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An alien series would not be as spine-tinglingly intense and captivating if not for the one human survivor who has to fight against his own nature, and perhaps the enemy within, to survive. In the first season of FALLING SKIES, desperate father Tom Mason was driven to rescue and help his teenage son, Ben, who was one of the harnessed children abducted by the aliens. In portraying one of the harnessed abductees, stuck in captivity for months, young star Connor Jessup had a lot of heavy and complicated emotions to wrestle with and convey.

Yet, like Tom and Connor’s brothers Hal and Matt, as fans we became obsessed with how the rescue would be accomplished and whether it was really entirely possible for any of the harnessed children to return to some semblance of normalcy. Would they be able to fight off the powerful mind-control and compulsion instilled by the metal spikes driven into their spines? When it became apparent that Ben’s time in captivity and affixed to the harness had left residual physical effects, his father did the unthinkable and accepted the aliens’ invitation to come aboard and perhaps discover whether there was any hope for Ben. As seen in the second season premiere, Tom’s blind hopefulness was short-sighted and it made him a captive for a time aboard the mothership. Like father, like son, Tom and Ben’s time spent subject to alien torment has not left either unscathed. In an exclusive interview, Connor Jessup talked about the tough journey of Ben Mason and the emotional scars it has left the character with as he continues to retain his humanity. [Read more…]

Like any master illusionist, the writers of FALLING SKIES have managed to catch our attention with a whole host of eerie aliens inhabiting a brand new apocalyptic world that barely resembles the world we know.  They scared us silly with the unstoppable machine-like Mechs that trample all in their path in a hail of bullets and firepower.  They terrified us with the introduction of the Skitters, the creepy bug crawlers that lurk in the darkness and who posses an uncanny intelligence that rivals our own.  Then, at the end of the first season, they beguiled us and teased us with the introduction of the Overlords, mysterious beings that beckoned with their long fingers and silently promised to reveal the answers that Tom Mason desperately sought to save his son.  But that promise was more an invitation to see why resistance was futile — and for a little personal payback for the recent attack which the survivors and 2nd Mass had struck against the aliens.  So while Tom’s hopeful mission to find a cure for his son Ben did yield answers, they were not the ones he was searching for.  [Read more…]

 
The key to success to a great television show is creating a villain that you love to hate.  In the case of FALLING SKIES, it has provided us with the aliens and John Pope.  But the interesting thing about Pope is we are never really sure he is a villain.  He may not always play nice or fair with his fellow survivors, but he is just as passionate in his hatred of the aliens.  It’s kind of plays in to the old adage, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”  To help illuminate how Pope really sees himself in the fight against the aliens and his relationship with the rest of mankind, star Colin Cunningham provided his insight into the murky and conflicted mind of John Pope. [Read more…]