Falling Skies
Good idea, though certainly not new. The execution, though, is fucking awful.
The writing is absolutely atrocious, which makes it seem like a terrible shame to see all that money going towards the big budget animation for the aliens. It's just a bunch of obvious, hackneyed characters:
- hardass military guy
- academic that's in constant conflict with the military guy who's tougher than he seems
- dumbfucks willing to act in the most irrational way possible when a fight with aliens needs to be set up
- chick that's incapable of spitting out three words without trying to baptize someone (very overdone)
- doctor that's also in conflict with the military guy and a shoulder to cry on for the academic
- intelligent cutthroat that's just out for himself (will undoubtedly morph into a "Sawyer" at some point)
These characters just shoot at aliens, then celebrate by trading shitty lines riddled with clichés that you could see coming from a mile away. I'm gonna keep watching though in the hope that the evangelical chick gets torn in six pieces by an alien and shouts "I WAS WRONG; THERE IS NO GOD!" just before her head pops off.
This television show is very bad, and I will dance a celebratory jig when it is canceled.
ROzbeans
14 years ago
Isn't this show supposed to save scifi tv series or something?
Gongaa
14 years ago
It's doing a fucking terrible job of it. Unless "save" here is meant in the "DEMONS OUT!" sense of the word.
pharren
14 years ago
Is Fringe in need of saving? That show, or at least the first two seasons, were wtfawesome. And Heroes, also, was really a great show imo, if you can handle the Lost-like constant faction changes and such... Then again, Heroes got cancelled, so maybe it was in need of saving.
TEEHEE
Gongaa
I'm gonna keep watching though in the hope that the evangelical chick gets torn in six pieces by an alien and shouts "I WAS WRONG; THERE IS NO GOD!" just before her head pops off.
TEEHEE
Kelefane
14 years ago
This show pisses me off yet again. Why oh why couldnt it of been classic types of UFOs (Flying Saucers) and the so called "Greys" taking over earth? Instead of fucking mechs and robots and android troopers and shit. wtfux
Gongaa
14 years ago
Wow, man. They dialed Ms. Pat Robertson down in a hurry. This show still sucks though.
For Tom Mason's pep talk, it seems like the director huddled up with him and said, "All right, man. Here's what we need. You've gotta deliver this fucking pep talk as if you were trying to fail out of high school drama class, feel me?"
And that fucking Rick kid... I hope he gets ground up into a fucking emo hamburger.
For Tom Mason's pep talk, it seems like the director huddled up with him and said, "All right, man. Here's what we need. You've gotta deliver this fucking pep talk as if you were trying to fail out of high school drama class, feel me?"
And that fucking Rick kid... I hope he gets ground up into a fucking emo hamburger.
Gongaa
13 years ago
Well, I watched the second season of this, and it was going really well until the season finale. They had really turned the show around and made it possible to give a shit about the characters, and I thought "Red Eye" was a cool addition.
They dropped the ball on the last episode, though. It felt like they had originally written the story to span a 2 episode block, and had to cut it down to one episode at the last minute. People were having sudden changes of heart for no apparent reason and just generally acting like turkeys. There was a part near the end that made me laugh out loud with its badness, but I can't go into it without spoiling things. Just watch for a crowd of people to appear out of nowhere with the most obvious and awkward cue ever and let the lols commence!
edit: To give credit where it's due, I think the lighting on one of the final shots where Hal is looking in the mirror was fantastic.
They dropped the ball on the last episode, though. It felt like they had originally written the story to span a 2 episode block, and had to cut it down to one episode at the last minute. People were having sudden changes of heart for no apparent reason and just generally acting like turkeys. There was a part near the end that made me laugh out loud with its badness, but I can't go into it without spoiling things. Just watch for a crowd of people to appear out of nowhere with the most obvious and awkward cue ever and let the lols commence!
edit: To give credit where it's due, I think the lighting on one of the final shots where Hal is looking in the mirror was fantastic.