It isn’t Falling Skies, it’s Falling Commercials!!
I will not be watching anymore, because I demand a bit more ‘show to commercial’ ratio.
I started timing with my DVR. In the middle, we would get commercial breaks of 4 + minutes, then show form 5 minutes, then commercials for another 4 +!!
Now I will echo a lot of complaints:
When your species is being hunted to extinction, there are no civillians! Granted, not everybody gets a gun, but even in peacetime the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines have cooks, mechanics, doctors etc…
In the military, you need that chain of command. You need it so officers can tell you that going after a species that has WIPED OUT YOUR ARMED FORCES with your plucky group of 6 commandos just because you are a dedicated parent is a bad idea.
C4 is good to have. But you could still do a lot of damage with diesel fuel and fertalizer. Set up some booby traps, ferchrissakes! Where are Sam and Fi when you need them!
Will Patton…Bad actor. Bad, bad actor!!! Even if the character weren’t already a cliche, Patton would make it one!
Rapist\cook gets a gorram bullet to the head. Who cares if he can make tasty rice?? He has already shown himself to be an enemy AND an idiot.
It would be kind of cool if the mousy praying girl became a loony cult leader and half the military defects to join up with her. I would think the destruction of most of humanity would make some people very susceptible to any kind of religious answers. She could have some “visions” fed to her by people who want to strengthen her power base about where a big cache of food or weapons is hidden, or pray over some dying harnessed kids who then recover, or something. Then her followers could start killing the heretical unbelievers! (Well, maybe I skipped a step or two.)
“Hal, you are no longer going to be a soldier. Her Holy Excellence requires that you serve her in a different manner. Here is your new… uniform…”
“Dad, whatever, but just not the My Little Pony costume! Please!”
[QUOTE=Merijeek]
Huh? Can you tell me when we were shown a full clip not hurting an alien while a shotgun would?
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Sure…in the warehouse when one of the skitters surprised the historian. He pretty much blasted away at it with his AK (possibly not the whole clip, but several bursts that obviously were hitting it but not stopping it), but it wasn’t until another member of the team came up from behind and shot it in the head (with a shotgun) that it died.
Well, this part of ‘we’ saw an alien not in armor (or any sort of clothing) getting shot repeatedly with an AK at very close range (you could have THROWN the gun and hit the thing at that range) and pretty much shrugging it off, and not going down until another person came up from behind and shot it in the back of the head.
Which makes no sense to me and added to the disconnect I was getting from the show early on.
I saw him firing wildly, hitting stuff near the alien but missing the alien. I think that’s why he needs to get close to 'em.
Which, if you think about it, is pretty realistic. Most people couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from 20 paces. Shooting guns is a lot harder than it looks.
Go back and re-watch it if you have it recorded on a DVR (I watched it again last night before I watched the second episode). You can see the bullets hitting the alien several times (sparks and flinches) yet they apparently have no effect.
And I disagree that most people, even those who hadn’t been fighting for at least 6 months (which is the time this historian had been in the resistance) could miss a target at those ranges, even if they were startled. The thing wasn’t 20 paces away but more like 10 feet…maybe less. He could have spit on it from that range.
(And, FTR, I’m no expert shot but I’ve fired a rifle many times and it would be pretty freaking hard to miss even with a pistol from that range…certainly not with a rifle)
[QUOTE=Quimby]
I was surprised that Dr. History Professor (I am bad with names) didn’t even consider the fact that the aliens might have put a tracer on his kid.
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Actually I find that pretty plausible. He’s a history professor and I wouldn’t expect him to think of it, even if he has been a resistance fighter for 6+ months. However, I would expect all of the ex-military guys to have thought of it.
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
You’ve obviously not seen me shoot.
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Well, that’s true. However, I bet you could hit a man sized target from 10 feet or less with a rifle, especially if I give you 6 months of using one to familiarize yourself with it.
Oh… the show is okay…I guess. In the sense that some SyFy movies are “okay”. It does have better production values, you have to give it that. But seriously, where are Mike and Joel when you need them?
Or read a news report about inner city shootings. That’s where you learn how bad people can be with guns. ‘30 shots fired at close range none hitting their intended target but a stray shot managed to hit a 3 year old a block away’
People who have no practice shooting guns are bad at levels I have trouble comprehending.
[QUOTE=boytyperanma]
Or read a news report about inner city shootings. That’s where you learn how bad people can be with guns. ‘30 shots fired at close range none hitting their intended target but a stray shot managed to hit a 3 year old a block away’
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Most of your inner city shootings are attempted by mopes with pistols, not rifles (for obvious reasons)…and most of your inner city gangsta types don’t practice (also for obvious reasons).
Sure, but we are talking about a rifle (that this guy had been carrying around and presumably using for months) and we are talking about a bit more than arms length. I don’t care how bad you are at shooting at that range with that type of gun…he could pretty much throw the bullets that far with a good chance of hitting something the size and shape of one of these aliens.
It’s moot anyway…I’m watching it on my DVR right now and it’s clear that several of the shots in fact did hit the thing but did no damage. That’s a .308 (or 7.62 I guess) round and nearly point blank range and it just bounced off. I hate that. Hell, an elephant would feel that even if it didn’t bring it down.
I can put the whole mag into a 2’ x 2’ cardboard box “combat firing” (ha) at 20’ with the Ruger .22/.45, but that would probably just piss somebody off.
I still like the show, but the biggest :rolleyes: moment for me was when they have sneaked stealthily up on the harnessed kids, and the black guy spots his own lost son and goes TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE and yells “RICKEEEEEY!!!” at the top of his lungs and goes charging in there on his own like a complete idiot. I was hoping he’d get stomped by an alien mech.
True story. Not too long ago there was an incident involving 9 LA Sherrif’s Deputies firing at a suspect on a residential street in car that was not moving. Each officer emptied his clip, over a hundred rounds fired.
The suspect was not hit. The car was hit a few times. Multiple windows in houses on either side of the street were broken (no bystanders hit, than God)
wasnt there a video not that long ago of an attack inside a police station where the cops fired alot of rounds not hitting the target - it was over quick, they did eventually get him - it was a hell of a video - but it was not quick - and he was human.
The idea here apparently is that they are tough to kill - you have to get ‘close enough’ (I assume that means they are ‘bullet resistant’) and that the idea with the shotgun was that he listened to the rogue’s (‘I also cook’) advice about first taking out the legs - which are apparently hard to hit with a rifle - and then you give them a headshot at point blank.
Honestly, it doesn’t seem like the aliens really care about finding them. They’re way out in the open, moving in big groups, and making smoke and light from cooking. Right now they only get attacked if they interfere with the aliens or try to get more weapons.
