asovijarvi This series shares lots of details with the Walking Dead. A strong main character, their family, constantly chancing minor characters that get killed when the episode needs a slight emotional boost and so on.The main character's self righteous attitude started getting to me on the first season and it only got worse later on. The situations this creates are predictable and often left me wondering in what reality they thought the disastrous results from each instance of high horse riding were justified or seen as the right thing to do. There's also just "throw the remote at the TV" level stupid moments, often highlighted with characters saying things like "I will probably regret this" and 5 minutes later it's just that.My pet peeve about the whole thing was the description used to sell this: University professor uses his knowledge of history to survive alien apocalypse. Save some anecdotes here and there, very little of that happens in the series.In all, this series barely goes to category of "okay", but doesn't really bring much new to the "humanity has failed and small pockets of resistance are fighting for survival" genre.

nogrettesylvain This TV series is amazing, Falling Skies his genre science fiction and drama. His country of origin is America,the original language is English, the number of season is five of which fivety-two episodes.Flling Skies is a television series of America post-apocalyptic, science fiction. Six months after the invation of the Earth by aliens, the planet is inruins and human survivors. Tom Maon,a professor of history, findsimsel propelled as second is command of the second Massachusetts Regiment. If the survivor's goal is to try to survive, some of them will also try to understand the reason dfor the invation.

drystyx This is how to not write a screenplay.This series about alien invasion has been developed on paper, I'm sure, by much better writers. They can't be any worse.There is almost nothing here that works. Can't pinpoint just one thing, except that overall it is totally uninspired, and without credibility of plot and motivation.The writer/director team, and everyone who had a voice in this production, insisted on the most contrived outcomes that are so obviously contrived it is impossible not to groan when watching, unless one is hoarse.For example, in one section, the formula Hollywood hero tries to rescue his son from gunmen who are trying to shoot a bunch of kids (don't ask for any motivation here. There is none). He does so by surrendering his weapon to them, knowing they mean to kill him and the others, then tells the others to surrender. Magically, he gets a gun from them, magically someone else ambushes the captors, and magically it works.Don't try this in real life. If you watch this, you will see the worst military strategy imaginable, particularly on the side of the humans. You'll want the aliens to wipe out humanity if you're objective. The hero is a hateful, self righteous moron who relies on luck throughout, and you can't wait for this boring dullard to die off, but he's kept in too long, and makes a few seconds seem like an Eternity.Another problem is the complete self righteousness and divisiveness of the script. The hero, and in fact all the main characters, are impossible to relate to, impossible to empathize with, just impossible to care about. They are written in such a one dimensional way that it alienates all but the most spoiled of upper class elitists, and those sheep who mistakenly think they are allowed among them.The lack of imagination, the lack of strategy, the lack of inspiration, all totally Hollywood hate formula, along with the usual neo-Nazi preaching. The usual killing of as many hot brunettes as possible is included, which keeps the female portion of the audience happy, but depresses the males miserably.There is no saving grace to this pile of garbage. It's simply sour grapes from rich kids, and unfortunately these same idiots are in real positions of power. Which is why the U.S. military and government is always 40 years behind the savvy lower class guy on the street in logic and strategy.Divisive, racist, hate filled, self righteous, uninspired, one dimensional. All of this makes any budget a sick waste. A low budget movie with these factors isn't nearly as bad as something that actually consumes so many resources.

davidanderson-45295 My capacity for sci-fi is unlimited and my judgment is placed on hold if it's a genre series, but 'falling skies' was a tremendous disappointment. It's mawkish, sentimental, and worse - just dull in parts. The aliens are poorly conceived and executed. They have inter-stellar capability but their robots clomp about loudly and use rotating guns in the style of either the 1920s Tommy guns or the 1980s robocop. One plot line was that it was important to hide the heat from their engines, but what about the people who radiate and also they drove along roads lights blaring from their cars/trucks, etc. If a sufficiently advanced alien race could visit and have demonstrable anti-gravity, then they probably know how to scan the electromagnetic spectrum. The mawkish "family" moments were too frequent, the music too dreary, the narrative too USA-centric. A particularly egregious moment was when the aliens were seen to be "praying/worshiping" the rising sun and there was middle-eastern chant/music playing. As ever, guns and weapons are the answers. Sub rate stuff. If you want some good sci-fi there are better options out there. Stunned that it went on for so many seasons.