Falling Skies

Hello!

This is the first part of a three part blog series. I want to tell you about one of my all time favourite shows. From the title you can probably guess which one... FALLING SKIES!

On TV here in the UK it is only at the beginning of season three. So I decided to do a three part blog series about it giving each series a separate blog because even though I've enjoyed every series, I've enjoyed them for different reasons and I personally think they were all very different from each other. 

So I'll start by saying that the first series was my favourite out of the others so far. I haven't seen much of season three yet so who knows, that may come up top. 

So, Falling Skies is about a group of survivors trying to carry on surviving in an alien invastion. The show is set a few months after they invade and most of the human population have been wiped out. The show focuses around the Mason family which consists of Tom (the father), Hal (the eldest son), Ben (...) and Matt (the youngest son). SPOILER: Ben has a ... because you find out in the first episode that he has been captured by the aliens and harnessed. The aliens are capturing the younger children (10-17 years old) and putting harnesses on them which makes them become zombie-like slaves to the skitters (the shows name for the aliens). I'm writing all this and I'm not sure how much to/I should be explaining. I will warn with a SPOILER if I am going to say something that I think may spoil it. 

So the first season in a nutshell is the second mass (name of the group of survivors) trying to make a stand to the aliens. Also the Mason family want to get Ben back. We basically learn more about the aliens too. We only ever know how much the characters know. I know Steven Speilberg was very sure about the fact that the audience shouldn't know any more than the characters on the show. This is something I love about Steven Speilberg. His stuff is always very character driven and he knows how important it is for the audience to connect with the characters in as many ways as possible. 

What I liked best about series one was the character interaction. I got the impression that the alien invasion was more of a back drop than the main focus of the show. The main focus is the survivors and their interactions. It's more of a family drama than a sci-fi. I remember just after it had come out I went online to see what everyone was saying about it and I was gutted to find that a lot of people didn't seem too keen on it. They were all saying that there wasn't enough sci-fi in it. Now it has just been given a fourth season so I don't think it can be doing that bad. Although saying that I feel like season two became more sci-fi and the family drama took more of a back seat while the aliens became the main focus.

I have put the season 1 promo at the end. Check it out!

Have you watched any of Falling Skies? Let me know what you think about it :)!