Well, that was a downer ending for the season. Will is off on his own to find Charlie in Santa Monica (which, as we see in the cold open, is much worse off than west LA). Gracie is in the Green Zone with Nolan, Maddy, and cultist tutor lady. Bo is gone. Bram and his science teacher are going to be getting a much closer look at the Factory than they’d been hoping for (and they just might run into Snyder up there as well), the net result of all of Katie’s fighting is that she’s alone in a dark house with a security camera trained on her, and we still don’t know what the Hosts look like under those suits.
Though I can understand the showrunners wanting to avoid giving the Big Reveal about the nature of the Hosts in a season-ender, they really should have gone to the trouble of at least constructing some sort of teasing hint about what the Big Reveal would be–that would have made for a better cliffhanger.
As it was, we got exactly nothing beyond the “four fingers” that we already knew about from last week’s ending.
I do think well of this show in general, and will certainly watch it when it resumes. But the episode was not as good as it could have been; it’s not much of a hook to bring viewers back.
Yeah, I guess. No doubt the creators hope that there will be a lot of speculation, during the show’s hiatus. But I’m not sure that will happen; there’s not a lot of buzz around the show.
There could have been, I think, if the showrunners had taken the time and trouble to provide an intriguing hint or two, in this last episode. Coming up with something like that would have been challenging, of course.
(Possibly they themselves haven’t yet decided on the nature of the Hosts, which would explain the showrunners’ reluctance to commit themselves in any particular direction. I wouldn’t bet money on that being the case, though.)
I’m wondering if the Hosts just turn out to be some variety of Gray. This episode was kind of a let down. Also Snyder was allowed to wander around free for several hours after the decision was made to dismiss him? :dubious: I’m surprised he didn’t take the Hitler option, but maybe he just waited to long & that’s what he wanted a few moments alone in his office for. As for the camera in the kitchen; I’m glad we saw that. I’ve figured the tutor would plan something like that.
My wife and I just streamed all of season one on Netflix. I believe it was just added. I love it when there is time to actually watch an entire season of a show before the new season airs.
We liked it. However, what a disappointing finale to the season. I expected a reveal about the aliens. My wife and I have wondered if there are any aliens. I mean, we had a theory that the aliens left and it’s just humans running the society now. Is that a thing others thought?
Just finished watching it. A lot of post-apocalypse shows/movies avoid showing the apocalypse itself - kudos to this show for actually going through with it.
Very interesting that the Hosts had the walls pre-built and landed them in place, and that they had boots on the ground prior to the Arrival - they’ve obviously been planning this for a long time.
Judging from the scene where Snyder meets Hyperion, it seems that the Hosts’ homeworld must be much colder than our own. If all the Hosts are after is lebensraum, then they could just as easily have set up camp on Mars or one of the Jovian moons, so there must be something special about Earth that they want to set up camp here in spite of how hostile the climate is. Do we have natural resources they want? Do they want us for slave labor? Is it just a cultural need to dominate other sapients wherever they may be found? I hope we’ll find out as the season progresses.
It’s not just the Hosts that have been planning this. Their human collaborators (at least at the highest levels) are more than just puppets. Los Angeles wasn’t spared by the Hosts; it was spared by the Global Authority’s governing council. It looks like the Hosts have delegated the entire Occupation to their Proxies and just provide fancy tools as needed. Which does explain why they appeared to have such a good understanding of human society.
I really really like this show. The aliens are just a trapping,. This is a show about life under a Fascist occupation and it is entertaining as hell to me.
Well Homeland Security have finally realized the Bowmans are working for the Resistance, and it didn’t really have anything to do with how careless they are about avoiding bugs. Helena & Synder’s relationship sure is interesting. What’s their connection? She rescued him from the camp before it was destroyed (& I assume she got him that assignment in the 1st place) and apparently is going to use him against his successor.
Yeah this seems to have been a turning point for the show: confirmation that the occupation is planning a scorched Earth (in the sense that all humans will be killed) and the main characters are now all in in the Resistance.
Yes, it all seems much more relevant after the November 8 US election. (Not that we’re quite to full-authoritarianism yet…but some people clearly want to go in that direction.)
Season finale this week. Apparently one the Hosts wants to defect and Los Angeles is scheduled for total rendition. Will we finally get to see one of them, this time without the environmental suit?
I know it was unlikely but for a long time I had hoped the Aliens were a lie and this was all being done by people who developed advanced technology in secret somehow.
This was my thought the entire first season. And some of the second. I find the second season to be a decline in quality. Why don’t we get to see the aliens?
I thought we were supposed to wonder about the existence of the aliens.
Well the season finale was disappointing. So the Hosts themselves are machines & capable of interstellar travel, yet whatever their mysterious plan is (a plan so mysterious I don’t even think the writers know) it’s so depended on humans performing manual labor they’ve had to switch from glassing cities from orbit to mass enslavement.