History WMG / FallingSkies

His brother is dead, his berserkers have deserted him, the 2nd Mass wants him gone and the only guy who follows him is black [who he clearly hates]. He's sick of humanity. The Skitters approach him, sympathize with him, convince him that they are NotSoDifferent. They tell him to rejoin the 2nd Mass and find more information about Charleston. They'll probably order him to kill Red Eye, which he will most happily oblige. In return, they'll grant him immunity and he gets to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Hunt the Most Dangerous Prey]]. Of course, the only human he really wants to kill is Tom. Wouldn't be surprised if he double crosses them, because Anthony has become a close friend and MoralityPet. EvenEvilHasStandards.

It's Marina who we should be throwing suspicion on - why is she doing this research on what the Volm weapon is when Tom Happens to not be around? How did she get the pictures of the weapon? Why is she uninterested in the DNA results of the other children? I think we have our mole. TropesAreTools: What better way to hide the mole than by having the mole be the one to misdirect the audience onto suspecting the Volm?

* Adding to this is word that Doug Jones is coming in to play the alien in season 3. Doug Jones has played heavily latexed characters rather often: He's been [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Abe Sapien]], [[Film/PansLabyrinth The Pale Man]], and [[Film/FantasticFour The Silver Surfer]].

Because [[TVTropeswillRuinYourLife my Troper-sense]] is GenreSavvy. He'll learn/figure out more as time goes on. They're not going to give us a PlotDump right off the bat. We know better.

** I actually thought that was a shout out to WorldWar, in which there is a female Soviet fighter pilot who the aliens have trouble dealing with for the same reason. That being, plane made of radar invisible materials.

[[WMG: The entire show was made after Spielberg wanted to turn the TransformersFilmSeries into a live action TV show]]

* The five planes returned at the beginning of ''[=CE3K=]'' had been missing since 1945, and they were returned 30 years later in the 1970's. The events of ''FallingSkies'' happen 30 years ''after'' the 1970's. Looks like that's the travel time to their homeworld.

[[WMG: ''FallingSkies'' is an alternate universe in the ''Franchise/StargateVerse'']]

* Alternately, the "New Continental Congress", or some of its members ''do'' know, and are following Clayton's example in making deals with the aliens. Judging by the commercials, TerryOQuinn plays a member of the new government, and that seems like the type of role he'd be good at.

As a historian, it makes perfect sense for him to use his unique talents to save the world in a fashion that only Tom Mason could do. Not only would this create a nice poetic theme (that I am too lazy to go into depth) about the importance of history, but this show wouldn't be Spielberg's masterpiece if it didn't didn't call back to PinkyAndTheBrain

As a historian, it makes perfect sense for him to use his unique talents to save the world in a fashion that only Tom Mason could do. Not only would this create a nice poetic theme (that I am too lazy to go into depth) about the importance of history, but this show wouldn't be Spielberg's masterpiece if it didn't didn't call back to PinkyAndTheBrain

[[folder: season four]]

[[WMG: ''Falling Skies'' is set in the same universe as ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.]]

Related to two of the above. The Skitters and Mechs are both enslaved by and subordinate to a higher caste of entirely different aliens like the members of [[HalfLife The Combine]] are to the Advisers.

The device they build is stated to be too powerful for what it suposedly does. Kosheech (or however he is written) states he is fighting to see a flower from his homeworld again. There is little hope to do so, unless they use Earth. It has been speculated before Alexis may be the result of Volm tampering and if that is true, it may be to create a human capable of living long-term on a Volm-settled Earth in a misguided thanks to humanity. Terraforming by an invading force certainly is about the only scenario the show has not pulled on us so far.

** They didn't say it was already cleared out, they probably chose it because there was minimal Skitter presence there that would be easy to take out from the air.

There is no way they could have already cleared out Brazil for humans, with the grid having just come down.