Right around the time I first joined the cast of Under the Dome, I was smoking a bowl with the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. (They make a special kind of bong for alien mega-artifacts, which is part tesseract and part vape and part flying prehistoric bone. You can only really smoke one of those if you were…
The human race is doomed. That’s what I take away from the final episode of Falling Skies, in which the human race is saved in such a slapdash and unconvincing manner, you sense that everyone concerned felt as though humanity actually deserves to perish. God, this show. What the hell happened?
Forget The Winds of Winter! There’s one book that fans have been awaiting fervently, for years, now—and it’s finally coming. David Gerrold tells io9 that A Method For Madness, the fifth book in his Chtorr series, will be done in a couple of months.
There was a lot wrong with last night’s Falling Skies episode—including an over-reliance on plot hammers and zany twists—but the show at least tried to do real character development. And this moment shows when they absolutely succeeded.
I’m seriously wondering. There have been plenty of TV shows that have gone through a slump, and then miraculously re-emerged. But has any TV show ever dug itself as deep as Falling Skies, and then found its way back out again? Spoilers ahead...
Last night, Sony premiered the first-ever look at that teenage alien invasion movie The 5th Wave. And what started out as a boy-meets-girl, high school love story got fairly dark fairly fast. But we’re still not sure what to think about this movie.
This tweet from Priscilla puts a whole new spin on the original 1980s V series. A lot of things about Diana's plans are suddenly starting to make a lot more sense.
In artist Sung Choi's concept art series ARK, an alien invasion drives humanity from Earth. Fortunately, we find a habitable planet to make our home after the horrors of war.
Joe lives a perfect 1964 life in a perfect house behind a white picket fence and a manicured lawn. But one day he comes home to find that his wife Betty isn't cooking dinner. The truth is, she has very different plans for their life going forward.
Falling Skies still has one season left, but it's pretty clear that this show will be remembered for its wacky spit-take moments at the end of each season, among other things. But which season-ending moment of ridonkulousness is the best? We have a handy poll.
Falling Skies' latest (and penultimate) season got off to a rocky start, with Nazi reeducation camps, Tom Mason as a masked superhero, and Tom's daughter Lexi as a creepy cult-leader. But over the past few weeks, this show has seemed to find its groove again. At least somewhat. Spoilers again...
Falling Skies is always at its best when it's dealing with mild body horror — the show's original "hook" was the harnessed children, and since then the most compelling stuff has always involved humans being changed by contact with aliens. So it was nice to see a lot of that in last Sunday's episode.
Luc Besson's "superpowered drug mule" movie Lucy went to some pretty intense places in its final act. And concept artist Ben Mauro did a lot to shape the look of those scenes. Check out more of Mauro's Lucy concept art below — plus Mauro's attempts to reinvent alien invasions, and create a live-action movie of his own…
You know, there's probably a historical precedent for a leader who overreaches and over-promises, while hypocritically protecting his own family from the consequences of their actions. Napoelon, maybe? In any case, last night's Falling Skies finally showed Tom Mason falling short. Thank goodness. Spoilers ahead...
They don't make villain conferences like this any more. One of the interchangeable aliens from this season of Falling Skies grabs a lump of coal and scrunches it into a red diamond, so he can have a teleconference with another alien, in a burning hellscape lifted from a Mortal Kombat game.
That was the big question I kept asking as I watched the latest episode of this gritty alien-invasion war drama. Plus, why doesn't Tom Mason put together a soccer team to escape from the prison camp? That would have been way cooler. Spoilers ahead...
Here it is: the scene where Falling Skies basically abandons any notion of having a coherent plot. It's sort of fitting that Falling Skies' slide into illogic began with Tom Mason randomly getting on a spaceship, and it ends with the same thing. Spoilers ahead...
Edge of Tomorrow had some pretty amazing visuals, including aliens who proved to be a formidable enemy. But in designing the aliens that would kill Tom Cruise over and over, the designers started out with some pretty wild — and creepy — ideas.
Falling Skies was originally sold as a gritty war drama, created by the writer of Saving Private Ryan. And since then it's been about twenty different things. But now, I guess we're getting to see what happens when the humans have lost the war against the aliens. Spoilers ahead...
Remember Falling Skies? It's coming back, in a couple months. And this time around, the Second Mass is even more bedraggled than ever, judging from this promo. Also, Tom and Anne's half-alien daughter is apparently already fully grown, and still creepy.
