People hang metal 'leaves' inscribed with the names of their beloved lost on the tree's branches, pausing for prayer. It's "Falling Skies"' creators crafting a new spirituality that works for people coping with old gods that looked the other way.
There's a breeze of classic Spielberg optimism here that just makes everything achier. While the military deals with their pyrrhic victory, we return to the story of Doctor Glass and Tom's strange child, who grows at a terrifying intellectual rate while continuing to appear as an infant—until there's no hiding her true nature from Tom in a shocker reveal: Still only a few months old, Lexi is now the height of a six year old.
When she sees Lourdes in agony and near death from the hundreds of insect-like probes buzzing in her head, a single glance makes them fall out of her eyes and turn to what looks like onyx dust. Then Lexi says "Hi Daddy! Kudos to Wyle for getting down the mix of shock, dawning realization that it was something the Overlords did when they abducted him that caused Lexi's difference, and bursting love and pride for her being so awesome. And then his terror for what all of this means: Having an older son, Hal, who caused untold numbers of people to die while under alien control; and Ben, who may have had his harness removed but is still in psychic connection with the Espheni, a boy of two countries who can separate from neither; and now a daughter with the DNA of two worlds.
Hal has three children who are immediate danger from a body politic recently betrayed. But even with his fear of what the fragged Second Mass might do to his family, now poster children for the evils of alien miscegenation, and his barely checked terror of having the Other alive and doing things in his own body—even with all that, Tom doesn't bail, or balk at this radically new idea of family. If anything, he loves them more fiercely. Tom proves himself the equal to Doctor Glass, who all season long has had to live with, explore and control the information about these issues as they developed, never giving in to fear or other peoples' hysteria, alone, for her reasons.
Much like "Battlestar Galactica" finales, this season of "Falling Skies" ends with nothing but exciting question marks. It has so effectively destroyed its settings, goals, and our assumptions while pushing its characters to such no-way-back extremes that it's hard to imagine what the show might be next season.
But I'm betting it involves lots of angry villagers. Ian Grey September 01, But as Season Three ends we know that hell can freeze over and pigs can fly because, thanks to some top writers in the genre hired, I assume, to revivify and save Spielberg's turkey from the worst of his inclinations, "Skies" is now not only not terrible, but terrific, a smart, overwhelmingly emotional one of a kind. It's become a transgressively spiritual war story that uses the persistence of constant loss as a way to explore how we redefine family in hard times.
The immigration allegory and gender power and culture war subtexts enrich but don't overwhelm the show, and the violence is designed to generate anxiety rather than action-film kicks. Yes, it sometimes meanders, but when you think how monumentally terrible "Skies" was so recently, it feels like we're in the realm of the miraculous, and that warrants some taking stock. A hardscrabble group of patriots—the 'Second Mass', as in the regiment of Battle of Gettysburg fame—fight the brown-skinned, multi-legged, creatures that humans dubbed "skitters," a name that always made me think of delicious candy.
The skitters' main threat is in their numbers and ability to use technology to fool young people into believing their side of the story. Later it's revealed that the skitters are actually slaves to the bio-mechanical Overlords. A group of rebel skitters lobby for the right to fight alongside humans, going so far as to wear American colors on their skin.
Again, science fiction is never about the future or space or aliens. Anthony later murdered it when it was trying to use the Shadow Plane to communicate with other Overlords.
Despite several setbacks, the Dornia's arrival and the greater success of the resistance has forced the Espheni to begin construction of a as-of-yet unknown weapon which could turn the war back in their favor, while the Dornia have begun constructing their own unknown weapon to supposedly render the Espheni extinct.
Following the destruction of the Espheni power station, the 2nd Mass has begun a march on Washington, DC to defeat the Espheni once and for all, collecting other militia groups along the way. The Dornia reveal to Tom Mason that this being is actually the Espheni queen who only comes to a planet when victory is certain. They supply Tom Mason with a weapon that when used in the queen's presence, will wipe out the Espheni. After discovering that the Espheni have erected a powerful defensive wall around the city, Tom Mason decides that instead of an all-out attack on the Lincoln Memorial, they will launch a surgical strike to assassinate the queen.
While the other militias assault the wall directly and create a distraction, Tom and Colonel Weaver lead a small team to the Lincoln Memorial through the city's service tunnels.
Tom is eventually separated from his team, but reaches the Lincoln Memorial alone. In the ruins of the Memorial, Tom and the Espheni queen come face to face and the queen explains the Espheni's history with Earth and why she wants humanity destroyed.
When the queen starts draining his blood, Tom infects himself with the Dornia bioweapon. The virus passes through his blood into the queen, killing her. With the queen's death, all the other Espheni start dying and explode into ashes one by one, rendering the race extinct and freeing the Earth from their rule. Overlords are tall humanoid bipeds with smooth gray skin, standing roughly twice as tall as a human and three times as tall as a skitter, though compared to a human their body is skinny and elongated.
Their graceful gait indicates that they are able to move about easily in Earth gravity. Their overall features are somewhat fleshy and blubbery, though their proportions are quite skinny so they do not appear bloated. They do not have a very pronounced neck: while their head is fairly far away from their shoulders, powerful neck muscles smoothly transition from the torso to the head.
The top of the head possesses a fairly rounded bullet-shaped point. Indeed, of their facial features only the eyes are particularly prominent, with well-defined eye sockets and seemingly mammalian eyes, spaced only slightly further apart than on a human. Otherwise, they have very weak and poorly defined chins, small and difficult to observe ears, and a poorly defined nose. They actually don't have a "nose" so much as the forehead smoothly slopes down between the eyes down to the upper lip, which in turn slopes down their poorly defined chin into their "neck".
They do possess four nostril-slits, two on each side of the head, but much higher than on a human. The small nostrils are located close to the inner corner of each eye. They do seem to have a normal vertebrate mouth, though it is made clear in Worlds Apart they are not capable of speech and are instead able to speak through humans telepathically and make grunts if pain is inflicted upon them.
Overall, the upper body gives the vague impression of a humanoid dolphin; hence Pope's nickname for them: Fishheads. The body itself is thin and elongated, but lithe and sinewy. They seem almost unnaturally flexible and graceful, willowy but well-muscled. They seem to possess the same general body plan as a human, just with different proportions i. While nearly twice as tall as a human, they have been observed "stooping" to move around in the hallways of human buildings, without too much trouble.
Their arms are skinny and come down to their knees. The wounding of an Overlord in Molon Labe suggests that their internal physiology is vastly different from humans, far greater than their outward appearance would suggest, as Anne was apparently unable to find a way to remove the bullet or stop the bleeding. Their blood is also blue, suggesting that the species uses hemocyanin - a copper-based protein - as the basis for their circulatory fluids similar to Earth arthropods e.
The Overlords have incredibly advanced brains and are able to store unfathomable amounts of data in their heads. Consequently, they don't need or use computers. However, there is a drawback to this, as if an Espheni is killed all the information they stored is lost.
Despite their frail appearance and their preference not to fight, the Overlords possess incredible physical strength and are more than capable of holding their own in a fight. This was demonstrated when the Overlord managed to break the heavy metal chains meant to restrain him by doing little more than standing up and swinging his arms. Later he took on Red Eye and mortally wounded him, albeit with his blade. They are also capable of surviving injuries that would be fatal to others, shown when Scorch survives a direct hit from a flamethrower, and was giving orders almost immediately after.
As shown in Evolve or Die, the Espheni can communicate with each other via telepathy even if they are not in close proximity with each other, through some sort of psychic middle ground. It is possible that the Espheni possess a telepathic link with their technology, thus explaining their abundant use of biotechnology as it is their primary means of interacting with and controlling it. In Door Number Three , the Volm tell the humans that the Espheni hatch from cocoons and that when they emerge from their evolution, they are at their most violent.
Volm warriors have standing orders to kill any Espheni hatchling they come across. Espheni cocoons also generate great amounts of heat to ward off danger but can apparently sense when someone or something doesn't mean it any harm. As the Volm have orders to kill any hatchlings they come across, it is more likely the Espheni inside is defending itself.
According to Cochise , Espheni hatchlings are more violent than their adult selves. When disturbed, a single nest can rip through enemy warriors with ease. One disturbed nest once wiped out 11 Volm in seconds. In Reborn , its revealed that the Espheni Queen has a connection to all the members of her species.
As a result, infecting the queen with the Dornia bioweapon will infect the entire species and destroy them. Little is known about the Esphenis' society and beliefs, but what the Overlord said to Tom in Worlds Apart is true, they find the notion of killing and oppressing one's own species morally disgusting.
What is known about the Overlords is that they have no qualms when it comes to wiping out and enslaving other races by the billions, though this was revealed be a desperate tactic they use because of the fact that they are being pursued by an extremely dangerous alien race that they attacked and enslaved without provocation, and also due to their war with the Volm race, yet another species they attacked.
They also appear to be somewhat arrogant, thinking little of humans and looking down on them. This arrogance may stem, at least in part, from their incredibly advanced intelligence. The Overlords appear to be a naturally calm species, seen when an Overlord shows little fear when Tom had a gun pointed at his head. They also seem to have a very cold outlook on life, viewing sentiment, compassion, and love as weaknesses.
The Overlords also care nothing for their slaves, having been shown to be more than willing to kill them so as to make a point. In Molon Labe , Karen speaks to Hal as he escorts her about how everything in the universe is interconnected from every star in the night sky right down to the smallest subatomic particle, and if you understand the web of connections you can make solid predictions, though there are always variables.
It is unknown if this is an Overlord philosophy, but with Karen insisting the original Karen is long gone, the idea may be from the Overlords. The Overlord that was captured and later killed by Tom Mason was in command of all forces in "eastern North America". The exact borders of these command zones haven't been revealed. Similar to interactions with humans, Espheni communicate with each other telepathically as well. Through unknown means they compress dirt to form a crystal which allows them to communicate over great distances.
Scorch and The Monk communicated this way. Given that the term is Latin for twins it could mean that they are blood brothers, close allies, or of equal ranking in the Espheni hierarchy. Evolve or Die. Its eventually revealed that the Overlords themselves serve a queen.
Given Cochise 's surprise, this is not a well-known fact. Stalag 14th Virginia Its indicated by the Alexis clone that the Overlords see their queen as a living god. Its revealed in Reborn that the reason the Espheni want the human race destroyed is 1, years ago the Espheni tried to conquer Earth. They were defeated by the humans of that time and the Espheni Queen 's beloved daughter was killed.
The queen also claims that the humans ate her daughter to gain strength. The invasion failed and humanity apparently created the Nazca Lines as a result. The queen swore revenge, determined to wipe out humanity to get revenge for her daughter's death.
The Overlords at first held little regard for humans as evident by the invasion, and if the harnessed Karen's words are anything to go by in "What Hides Beneath" they viewed humanity as vermin to be exterminated if they crossed paths. However, by the season finale they are intrigued by Humanity's resistance, surprised that a less advanced race has been able to hinder them to such a degree.
In the episode " Worlds Apart " an Overlord told Tom Mason that if humanity surrendered the Overlords would set aside special camps for humans to live in peace; this of course may have been a lie.
This similarity is noted by Tom Mason in his rejection of the alien's proposal. The alien's retort is to refer to far more sudden but just as devastating events. After the destruction of their Boston ship, the Espheni took a far harsher, direct stance on humanity. They established ghettos across the planet, not tolerating any dissidence. They also took to taking children, and instead of harnessing them, tried to gain their support through propaganda. However if any were known to be close by, the 2nd Mass would hunt them down, like the Overlord hiding in Woodrow Wilson High School.
With the power core destroyed, humanity organized against the Espheni and marched on Espheni bases across the world. A lot people also complain about the characters saying they are flat and not developed.
Let me counter it by saying this. You can't compare this TV show which only gets 10 episodes a season with another show that gets a season. They have WAY less time to tell story and develop characters. They do a great job with the little amount of episodes they get. The 2nd season vastly improves on the first season and amps up the stakes on all levels. I would recommend this show to any SciFi fan. It's a fun show to watch and I find myself loving the characters and wanting to see how they survive not only the aliens but also the daily challenges placed before them for basic survival.
Don't write it off because of what other people say. Try watching it for yourself, you won't regret it. FAQ 7. Why do the Skitters have six legs and two arms, but the Mechs have only two legs and two arms? The Skitters did not create the Mechs, the Eshpheni who have 2 arms and two legs did. So the Mechs were created to a degree in their own image.
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