'Falling Skies' – a lacklustre end to a show of great promise.
People knew that this season was to be the end of "Falling Skies" and were hoping for something dramatic, something riveting. None of this happened. The end was a mess and not even Tom's speech, a la Lincoln could save it.
The series finale had a confused script riddled with cliches and an overdose of machines. Till the last moments, nothing works at killing the dreaded Espheni queen, but Tom Mason saves Earth by knocking off the Espheni queen.
Now it's time to meet new aliens who are kind. During the final battle, Anne succumbs to her wounds. Tom loves her so much that he cannot let go. He carries Anne's body to the river where a new alien form awaits them. These aliens have tentacles and they drag Anne out of the river and saves her.
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These scenes and their kind have been the reason for the downfall of "Falling Skies". Lots of sentimentality, mushy stuff going on at the time of alien occupation ruined the great premise set up in the initial seasons.
Once upon a time, this was one of Steven Spielberg's more successful efforts as a TV producer. "Falling Skies" started off as a great alien occupation drama that showed great promise for a lot of scenarios to be blended in. Instead, the series progressively became a soap opera with lots of distractions, like the alien baby who ages fast, the overdose of machines, and the inevitable clash of humans against their own kind in spite of a horrible alien at our doorstep.
Then there was the mandatory big speech by Tom in 'Lincoln' style with the saved humans celebrating their victory. Would another ending have been appropriate and made audiences fell much better?
According to TV Line, executive producer David Eick revealed that a very different ending had been planned. After the big speech, people would see one of the Skitters scurrying into the night, that would suggest that the threat to humanity is far from over. Eick said, "In the original outline, after Tom crushed the vial to release the Dorniya critter to kill the Queen, we see the critter scurry away. Later, after Tom's big speech, the camera soars to the heavens — "We are not alone" — but then it zooms back down, all the way back to the Lincoln Memorial, now deserted, as that little Dorniya critter patters off into the night. However, we ultimately decided to end on a hopeful versus ominous note …"
This would have been worse. Now the time has come to put "Falling Skies" behind us and hope for something substantial from Speilberg next time around.
