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Skitter Alien
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23 episodes, 2011-2015
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Dingaan Botha
22 episodes, 2014-2015
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The chaotic aftermath of an alien attack has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force. Written by Deeww
My capacity for sci-fi is unlimited and my judgment is placed on hold if it's a genre series, but 'falling skies' was a tremendous disappointment. It's mawkish, sentimental, and worse - just dull in parts.
The aliens are poorly conceived and executed. They have inter-stellar capability but their robots clomp about loudly and use rotating guns in the style of either the 1920s Tommy guns or the 1980s robocop.
One plot line was that it was important to hide the heat from their engines, but what about the people who radiate and also they drove along roads lights blaring from their cars/trucks, etc. If a sufficiently advanced alien race could visit and have demonstrable anti-gravity, then they probably know how to scan the electromagnetic spectrum.
The mawkish "family" moments were too frequent, the music too dreary, the narrative too USA-centric. A particularly egregious moment was when the aliens were seen to be "praying/worshiping" the rising sun and there was middle-eastern chant/music playing.
As ever, guns and weapons are the answers. Sub rate stuff. If you want some good sci-fi there are better options out there.
Stunned that it went on for so many seasons.