Falling Skies ended its first season with the obligatory cliff hanger, as Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) entered the alien ship for some sort of negotiation. The poor creatures don't stand a chance, they will be obliterated by his self righteousness and dogged determination. I can envisage their heads exploding like something out of Mars Attacks!
That has been the problem with Falling Skies, any decent ideas and situations, and there have been one or two, have either been drenched in sentimentality or bludgeoned to death with rhetoric. So scenes that were supposed to be moving or stirring were neither. Another gripe I have is that too many of the supporting characters failed to pop. It was just herds of them, in the background, looking determinedly stoic or stoically determined. Only three have really made an impression. Noah Wyle was good, but basically just John Carter with a beard and rifle. Then there was Will Patton as Captain Weaver, I mentioned, in an earlier review, he seemed like Lloyd Bridges in the Hot Shots films. But that was in the earlier episodes. As the season wore on he became daffier and daffier until he resembled a cross between Foghorn Leghorn and Captain Bligh on speed. The real scene stealer has been John Pope (Colin Cunningham) the anti hero type, who looks like he should be fronting a 'prog rock' band. At least his character jumped out of the dull background. A few more like him and a little less self righteousness and I might actually be looking forward to the second season of Falling Skies.
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