4.4 Evolve Or Die This week, they seem to be turning to a new experimental weapon. Not the space shields and atmosphere burning thing from last season, but something… make that someone much more interesting as far as weapons go: the naive, sweet, amazingly powerful Lexi Mason, daughter of Second Mass soldier and former President Tom Mason and Anne Glass, brilliant doctor turned Che Guevara (who was also a doctor). As it turns out, the aliens did something to Lexi, and while she believes that the fish heads that she’s been talking to only want peace, it turns out that just might not be the case. In a fun scene near the end of the episode, the Espheni talks to another of his race via some sort of magical cinder teleportation method? I’m not sure how it works, as it seems way more magic than science, but either way, it doesn’t stop them from discussing their plot as super villiains are wont to do. Lexi’s power, as we’ve seen several times, is formidable, but she doesn’t quite know how to control it yet. That makes her a great pawn for the fish heads, and her disconnection from her human family thanks in no small part to said aliens and the fact that Lourdes has been raising her suggests that she’ll be in serious trouble sooner rather than later. She’s already in trouble, and her mother capturing her giant alien friend/brother might not help matters much. The alien communication scenes, courtesy of director Bill Eagles, were definitely strange looking, but the skitter-eye-view we got from Weaver’s transformed daughter Jeanne was one of the more effective glimpses of the world through the eyes of the aliens. Eagles also did a good job with the action sequences, particularly the Invasion of the Body Snatchers scene in the skitter concentration camp, where Tom got busted by the first kid he offered to help escape from the reeducation facility only to set off a horde of Hitler Youth boy scouts chasing him around with whistles to replace the screaming Donald Sutherland. I hope that this isn’t the last we see of that camp, if only because it’s been pretty fun. Not so much for the Family Mason, but definitely for the viewer. It’s yielded some creepy visuals, which has been much needed, but it’s not the similar grays and browns that was the concentration camp. I can only hope we get to follow Matt’s little friend as she tries to keep her sanity amongst the Kool-aid drinkers. US Correspondent Ron Hogan had nothing but difficulty actually getting to watch this episode of Falling Skies, thanks to summer storm and a guy in a Faraday suit blowing up his satellite television dish. Thanks a lot, Pope. Find more by Ron daily at Shaktronics and PopFi. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
