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Re: Falling Skies Returns Sunday

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It's not bad. I am enjoying overall. But it is not like some shows where each episode is its own separate story. Like the Walking Dead, the episodes feed into the next. If you miss one (and you are like me) you won't watch the future episodes until you watch the one you missed or you might be missing something.
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It's something that you watch between programs you really like. Never my first choice, but worth watching when everything else has been exhausted. Frankly there aren't a lot of great sci-fi options right now, so I'm glad to see something in the genre at least.

And yes, it's much better than V and Terra Nova, but that doesn't tell you much.
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Technically V lasted two seasons and we are on just season 2 for Falling Skies. Still Falling Skies is a good deal better than V. You can tell, however, that the writers are starting to slip. Hopefully the story gets better footing in the coming episodes.

One thing to consider is that Falling Skies 1st season was only 10 episodes, (I hate these half seasons) but it ended with a 5.9 ratings.
Season 2's starting episode had a 4.5 rating.
Those are strong numbers, however it will be a wait and see, between what it costs to produce and what the advertisers bring in.
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reply to Voxxjin
I guess debating which show sucked more, "V" or "Falling Skies", isn't that productive but.....I watched the original "V" so given that the edge goes to "V" for me. Not sure why the new sci-fi stuff is so bad these days. We have stuff like "V", "Terra Nova", "Lost Girl", "Falling Skies", etc. yet they cancel good stuff like "Eureka". Can we get a new series on the level of the original "Star Gate" series?

I would like to see them move away from Alien invasions, and back into space exploration.
Maybe a rebirth of Farscape, or Blake's 7, or even Space 1999.

Between V and Falling Skies, and The Event, Dr. Who, alien invasion has been a tad over done the last few years.
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I've been hoping for a relaunch of Logan's run, as a series of Movies.

There were a couple of Books that went beyond the original Logan's run book, and seemed interesting. I recall that they had tried putting together a second movie but it never went anywhere.

I can just barely recall the TV series.
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Is a person a failure for doing nothing? Or is he a failure for trying, and not succeeding at what he is attempting to do? What did you fail at today?.

reply to Voxxjin
Wasn't the round Pope demo'd a .44 or .50 revolver round? So 5.56mm or 7.62mm rounds wouldn't have as much punch, right?

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I finally got around to watching the season premier two-parter last night. I can't really remember much about season 1, but I feel like season 2 is off to a very good start. Plenty of alien-killing action, some "what did they do to me?" intrigue, and a meeting with a "skinny." And I like that they have to keep moving or risk getting trapped and slaughtered.
Like most here I find plot points involving the kids to be annoying.
I hope they eventually dissect a mech to find out where to shoot the thing to bring it down without first firing off 100 rounds of mech-piercing ammo.

More Moon Bloodgood, please.
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I could see one between Farscape and Stargate. As they both dealt with wormholes.

reply to Voxxjin
Watched this weeks episode with the lady in the airplane, telling the group about Charleston, SC, I can see it being a reservation or interment camp set up by the aliens.

I feel the same way as the last few posters.
Or, as Admiral Ackbar would say: "It's a trap!"

So far the season is pretty good.
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." - H. L. Mencken

reply to Voxxjin
Question - the commander of the 2nd Mass (I forget his name), he always has a couple pieces of string tied around a couple of his fingers. Anyone have any idea what that is about?
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