Falling Skies New Alien

A new Falling Skies clip was previewed at Comic-Con, revealing that our survivors will soon get an eyeful of an old friend..and a new one.

Spoilers..

via IGN:

The final clip revealed a new alien. Tom and Hal are hiding in a house. The occupant who is hiding them has a visitor and lets the visitor know that she’s alone. She looks through the door peephole, and – we see that it’s Karen (Hal’s girlfriend who was captured by the Skitters). Tom restrains Hal from going after her. They take another look through the peephole, and something they haven’t seen before looks in. They jump back, but then watch Karen and the new alien walk away. It’s bipedal like the Mechs and has two arms. It’s skinny and tall, and it’s head is shaped a little like a classic Roswell alien.

So the Karen storyline hasn’t been dropped. Good. I thought she’d come back into play eventually, but the lack of emotion on Hal’s (or anyone’s) part had me worried. In fact it still does. Falling Skies has been solid so far and shows a lot of promise, but the emotional follow-through could be better.

Karen (the supposed love of Hal’s life) gets captured and it’s like she never existed. I know they’re desensitized to an extent and they have other stuff going on, but I don’t think that’s a strong enough excuse given the context.

That being said, the show is still in its early days and hopefully they’ll improve on those aspects with time.

As for the new alien — that is an interesting development, and may (or may not) validate some of the theories that myself and others have had. We’ll see, but I’m very curious to learn if Karen has a harness.

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chrispatt86 July 25, 2011 at 8:14 AM

After so much talking about it we finally have our answer Roco! Good! It’s sounds pretty cool too, could Karen be another kind of girl like the one at the end of episode 1×06?

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Anjali July 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM