Posted by Dustin on 06.10.2013 at 6:31 pm

So “Falling Skies” season 3 began last night with a huge 2-hour premier. I am not gunna do a huge recap, but just a brief set-up and then talk about some major plot points and what I thought.

The show takes place 7 months after the events of the season 2 finale. I think I spent the first hour trying to remember all that happened actually, and everyone’s name. All I remembered was a new alien showed up at the end. It seems Tom has been elected President of South Carolina/Charleston, and he’s made it a place for rebel skidders and humans alike to live. They are also working with the new alien, whose name is Cochise. He is helping them to try and defeat the Overlords, who apparently are called Efreti (sp?). Unfortunately as much progress as they’ve been making with his help, it seems they have a spy in their midst. Someone keeps tipping the Efreti off on their major moves.

Also at the end of last season, Karen and Hal faced off and she ended up putting one of those bug things in his eye after almost killing him. This made it seem like he was the spy. However by the end of hour two, we still didn’t know who the spy way. I don’t think it’s Hal though. Hal is now paralyzed, and still with the other blonde (Margaret) who looks a lot like Karen but isn’t Karen. Karen however has been taking over Hal at night and making him meet her in the woods for sexy time. It seems Karen has not let go of Hal and wants him back. By the end of the show Margaret found Hal walking in the woods in a zombie state. She knew Karen had done something to him, but they still doesn’t know what. They do know that Hal isn’t paralyzed, something Margaret kept telling him all along. She thought Karen was only making him think he was.

In spite of the progress in the war, some are not happy that Tom is so inviting of these new aliens. Pope doesn’t trust anything human, and Weaver has his doubts too. Conchise is helping Tom build a giant gun, the construction of which is very top secret. Tom finally let Weaver in on it, which didn’t ease his mind. What is the gun for? Even Tom doesn’t know, but feels it’s time to ask that.

One of the probable reasons for the 7 month advance in time was so Anne could have her baby. Anne went into labor and gave birth to a little girl. However Anne soon found herself baffled by her child’s amazing abilities. The kid can already say “mama” and seems to be able to track Anne and others around the room, as if she understands things. Creepy alien hybrid baby! Something definitely was done to her embryo, but who did it and why? Or is this just a result of some kind of chemical exposure that has lead to a superhuman? From the previews it definitely seems the aliens want her kid.

Tom learned via Ben’s connection with the Skidders that a new Overlord has replaced the one he killed, and this one is a human. Tom knew it was Karen. At one point we saw Karen’s spine beginning to glow oddly. I think she may be morphing into an Efreti? We already know the other human kids morphed into Skidders, and we saw some others in this episode who seemed to be some kind of mutants gone wrong.

As for the traitor, I’m not sure who it is. The old president and Tom’s old professor narrowed it down to about 12 people, but the traitor killed him first. I’m wondering if it could be the Max Hedrom guy?