Season 4 – Falling Skies

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Hecate O The bickering between Pope, a character who seems incapable of learning from his impulsive mistakes, and just about everyone else is getting tedious. There are huge leaps in the plot lines from one series to another and conveniently the Vorm appear with a technological solution every time the group get into an impossible to resolve situation. By series 4 the plot is risible. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/12/23 Full Review Jacob H What the hell happened? Did all the writers of the first 3 seasons get fired or something? Multiple interesting plot points from the first 3 seasons are seemingly dropped for significantly less interesting concepts and ideas. Ben and Denny's enhanced strength is seemingly forgotten (as were the multitude of other spiked kids from earlier seasons). Why they didn't create their own "super squad" to prove to the humans that they are not on the aliens side and also becoming a genuine threat that the invaders would be forced to specifically strategise to try and take them off the board I'll never know. Hal was becoming a genuine leader in his own right over the last few seasons ready to take over from his father and in some ways being potentially the better leader for the survivors in the long run. He has one chance to shine and then becomes a background character for the rest of the season except to add in some "family drama". Complete waste of a character. Anne has some cool moments as a soldier early on but then just continues to ride the same "crazy train" started in the last season. She was a great character for the first 2 and a half seasons but they seem to want to mainly throw this character under the bus just to drive the plot forwards. Disappointing. Maggie was a favourite character of mine from the beginning. But she is just weird this season. The hard edged survivor with a dark history is gone and becomes a soap opera star for most of this season. She was mainly unrecognisable for most of it. Does pick up a bit again at the end of the season. But the forced "brothers triangle" thing was uninteresting. Plus Denny is a way better pairing for Ben anyway. Matt as the youngest Mason and the only one untouched by Alien DNA or mind warping I really thought might get more to chew on this season. But nope, 1 episode kind of and that's it. Another underutilised character. The rebel skitters? What rebel skitters? They just disappeared apparently and no-one even mentions them at all. The rebel uprising and spies within their own ranks was the biggest threat to the aliens to the point that humans were just a nuisance in the first few seasons. I was really interested in where the story of a conquered species who lost their homeworld and had grown around the very harness that had enslaved them looking for revenge via working with humans many of which hated them was going to go. Nowhere apparently... The goddess plotline was a waste of time. Mystical powers and weather changing abilities doesn't not make any sense in the established universe of the last seasons. If they wanted to go this route they could have done something much better. It feels out of place, takes up far to much of the season and just doesn't work at all. The forced "drama" dialogue between characters is terrible and there is way too much of it this season. Shouldn't they have more important stuff to worry about in the alien apocalypse and that as far as they know they might now be the only free humans still fighting left on the planet? Ugh... most of the interactions and dialogue between characters is just painful this season. The first 3 seasons are really well done. Cool ideas. Alien twists on battle tactics. Evolving characters. Clever technologies and innovative humans adapting to deal with it. Lots and lots of good stuff. Season 4 feels like it's some kind of parallel universe disconnected from the earlier seasons. I hope season 5 manages to correct this or they have ruined all of the potential this series had... Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/21/20 Full Review Audience Member For the first time in show history, Season Four of Falling Skies has a couple of so-so episodes. It says a lot about the show creators and actors, however, that despite a momentary lull, the season still manages to pull off some incredible drama and character development worthy of a five-star rating. This fourth season sees the 2nd Mass initially dispersed to seemingly all corners. Tom Mason (Noah Wyie) and Captain Weaver (Will Patton) are taken to an Espheni ghetto. Matt (Maxim Knight) is put in a Nazi-like brainwashing camp. Anne (Moon Bloodgood) embarks on a guerrilla-like search for her daughter Lexi. The second portion of the season focuses much of its efforts on Lexi (Scarlett Byrne), who is a child no more, but rather a hybrid of sorts. These are the episodes that wane just a bit, as the action falls off and a lot of spiritualism is introduced. Not terrible or anything, but not necessarily up to the shows previously high standards, either. Luckily, the "third act" of Season Four is some of the greatest drama the show has ever produced, as the 2nd Mass discovers a way to power down the Espheni power grid. In the words of former President John F. Kennedy: "We choose to go to the moon!" So, despite a couple of episodes that dipped a little bit, Falling Skies' fourth season still delivers what it is known for: great character moments, great human drama, and intense science fiction action. After four seasons, this show has now vaulted itself into my top-five TV shows of all-time, right up their with LOST, X-Files, 24, & Battlestar Galactica (as you can see, I'm a sci-fi guy!). Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member If i want to see something like this i would watch 1984 or Brave New World the story isn't bad but they changed everything without an explanation, i repeat the story is not bad but the storyline jumps from something to another completly different. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Probaly the worst season in the series. S4 takes a huge step backward by undoing all the hard work of s2 and s3. It is also more darker than the previous seasons. The beginning of this season drags on with the "star child" subplot. Honestly without the "star child" subplot this would've been a decent season. It also finds ridiculous excuses to undo the almost perfect ending of s3. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member This is what scifi is supposed to be like. No Space Opera here. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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