Falling Skies #4-06 Recap: Metamorphisis

<p><em>Falling Skies<&sol;em> has had a lot of ups and downs this season&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s obvious that the show is struggling to find its footing under the guidance of the new showrunner who recently took over&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s not to say that the show has been bad&comma; just confused&period; There have been some really great moments so far&comma; and some really irritating ones as well&period; While <em>Door Number Three<&sol;em> certainly didn&&num;8217&semi;t change the game that much&comma; it did <em>finally<&sol;em> bring all our main characters back together again&comma; which means that even though the episode covered some familiar story territory&comma; it still worked simply because&comma; for the first time this season&comma; the plot was actually cohesive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The episode started on a high note as well&comma; and I really loved seeing the Mason family get to reunite after being separated for so long&comma; and it was a breath of fresh air to see them actually enjoy themselves for once&comma; even if it was for just a moment&period; And while I wish the Masons&&num;8217&semi; had had more time to reconnect&comma; I did really like seeing the show address the effects of the 2nd Mass reunite with the now peaceful inhabitants of Lexi&&num;8217&semi;s Espheni safe haven&period; This created for some interesting conflict&comma; as Pope quickly began to rally the 2nd Mass to confront and possibly even execute Lexi in order to ensure their own safety&comma; which&comma; as you can imagine&comma; Tom was very much against&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; what made this particular conflict stand out was that Lexi was actually completely vulnerable&comma; as she spent the entire episode encased in a suitably creepy cocoon of an alien nature to apparently &&num;8216&semi;transform&&num;8217&semi; into her final form&period; Whatever that means we&&num;8217&semi;ll have to wait and see&comma; but it was an unsettling and intriguing twist of events that made me wonder just how human Lexi really is&comma; as she certainly seems to be more alien than not&period; At the same time&comma; this entire event made things especially difficult for Tom&comma; as his reunion with his daughter&comma; who was only a little girl the last time they had been together&comma; wasn&&num;8217&semi;t exactly what he had imagined it to be&period; Still&comma; I liked how easily he was able to accept the strange circumstances and immediately jump to Lexi&&num;8217&semi;s protection even though she could still very much be a threat to not only him&comma; but the entire 2nd Mass&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;08&sol;05083117&sol;falling-skies-4-06-lexi-cocoon&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-64828" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083117&sol;falling-skies-4-06-lexi-cocoon&period;png" alt&equals;"Falling Skies-alien " width&equals;"1069" height&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Was Tom being foolish&quest; We&&num;8217&semi;ll have to see&comma; but for the sake of the episode&&num;8217&semi;s plot&comma; it worked&comma; as the conflict between the Mason family and the rest of the 2nd Mass&comma; who were all willing to just kill Lexi in her cocoon and get over with it&comma; succeeded in once again upping the stakes&period; The one thing I didn&&num;8217&semi;t like about it all was the way Hal fit into it&comma; and I just didn&&num;8217&semi;t buy him as the kind of person who be even remotely okay with the prospect of killing Lexi&comma; who&&num;8217&semi;s even his family&period; It added an interesting dynamic to the conflict for sure&comma; but it just didn&&num;8217&semi;t work for me&period; Thankfully&comma; he came around and joined with his family again in the protection of Lexi&comma; but still&comma; that particular bit of conflict just seemed off to me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the entire main cast was indeed back together with this episode&comma; there was still a B-storyline that happened behind-the-scenes that helped to fill in some of the gaps of Lexi&&num;8217&semi;s alien origins&period; In an attempt to find a way to free Lexi from her cocoon without killing her&comma; Anne subjected herself to a specific kind of drug that conveniently allowed her to enter her own subconscious and relive specific memories&period; It was all a bit strange and a little out of place&comma; not too mention convenient&comma; but it was still kind of cool seeing more of Anne and Lexi aboard the Espheni spacecraft&period; While we still don&&num;8217&semi;t really know what exactly makes Lexi so different&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re getting closer to answers&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s certainly a good thing&period; Hopefully they come sooner rather than later though&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The plot didn&&num;8217&semi;t really have any conclusion this week&comma; and it ended with a predictable&comma; yet successful&comma; cliffhanger that effectively left us all hanging until the next episode&period; Still&comma; <em>Door Number Three <&sol;em>finally progressed the plot in a meaningful way simply because it brought all our many characters back together again&period; <em>Falling Skies<&sol;em> still hasn&&num;8217&semi;t quite figured out what it wants to do with this season&comma; but with these last two episodes effectively moving things forward&comma; I can only hope it comes together in the coming episodes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;