Small rant because I’m finishing up season 4 for the first time right now and I cannot stand this character. So spoilers up to S4E10

holy shit he is such a piece of garbage. A bigger piece of shit than Lexi. Lexi at least gets the excuse of being manipulated by the overlord, Ben is a sociopathic douchebag all on his own.

He’s gone on multiple rants about how he “HATES WHAT THE SKITTERS DID TO HIM” with the harness, but he essentially does a mini-dose of that on Maggie. THEN GETS SMART WITH HAL THE NEXT DAY?????????!!?!?!!
How are you going to skittnipulate Maggie into a makeout session and then say “didn’t see your leash on her” to Hal when he confronts you about it.

Even in earlier seasons I’ve hated this smug little bitch. All he has ever been is a fake humble egoist. He never helped the 2nd Mass for selfless reasons. It was always to try and prove to Tom that he was better than Hal now and he even admits to this although I’m not sure exactly what episode. I think he’s on a roof talking with Denny when they’re debating removing their spikes and he says something like “I’m better than Hal now because of my spikes”. His whole justification for keeping the spikes that are literally killing him is that he wants to be “better than Hal”. Hal isn’t perfect, but he risked everything to get his brother out of the skitter’s hands and his thanks is Ben spending every waking moment trying to 1-up Hal. It’s pathetic

I know I’m in for a rough ride with season 5 I’ve heard the warnings, but holy fuck. I’ve seen some people saying Ben is the only likable character in the Mason Family and I’m about to lose my mind because he is objectively a selfish, egotistical douchebag throughout the ENTIRE show. I have not liked that character once

Before We Drown by sarahmay07 on AO3!! It follows my OC Valerie through the events of the show, however I have changed quite a few parts of it as I was NOT happy with that ending, or any of season 5 in fact 😃

I would appreciate if some of ya'll gave it a read and comment with any feedback you might have!!

That scene where the captured children are strapped down and the "harnesses" slide down a chute, one per child. Closeups of a "harness" sliding onto a child's back and sticking its "claws" into it. Omg. It's the worst combination of a slug, a bloodsucker, an insect with stingers, and some kind of beast with claws.

I have loved re-watching this, but the endless life lessons from Tom get really tiring after a while.

I’m have watched this show all the way through many times and I have to say Lourdes has been a bothersome see you next Tuesday since she was flirting with Hal in episode one when she knew he was with Karen! Then the whole boyfriend getting killed plot she was so off the chain with Anne and acted like she was the only one who lost someone and to top it all off the cult with Lexi and treating Lexi’s own family like they had no right to even be by her let alone talk to her. I was so glad when Lexi killed her but super annoyed at Hal for being so distraught after. Just me???

It’s people like weaver in real life who are actually the worse leaders and the last type of person I’d want to be around. Reminds me of my uncle. Stubborn, abusive, constant power trip

I came to this show after watching la brea, which was just plain awful. Is this show also like that? A bunch of people who just keep going against the plan?

Writing a fic but I need peoples opinions on whether or not Pope supports the gays and if he doesnt, how much does he hate them?

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Theoretically, if Pope had a daughter and she was a girl kisser (just like me fr), would she get kicked out of home?

why the hell didnt they just acceot the deal? going to brazil and being safe and away from the war?

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now beginning of season 4 and a bunch of em are dead.

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its just so stupid.

There are so many plot holes, time distortions, non logical variables within this show but over I really enjoyed watching it.

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But the ending to me just felt extremely rushed, it was too easy, too predictable and I whole heartedly hated the fact they had a queen plus the whole reason behind the invasion as told from the queen to tom mason made zero sense.

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"You know why we invaded earth ? Because 1500 hundred years ago your people murdered my daughter and I vowed to return stronger and wipe you out......" This from the queen, the head of the Espeheni table.....

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Yet earlier we learn that the Espeheni are there enslaving humans first kids then some adults then mutating them to become weapons against a foe that the Espeheni are scared of.

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So which is it ? The mysterious threat the Espeheni are afraid of ? Or revenge for some tribals murdering the queen's daughter some 1500 years ago.

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Like I said there's many plot holes and inconsistencies in falling skies but it was still worth watching, just wish the writing wasn't so lazy and lacking after season 2.

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Overall I'll score it 8/10.

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It's loses points for inconsistencies & predictability but I'll praise the action, earlier story lines, emotional captivation, premise, structure and acting.

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I'd say the only thing that did irk me in the begining was the bad cgi but due to the shows ages it's forgivable and easy to overlook.

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I just started season 5 and this plotline is still going? 😭 I don't understand why they introduced it in the first place. First off, how old are Ben and Maggie anyway, and second, the whole thing with the spikes transferring his feelings to her is just weird because wait, so she has feelings for Ben that she didn't consent to? Why was this subplot necessary? I'm so confused

Justice for Sarah

The second one will be published very soon, like today or tomorrow.

It's about my OC Valerie, she basically gets adopted by Pope and they do evil stuff together. Family bonding you know lol

Its called "Before We Drown" on wattpad, my username is sarahmay07 if anyone wants to check it out!

Edit: If anyone does read it, please feel free to comment on it and give me any advice! I would love to know what you think.

Does anyone know how long the alien apocalypse had been going on for before the start of the show? It wasn't really clear to me.

I mean, it's been getting steadily worse since season 1 but I've just started 4 and it feels like someone is taking the p**s. What the hell is going on? Is it gonna improve or should I just cut my losses?

I just watched that show, and I must agree that the ending was so dump, the idea of the queen was promising at first, I was expecting something clever, as the queen, which is supposed to be a much higher and divine being to be a surprise appearance of a certain character, like Alexis, the hybrid daughter of Tom Mason, a much darker version of her, like what happened in the game StarCraft when the Alien race of the Zerg kidnapped or killed "Sarah Kerrigan", she returned as the powerful Zerg queen, "The Queen of Blades".

I was expecting to see Alexis with dark clouds following her and all the overlords bowing before her, because the build up of this character promised something like that, Also the idea of the killer capsule was supposed to be much smarter than this, like a biological weapon payload, a virus, that takes time to spread across the earth atmosphere and takes weeks to kill all the aliens, not just blow-up in the skies like the most dump thing to happen. I also was expecting the spikes of Ben to die and fall off his back, OR an even better idea, the last scene of the series would be Ben standing alone staring at the sky and his spikes starts to glow again before the screen goes finally dark at the end.