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It was pretty obvious that he was guarding his corpse family from the moment you saw him. That and they already did the "person protecting alien family members" at least once this season already.
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Has Falling Skies always been filmed in 100% outrageously distracting shaky cam, because I never noticed it before, but this episode, holy poo poo. Did we really need a slow shaky pan around Pope, or a headbob as the camera follows before Tom running between cover?
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Jul 27, 2015 13:04
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Pope is slowly turning into Max Payne. All we need now is some slo-mo effects of him jumping and firing two guns at people.
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Jul 27, 2015 13:11
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If you guys want to watch a post apocalyptic Alien drama then watch Defiance. Defiance is just a beautiful little show and the character dev, continuity and plot advancement is savant.
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Jul 27, 2015 13:32
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Pretty sure you're preaching to the choir homie.
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So what happened with Cochise's father's position as space president? Someone else fill the rank? Did I miss that part while skipping thru the lame parts?
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kruna posted:So what happened with Cochise's father's position as space president? Someone else fill the rank? Did I miss that part while skipping thru the lame parts? It's joined the realm of forgotten plot points. It has great company.
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Jul 29, 2015 06:40
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"I have to die now." "No yay don't. " "Ok. What is this hu mon emotion called love?"
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"I shall speak in English since you choose their customs over ours"
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kruna posted:So what happened with Cochise's father's position as space president? Someone else fill the rank? Did I miss that part while skipping thru the lame parts? He was just a general I think.
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kruna posted:So what happened with Cochise's father's position as space president? Someone else fill the rank? Did I miss that part while skipping thru the lame parts? I thought the remaining space french were there against orders as the rest of them hosed off to fight somewhere else. MacDougall posted:If you guys want to watch a post apocalyptic Alien drama then watch Defiance. Defiance is just a beautiful little show and the character dev, continuity and plot advancement is savant. You watch Falling Skies for very different reasons from why you watch Defiance.
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Pope is pissed that people die under Mason's command so he exiles non combat civilians dooming them to... death? E: Oh my God this Pope storyline us just offensively bad, even for Falling Skies. Pope harasses Hal about innocent people dying under Tom's command and then 30 seconds later executes someone because they're injured? FISHMANPET fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Jul 30, 2015 |
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Jul 30, 2015 04:32
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Boogaleeboo posted:Pope discovers the ammo the mechs use is literally just regular bullets with magic metal on the end of them, demonstrates it by using a normal gun to blast a massive hole in mech armor. A ton of it is made for the team, the result being....actually sweet gently caress all, they still fire full auto and rarely hit anything. And it's never mentioned again in season 2. This. This was what turned me, finally. I wanted to love this show so hard and the, "hey wait let's beef up our ammo and maybe not die all the time" really worked for me, until they blew it in one single gunfight at the end of a season, only to for it to not exist anymore at the beginning of the next. At all. Because then they wouldn't be outclassed 100% of the time and the whole thing falls apart (worse). I didn't even know I was hatewatching it until I saw this thread but here I am slogging though Dead Rising Psycho Pope. 
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"Man, I really liked V." "Me too, it was amazing. The whole Nazi-symbolism as a critique of Reaganism was amazing!" "Are you talking about the special? I never saw that. I'm thinking about the TV show. The fast growing Starchild with magical powers and then they introduced so much. It really let your imagination run wild." "You mean they burned through writers so it never had a coherent plot?" "Yeah, let's recreate that experience!"
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This show was bad from day one, if you stuck around hoping for it to be anything but I don't know what to tell you.
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I think most of us were hoping for a more consistent kind of terrible. None of the plotlines have been good but I was hoping they'd at least stick with any given bad plotline. I normally "listen" to TV as opposed to "watch" TV because I'm doing something else and it is background unless it grabs me. But I can normally follow what is going on from week-to-week by listening. Not so with Falling Skies. It has achieved a wonderful sort of Nirvana where it exists only in the moment and the connection of any given moment between any other moment is non-existent. Plot threads start just to end, no conclusion.
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I don't think anyone here thinks this show isn't bad. That's kind of the point. But I'm personally watching it for closure and because there's nothing else to watch and the show is just that right kind of bad that it's somewhat entertaining. I should probably catch up to the last ship.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I should probably catch up to the last ship. The Last Ship actually improved this year, so yeah. This isn't exactly high praise, but it's at least a trend in a good direction, as opposed to... this.
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Aug 2, 2015 23:58
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So, to recap... * Deus ex insecta * Cochise can't use forceps. * Flying insect swarm nest? What flying insect swarm nest? * Find telephone == win war. * Maggie is a chump. And only four episodes left in the series. This is shaping up to be an incredible finale!
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Maggie's story was incredibly dumb. I don't even have any words to describe how dumb she was/is. Those people and their kids were kinda dumb too, like, did they think their kids were never going to do what kids do and explore? I don't really understand what the point of any of these two stories were. They also showed the communication thing like they showed in the preview, but never actually expand on it so whelp, filler episode I guess.
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I've finally find a race of Aliens dumber then the Race from Harry Turtledove's In The Balance Series, and they got their rear end kicked by a humanity at WWII levels of technology despite being capable of interstellar travel. 
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Aug 4, 2015 01:20
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The whole series has more filler than plot. Do people making these really think people watch a story about an alien invasion for the personal drama? Or maybe their budget ran out, the last few episodes have been people being dumb, then some alien thing happens in the last few minutes. How many episodes are left anyway?
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Ah Christ. I've been riding this poo poo train since day 1, but I finally had to fast forward through the last two terrible episodes. I guess I can take some comfort in the fact that over the last few years, my standards for what I'll watch in the summer while drunk have clearly improved. This garbage makes The Strain look like Breaking Bad in comparison.
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Captain Neck Wound is clearly under alien control of some kind, and will likely die in brutal fashion next week. Only 3 episodes left until everyone on Earth is killed due to stupidity, most likely.
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In a shocking twist, it will be revealed in the last episode that the evil aliens actually killed off the human race years ago. What we've been watching are the fevered dreams of Tom Mason, the lone human survivor, as his brain is experimented on aboard an alien ship.
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counterfeitsaint posted:In a shocking twist, it will be revealed in the last episode that the evil aliens actually killed off the human race years ago. What we've been watching are the fevered dreams of Tom Mason, the lone human survivor, as his brain is experimented on aboard an alien ship. That would explain the "Brazil" references on the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtHEgINHO0
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I'm watching it right now but why don't they just move the box that the walkie talkie thing is in rather than devising a system of levers and pulleys?
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Can someone refresh my memory as to what happened to the other US military dudes from Charleston a few seasons ago? They had the callback this episode to the civilians of Charleston being relocated to Brazil but what happened to the soldiers who were there? Where is Dale Dye's colonel character? I wouldn't be surprised if this is yet another example of the show dropping plot threads/characters.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:39
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One episode down and literally no closer to getting to Washington to wrap this thing up. Fantastic. EDIT: Also, holy loving  at just ripping out spikes with a pair of pliers. Makes the Volm Magic Fingers thing completely unnecessary.
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Aug 10, 2015 23:45
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The third to last episode before the show ends forever. This is the best time to introduce new characters and new, previously unmentioned aspects of the characters pasts.
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NecroBob posted:One episode down and literally no closer to getting to Washington to wrap this thing up. It really really hurt!! Also what are the odds Pope winds up saving the 2nd Mass from the 20th predictably evil military unit we've seen turn evil within 10 minutes of being introduced?
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Ha I hadn't noticed this was the last season of the series. 3 episodes to wrap up everything??? Oh my
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SimpleAnarchy posted:Can someone refresh my memory as to what happened to the other US military dudes from Charleston a few seasons ago? They had the callback this episode to the civilians of Charleston being relocated to Brazil but what happened to the soldiers who were there? Where is Dale Dye's colonel character? Tom became their president. They got attacked by aliens. I think they were absorbed into the main group somehow.
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I don't remember exactly, but I like to just assume the 2nd Mass (or whatever) went out on a mission, and just forgot to ever come back, and now they're off doing something else.
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Charleston was either bombed or thrown into the ghettos, the show never says which. Frankly it's more hilarious that they're in awe of a working military when they met with the President's soldiers in season 3 but the whole show seems to have forgotten that season exists.
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McTimmy posted:Charleston was either bombed or thrown into the ghettos, the show never says which. Frankly it's more hilarious that they're in awe of a working military when they met with the President's soldiers in season 3 but the whole show seems to have forgotten that season exists. Now I wonder if we will even see Pope again, which would just be hilarious if we didn't. Or he shows up Millennium Falcon style 5 minutes to the end with no mention of his blood feud with the Mason family's plot armor ever mentioned. I put nothing past this show.
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IRQ posted:Now I wonder if we will even see Pope again, which would just be hilarious if we didn't. Or he shows up Millennium Falcon style 5 minutes to the end with no mention of his blood feud with the Mason family's plot armor ever mentioned. Either of these things will be amazing. I'm actually pretty excited to see exactly how they decide to gently caress this up.
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moleman posted:Ah Christ. I've been riding this poo poo train since day 1, but I finally had to fast forward through the last two terrible episodes. I guess I can take some comfort in the fact that over the last few years, my standards for what I'll watch in the summer while drunk have clearly improved. This garbage makes The Strain look like Breaking Bad in comparison. This show is definitely best enjoyed while shitfaced. When you come out of your blackout the next morning, all the filler is forgotten. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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The start of this episode made me think that I accidentally picked the recording of the first Charleston episode.
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