Falling Skies #4-02 Recap | Making Deals

<p><strong>&lpar;Full Spoilers Below&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Falling Skies <&sol;em>has certainly changed a lot since it first started&comma; and I don&&num;8217&semi;t think that&&num;8217&semi;s ever been more evident than with the first two episodes of Season 4&period; With <em>The Eye<&sol;em>&comma; the second episode of Season 4&comma; the show proved once again that it is willing to push boundaries in order to defy our expectations&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m not entirely sure that&&num;8217&semi;s a good thing&period; The plots are getting crazier&comma; and while I really liked seeing more depth added to the four different plot lines going on&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s starting to get a little absurd&comma; and I hope to see the show find a way to ground all the different stories soon&period; However&comma; I still really enjoyed watching <em>The Eye<&sol;em>&period; It gave me exactly what I wanted&comma; good action and fun plot twists&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m still nervous about the overall direction the show is trying to go in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While last week&&num;8217&semi;s episode only gave us a brief glimpse into the way Tom is acting as the vigilante known as &&num;8216&semi;the Ghost&comma;&&num;8217&semi; <em>The Eye<&sol;em> expanded it&comma; and showed us just how much of an inspiration he has become to all the men and women who are stranded in the ghetto with him&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s really cool seeing Tom branch out like this&comma; and while I find it hard to believe that the Espheni would find him to be such a threat in such a seemingly short amount of time&comma; I appreciate that the writers of the show aren&&num;8217&semi;t milking the vigilante angle&comma; and having Tom reveal himself in order to protect everyone was a nice way of showing that&period; Also&comma; it was pretty awesome seeing Tom roast that flying skitter with the flamethrower&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s probably one of the coolest alien takedowns we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen from the show yet&period; Hopefully we get even more flamethrower action when Tom and his band of rebels try and break out of the prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The most interesting thing that happened with Tom&comma; however&comma; was his meeting with the alien overlord&sol;prison warden&period; It was a suitably tense and creepy confrontation between the two that added yet another plot thread into the mix that will need to be addressed&period; The warden&&num;8217&semi;s plan to take the strongest remaining humans and mutate them into some kind of strange alien hybrid or soldier came as a shock&comma; and while the results could be really creepy&comma; I just hope it ends up making the Espheni threat feel more real&comma; as they&&num;8217&semi;re starting to feel a little stale with their repetive threats and such&period; But still&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll be interesting to see how Tom deals with this information next week&comma; especially as he continues his plan to break out of the prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05092206&sol;4-02-image-3&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-63222" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05092206&sol;4-02-image-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Falling Skies-the eye image" width&equals;"1296" height&equals;"730" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So far&comma; Ben&&num;8217&semi;s storyline in the strange utopia has been the most interesting one to me&comma; and that was only amplified this week&comma; as Ben continued to question Lexi and her dangerous&comma; alien-like abilities&period; What really struck a chord with me&comma; however&comma; was just how much he seemed cared for her&period; He didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to test her blood to see if she was a threat&comma; he wanted to test it to see if he could find a way to save her from dying&comma; which seems to be one of the unfortunate side-effect of her sped-up aging process&period; It will be interesting to see just how far Ben will go to protect Lexi in the coming episodes&comma; especially now that he&&num;8217&semi;s discovered that she&&num;8217&semi;s serving the Espheni themselves&period; The only problem I had with Ben&&num;8217&semi;s story this week was his weird moment with Maggie&comma; which seemed to hint at a romance between the two that would just be weird&comma; considering Maggie and Hal have been a couple for almost two seasons now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Out of the four different story arcs this week&comma; Matt and Anne were the ones who got the least amount of screen time&comma; but in this case&comma; I think that was a good thing&period; With so much happening with Tom and Ben in their respective stories&comma; there just wasn&&num;8217&semi;t the time to give either Matt or Anne any more screen time than they got&period; But what they did get was really great&period; Seeing more of Matt in his creepy alien reeducation camp was suitably creepy&comma; and although there wasn&&num;8217&semi;t much&comma; the fact that his friends&comma; and fellow rebels&comma; mysteriously disappeared at the end is certainly an intriguing and frightening tease for what the Espheni plan on using the children for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anne also got a great scene this week&comma; as she got once-step closer to discovering what the Espheni are using the kidnapped children for&period; Seeing how she brutally interrogated that injured skitter while it was psychically attached to one of her previously harnessed soldiers was a real standout moment for the episode&comma; as she violently murdered the creature after it didn&&num;8217&semi;t give her the answers she wanted&period; It was an eye-opening&comma; although slightly exaggerated&comma; moment that demonstrated just how much of an impact the last few months have had on Anne&comma; and I can only imagine it will get worse for her as she continues to chase after answers she can&&num;8217&semi;t find&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Falling Skies<&sol;em> delivered where it needed to with <em>The Eye<&sol;em>&comma; and even though a big portion of the episode was simply setting up bigger plots for the future&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m still not quite sure where the new showrunner is trying to take the show with this season&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s just so much going on that it&&num;8217&semi;s getting a little hard to keep track of&period; I still enjoyed the episode quite a bit&comma; but I really hope <em>Falling Skies<&sol;em> can tie all of its plots together soon&comma; or else I fear it could end up derailing itself in the future with its own weight ambitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;