kids , are they still unreadable on the concept that humanity are , like , attack aircraft and stuff ?

And the idea that the stranger can get Tom to do whatever they want by act the “ Ben ” card is also kind of ludicrous . This whole season has been about the uncertainty of whether Ben was still “ on our side ” now that he ’s been harnessed , and we ’ve reckon pretty conclusively that he is . And we ’ve also see that the Skitters did n’t even need Rick back , now that he ’s been de - harnessed . And if Tom ’s main goal is to keep the aliens from conduct Ben , the best direction to do that is to remain by Ben ’s side and kill anyone who make out near him . How does Tom know the unknown wo n’t seize Ben anyway , five minutes after he walks onto their mothership ? And eventually , is Ben deserving more to Tom than his other two kid — and the whole freaking human race , for that affair ?

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It feel like one of those season - ending twisting that literally issue forth out of nowhere , because the writers need to adjust up a wild new condition quo for the next time of year . And maybe it ’ll be cool — maybe we ’ll get to drop some metre inside the exotic ship and learn more about the aliens first hand instead of just go steady them from a distance . Maybe Tom can have some long lecture with the alien leaders about the ethics of colonialism . ( But who desire to bet that the next time we see Tom , he ’s dropped on the side of another road by the alien , and he only has the dimmest recollection of what happened ? )

For a show whose whole first time of year was based around the implacable aliens who only need our children , and wanted nothing to do with the rest of us , it ’s kind of a weird turnabout . I guess we ’ll have to hold off until next summer to see if Falling Skies can in reality make it ante up off .

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