The first two seasons of Falling Skies were a bit rocky, the characters were not worth rooting for and they seemed aimless going from town to town. Things started to pick up near the end of last season when the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston, an outpost for human refuges that had started to cobble together a sense of a society. They even had running water and an actual medical facility. By the time the season ended Weaver reunited with his daughter… again, Tom knocked up Anne, Karen gave Hal some eye bug thingy, oh yeah, and we were introduced to another alien race in the final scene of the season.
So we had to spend the next year wonder if these new aliens are friends or foes, or something in between. Well you are going to have to wait a couple minutes into the third season premiere to find out as were start out with a rescue mission of a character I forgot even needed rescuing from the old aliens where we get to meet the new “mega-mechs” before we learn what the new aliens are up to (TNT’s lawyer will rain fire down on me if I spoil any of the surprises, but I can say that the new aliens are called the Volm, their leader is named Chochise and we even get a name for the alien race the Overlords are part of: the Espheri. Granted Pope wisely just refers them as Bubbleheads and Fishheads respectively) but information starts to trickle out about them over the two hour premiere.
The premiere actually picks up seven month after the Volm first arrive which means Anne is very pregnant by the time we see them again. Tom is now the president of The New United States, Ben got himself a lady friend, Matt got himself a new perm, and Hal still has that bug thingy that no one has detected yet. Weaver has spend the time getting to know his daughter, Pope now has a whole town named after him, Lourdes has been upgraded to a white coat, and it looks like Anthony (you may only know him as the token black dude from the first two seasons) may actually be getting a storyline this season.
There are also some major changes that happened in the past seven months and the day we return to Charleston, again, I cannot not go into details due to the previously mentioned fiery rain but I can say one character had a major life change, someone gets a surprise promotion (and I am not talking about Tom being elected president), and someone you will know will not make it out the first hour alive, and the death does not come on the battle field, setting up a murder mystery for a couple episodes.
The Volm are not the only new faces this season. Noah Wiley’s ER
cohort Gloria Reuben shows up as one of his top advisers. Doug Jones, who played Abe Sapien in Hellboy
and the thing with eyes on his hands in Pan's Labyrinth
, dons another mask as Cochise. In the second half of tonight’s premiere we meet the eccentric guy who powers the city of Charleston who refuses to come topside and may instantly be the most interesting character on the show. In the second half of the episode we also get a look of some of the earliest harnessed humans and they just keep on getting creepier and creepier.Falling Skies premieres tonight at 9:00 with two hours. Starting next Sunday, the rest of the season will air in its regular time slot at 10:00. You can also download Falling Skies on iTunes.
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