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So who is watching Falling Skies tonight? 9pm TNT


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It seems like every good Alien TV show is getting canceled, I loved the Event and V and now both gone. I hope Falling Skies is good and will stick around. Steven Spielberg has his hand in it so it should be good. Lot's of good reviews so far.

Dubbed Mechs and Skitters, the extraterrestrial bad guys in Steven Spielberg’s new sci-fi series Falling Skies raise a key question: Do alien monsters really seem that scary on TV?

The two-hour pilot episode, which airs Sunday on TNT and will be telecast to more than 75 countries, dramatizes the chaotic aftermath of an alien invasion as a ragtag band of civilians try to cope. The survivalist theme is a familiar one, thanks to recent wasteland sagas including TV’s Jericho and movies like Battle: Los Angeles, Skyline, The Road, Terminator Salvation and Spielberg’s own War of the Worlds remake.

Post-apocalypse fatigue syndrome aside, Falling Skies faces a suspension of disbelief dilemma. The visual effects appear to be well-executed and would probably trigger shock and awe if they came to life on a big movie screen enhanced by a thunderous sound system. But delivered through a normal television set, the creatures feel kind of dinky. When hooved aliens come clomping down a country road, it sounds like coconut halves being pounded against a tile floor by the Foley artist in charge of sound effects.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/falling-skies/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/la-et-falling-skies-20110617,0,3465480.story

Like many members of the Spielbergian generation, I grew up in a time when children spent their summer days roaming. Carrying canteens and old canvas satchels, we were inevitably on the run, mostly from Nazis, though occasionally from aliens. We dashed through cornfields, set booby traps in the woods, hid in trembling, sweaty groups behind trees and punched twitchy younger siblings to keep them from giggling. We bent branches into bows, sharpened sticks into spears with our pen knives, ate mint and blackberries and roots we told ourselves were sassafras and tried to build campfires with no matches. We nursed our own wounded because if any sobbing, bleeding child made his way back to Mom, everyone would be in big trouble.

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Don't listen Super8 was a great great movie and you will dig the music.

sell me on it man. i wanna see it but have not heard anything compelling yet. oh and we are due for a lunch.

we now bring you your thread, already in progress.

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