There was a lot incorrect with last dark ’s Falling Skies sequence — including an over - reliance on plot hammer and bozo twist — but the show at least tried to do tangible case developing . And this minute shows when they absolutely succeeded .
In a nutshell , last dark ’s Falling Skies had the Second Mass up against it , with swarms of brand unexampled Skitters massing in a valley . I judge that ’s where the bug come from that bit Tom , and the bug was n’t responsible for for Tom hallucinating his dead wife a 2d time after all ? Anyway , Tom has to fancy out how to wipe out these new Skitters , and where they ’re being created — and , because this is the final season and sentence is short , he accomplish all of that in this episode .
I could be here all day listing things that bugged me . As common , when one of Tom ’s kids travel off half - cocked it turn out to be a good thing — Hal goes off with Maggie , dog that little girl and her Skitterized blood brother , and this guide to the capture of an Overlord who conveniently love everything . Later , Maggie and Ben involve that Tom torture the Overlord , even though they ’ll palpate it — because then they can study the Overlord ’s mind , because the master are improbably hefty telepaths with ZERO mental control . Yup . And then Anthony dissipate the Overlord , because we ’ve randomly settle after days of him being the steadiest member of this crew that he ’s losing his creative thinker because someone he scarce knew ( Denny ) die .
But the interesting part of the installment has to do with Tom face a dilemma — relieve Pope ’s girl Sarah first , or rush off to ruin the new Skitter factory ? We know that Sarah is toast , because she has a few gratuitous scenes where she talks about how she ’s just three day away from retirement , and she and Pope are going to make babies , and everything is arrant , and she has everything to dwell for . But it ’s cold - full-blooded , the elbow room that Tom just cannonball along off to put down the Skitters and decide he ’ll get to Sarah later . That ’s straight - up cold .
And the clip above , where Dan order that he does n’t think they should have rescued Sarah before attacking the Skitter manufacturing plant — but he can remember a time when Tom would have made that choice ? That ’s passing effective . It ’s a cracking recall to the earlier seasons , when Dan was always happy to sacrifice the civilians ( or anybody , really ) to achieve his destination . And now , that ’s Tom .
Of course , the effectuality is somewhat blunted by the fact that we do n’t have it away how much of Tom ’s change is existent character reference development , and how much is foreign hallucination screwing with his head . by the bye , plainly the alien that impersonated Tom ’s utter married woman is a phallus of the presumed - nonextant metal money that were mutated into Skitters . And the Overlords have some kind of closed book near Fayetteville that they ’re using a jamming gimmick to keep secret . Also , something else occult natural event in DC . In a few scenes about this clobber , Tom moderately much turn to the camera and say “ And that ’s our endgame for the rest of the series . ”
Anyway , credit where acknowledgment ’s due — Tom ’s choice to let Sarah break down was a super interesting piece of characterization , and Dan quietly calling him on how he ’s lost his mankind was full-strength . This show has a really strong cast and did a lot of work to establish its characters back in its first distich seasons — so it can still lean on those things , when it remember to .
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