No one would sit through complex settings nowadays. You know, people back then loved it, and there are still people that would love that, but I think the thing is when it comes to the soccer moms, and maybe all television viewers, it has to be accessible, people have to be led into it. And so, my best answer is that the series is easy to get into, and then we ramp up the complexity and sort of add the layers of as you watch, and that is how we approach things now with the modern television program as compared to television programs fifteen years ago.
(It's Feargus Urquhart talking about dumbing down games. I modified a few sentences for context.)
Cheap, SGU feels like good show, interstelar robots cant hit moving target, or have infravision or heartbeat sensors. ..Good thing is that my grandma liked it
That's the problem (at least for me, just can't suspend my belief when it's so badly written, and with crap acting to boot), why have the aliens figured out interstellar space travel... yet they can't even track humans, you know, the inhabitants of the planet they presumably have planned to invade for a long time. Not even when they're walking around with 300 people in broad daylight, and before that, what, 9 groups was it? 2700 people in the same area? Not that far from the alien big motha HQ. Oh wait ye, they need their probes to track people (and only NOW have they made them good enough to track down to 500? great.. that burning engine block, and flares(!) for that matter, a big fucking bunch of humans would so much easier to spot, heat wise) and have nothing else huh.. Oh how convenient... bah.
Looked half decent beforehand but, man, at least write it so that it feels slightly believable and not like there's loads of lame plots devices everywhere so that the show can work.
We've gone to the moon and don't have the technology to track down bears...
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We've gone to the moon and don't have the technology to track down bears...
lol that's a good point still going to the moon is relativley simple. If we manage interstellar or even intergalactic space travel, plan invasions and still can't track 'bears' from orbit and probably on the ground, I'd be very surprised cause that'd be surely very short sighted.
We've gone to the moon and don't have the technology to track down bears...
But we do have flying unmanned drones that certainly notice a group of 300 walking around in broad daylight... and also bomb them to dust.
Yea, that is silly, isn't it? It's daytime, drones are flying overhead and they are within line of sight of that huge structure, yet no one can see them.
Sure, it looks epic and is cinematic, but makes no sense. This will probably be Avatar stretched into 5 seasons. Looks great, but once you try to make sense of something, it falls apart entirely.
We've gone to the moon and don't have the technology to track down bears...
As the others have said, going to the moon and traveling between star systems is a major difference in technology. If we were to invade another planet, we'd make damn sure we had every way possible to track the inhabitants of said planet, so we wouldn't end up with the situation these aliens are facing with smaller pockets of resistance. "Smaller" being pretty stupid word for this tho, 2700 people is quite a gathering.
And ye, as i said earlier, i just can't watch this, so much lame shit going on it's too hard to just ignore it when the whole show is based on said stupid stuff to even work :/
ROFL..I can believe in alien invasion..but I can't believe they might be a bit stupid
You people make me laugh...same people have no problems watching Vampire movies or Fantasy movies with dragons (let's not get into the physics of flying and the dragons you see in these shows) but hey...dumb aliens....that is just going to fucking far
dumb aliens would never be smart enough to leave their planet with interstellar super fast and superior space ships that are actually able to invade earth..
dumb aliens would never be smart enough to leave their planet with interstellar super fast and superior space ships that are actually able to invade earth..
Yet physics actually prove that dragons cannot fly...but you probably have no problem with watching a show with them on it.
but do you think its the same thing ? the dragon thing seems more along the lines of sound in space (there is none but movies do it anyways )
portraying interstellar superior beings as stupid as that is just ridiculous
ironman has better sensors
Yeah I think that if you can suspend belief in common sense and physics then you can in the other situation as well. And who knows maybe they explain why they can't see them in the future? Or maybe after destroying what exists of the worlds military they do not view them as a threat any more and have stopped wiping them out in mass because they have some use for capturing the children and enslaving them? Bombing large groups of people would sort of defeat that wouldn't it?
VBG, we're just working with what they throw at us. Is it a crime to ask that at least some thought be put into the science behind a show?
Going by your latest theory the earth was invaded by standard braindead hippie aliens. Why grow humans in the wild when industrial farming is much more effective and safer?
One should also consider the fact that the invading alien army seems to have a finite amount of resources considering the "motherships" are supposed to return. (How the fuck can the humans know that?!)
The aliens might have a universal constructor since the show will most likely feature endless alien death, but that would defeat the purpose of gathering the children and sending ships back to get whatever they are bringing, wouldn't it?
I still stand by my original assessment that this is Avatar: Made For TV. Maximum drama for the mentally impaired.
Just got off the phone with my mom who lives off those Housewives shows and she asks me "have you watched that new show "falling skies"? Its excellent!". That pretty much says it all.
This show is "meh" at the very best, I give it 1-2 Seasons at max. It's pretty standard alien invader crap, although I did enjoy seeing USAF Major Paul Davis (kudos to anyone who gets that reference).
Just got off the phone with my mom who lives off those Housewives shows and she asks me "have you watched that new show "falling skies"? Its excellent!". That pretty much says it all.
aliens don't even worry about those rebels, that's why they just send those spider dogs
currently the humans believe that the skitters are the only aliens and that the mechs are robots. However I'm sure that later in the season we'll find out that the skitters are just used as drones by the head aliens
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