But they did know that there’s some sort of connection between the neck bugs (and their host child) and the skitters. Proceeding with their plan without knowing the full scope of said connection was a gamble.
It’s not like they had anyway of finding out. They had to kill the skitter to get the kids out silently. It was a necessary risk.
Except that the son (whatever his name is) could have communicated his observations - they did not need to be in such a hurry to remove the bug from the kids at that point.
There was no reason to believe he wanted to. If he wanted to, there was plenty of opportunity.
I’m not defending the show because I care - I’ve pretty much accepted that it’s going to be pretty low-grade stuff. But the complaints should at least make some sense.
-Joe
I thought this episode was actually relatively stupid-free. The doctor was stupid but he got himself killed for it - it’s really the unpunished stupidity that’s bothersome.
I have no problem with them risking the kids dying when seperated from their skitter - for one they didn’t know, and for two, what else could they do anyway?
Except that even this felt contrived – “You know, I have absolutely no idea where to take the doctor character from here…” - “Oh, let’s just off him.”
It was almost as bad as letting him die off screen, informing the audience in a half-sentence about it (“Oh, and Dr. Professor’s ‘Friend’ choked on his oatmeal last night. If only we’d had more bread…”).
Agreed, not much point for it. Could’ve gone with a “good people turn bad under extreme pressure” theme I guess, I thought that’s where they were heading. The whole plot line really didn’t go anywhere.
Whatever lameness this show can produce, I have to say that the sound of the Mechs FREAKS ME OUT COMPLETELY.
I am a very tough audience for stuff like this most of the time, but every time that mech walked by I got the shivers. FREAKS ME OUT.
So…good job on the sound effects, folks!!
Speaking of the dead doctor, didn’t he have a bag of heroin in his hand when he approached the skitter? And didn’t he have some sort of realization just before he bit it? And isn’t the chemical the neckbugs injects into the kids some sort of opiate?
Did the skitters come to Earth for the good drugs? 
Good theory, but I believe they’ve attacked more than Bangkok, Detroit, and LA.
-Joe
There’s Levy, Arkansas…
I don’t think they’re after meth. Clearly, poppies don’t grow on their home planet, and this isn’t just a smash-and-grab to grab Sudafed.
Or maybe it is? Maybe the scrap metal those kids were collecting was actually the remains of a pharmacy?
-Joe
You’re thinking Bauxite. That’s the major industry after the bottom fell out of aluminum strip mining.
Let’s capture a technologically advanced member of an invading ET species, put him a cage with a big feeding door, and not post any guards. The stupid hoomans deserve to die!
In a strange way it was kind of touching how the creature with six legs nested on top of the teenagers while they were sleeping and stroked their hair. It was like she felt protective of them. Six kids, six legs.
I suppose if you are captured and forced into slave labor with an alien creature screwed into your back, it would be nice to know your assigned alien wants to keep you warm at night, lol.
That’s because the brother killed it before the ovipositor came out!
-Joe
Are you counting the cuckoo bird brother?
no, and apparently the skitters have an issue with counting as well (if this theory is true)
Then one presumes the skitters did not do the navigation to get here from Alpha Centauri or wherever.
I’ve only watched the pilot and the subsequent episode, but this show is hilarious!
I loved how the military leader yelled out “Defensive positions!” as the Outlaw band approached, and the next shot of him showed a bunch of “soldiers” kind of arranged in a clump behind him. Really? Those are your “defensive positions”? What would it look like if he hadn’t yelled anything?
Then, very shortly thereafter, Noah Wylie’s squad opens an attack which they’ve cleverly set up by all huddling together behind some dumpsters. Boy, they really got the drop on them? How will they ever evade the fire coming from one group in one direction?
Then the outlaws open up with the 50 cal, which apparently can’t even really put holes through a dumpster. The whole scene reminded me of the opening to “Police Squad!” where Drebin has a shootout with another guy while hiding behind trashcans at opposite sides of a narrow alley.
I loved how Wylie is offering suggestions of military strategies that have worked through time, and everyone’s response is “shut up, nerd!” Gee, I guess our strategies of all going together to the front door and throwing a tennis ball at it are much better. These war-weary hardscrabble resistance fighters will be guaranteed to have some kind of emotional reaction and jump from cover, shouting loudly anyway.
Which shouldn’t matter much anyway, because they always appear to move from location to location by walking abreast down the middle of the street.
I’m surprised that the aliens have not found any problems with a weapons system that gives their enemies specific knowledge about where they will be shooting in a few seconds.
It’s no wonder, though, that the resistance is able to move about in the open, because despite having massive structures planted in the middle of multiple cities, these aliens find it worthwhile to spend their time supervising children while they gather together two foot tall piles of loose bed frames.