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Offline Sirgod

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Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« on: June 19, 2011, 05:26:19 pm »
Might as well throw a thread together for us to discuss.

http://www.tnt.tv/series/fallingskies/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Skies

Falling Skies (2011) - Official Trailer


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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2011, 05:41:32 pm »
If done right, could be cool. I'll keep half an eye on it.
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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2011, 06:21:26 pm »
I won't be watching it. I am a television Luddite, no cable or satellite. :)
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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2011, 04:48:56 pm »
I tried last night but I just couldn't watch it.

The effects seemed well done - but why did all the humans have apparent lobotomies?

Maybe it got better after a while - but it just felt like a poor man's walking dead to me for some reason...

Anyone else see it? Did it get better or at least less nonsensical?

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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2011, 01:50:08 pm »
I kind of liked to be honest. The tensions between the old Military and the civilians I think will be a hook, and of course it coming from Hollywood, it portrays the military in a negative light at times, Or better yet, The leader is like that Second in command guy on BSG. The one who lost his eye.

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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2011, 06:14:20 pm »
I liked it, although a major word of advice - if you can watch it on DVR or your cable company's "on demand" or whatever, do so. Frakkin commercials every 9 minutes - painful...

And, politely, I disagree, Sirgod - I don't think there's a "anti-millitary bias" in that premiere, it was pretty frank and honest. The "military" (read rag-tag militia) views the civillans as a burden and/or drain in a war setting and the show didn't backpedal on that or prove that wrong. The BSG comparison is a good one - the shows about fighting aliens, some of the characters are military and some civilian. Shold be interesting to see how this progresses, better than "V" did, I hope.
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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2011, 10:11:39 pm »
See, this is what I Must politely disagree with, my friend.

The show set up that Premise, and kept with it, which is Grossly Inaccurate, and a slam on the Military we do have. It was honest only to itself, but not the Real World Military , who do in fact care about civilians.  Who do treat them better than themselves in many cases. It's like saying the sky will always be purple, than filming nothing but purple skies, while not as insulting to the real world blue sky, it is still a falsehood.

Now granted , I am biased after my time in the Corp, and it is possible I am reading something in there that isn't. But I just now , in the real world, the military would have tried to help the guy get his son back, They wouldn't have made agreements on do this first and then you can do that. They would have just added it to the mission list. Hollywood and TV both have a long tradition though of portraying the military in a negative light, and It's just my opinion I saw some of that here. But to be honest, it's such a minor nit pick I prb. shouldn't have even brought it up.

Anyways, life experiences will always bias how we look at things , and This is a good example of that, between myself, and my friend TAnimaL.

Besides, I'm getting old and just like to bitch about things, and If I didn't like it, I wouldn't bitch about it at all. :D

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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2011, 12:16:06 pm »
OK, I hear you and see your point; I have to say I see some "confirmation bias" in your response but at least you're aware of it. To quibble, in the show, it's not "The Military" but a barely organized armed group desperate to stay alive and start strking back, and the "rescue the son" bit is an obvious plotpoint for dramatic tension. (TV Scriptwriting 101, and you just know they're going to find him...a bit lazy, if you ask me)

To be honest, I posted because of my knee-jerk reaction to knee-jerk "Hollywood/TV is just liberal lies" memes. Not saying yours was just that, but it was leaning that way (to me). Just to finish my thought, Hollywood is a business first and always and there's plenty of "traditions" that come out of there. When I posted y'day my son was watching "Transfomers" (Michael Bay), which carries on another tradition of "pro-military/dumb government" films, as an example.

You're totally right too; if the thing sucked, we wouldn't be talking about it, would we?

I'm glad you brought it up; Stuff to think about next time I watch movies/TV.
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Re: Waiting for the premier of Falling Skies.
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2011, 12:53:04 pm »
I am starting to dig this show a bit more - after a mixed pilot.

I still wonder how they go about making some of their strategic decisions - but maybe it is the irrational nature of man itself that proves somewhat invaluable to the continued success of the resistance.

Anyways seems fun - will give this a little more of my time.

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