Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
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Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
By djariya at 2011-06-01
Synopsis:
Spoiler:
10 episode 1st season.
2 episodes are airing Sunday night
Starring:
Noah Wylie (ER)
Moon Bloodgood (Terminator: Salvation, Journeyman)
Will Patton
Sarah Carter
Captain Dale Dye (recurring guest star)
Created by Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan)
Produced by:
Steven Spielberg
Graham Yost (Justified)
Greg Beeman (Smallville)
Trailer:
<iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/370MzsYctuY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Really looking forward to this. But, it's premiering on the same night as the Game of Thrones finale, The Killing finale, so it's going to be a really busy night.
It's gotten great reviews so far. But, I have a feeling it's going to get nit picked to hell by all you science fiction snobs here.
There was a rumor that this already got renewed for a 2nd season. Dreamworks and TNT already hired a new showrunner for the 2nd season, but they are just waiting to see the ratings for the 1st couple of episodes before making it official.
Last edited by DJariya; 06-18-11 at 02:28 PM.
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LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,7557440.story
SF Gate:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DDBS1JREUR.DTL
EW.com
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20502930,00.html
Ken Tucker gave it a B+
Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rev...-review-196959
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,7557440.story
SF Gate:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DDBS1JREUR.DTL
EW.com
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20502930,00.html
Ken Tucker gave it a B+
Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rev...-review-196959
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
I read on wiki it's a cross between Jericho and V. Hopefully, it doesn't take the predominant suckiness of those shows. It's not on network TV, so that can't hurt (if it's good).
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
Dude I follow on Twitter saw it and I asked if he liked it. Said it was cheesy but he heard it was supposed to get better.
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
DJariya, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS THREAD!!!
I had completely forgotten about this series although I had planned to watch it. Now, thanks to you, I've greased up and polished my HD DVRs as they'll beworking overtime tommorrow recording Falling Skies, The Killing, The Daytime Emmy's and Game of Thrones.
I had completely forgotten about this series although I had planned to watch it. Now, thanks to you, I've greased up and polished my HD DVRs as they'll beworking overtime tommorrow recording Falling Skies, The Killing, The Daytime Emmy's and Game of Thrones.
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
Crap, I forgot to set my DVR and am away. Hopefully they replay it a ton.
Love me some Librarian.
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Looking forward to it. Love any alien invasion stuff.
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Did you read my OP? They already hired a new showrunner for a "season 2" TNT and Dreamworks are pretty much set on ordering a 2nd season. They are just waiting to see some numbers for the 1st couple of episodes. I can't see this bombing. TNT has been promoting it like crazy and it's been promoted in movie theatres as well. I'm going to guess that this gets between 5-7M viewers tonight minimum.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/tnt-...as-showrunner/
http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/tnt-...as-showrunner/
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/review..._fallingskies/
Another good review from The Futon Critic.com They called it a "Fantastic series"
Another good review from The Futon Critic.com They called it a "Fantastic series"
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
Really looking forward to this. However, I may not get around to watching it until tomorrow due to GoT and The Killing finales.
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
I saw the ad in the Entertainment Weekly.. looks like my type of show. I set the DVR up for it. Hopefully its good.
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Can't wait for this! I only recently got a HDTV (finally!), so I'm excited to watch more scripted shows in HD!
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I enjoyed it other than the gang of outlaws crap. Hate how all these post-apocalyptic shows always have that. Hopefully that was it. Internal conflict is obviously necessary, but I just hope it's humans vs. aliens from now on.
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
I found it very similar to the Walking Dead, just with aliens instead of zombies. But to me, the first episode of Walking Dead just blew Falling Skies away....
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(I did like the outlaw gang chick turning tables and killing those two dudes).
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Re: Falling Skies -- 2 Hour Premiere -- "Live & Learn/The Armory" -- 6/19/11
Does no one know how to hotwire a car? Despite some silly cliche moments, I'll keep watching tho.