Started watching Falling Skies on TNT tonight and I commented to Scott that these stories all have the same path. Alien invasion, human resistance. We’ve seen this before, “War of The Worlds” anyone? The story gets boiled down using convenient applications of deus ex machina to tell a simplified story. A lot of these stories all run the same and after a while they all tend to blend in together and tell a single tale. This is fine until it gets really tired and eventually the tale stops being about the poor human survivors and you start rooting for the aliens to wipe them all out. With so much lame human mugging for the camera you just wish there would be a bright light, the rest of the story would be over and we could get on to the next tired humanity vs. alien story.