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We find the remaining 2nd Mass outside of Charleston when they are suddenly under attack from a new Espheni threat, dangerously different from anything they have previously faced. Finding themselves separated from each other, The Masons must find ways to survive by building new friendships and acquiring new skills and abilities. more less
TNT | Air Date: August 24, 2014 Starring: Noah Wyle, Colin Cunningham, Sarah Carter, Will Patton, Moon Bloodgood, Doug Jones, Drew Roy, Connor Jessup, Seychelle Gabriel, Maxim Knight, Peter Shinkoda, Mpho Koaho, Scarlett Byrne Summary: Tom and the 2nd Mass learn to pilot an airship as part of a perilous mission to destroy the Espheni power core. Meanwhile, long-standing issues impact the group as the threat of death hangs over them. Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense, Science Fiction Buy On
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0 Rating (0) (No Ratings Yet) Loading... Falling Skies Season 4 Episode 10 Tom and the remnants of the 2nd Mass learn to pilot a Beamer as part of their plan to destroy the Espheni Power Core, and the group draws straws to see who will embark on the dangerous mission. The threat of death hanging over everyone triggers long-simmering confrontations between many of our main characters, ultimately bringing the 2nd Mass closer together. Views: 41 Serie: Falling Skies Director: Adam Kane Guest Star: Colin Cunningham, Connor Jessup, Doug Jones, Drew Roy, Maxim Knight, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Noah Wyle, Sarah Carter, Seychelle Gabriel, Will Patton Episode Title: Drawing Straws Air Date: 2014-08-24 Year: 2014
Are we to believe that one girl walks off on him and he's suddenly ready to go on? Perhaps his world-weariness has been a cover for his actual weariness with the tormenting world around him, and it's a great bit for Colin Cunningham as an actor, but it doesn't feel quite right. The things director Adam Kane gets right this week are really well done. The beamer ship is a credit to the special effects crew, and ditto the scene in which the invading beamer force gets blown out of the sky by Lexi. Her dramatic return looks great too, as Lexi is the only person in camp who doesn't look like she smells like body odour and malnutrition. Kane is able to deftly blend his special effects with his practical sets and actors in a way that ends up being fun. He cribs a bit from Scanners for Lexi's destruction of her alien partner/parent, but that's fine; stealing is always encouraged when it's stealing from the best, and unlike an exploding head, this unlucky Espheni monk gets imploded into atomic dust.
This review contains spoilers. 4. 10 Drawing Straws Falling Skies works best when it's blasting aliens and having fun with its sci-fi, or when it dabbles in horror elements to try to be creepy. The Mason family drama is not the show's strongest suit, though it has worked at times in the past. This week, however, the Mason squabbling throws a spanner into the works and detracts from some very good special affects on the beamer ships. Lexi travels to the Dianetics commercial lava world, overhears an alien plot, and destroys some valuable alien hardware in her return to the good side, but we spend much more time listening to people bicker than we do watching Lexi turn good and kill some fish heads Tom bickers with Anne about his inability to let anyone else be the hero, since Tom feels like he's the most competent pilot even though Dingaan has thirteen hours' flight time and I seem to vaguely remember Pope once had an airplane at his disposal. I doubt he'd have an airplane if he has no flying ability.
Yes, he was dumb to betray the team last week, but it's naive hope and the ghost of a first crush that really triggers Matt's teenage rebelliousness. It's annoying, but teenagers are annoying. Even relatively good teenagers like Matt Mason can be obnoxious, and Tom seems like he's taking his stress out on Matt a little bit in the process—after all, he's the one who figures out how to fly the alien ship, not them, and while he did nearly get them all killed, he's far from the only screw-up in the Second Mass. Matt's tight hug and confession of love for his father near the end of the episode are a good reminder that he's still a little boy, in spite of everything he's been through, and Tom's still the most important person in his life. Josh Pate's work in that scene feels real in a way that Pope's scene with Weaver doesn't, when Pope is sneaking Weaver and Mason's names out of the sorting hat. Pope's had a dead ex-wife and dead kids for ages at this point, he's been a gang leader, a hero to the berserkers, a guy who basically had his own town in Charleston, and he was the kingpin of the ghetto.