# Falling Skies: New TNT Series Starts Sunday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955 "2011-06-18T18:35:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955/242 "2011-08-09T20:10:04Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Perhaps he didn’t think every group would live to blow up their leg. 🙂 So in that case the logic is… A - It might be possible to attack successfully if we have two other units helping B - We don’t have two other units helping so it’s suicide C - So we’ll thin our numbers even farther by splitting up and attacking all four legs D - Profit! Maybe the drugs were rotting his brain! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955/243 "2011-08-09T20:18:09Z")
Perhaps it’s more like, “We’re all gonna die. Maybe one group of four will make it far enough to blow up a leg.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955/244 "2011-08-09T20:40:54Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Rick isn’t necessarily so bad. The other characters treating him normally, on the other hand, is. The last straw for me was, “I just attacked the radio guy, pulled off some moves that Adrian Peterson would be jealous of and then totally sold you fools out to the aliens. But now, 30 seconds later, I’m really, really sorry I did that. I guess I should have asked them to harness me first and THEN give them the info. Dang it!” I wanted Tom to have to put him down. But instead, he brings him back to camp and lets him go free…again. Don’t even get me started with Pope, the leader of a gang of homicidal rapists who moonlights as a four star chef and tells kids to listen to their parents. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955/245 "2011-08-09T20:45:24Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I wanted Tom to have to put him down. That would have been outstanding, but you can’t have a kid whack another on TV. Hell, they should have killed the collaborators, too. ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955/246 "2011-08-09T23:28:55Z")
i wanted to like this, but each episode was worse than the previous. why exactly was weaver in charge anyway? that stupid ponytail was enough for me to not be a follower. so many idiotic things were done which everyone else has mentioned… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955/247 "2011-08-11T05:19:21Z")
It just occurred to me. D’oh! IT’S A SOAP OPERA!!! Seriously, the writing style. It’s a fucking soap!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/falling-skies-new-tnt-series-starts-sunday/585955.md?page=12)