I watched the first two episodes of 'Falling Skies'
I had mixed feelings while watching this. unfortunately most of them were bad.
During the two hours I went from feeling that it just wasn't my thing to being bored to being annoyed to actively hating it to being intrigued for about 30 seconds then to just giving up on the show altogether
The acting and relationships were very generic and the plot was predictable. It never felt like they were actually at war. There was never any emotion and when they tried to throw in an emotional scene it was just a big product placement. My palm was literally in my face.
At the beginning of the second episode there was a conversation about why the alien mechs were bipedal when they themselves had more than two legs. I found that interesting. Unfortunately they dropped it after 30 seconds and never mentioned it again.
The stupidity of a certain child character who blew their cover to save his dog (is that cliche yet?) made me so angry that I was hoping that the mechs would shoot him.
I didn't mean to get so negative on it. Uh, the CGI is pretty... Unfortunately theres not even enough action to be a show that you turn your brain off to watch.
I can't see this running for very long. Looks like another failed sci-fi series so far. I had high hopes for this after seeing the trailers all over the place. They just can't seem to get television sci-fi right lately.
2 out of 10 balls
Negative Nancy, Signing off.