Falling Skies #4-04 Recap: Evolution

<p><b>&lpar;Full Spoilers Below&rpar;<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With <i>Evolve or Die<&sol;i>&comma; <i>Falling Skies<&sol;i> continued the progress started in last week’s episode and thankfully moved the plot forward in some fun and interesting ways&period; I’m still a bit frustrated at how fragmented all the different story arcs tend to be&comma; but I did appreciate how this episode tried to bring a sense of unity to them&comma; even if it didn’t quite succeed in the way I was hoping it would&period; But still&comma; <i>Falling Skies<&sol;i> seems to be starting to find its footing again&comma; and if it can keep up with the pace it’s setting for itself&comma; I really hope we can see the season get truly exciting very soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story picked up this week with an absolute breath of fresh air&comma; as it was such a relief to finally have Tom and his team move on from their prison and start doing something new&period; Their reunion with Cochise was nice&comma; albeit expected&comma; but it was Dan’s discovery of a strange creature that proved to be the most interesting plot this week&period; It was an unexpected twist&comma; but one that turned out to have quite a bit of intrigue to it&comma; and even though it did take kind of a backseat to Tom rescuing Matt&comma; I still liked how it ended up&period; It was all a bit weird&comma; and relied a bit too heavily on some horror-movie cliches&comma; but the reveal that the human-alien hybrid monster was actually Dan&&num;8217&semi;s daughter was quite the surprise&comma; and a dark turn of events I really didn’t see coming&period; Dan has had a rough road this season so far&comma; and now that his daughter is dead&comma; after being mutated into some kind of monstrosity&comma; I can’t imagine what kind of trauma the poor guy’s going to have to go through for the rest of the season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hal also had his own little side story this week&comma; as he was left in charge of the camp while Tom was out with Dan and Cochise&period; While nothing monumental happened&comma; I liked how they discovered a radio signal coming from Lexi’s &OpenCurlyQuote;Place of Peace&comma;’ which I can only hope was a tease that all the plot lines will finally come together soon&period; Although&comma; with Pope going off on his own as well&comma; and eventually coming across a crazy lady that tried to kidnap him&comma; I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon&period; Still&comma; seeing Hal struggle with the title of leadership was a nice little bit of development for his character&comma; and although it could’ve been done better&comma; it was a good first step I hope gets fleshed out next week&comma; especially now that Hal has to manage both Pope and his new lady-friend that he brought back with him&period; Which is odd&comma; considering they were about to kill each other just a little before&&num;8230&semi;<&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;05090934&sol;6f8d5d2e902e3562c9858c3db0fc78cb&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-63567" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05090934&sol;6f8d5d2e902e3562c9858c3db0fc78cb&period;jpg" alt&equals;"FS-Evolve or Die" width&equals;"527" height&equals;"350" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mystery surrounding Lexi once again proved to be one of the episode’s highlights&comma; however&comma; and it was nice seeing Ann back with her daughter again&comma; especially since her struggle to comprehend her daughter’s strange condition&comma; and her even stranger relationship with the Espheni&comma; felt really genuine&period; This particular story has been using a slow-burn approach in regards to its suspense&comma; and for the most part it’s worked really well&comma; but I think something’s going to need to change soon or else I fear the story will be dragged out the way the prison was earlier&period; But&comma; there were still enough tantalizing teases in play here to keep me interested&comma; and even though nobody knows where Lexi’s strange telekinetic&sol;weather powers are coming from&comma; they are fun to watch and definitely amped up the tension in the confrontation scene with her Espheni master at the end&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a whole&comma; <i>Evolve or Die<&sol;i> moved the plot forward in some very nice ways&comma; and it was great to see some of our heroes finally reunite after spending so much time apart&comma; but the show still seems to be dragging its feet a bit in some of the plots&period; The final scene did leave us with some intriguing details however&comma; as the prison warden Espheni actually reached out and contacted one of his brethren through some kind of psychic link&period; The two of them definitely have some nasty plans in store for the Mason family&comma; that seem to be centered around Lexi&&num;8217&semi;s alien powers&comma; and I am very interested to see how it will all unfold in the following episodes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;