So the two hour season finale was really just two episodes strung together. The first hour "Mutiny" was okay, though it seems that there almost always needs to be an obligatory "human resistance turns against each other" episode in sci fi shows nowadays. Seems to me the whole episode could have been avoided if Will Patton had just told his senior commanders what the deal was. So it seems the 4th and 5th Mass Infantry got wiped out, along with Command (the 1st?), leaving only the 2nd Mass unit ready for fighting, so at the end of the episode the remaining fighters mount up and head out to take down the alien structure - despite the fact that it seems like a futile effort.
The final episode wasn't that bad... at least until the end, lol. I don't know why Will Patton's character seems to inspire such loyalty, because his plan to blow up the Alien Structure was pretty bad. Espcially after his scouts discovered the Skidders were waiting for them and 75% of his force was dead or missing. If I remember correctly, there were 200 fighting men in the 2nd Mass, now there's probably closer to 125? Or less?
The "Last Stand" scene at the school wasn't bad, though the radio frequency thing was kind of odd. I mean, the aliens basically blew a gasket after that happened and started to recall all their troops, but that seems weird to me since it was just a small blip in their overall campaign. Not only that, but they could just change their frequency again and mount another attack, couldn't they? But they kept the same frequency that was used to "disrupt" them for some reason. Oh, and the new "mech killer" bullets didn't seem to work all that well. The one Pope shot initially blew a golfball sized-hole in the mech head they had, yet when a real mech shows up, it takes 30 men emptying an entire clip into it to take it down? Seems like 4-5 well placed shots should do it.
Finally, Tom hitting an alien ship dead on with an RPG was just... I mean, I get that you need a little suspension of disbelief, but its not like that was a guided missile. That shot was one in a million that it would actually hit something. So that part I kinda shook my head at.
But then, on their way home, the aliens land (apparently they didn't notice a massive brightly lit spaceship hovering directly above them), and they invite Tom to come with them because their "curious," and the big cliffhanger is this Close Encounters shot of Tom getting on the alien spacecraft with Will Patton looking like he has to fart just standing by watching the whole thing.
Over all, it wasn't a bad 2 hours of television, but the show constantly falls short of being a "Fuck Yeah!" must watch series. I'm glad it got renewed, because I'm hoping season two improves. I'd like to see more of Pope, and less of people acting like complete retards. The Crazy Black Kid who ran away and told the Skidders everything about the 2nd Mass plans was so avoidable. I mean, did no one notice how weird he was acting? And why was he privy to all their military plans and stuff? That type of thing just bugs me because the characters of a show should at least be as smart as the people watching it, and you could see that kid betraying everyone coming a mile away.
