I liked this episode a lot. I actually LIKED IT, and didnt just think it was the least crappy of all crappy episodes. If only as much balance had been in the other episodes, it would have been AWESOME to have this one come along. I was pleasantly surprised at the range of emotions they allowed us to see in Weaver, to see him on the virge of breaking and then being encouraged all over again.
I loved seeing the little blond kid moving away from whiney girly boy to young man wanting to get a piece of the skitters. I loved the (already predicted by Rac80) transformation of the children into skitters, and the reveal of the ruling caste aliens. I liked the closeup of the ship and the revelation that their technology is basically nothing more than recycled junk from out world instead of otherworldly metals and exotic shields and bean weapons. I loved the encouragement from developing a new weapon against the skitters, and I liked the fleshing out of these characters in new dimensions.
This episode made me actually want to see more!
. The connections and weird alliances of some humans with the aliens is intriguiging, and now we know the skitters were children first, we have the future threat from Mike's son and Ben turning into skitters. Somebody was listening! God Girl was just SMART girl in this episode, and her character plays well off Monn's character. They could just lose the blonde bad-ass gun chick at this point. This show doesnt need a T&A quotient to be successful, if the writing continues in this fashion. Its actually becoming more science fiction action show with good drama than a soap with some science fiction and action thrown in.
This reminds me of the first season of SG-1, where I didnt like it until like 10 episodes in. I could see liking this show a lot. I hope it doesnt take a tranquilizer