Falling Skies Wikipedia. Falling Skies is an American science fictionpost apocalyptic dramatic television series created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The series stars Noah Wyle as Tom Mason, a former Boston University history professor who becomes the second in command of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, a group of civilians and fighters fleeing postapocalyptic Boston following an alien invasion that devastated the planet six months before the events of season 1. The series, a production of Dream. Works Televisionand from 2. Spielbergs Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Watch Gabriel Online Hitfix What Alan\u0027s Watching' title='Watch Gabriel Online Hitfix What Alan\u0027s Watching' />Stranger Things is an American science fictionhorror web television series created, written, directed and coexecutive produced by the Duffer Brothers, as well as co. Watch Falling Skies Season 3 episodes online with help from SideReel. We connect you to show links, recaps, reviews, news and more. Watch Gabriel Online Hitfix SepinwallTelevisionis broadcast in the United States on the cable channel TNT, and in Canada on Super Channel first run broadcasts and on Space second run broadcasts on a one year delay. The series premiered on June 1. On July 1. 8, 2. 01. TNT renewed the show for a 1. June 2. 8, 2. 01. August 3. 0, 2. 01. Series overvieweditFalling Skies begins six months after a global invasion by extraterrestrials, where in only days, the invaders neutralized the worlds power grid and technology, defeated and largely destroyed all the worlds militaries, and killed over 9. The aliens include mechanical attack drones called Mechs a species of light brown skinned six legged beings known as Skitters that appear to control the mechs and a mysterious species known as the Overlords, or Espheni, presumably the actual engineers of the invasion and the masters of the Skitters. The aliens objectives are not explained until season 4. They plan to extract helium 3 from Earths moon to power their technology, and to use humanity as an enslaved front line army in their war with another alien race. To do this, the aliens round up children between the ages of 8 and 1. Watch Barbie Diaries Online Metacritic. Forcibly removing it generally kills the child, but midway through season 1, a surgical method is developed that allows a harness to be safely removed, leaving in place the spikes that connected the harness to the spinal column. In Season 5, it is revealed through an Espheni communication devicewhich Ben can interact with by touching it, due to having the spikesthat there is a being superior to the Overlords, known as the Queen. In the series finale, the Queen explains that the invasion about which the entire series is based upon is the result of a prior Espheni attempt to invade Earth, the only habitable planet in this galaxy and thus of immeasurable strategic importance. Her beloved daughter led that invasion, but the Espheni underestimated humanity and the invasion was stopped. The Queens daughter was killed and the Queen swore to wipe out humanity in revenge. The story follows a group of survivors who band together to fight back. They call themselves the Second Mass, an allusion to the historical regiment from the Continental Army. The group is led by retired United States Army Captain Dan Weaver. Boston University history professor Tom Mason is second in command and must put his extensive knowledge of military history into practice while searching for his son Ben. At the end of season 2, a new alien race known as the Volm are introduced. Led by a Volm nicknamed Cochise by Tom Mason, the Volm are another species who the Espheni conquered in their galactic expansion, and who want to destroy the Espheni in revenge. While more Volm forces arrive at the end of season 3, an attack on the Volm across the galaxy causes all but Cochise and a small team of Volm to abandon the Earth. Watch Gabriel Online Hitfix' title='Watch Gabriel Online Hitfix' />Cochise and his soldiers continue to aid humanity in their war with the Espheni despite the lack of support from their superiors, notably Cochises father. In season 4, a devastating Espheni counterattack relegates humanity to Espheni controlled ghettos across the planet. Meanwhile, Toms half Espheni daughter Alexis continues to grow and develop psychic powers due to her heritage. After the 2nd Mass eventually escape the ghettos, another attack severely depletes their numbers. Learning of a power core on the Moon that controls all Espheni technology, Tom and Alexis launch an attack on the power core using a captured Espheni aircraft. Alexis sacrifices herself to destroy the power core and Tom is left lost in space, but the Espheni war machine is left crippled with the loss of their air support and mechanized servants. In season 5, Tom is rescued by the Esphenis ancient enemy, the Dornia, who guide him into finding his inner warrior to defeat the Espheni once and for all. Returned to Earth, Tom rallies humanity into a global resistance that will march on major Espheni bases all over the world. Tom leads the militias in the United States in a march on the Espheni base in Washington, D. C. With the help of an Espheni communications device, humanity learns that the Espheni serve a previously unknown queen who comes to planets when victory is assured and the Espheni are moving from invasion to occupation. Indeed, while in Washington, Tom spots signs of the Espheni moving in on Earth. Tracking the queen to the ruins of the Lincoln Memorial, Tom confronts her alone and she informs him of the true reason for the invasion. Tom manages to infect the Espheni Queen with a Dornia bioweapon, killing her and spreading the bioweapon throughout the Espheni species. The Espheni are destroyed and the Earth is freed. Months later, humanity is united and makes plans to elect a new leader. When Tom is offered the job, he refuses it. Cast and characterseditMain casteditRecurring casteditProductioneditConceptioneditDevelopment officially began in 2. TNT announced that it had ordered a pilot for an untitled alien invasion project. Falling Skies was created by Robert Rodat, who is best known for writing the Oscar winning film Saving Private Ryan, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. Rodat wrote the pilot episode from an idea which was co conceived by Spielberg. Originally, Falling Skies was called Concord, referencing the battles of Lexington and Concord and Tom Masons former profession as a history professor. Spielberg then came up with the title Falling Skies. I felt that this was a very interesting postapocalyptic story with a 2. I came up out of the blue one day with the name Falling Skies, which is basically what happens to the planet after this invasion. What is unique about this particular series is that the story starts after a successful conquest of the world, he stated. Spielberg was attracted to the project due to its themes of survival. Ive always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. How would the survivors feed the children How do they resupply themselves militarily in order to defend and even take back what they have lost he added. Like much of Spielbergs work, such as The Pacific and E. T. the Extra Terrestrial, Falling Skies running theme is family and brotherhood. He explained, Its a theme I harken back to a lot because its something I believe in. Its something I have the closest experience with. Laughs They say write what you know, and with seven children and three sisters. I tend to always come back to the family as a touchstone for audiences to get into these rather bizarre stories. While writing the pilot, Rodat dedicated a five page montage to the alien invasion, but decided not to go through with it as it had been done before in films such as War of the Worlds. I wrote a few drafts of it and I looked at and say, Ay yay yay, Ive seen this before. Theres no emotion to this. It feels like one of those montages, he said. Rodat came up with the idea of having the children in the series harnessed by aliens. When we were working out the initial stuff, the thing that excited Spielberg was the idea that adults are killed if theyre a threat, and kids are captured for whatever reason and changed or altered. The harness was a logical outgrowth of that.