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Post by Raffy on Jul 31, 2011 16:07:05 GMT -5
Episode SynopsisThe 2nd Mass prepares to take the fight to the invaders with an assault on one of their bases. But Weaver’s increasingly strange behavior worries Tom that he might not be fit to command. Hal and Tom encounter a left-behind woman (guest star Blair Brown, Fringe) who employed a suspicious means of surviving the invasion, making it unclear whether they can trust her. Sneak Peek Promo
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Post by SkyWarrior on Jul 31, 2011 21:33:40 GMT -5
So what are your thoughts on the new guys we saw tonight? I guess the skitters are some kind of soldiers or slaves rather than the ones in charge.
Or perhaps they were transformed from something else. I would have said t hey were slaves, but not with the harness inside the body. |
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Post by commanderjst on Jul 31, 2011 22:04:37 GMT -5
Great Show. Glad to see us taking the fight to them. I knew Karen was going to be harnessed since its the only way to get her under control cuz without the harness, she will fight back.
Weaver: I sure hope his family is still alive and hiding as seeing that hes fighting for them.
Pope: Great job on helping turn the tide of the war
Matt: You are one smart kid. I mean u came up with the idea of using the mechs bullet against them and now Pope is going to use the mech against the mech by using them mechs parts.
As for the autospy: I was shocked that it was a kid. The entire skitter was kids. Now what will Tom do when he finds out ben might be a skitter??
Aliens: That was one cool looking alien
Now the Scoreboard for the War:
Aliens: 1
Humans: (Recently Turned) 1
Keep the good war up
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Post by SkyWarrior on Jul 31, 2011 22:10:51 GMT -5
I agree.
Here's my final pondering...are we gonna be seeing any freaky looking half skitter/half humans in the future? That'd be creepy.
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Post by pimpernelperson on Jul 31, 2011 22:50:43 GMT -5
Karen's back! All I can say is... FINALLY! I hope they rescue her before the harness can permanently change her (think Rick), or possibly make her into a skitter? Also, I'm loving the new aliens; they're creepy. I'm assuming that they've been inside the Mechs the entire time? However, I have a lot of dread when it comes to the newest revelation about the Skitters. If they're going where I think they are, then things don't bode too well for Karen, Ben, or Rick. |
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Post by blackpearl1980 on Aug 1, 2011 3:26:07 GMT -5
Great episode - this woman was a bit scary to me...selling the others out for a box of tea...
Wonder what Tom`s gonna do when Anne told him about the Human-Skitter...
One of my favourite and looking forward to the finale next sunday...
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Post by commanderjst on Aug 1, 2011 13:19:14 GMT -5
Great episode - this woman was a bit scary to me...selling the others out for a box of tea... Wonder what Tom`s gonna do when Anne told him about the Human-Skitter... One of my favourite and looking forward to the finale next sunday... Tom will do everything in his power and will sacrifice himself for his sons. Now for Ben, Im sure he will go to great length to make sure Ben never changes. It was not known if he will change or he just be different. If he does change, things will be messed up. If he doesnt, ill be glad. I sure hope they get Karen before that happens. As well as all the harnesses kids out there, im sure after the attack on the tower, they will do everything to get the kids back before they change |
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Post by callsignowl on Aug 1, 2011 18:22:18 GMT -5
Here's my final pondering...are we gonna be seeing any freaky looking half skitter/half humans in the future? That'd be creepy. I hope not. I dont know what the writers have in store for the harnesses, but I really hope thy dont make the Skitters to be harnessed humans. That would make no sense.  First off, getting humans to grow another 4 legs would require some serious DNA recombination...plus there are all the other biological differences between the two species. Second, I dont think the aliens took people captive until after they invaded--and there were Skitters invading. Where did all these "millions" of Skitters come from during the invasion if they were actually transformed humans?? I think it would be much more plausible for the Skitters to be another race that were Harnessed and thus subjugated by the tall humanoid aliens, and now used as conscripts/slave labor. just my 2 cents....  |
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Post by breizh22 on Aug 4, 2011 6:21:49 GMT -5
I really liked this episode is my favorite ... it worked on me!
I let myself be drawn into the story and all the twists
For cons, I hope that the hypothesis that Skitters were former children is wrong because it is impossible. How can you one from 2 feet to 8 feet? They are controlled as children ...
The new E.T are similar to humans, we return to the theory of Mechs that didn't resemble Skitters ....
I look forward to see more, as I understand it next week there are 2 episodes
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Post by Raffy on Aug 4, 2011 8:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by breizh22 on Aug 4, 2011 9:04:06 GMT -5
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Post by claired80 on Aug 5, 2011 5:44:16 GMT -5
I found the episode good... better than some others before. There are still the 'usual' cons of telling/showing too much rather than just hinting at something and let the viewer guess. Like we really didn't need to hear Tom explicitly tell Hal he was lying about Gloucester of course... or even Ann saying that the skitters weren't maybe always skitters. We get that. Her worried face should be really enough. Aside from that, I really liked the episode. ;D I liked Pope bringing little comic relief (loved the references to NPR and "made in Japan"). I liked the conversation between Tom and Weaver. Noah's acting was great as usual. I liked the weirdness of Sonya... I like a character like that whom you can't easily define as "bad or good". The tea scene in her place seemed surreal and I just really liked it. And I like that the episode wasn't only about the upcoming attack and about the fact that finally they can try to not only survive, but to fight back. This positive plot was nicely contrasted by the fact that the commander of the 2nd Mass is losing it, and that there is a potential inner threat (Rick and Ben). I liked how this was showing on the very last picture of the episode, with Tom smiling, but with some kind of worry still on his face, not just a simple happy smile. |
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