I thought Lt. Fisher was with the President (or at least rejoined his military), so I'm not sure if she's even coming back to the show. Still, Charleston has the channel she used to relay with the President, so they really should try reconnecting to that one. At the very least it's their only opening into the comms…

Well, I don't know what Karen is doing so I'm just gonna say she's actually worse than Tom Mason in the leadership department. Maybe she has some grand master plan in play, but her skitters and mechs are acting like they've never encountered the Volm before. Skitters with no body armor or force fields are going up…

My hope is that the show is deliberately lampshading various plot points in order to telegraph a reversal down the line. Like, "Ha-hahh! You didn't really think Maggie deliberately withheld information that Hal might be under Karen's control, did you? There was actually a hidden plan we didn't show you!" and "Ha-hahh!…

Unfortunately, Moon Bloodgood's real-life pregnancy precluded her from being in this season in a much more substantial way. Also unfortunately, the writing team decided to deal with her absence in this most ridiculous manner.

The writing team is doing their best to make Tom come across as a short-sighted leader who is constantly looking out only for his own. His decisions are myopic and his behavior is erratic, so I don't know how convincing it's supposed to be that people still believe in him. The show better not reinstate Tom as…

Maybe Hal is the sacrificial mole meant to take heat off the actual mole. Perhaps Karen is smart enough to realize that the real mole's actions would eventually draw too much attention (what with her anticipating their attacks and all that), so she sends in Hal as the obvious reveal. He's basically a distraction ploy…

I did find it hilariously presumptuous that Charleston is swearing in an unrecognized individual as the elected president of the new United States without informing the rest of the country about it, LOL! They're aware there's a network of human outposts out there (as mentioned by the actual President before he got…

This is probably what passes as downtime funtime after the world falls apart. It's like gallows humor, and not necessarily indicative of their allegiances. With so much death and destruction around them, what's a little jesting bet to release tensions? A lot of people gamble for reasons separate from whatever it is…

If Falling Skies would simply treat its aliens as actual people and not plot devices, things would work out much better I think. The show was on its way to doing that with both the Espheni Overlord and the Skitter rebellion leader ("Red Eye"?) last season, but then they were both killed LOL! I think the writers…

Are the Espheni really lacking in resources? I wasn't aware of that. I tend to blank out on huge swaths of this show's dialog so I must have missed when that was explained.

@Tops_Blooby:disqus I can see what the show is trying to do with the smaller, human-scale stories. They want to show this inter-planetary, worldwide catastrophe through the lens of a family just trying to survive. However, they're doing it in the most uninteresting way, and many people who tune into this show are…

LOL was Lourdes really assigned to janitorial services, or are you just being snarky? I don't remember her being a janitor, but that sounds hilarious. I'm not sure what the show is doing with her character, since as you noted in her evolution, she just kind of randomly morphs into something else each season.

What happened to Ben's girlfriend, Deni? The spiked kids are interesting to me because, well, they have super powers and I like that kind of thing. It's weird how Charleston is not leveraging their capabilities on a regular basis (they sort of showed the spiked kids being useful in the opening episode, but not since…

Yeah, I don't know why the show dropped the ball on the Espheni after Season 2 did a decent job of making them convincingly threatening and dangerous. They used to do things like release captives only to shoot them down a few meters away (Karen executing Boon in Molon Labe was one of her more gloriously evil moments).…

I don't think the show realizes how unthreatening the Espheni have become when you don't see them being dangerously proactive and effective. All we see is the futile results of their off-screen assaults on Charleston. So Skitters are easily killed off now, mechs are easily taken down, mega mechs are no improvement,…

I thought it was hilarious when Pope snarked at the end there about Hal facing no consequences for his actions. Maggie should have yelled back, "You don't need the eye worm excuse, Pope! Everyone's already forgotten you're a rapist piece of crap!" I liked how Pope vocalized the problems that were happening with the…

Yes, there's the hope that the show could get better. That's part of why I stick with the show (besides the CGI aliens). It's just really painfully clear that the Volm were introduced at the expense of the Espheni, as far as the budget was concerned.

Right?! I'm baffled how the show just bumped up Lourdes over a bunch of other people to what seems to be a senior medical position. I would've accepted it more if maybe she's just the expert on the new Volm medical chamber bed-thingy, but nope: according to this episode the extra medical crew are her assistants or…

Even recent shows like Hannibal and The Americans did that kind of thing well. They matched the personal issues of their leads with the larger issues of their occupations, or whatever the thematic thrust was for that week's episode. Surely Falling Skies can find a way to make the Mason family issues somehow align with…

Agree with the sloppiness of this season. The writing made Tom look really bad by having him quit the presidency and leave Charleston to fend for itself after his son was just revealed to be an Espheni agent. He didn't bother to address the simmering resentment against Hal's actions.