History Headscratchers / FallingSkies

* Just how in the [[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged blood-soaked protestant Hell]] did Mason's needle penetrate Scorch's armor, ''which has been shown to block bullets'' beforehand? And how did Scorch remotely think it was a good idea to track down Mason ''[[WhatAnIdiot without any guards]]''?

* Small problem I had with the American Revolution analogy: Tom repeatedly talks about making a big enough problem for the invaders was what will drive them away, same as the American Revolution. Except one teeny, tiny, problem with that: [[CriticalResearchFailure That isn't how the war ended,]] the British left because while they were establishing their empire, they pissed off the French, Spanish, and a good few other equally powerful empires, who promptly pushed them into Canada. So is that Tom's plan? Wait until ''other'' equally powerful and possibly also evil Alien empires decides to get revenge on the Skitters for some wrong they did to them? Because otherwise, as sad as it is, Pope would be right, being a pain in their invaders ass will just repeat the Indian wars: Thousands of more Skitters will come and LeaveNoSurvivors.

* Small problem I had with the American Revolution analogy: Tom repeatedly talks about making a big enough problem for the invaders was what will drive them away, same as the American Revolution. Except one teeny, tiny, problem with that: [[CriticalResearchFailure That isn't how the war ended,]] the British left because while they were establishing their empire, they pissed off the French, Spanish, and a good few other equally powerful empires, who promptly pushed them into Canada. So is that Tom's plan? Wait until ''other'' equally powerful and possibly also evil Alien empires decides to get revenge on the Skitters for some wrong they did to them? Because otherwise, as sad as it is, Pope would be right, being a pain in their invaders ass will just repeat the Indian wars: Thousands of more Skitters will come and KillThemAll.

*** Which was also used in Transformers 3: The Decepticon invaders make a statement by first forcing the humans to give up the one thing that could save them ([[spoiler: The Autobots]]), seemingly destroy their only possible saviors in front of them after they gave them up, so they can't get them back, and then [[KillThemAll kill everything in one of the bigger cities,]] and use it as a base of comand, effictivly demoralizing the human race. The show has a lot of parrellels to TFormers 3, probably because Steven Speilberg was in on both's creation.

* I guess TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar are out the window on the human side, too. When [[spoiler: Karen]] comes under a white flag to talk, Tom summarily shoots [[spoiler: her]]. This is '''absolutely'' prohibited. Of course, given the atrocities of the other side, being conscientious is tantamount to suicide, but still. On the other hand, [[spoiler: Karen]] brought a Mech to the meeting, which would also be prohibited (Mechs being tantamount to heavy armor).

*** And that would matter to an alien life form whose tolerances are unknown to us... how? For all we know, they could be some kind of creature like those that live at the bottom of deep-ocean trenches, or hot vents- extremophiles, they're called. Yes, the Skitters and the Slenders (the tall, skinny ones, due to their resemblance to [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man,]])) have been shown on Earth, walking around with no problem... but do they have the same lack of problems in other environments?

If the Espheni literally have no power left after the destruction of their power core and Volm are still a space-faring race, how is this even a war anymore?

If the Espheni literally have no power left after the destruction of their power core and Volm are still a space=faring race, how is this even a war anymore?