Falling Skies (TV Series) Ghost in the Machine (2014) User Reviews

Fate of the Split Group

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 12 February 2022]

The 2nd Mass is heading to Charleston when, out of the blue, there is an Espheni attack that creates an impassable electric fence connected to a spaceship that split the group of survivors. Tom and Weaver are kept in solitaire and the lives of the survivors, including Hal, depend on the supplies provided by the alien. Another group, including Ben and Maggie, find a sanctuary in a Chinatown like place where Alexia, now a blonde teenager, is their leader. Anne is fighting in the woods and looking for Alexia. Matt is sent to a Nazi-like reeducation camp.

"Ghost in the Machine" is the first episode of the Fourth Season of "Falling Skies" with weird storylines. The plot seems to be an improvisation to have a sequence of a series that should have ended in the last Season. Let's see how the plot will go, but is not promising. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Ghost in the Machine"

Shame

[the_real_smile · 3/10 · 9 August 2014]

What have the following series in common: Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, The 4400, Falling Skies? They all are great series which, at some point, introduce a new season that had broken with the letter season(s) in such a way that it resulted in the ending of that series.

Apart from the fact that the directing is very messy, better call it sloppy, the first episodes, the story does not help either. For some weird story twist the Volm has abandoned earth, except for a few Volm fighters. The Espheni became, over-night, superior again. As with the 3th season in BSG humans are not murdered by their dominator's, but being imprisoned. Since FS was a good series you might give it some slack, but the ridiculous logic in this all is just too much to stomach.

They better could have started the fourth season that the humans have been given a space ship and let the story take it from there.

V Rip-off

[galahad58-1 · 3/10 · 7 July 2014]

I used to enjoy Falling Skies, but now that they stole the "star child" idea from V it is falling apart. The star child idea was one of the things that killed V years ago and that same idiotic idea is destroying Falling Skies. Nothing is more ridiculous than a hybrid that has special powers who puts every human being at risk--while at the same time her family will not destroy her and allow humans to be killed and enslaved for this one entity.

The section were Anne doesn't care about anyone, or anything, but getting to the hybrid child is beyond idiotic. A leader takes everyone into account and all we keep seeing (and hearing) is her own agenda over the lives of the followers.

Too bad this series has come to a head, because at one time it was very good and now it is just awful.

I feel sorry about this series

[krs-dan · 3/10 · 22 June 2014]

Falling Skies started well, but during the seasons, it became more and more common. Now it's just a crappy, meaningless 45 minutes of banality. In the first 3 season, I always can count, what's going to happen in the next 10 minutes, but in s04e01, I couldn't tell what"s happening right in time. And that's not because it's became more complex, just because the episode wanted to be interesting, and not managed to be... I think it would be a good idea, to reconsider this alien-invasion line, and follow the path designated in the first season, not start a new mystic storyline with this blonde-grown brown headed little girl.