Falling Skies: Complete First Season

If you like soap, you'll enjoy all the melodrama.If you wanted action. It's few and far between.Sci-fi? I suppose so because it's about aliens invading earth.75% soap 15% action 10% scifi.Overall.It has good ideas, but it takes so long to get there because of all the unecessary padding.Cheesy music is really annoying in the background. Almost as if it's a silent movie and the organ player is there to add the suspense/love/thrill into the film.The premise is flawed. The US army with all it's might is defeated, but a few people in old trucks and with small arms fire and explosives, think they can do the job that the army couldn't.It felt like being back in drama classes, when I was forced to improvise scenes in a class I didn't want to do.However, I have season 2 and I will see how that goes.

The series did run for a further four seasons before it was run down with a solid ending from all accounts.My initial thoughts were that this opening season is a bit soapish, drab and with nothing special in the cgi department.But I did stick with it, it did get better and the plot line remains very intriguing and I'm interested enough to see how the story develops ----- there are at the moment so many plot holes and I'd like to see some of them resolved .Three stars as I'm not sure which way to go on this. It went to a fifth season which shows some promise.

Falling Skies reminds me of so many other recent TV serials - Revolution, Jericho, Heroes, etc. An idea is stretched out as long as they can possibly take it and then some. You Know you are watching a series rather than a film as it is heavy on the characterisation, light on action. This series borrows from just about everywhere - War of the Worlds, V, The Puppet Masters, Tripods, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, etc, etc. There is not so far a fresh new take on any of these ideas either, so it is just an ok series to pass the time with.The effects are somewhat patchy - the Skitters look ok but the Mechs look almost as poorly animated as those walker things from the original Star Wars films.Is it worth pressing on with to watch series two? I'm currently undecided on this but usually if these things make it past the first series they do start to get better with hopefully bigger budgets and new directions.

I binge watch a lot of tv series and have watched a whole season in one night, I had trouble watching the first couple of episodes but by the third I ordered series 2+3 It has an excellent story line and a talented cast the special effects team have worked very hard and the interaction between characters works which is sometimes lost in some programs all in all it turned into a very entertaining program and I look forward to season two tonight

I'm a big fan of Noah Wyle and I enjoy a good Scifi series, so when I saw this being advertised, I was immediately interested. We're thrown in the deep end, following the alien invasion, so it does take a bit of time to work out what's going on - not for the faint-hearted! - but with perseverance, it does begin to make sense and then the characters come into their own. The world building with the aliens is well done and the scripts are strong and well paced. The ending of the series had me wanting to go on to the next one to find out what happens next.