I know the skitters have mechs and zombie kids protecting them but it still seems fairly foolish that they are all completely unarmed and rely on hand to gun combat.
If they had 1920’s style Death Rays, humans would be in serious trouble.
I think we needed more scenes of Religious Girl praying, we only had like 6 this episode.
Someone needs to lock the WAAAAAAAALLLLLT father in the corner because they were actually communicating through the kid to the alien, which might’ve been the first and only human-alien communication to ever take place, and he’s gotta run in there like a dipshit and ruin everything.
Do you think they are setting us up for a BSG ending?
…and we don’t even know if he managed to kill the kid by ripping the thing off.
On the positive side, they can apparently snatch any kid and use him as their next translator.
So, the Skitters remote control the kids through the harnesses and the kids somehow control the mechs?
-Joe
I was thinking The Mist actually.
Well to be fair, the idiocy here was letting the guy out in the first place…
At least the show is consistent: the characters continue to act like complete nitwits. Maybe this is just a radical change in approach that I fail to appreciate – usually, such shows follow the heroic, brave, and smart types, the ones who will make a difference eventually; but in every end-of-the-world scenario, there’s bound to be some nincompoops that survive due to sheer luck, so why not follow them instead? And at least they’ve got their faith, which as everybody knows is a virtue that always wins out over clever planning, smart decision making, analysis of the situation and other profane futilities small-minded nonbelievers might engage in…
Or worse, a cute little blond girl who will magically save the day and defeat the alien invasion through the combination of previously unheard of magical powers and cheesey special effects. 
You’ll have to spoil that for me.
Religious person turns into religious fanatic turns into cult leader.
Well, better than BSG or MHC.1
- Magical Hybrid Child.
Oh wow, bread! Too bad the bad guy left, cause he can make BREAD!
Geez - how stupid are these people that they cannot make bread?
Seriously - primitive tribes around the world can make bread.
If they can’t even make bread from scratch, it doesn’t bode well that they will defeat an alien culture.
What’s next - “Oh look - Bob can make lemonade using just lemons, sugar and water! He must be a chemist!!”
If they do that, I swear I am punching all of Hollywood in the brain.
Not exactly. Mrs. Carmody in The Mist was already a fanatic, it was just the arrival of monsters made people scared enough to take her seriously.
I wouldn’t be shocked if this show has an episode like that sooner or later but my guess is Prayer Girl will be the counter example to show not all religious people are fascist kooks.
Get in line. 
This show is REALLY dumb. I’m going to keep watching it because there’s nothing else on and I have a high tolerance for crappy sci-fi and some of the actors are likable, but the cliches and irrationality are getting a little ridiculous.
Anyone else notice that WAAALLLTTTT’s dad’s name is also Michael in this show too? Are we starting to develop a new typecast where black fathers need to be hopelessly devoted and obsessive in Hollywood? I feel like this is really racist in an attempt to not be racist.
I’m a bit curious what the story is with Pope’s crazy need to kill skitters. He’s almost cartoonishly bad and selfish, but he’ll move mountains to be able to kill just one more skitter. There’s going to be some development there, and it has a chance to be interesting if they don’t make it hacky and cliche.
The skitters using the kids as soldiers is a potentially interesting development. They apparently are learning that humans will do irrational things when it comes to protecting kids and they are using them as pawns, both in executing them as punishment and using them as soldiers who won’t be attacked. Smart move by the bad guys, but the characters seem so stupid that they don’t notice it or discuss it in any real depth. Lots of potential here, hope the retarded monkeys writing this show figure out a way to capitalize on it. I’m not hopeful.
I’m a little confused why the people in this thread are so put off by the kids harvesting scrap metal. The skitters need material to continue fortifying their defenses. We have no idea what their technology is like, what they use for food or what they use for energy. We have no idea what their numbers are or what their resources are. The slave kids harvesting metal seems like a perfectly justifiable task. The efficiency that they employed is pretty suspect, there are going to be a lot of denser and more readily accessible sources of metal than stripping some warehouse but it seems pretty defensible from a story standpoint based on how little we know about the aliens. That the characters commented on how strange it seemed is confirmation that there’s more to the story and we should stay tuned. Works for me. I wish the characters would spend a couple minutes actually sharing information and discussing these things rationally, but the premise isn’t nonsensical.
Children aren’t much good at picking up cars.
Okay, I only paid half-attention to last night’s episode (I’m also re-reading Patrick O’Briean’s Post Captain, and it makes far more sense than Falling Skies)
but it seems the Neuro-something Doctor got throttled by the captive skitter. I looked up and the skitter had a hold of him around his neck from behind, reaching through the food slot of its cage.
Darwin in action, as far as I care.
And then the Professor & Co. go on a commando raid with New Tough Chick (whose attitude is working my last nerve) to rescue kids. But it seems some of them didn’t live long enough separated from their skitter guardian to have their neck-bugs removed. That might have been a good piece of info to have before you rescued a whole passle of kids.
“Whoops. My bad.”
Bah. I was going to drop this anyway if it conflicted with Breaking Bad, which comes back this coming Sunday.
Yeah, the stupid is wearing thin.
Well, they certainly seemed surprised. I think this is the first is the first time they rescued kids by actually killing the Skitter guarding them. Not sure how they would’ve known beforehand.
Anyway, I am so happy that the “We have to rescue Ben…tomorrow!” storyline is over. I probably would’ve stopped watching if they didn’t rescue him this time.
“OK, we don’t know whether Skitters understand English, we don’t know whether they may be able to communicate with each other outside our range of hearing, or even telepathically…hmm…Why don’t we plant that Skitter right here where he can overhear us discussing all our plans? What could possibly go wrong?”
“Yeah! And hey, I think I’ll open this big-ass hatch on the cage and poke the Skitter with a stick for a while! I mean, he couldn’t possibly reach his arm through that big ass hatch could he?”