Rocagnante said:
Episode 6 is pretty intense.
Finally, an episode with an actual alien! And a pretty good episode at that! One with a tense, taut plot for a change that directly relates to the invasion itself.
This should have been the second episode of the season, btw. The alien should have instead attacked their house in New Jersey in much the same fashion, they hide in the attic, etc, and
then they'd actually have a reason to run, there wouldn't be so much needless obfuscation for five hours, etc.
That said, I'm of two minds about the alien itself. On one hand, I'm glad we finally saw one, that characters interacted with it, and that it's a relatively unique design. The way it interacts with and seems to be in-part made up of sound frequencies or whatever is pretty cool. That's something new! But on the other hand, as I've said multiple times on this board for over a decade now, I'm soooooooooo sick of mindless, roaring, animalistic, human-eating aliens in movies. It just doesn't make sense that something so primal and slobbery and monster-like is capable of interstellar travel, inventing such advanced tech, etc. In this case, I'm really hoping the aliens we've seen so far are more like an advance team of alien "animals" or whatever sent ahead to ravage everything and everyone, and that the aliens themselves are much more intelligent-seeming/looking.
Anyway, overall, it's still not a good show, but this was at least a step in the right direction, and for the first time my interest has actually been piqued...
