Falling Skies premier

[Fast Learner]

It was interesting to see a character like Pope.. Im trying to put a finger on where Ive seen that actor before.. I was thinking Stargate but im not sure.

Easy enough to check in IMDB. The actor, Colin Cunningham, has been in a lot of stuff, including a stint as Major Paul Davies in Stargate SG-1 and single appearances in the Stargate: Continuum video and Stargate: Atlantis:

Other genre shows where he's appeared in an episode or two include Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, Smallville, Andromeda, The Dead Zone, The 4400, Eureka, Sanctuary, and even more.

 

[mac1504]

Question: The 'general' we see in the first episode. The one that divides up the groups and who we dont see again. He seems to play an awful lot of high ranking military roles.. I think I remember him back in Undersiege. Has he ever been a regular in a tv show?

Matt

That's Dale Dye. Besides his numerous war movie credentials (Platoon, Saving Prive Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc.) it seems he has appeared in a couple of TV shows, but none that he was a "regular" on (mostly just minor characters). I recall reading an interview with him about the 30th anniversary of Platoon, and I believe he was also involved in the production of Falling Skies.

By IMDB, it appears he will have more scene time in the series as well.

 

[Tyranthraxus]

Thankyou.

My apologies. I always seem to forget IMDB.

 

[Kzach]

My theory is that the kids get turned into the skitters, not the mechs. The reason being that death scene where it looked up at all of them. It seemed... child-like. That, and regardless of the mech's having two legs, the design of them seems like a person couldn't fit inside.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Think Skitters are th "dog/monkeys" of the alien race, basicly not as smart as humans but able to do task for their masters. Mechs are mechs or drones, you can't have them be kids and then be killing them off, this is a rule; nazis, zombies and robots you can kill in mass and get away with it.


As far as the masters? I am leaning to lizards/human or as they have already gone puppet master with the kids, some prasite. It would be cool if they went with Cthulhu/Mind Flayers but figure they will use history to say the aliens where here before as gods.

 

[Felon]

This really hit the spot. I liked it better than Walking Dead. I'm not big on that comparison, mind you, but that's the one that keeps coming up.

I thought the reaction of the Maggie character was an especially sensible resolution to the conflict with the raiders. Stuff exactly like that would happen: YY-chromosome types just grab a woman, abuse her, and believe that with a firm hand applied she'll fall into line. Meanwhile, she's just waiting and praying for an opportunity to get away and maybe settle the score. Hope to see more of her.

And that thug leader guy seems like a prime candidate to become the "Sawyere" of this little shindig.

 

[Tyranthraxus]

Ahh the sacred Rules of TV, Hand o Evil?


I would hope that a television show could challenge that. I dont see any problem with the kids being the forced against their will pilots of the mechs.

If the resistance people are destroying the mechs, they arnt seeing the children/kids die. We as the audience might know, but the characters dont. All they see is a 2 legged smaller mech with big guns get blown up. Could they work it out if they only partially destroy a mech? Sure they could, but that would add to the problem. These mechs are trying to kill them, yet are controlled by fellow humans who are just enslaved to the Machine/aliens. So kill or be killed.

MAybe if this was on a major network like ABC or CBS this issue might have more weight. Id hope TNT would be able to fight off such stereotypes.

 

[Felon]

Ahh the sacred Rules of TV, Hand o Evil?


I would hope that a television show could challenge that. I dont see any problem with the kids being the forced against their will pilots of the mechs. .

It may well be couched as the kids being harvested for components, a la Torchwood Children of Earth.

Or, maybe it turns out the "aliens" aren't aliens at all. They're actually from the future, like in The 4400, and they need kids to repopulate the world after they blasted the hell out of it...wait, that's no good.

 

[Tyranthraxus]

Episode 3

Well having just seen episode 3 I found it interesting. Dale Dye plays authority figures so well, hes great to see

* Loved the 'fight' in the tunnel. Used Popes advice to a good extent.

* Steven Weber!.. I remember him back in a show called Wings? I predict him going evil though and I always thought of him as a comedy actor

 

[Fast Learner]

* Steven Weber!.. I remember him back in a show called Wings? I predict him going evil though and I always thought of him as a comedy actor

Since Wings almost all of his roles have been dramatic. He played could-be-evil-hard-to-say in Happy Town (mostly "hard-to-say" due to the show being cancelled) and was the antagonist in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, so there's some precedent.