Apparently not, given the lack of posts. 
I think I’d have shot the big guy and see if he left the keys on the aircraft.
I’m thinking he thought -
“Wish I had another RPG”
My take on the “we didn’t expect resistance” was more along the lines of “We didn’t expect effective resistance - in the last day, you’ve figured out how to jam communications (and hurt our skitters apparently) as well as ammunition that can take down our mechs and fliers - holy shit - and, if our spies are correct - BOTH of these came from the son(s) of that guy with the beard”
They should have left the cliffhanger with him having to decide to leave with them, not with him actually leaving with them - that had to the stupidest thing of this entire series.
It’s way to cool to use on TV, but he still has an automatic weapon. Captain Reynolds would have said, “Sure.” and started shooting when he got inside.
I kind of doubt that the long skinny guy was flying solo. And didn’t the girl say ‘we can force you?’.
Mason was appropriately pissed (nice little yelling scene there) - but I don’t know that he had a lot of options. Going peacefully has a non-zero (probably < 3% though) chance of leading to something good - the professor’s character seems to be the type that would take that risk.
Captain Reynold’s high odds of starting to shoot when he got inside is probably why they didn’t take him, also. Assuming the alien’s didn’t off him when they took off (I don’t think we saw the take off, did we?) - that actually shows some good faith on their part.
Interesting finale.
Sort of glad to see the Mad Max ragtag army pretty much finished, and it could be interesting to see how this new reach-out for communication goes.
Didn’t the young black kid, speaking as a skitter, mention that they were shocked humans killed other humans and “we would never do such a thing”?
Will the next season turn into “V”, or “Close Encounters” or “E.T.”?
This was not a great series, but I will most likely tune in next season to see if they go off in a new direction. If they go back to the Tea Party militia, this time hold up in a Costco, I think I will stop watching.
Faster than he can shoot?
I refer to Mal Reynolds, of Firefly.
Last week, when they were eyeball-eyeball through the peephole in the Crazy Lady’s apartment, I half-expected The Professor to whip the door open, jam a BFG under the shovel-head’s chin (or chin-analog), and either cap him or take him prisoner.
It’s what I think I would’ve done in that situation. And they are seriously lacking snappy dialogue in this series; I would’ve said, “Hi! Welcome to Earth. Don’t panic, we’re mostly harmless.”
Good plan, but I’d deliver the line over his dead body. Safer that way.
I only watched the first hour, but for the love of God, will they stop diddling around with the bit about the kid who is turning into an alien. He should be running around like crazy telling his dad that he can hear the radio waves and that his buddy is still connected to the hive mind. No one would act that slowly in this type of life or death situation. Please, stop the stupid!!!
He did finally 'fess up. I think the in-story reasoning on his holding back is that everyone already looked at him like he’s an alien; he was loathe to give them any ammo, after just getting back on the good list last week, after doing something that I don’t quite remember what it was.
Which, for a 12-year kid, is probably pretty important - he wants to belong to the group.
Maybe if they’d holed up in a college or something, but none of the high school (or lower) libraries I’ve ever been in have had cook books, medical books, etc. Maybe the best you’ll find is a set of encyclopedias, some of the books they force you to read for English class (and other books of that type), and lots and lots of biographies. Maybe some history books but none of the type that are going to help with any strategic planning.
I agree, but you would think they would search college and medical libraries.
It was an OK season ender. Will tune in again next summer!?! Ten episodes is weak, and to make us wait almost a year? Who the hell do they think they are, South Park?
The character of Rick alone ruins the entire show. His behavior and the behavior of others interacting with him is just way too dumb. I also liked how Will Patton had the shakes for all of about 3 minutes. And adding this new guy, Danner(?), in the final episode(s) was also a little weird and unnecessary. My return to this show is doubtful.
This finale set up a lot of potential for the next season, as long as they don’t throw the cosmic reset switch.
“Hey, we met up with another army battalion! And found another school! And the professor is back acting exactly the same!”
Rick isn’t necessarily so bad. The other characters treating him normally, on the other hand, is.
As for Will Patton and his shakes, I personally have to wonder if it would be better to have your commanding officer (who is headed on a suicide mission in the next 24 hours) a little bit tweaked or a lot a bit withdrawl’d.
-Joe
He gave up himself on the hope of saving his kid.
UnBELIEVABLY stupid. What does he think the trade-off is gonna be? Sell out your species in order to save your offspring? Even if that was the horrible deal, how could he possible trust invaders?
Yeah, he should have shot that thing where it stood, boarded the ship to see if there were any more, then try to crash it into the structure.
I watched this show off and on over the 10 weeks. I tried but could never find myself caring about any of the main characters. If the series is over I wouldn’t care.
To be fair, they allegedly wanted to negotiate. It’s not like humanity is going to actually win the war through force of arms.
(And hey Captain Ponytail, you are in fact aware that if something is built on four stilts you really only need to blow one if you’re lucky, two if you’re not, right?)
-Joe
Perhaps he didn’t think every group would live to blow up their leg.