YJ02
Well Known GateFan
The Strain?Remember I am a cord cutter...never heard of it before now.
http://www.fxnetworks.com/thestrain
Falling Skies Gets Fourth Season
- Thread starter Overmind One
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http://www.fxnetworks.com/thestrain
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
The Strain?
It's opposite Failing Skies. It's about a plague that is really caused by a (worm-like) vampire. It's by the guy who did Pans Labrynth (del Torro something or other). It's not great by any means but I just got so tired of FS I had to watch something else.
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Backstep
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So far the strain hass run like the book. Can wait till the vamp.......
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
And at least they're telling the story from the beginning unlike Failing Skies.
This episode was a complete waste. It almost seems as though it was made up as they were filming it, then some editor somewhere crafted the episode from random footage and threw in some unconvincing, lame CGI mechs. Notice how the mechs are less than 50 feet away, but the humans are not detected and they do not move out of the way? At one point, Hal is in the forest and a mech is walking directly towards him...then it turns as he watches it pass? Not very good composite acting. I know, the mech wasnt really there, but he could have acted like there was. And Lexi
They have done the magical powers thing and hair blowing fan in EVERY episode this season, bar none. I think the credits should list Hair Blower Guy
Ah yes, episode 6 which has not yet been posted.
I watched episode 5. Im not expecting much...it should be up before the night is out.
Episode 6 now downloaded...Im going to watch it now.
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
I only saw a couple minutes of this episode while commercials were playing for The Strain and even with that little bit of viewing I could see they were setting up the battle between "good alien" vs. "bad alien" for next week.
And the family angst and drama, oy vey! "Don't touch Lexi!" "No one's gonna touch Lexi!" "I'm staying here to guard Lexi!" "Let's all insert tampons as we guard Lexi!" "Lexi! Lexi! Lexi!"
Oh, and by the way it got "renewed" but with next season as the last.
http://screencrush.com/falling-skies-season-5-canceled-renewed-tnt-2015/
http://screencrush.com/falling-skies-season-5-canceled-renewed-tnt-2015/
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
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Backstep
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Falling Skies was meh, this season it has gone off the rails. 
Falling Skies was meh, this season it has gone off the rails.
Exactly. It is as though it was sober for three seasons, and then it got hooked on something and started rapidly degrading.
. I felt the same way with Battlestar Galactica just before season 2. With magical changing Lexi and the awesome work of the Hair Blowing Guy, we have an utterly ridiculous dive into incoherent fragments of a plot. Ben dreaming of banging Maggie, cocoons and inter-family angst, and it all centers on magical Lexi. . Hopefully, season 5 wraps it up neatly. They have no excuse.
Actually I would say BSG went off the rails at the end of S2 - it was still good up until the "Pegasus" two parter and even after that had a couple of good episodes (The Captain's Hand, Scar). But the finale of S2 was not good and the show went loopy next season.
And who came on board later in S2? David Eick who this season took over as the show runner of Falling Skies!
And who came on board later in S2? David Eick who this season took over as the show runner of Falling Skies!
Quite right! I meant to say before season 3.
You know, from when we discussed it before. But yes, this felt like that. I was like..."what happened?". Everything has gone wonky this season in Falling Skies. Its the kind of stupid that you have to intentionally create for dramatic effect.