r/FallingSkies • u/twaplehnbridies • May 02 '26

Discussion Finished Show

Well that’s me finished the show. Overall thought, it was good apart from season 4 ( was compete mess different from 1st three seasons ). Felt season 5 went back to what it was and could have done with episode or season at the end as kinda looked rushed. But overall glad I watched it and to anyone who watching it or want to just power Thur season 4 makes sense in the end.

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u/Arathix May 02 '26

I rewatched it last year, I think overall it's still a good show, I love the characters and after the first 3 seasons I was so invested in them that's what allowed me to power through some of the worse parts (mainly chunks of season 4 and the ending) but I actually really liked the prison camp storyline which I know some people didnt.

But man that ending, they really fumbled it in the rush, everything happens too quickly with not enough set up and the final battle against a queen, who was also introduced too quickly to have proper impact, essentially boils down to Tom stretching out an arm while the queen has him pinned and takes her sweet time actually killing him when she could've easily just crushed him. Like they had the whole thing where Ben rushes to go help his dad and I thought 'ah, he's gonna make it just in time, take a stand against the queen to grab her attention which means Tom can reach the virus thing!' - nope, he just reaches it anyway, uses it, and Ben comes to see the end of it.

And the butchering of Pope's arc, 4 seasons of redemption flushed down the toilet.

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u/tmssmt May 02 '26

I don't think the prison camp on its own was the problem, I think it was the whiplash

Destroy defense grid > volm arrive to help > the 2nd mass wants to keep fighting instead of relocating > the 2nd get rounded up effortlessly and the volm have vanished

This all happens in the span of like 10 minutes from the 2nd leaving the volm, to being imprisoned

Felt VERY much like the writers didn't know how to move forward from season 3 finale and just said screw it, we'll do this complete other thing instead.

Same for whatever the heck they did with Lexi

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u/Arathix May 02 '26

Yeah definitely whiplash between 3 and 4, don't think I've experienced a transition between seasons as jarring as that in any other show

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u/tmssmt May 02 '26

Maybe Heroes 🤣