This Friday on 'Dark Skies' ep 6: 'Dreamland'

I'm teetering boys, I'm teetering. I am growing more wearysome of this show by the episode. The naration portion sounds like the Wonder Years on valium and bourbon.

The premise of using Kim at the poker table was just silly, surely someone would be smart enough to think the hive might be able to tell she wasn't communicating back to them in a way they understand.

Howard Hughs not knowing the word telepathy? Please, Howard ended up being a bit of a cook but the man was clearly brilliant and ahead of his time, he would have understood telepathy.

On the bright side, have we seen the last of Steele? Hope so.
Other positive signs, at least they are addressing the money and job thing even though it's in passing.

The one piece of information for this episode was the hive have a natural predator. Was this whole thing set up just to dissiminate that little nugget? or is there a more involved element to the area 51 angle, somehow I doubt it.

All in all brutal TV I give this one 3 gangleon eating leaches.


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This Friday on “Dark Skies” ep 6: “Dreamland'

I kept thinking this would be the one with the title Dreamland I thought for sure this episode would star the legend Art Bell. Since his base of operation is in Pahrump Nevada at the foothills of Area 51. Yes I was a little disappointed with this episode but I’ve come to expect a little disappointment but the unexpected appearance of another hero of mine Howard Hughes saved the day. What an odd duck he was. Were they building an earth base hive I always assumed with a spaceship you could keep you base off planet somewhere or on the dark side of the moon. One hell of a hole they were digging in the desert moving a lot of dirt. But they were cleaning out Howard casino it take money to dig a hole. Steele you can’t keep a good man down what’s the chance the truck might have done him in. No way he will be back next week just like a bad penny it will turn up again. Like the comment about the transistor radio I clearly remember them advertising on the pocket radio the number of transistor they had inside them. Boy I wish I still had a few of those pocket radios but all of mine hit the trash many years ago. I’m going to petition the White House to put John back on the MJ12 payroll he still doing their dirty work and going broke doing so. Howard you could have let them keep the Mustang. You got the money.

Late for the parade... Oh, well, here it goes. I just think it's very hard to be objective at this point. My initial expectations with the show were great, then I saw the pilot and I had problems readjusting to a product of the 1990s (several small technical details, for instance), and the fact that I remembered many key incidents killed the suspense. But once I got passed that I started enjoying the show again.

But as I read the summary for this one, I didn't feel much like watching it. Really, the whole Las Vegas scenario may be a part of the American "imaginarium" (OK, now I'm looking for a word that doesn't seem to exist in English, which we have as imaginário, which encompasses imagination and folk culture, and a bunch of other stuff), but Vegas doesn't really do it for me. And then after my discussion with charmed, I felt even less like watching it.

But then it turned out to be much better than I had anticipated, considering my expectation were so low at the time. It was entertaining and fun, and I'm still hooked by the whole alien conspiracy/rewritten history thing.

I agree that putting Kim at the hive table was not the brightest idea. I don't understand how John went along with it. From Kim I'd expect anything, really. With all that beauty, who needs brains after all (except for the part that aliens find so tasty)? But John ought to have known better. But the idea was from Howard Hughes, and what did he know? He didn't know, and most of all he didn't care what happened to her. And obviously it didn't work, since Steele was right there waiting for her in the car.

By the way, what's charmed's problem with Steele? He's creepily fun, and it's always nice to see him getting hit by a truck.

I agree with wlcebtg, Howard Hughes really made a difference in the story. I loved the character.

OK, a couple things:

- Wanna job? Talk to Mr. Gettings. He *gets* people to work here. Get it? Then you talk to Mr. Hirings.
- As the car was approaching the quarry, I kept thinking, "Decisions, decisions..."
- Howard Hughes gives John simply the flashiest car they had to discreetly follow the hive members. Way to go, good guys!
- The waitress who kept blabbering about the traumatic experience she had, I so wanted her to shut up! I wish she had been implanted just to shut up and get a better attitude. Her negativity was dragging me down.
- I was expecting John to keep the flashy convertible. At least that would give them an excuse to put the money problem aside for a few episodes, but as the waitress said, nothing comes for free.
- Instead of dumping all the jar of predators on the implanted man, Kim could have tried to keep a few for herself. The predators could've been used either to prove alien existence (exposing them) or to study the aliens' vulnerabilities (which would perhaps require working with MJ-12 help, but them what else is new?). But it's hard to think of that when you're scared and running for your life.

We've learned a few interesting things that moved the story forward:

- Hive implanted people can show all sorts of emotions. They pretend to be happy, excited, unlike the cliched pod people who usually behave robotically. This makes it hard to spot them.
- With some implanted people the control is not complete, and it needs to be strengthened by some sort of reimplantation.
- Ganglia, when in their natural state outside a host, have a natural predator. That can be used to kill the ganglion or its vestiges inside a host. Unfortunately for the predator they don't seem to have the same ability to posses other beings, so they'll need humans to reach the ganglia in a host. We don't know how intelligent they are.
- Hive people can communicate telepathically.
- Kim can hear a buzzing sound from that telepathic communication.
- What Kim has is called "latent tendrils" and the ganglion doesn't grow back from them.
- Of course Howard Hughes knew the word "telepathy", charmed. He learned it from John Loengard, of course! That's the whole point of the show. Everything weird that happened or is supposed to have happened in the 1960s is due to aliens, MJ-12, or John Loengard.
- Howard Hughes was already a little crazy and paranoid, but he only got interested in aliens and paranormal things in general because of what? Aliens and John Loengard, of course! And the "ganglion on the face" incident was decisive to drive him even further towards Crazytown. Until then he was only paranoid about germs and communists.
- Something is cooking in Area 51 that the aliens want to get to. This means maybe the government, MJ-12, or other some secret organization is doing something alien-related, and the aliens possibly want to stop it. Possible allies for John and Kim, or just trouble-makers they'll have to deal with in the future.
- Aliens need money for the operations. Expect them to see involved in other shady money-grabbing scheme.

Honestly I'd say considering the information above, we learned A LOT in this deceptively simple episode.

Considering that, even if this wasn't one of its stellar episodes, the show kept my hopes high for the next installment. I give this one an 8-transistor radio transmitter.

I had actually enjoyed this show having given up on it after watching the horrible "Dark Days Night" episode.

I was glad they were moving the story forward somewhat and revealed that Howard Hughes was involved in the whole UFO conspiracy theory. I'm inclined to believe that he probably really was or at least read up on the subject.

My main issue with DARK SKIES so far has been how little they reveal episode to episode and it's probably what tanked it on it's original airing.



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