Falling Skies (TV Series)

[PanzerJaeger]

The premier was last Sunday. Did anyone watch? Was it any good?

It looks completely derivative, but awesome at the same time. I'm a sucker for Red Dawn type themes. Also, I think Spielberg is involved too, which is usually not a bad thing. I think I'm going to try and find it on ondemand tonight.

[Lemur]

Hmmm ... could be a good heap of fun, could be terrible. As with BSG and V, I think a big question will be what do the aliens want, and do the writers have a good answer. If not ...

[Crazed Rabbit]

I thought German Discotheques was a good answer.

CR

[Hooahguy]

I watched the first 20 minutes of this.

It reminds me of Terminator, just without the whole "guy teleporting back to save Sarah Connor" thing.

[Husar]

Err, no, thanks.

Looks like your generic alien invasion thing and half the sentences in the trailer I've heard in that exact intonation before.
I mean, when I'm bored, and I'm often bored, then I'd watch it, but I also watch german police series when I'm bored...

It doesn't seem to have any exciting premise, any twist or something that makes it more believable, it's often aliens that have superior firepower and then send out small search parties that the partisans can destroy when they might just as well blow up the whole area. District 9 had an interesting premise, it was just different. If it were done by Russians and situated in Russia, it might be different, even if it "just" means less hollywood-freedom-humanity-bravado.

For example a huge appeal of Primeval (even though I have to watch it dubbed in German) is the britishness and appeal of James Lester, it gives things a different touch but this just looks like any other US survivor story from Hollywood.

[gaelic cowboy]

I watched it courtesy of the tinterweb as it's not on here in Ireland yet, I thought it was decent enough summer tv fare twas better than the new V was at any rate.