This Friday on 'Dark Skies' ep 1 and 2: 'The Awakening' (Parts 1 and 2)

Well, I see we've gotten ourselves into the mother of all conspiracy theories. I'm not big on conspiracy theories, when taken seriously, but if you throw enough of them together and suppose they're real, it can be fun. So far, this looks like it.

I usually don't like pilot episodes because they tend to be mostly background and "establishing" stories, but this one dove right in. We had revisionist history in the first ten seconds.

I like the casting, the concept and the writing. We'll see if they can sustain it.

I'm already regretting that this lasted a single season. Think of the fun the writers could have had with the "real" story behind the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, the Manson Family, the assassination attempts on Ford and Reagan, hijackings (undoubtedly, D.B. Cooper was picked up by the mother ship), the two space shuttle disasters, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and on and on.

I would have no problem believing that disco was an evil alien plot.

- Oh, the CGI of the 1990s... Good times… Nah, I don’t miss you. Same to be said about the music. Gosh, the technical developments of television in the 21st century are so evident now that those older shows look cheap and contrived. But that can’t be, because that was a prime-time show on a major network, from the time networks ruled. Funny thing is that in my mind, from the time I watched a few episodes it in the 1990s, the production values were topnotch.

- Whatever happened to Megan Ward? She was promising at that time. And quite fetching in that 1960s outfit.

- Why was there such a craze about UFOs in the 1990s? I think that has to do with the success of the X-Files. But then this show wouldn't been such a hit if there wasn't a disposition for conspiracy theories at that time. Now this would sound dated.

- I may be mistaken, but I think this is the first thing I saw JT Walsh in. After that, no matter the show or movie, he always seemed creepy and shady. And he never failed to confirm that suspicion.

- Nice scary touch: the ready (and even signed) report.

- The truth is out there? No, “the truth is down here, third door on the right.”

- Sometimes I have the feeling Tommy Lee Jones is going to enter through a door at any moment.

- I like Loengard's fashion style: he’s on a farm on an at least mildly hot day and still wearing a suit and a trench coat.

- Nice touch: it’s the 60s and everybody smokes, even in small closed areas. You wouldn't see that on a network nowadays, just in cable, as in Mad Men.

- Charmed feared we’d see pod people. But I’m sure he wasn't counting on a pod monkey! That’s Roswell meets Planet of the Apes!

All in all I think this is going to be a fun ride. At least these first 88 minutes were packed with action and they went fast as I watched. The show takes itself too seriously, and that might have been adequate in the 1990s (or maybe not, after all the show was cancelled), but now it comes out as campy. And they shouldn't show aliens so explicitly especially when their visual effects are not that good. Still the historical revisionism is interesting to watch and you keep imagining how deep the whole conspiracy thing will go. Even though the show in my alien-infected memory deserved a 10, I give barely this one 8 pod monkeys with guns!

This Friday on “Dark Skies” ep 1 and 2: “The Awakening' (Parts 1 and 2)

Slow start for me but that’s the way first episodes go. The camera Kimberly snaps a picture of the White House we had that camera when I was much younger. It may even still be around. So Gary Powers was not brought down by the Soviets but a mishap with an alien space ship. I understand it’s TV and things have to move along but I was surprised how fast and easy it was to land a job with MJ12. Loved seeing all the old cars driving around this brought back memories of when cars were cars and the dash boards were metal and the radios had to warm up before you could listen to them. For DT that had to be Detroit’s finest days back in the sixties when US cars were king. I still drive a Ford. I got a little chuckle about Kennedy going after the mob and coming out of that OK. I always figured that’s why both of the Kennedys died but now we know they were made aware of MJ12. The little bugs that are inside the Greys and some humans I could do without that to me that’s a little silly. Where did it fit inside the brain without destroying it.

Had a few slow time for me but I know it will get better as time goes by and we get deeper into the Truth.

ugh, off we go. fell asleep twice. It was just barely OK for me. not very excited about this project but it is what it is. I liked seeing the 60's props, they did quite well with that. All the special effects and things probably OK for the time period.
Have a real hard time believing they wouldn't have just offed both the guy and girl. The other thing I thought odd was the Hotel / motel had a TV in the room, I don't believe they had tv's standard in the room until the late 60's or 70's. There have been no pod people per-say but the alien invader implanted in the people looked eerily similar to the ones Captain Picard had to fight when the federation was being invaded. Like so many here, I am not a fan of pilot episodes and this one is no different. Feels like I have seen it all before kind of like a poor mans x files
I give this one 4 dead presidents on the DS scale. Lots of room for improvement.

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Me to never heard on any of them. But you know me I'm stuck on watching Married with Children episodes Crackle. They still crack me up. Back to episode one and two did two years go by? It started in 1961 and Kennedy died in 1963.

And speaking of gun control, that monkey sure had a good aim. Popped that cia guy toot sweet. good thing he didn't have an ar15

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