I actually had to rewind and play it back again (yay torrents) to make sure I heard it right. Not 15 THOUSAND years ago as I expected (to fit in with Ancient Astronaut theories and the like) .. but a mere 1500???
So we are led to believe that in the year 500 AD there was an alien invasion and nobody mentioned it in history? Not even in legends? What a pile of nonsense.
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"
That's when I knew the writers were completely trolling us all. They pretty much said there "Fine, if you don't like our show, you will suffer even more in the finale." And to say people were so primitive and have cave drawing like figures? They must have meant 15,000 years, but maybe the actress got it wrong and no one really cared at that point.
"All I wanted was to eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens and to absorb its power."
THANK YOU! Cavemen hunting with sharpened sticks, no record of such an invasion anywhere on Earth, etc., in 500 A.D.?
And how did the aliens erase all traces of their tech and weaponry, if they all ended up exploding when the earlier queen died? Wouldn't there have been SOMETHING that lasted 1500 years?
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I thought the same thing
Also raised an eye brow at the "Earth is the only inhabitable planet in this galaxy"
Erm wah? They really searched billions of solar systems and earth was the only inhabitable planet?
So, the Volm travelled all the way to Earth from another galaxy?
And still, they were trumped by a history teacher and a mysterious tribe of alien-slaying villagers?
Not the Volm, the Espheni.
But yeah, the 1,500 years was the most ridiculous thing in the finale.
Oh wait, there was something even more ridiculous: "they ate my poor daughter! Now I'll put your head on a stick!"
This, by the all-powerful long-surviving queen of a space-faring, galaxy-hopping civilization that enslaved and destroyed countless other races.
All she wanted was the revenge for the hairless apes eating her cherished princess!
And people watched the show for five seasons, for this crap???
Fortunately for me, I joined late.
No, the Volm too, because they've been fighting the Espheni apparently across galaxies without a great deal of success, when apparently all they needed was spears or something.
shareOh wait, there was something even more ridiculous: "they ate my poor daughter! Now I'll put your head on a stick!"
This, by the all-powerful long-surviving queen of a space-faring, galaxy-hopping civilization that enslaved and destroyed countless other races.
All she wanted was the revenge for the hairless apes eating her cherished princess!
Espheni being beaten by medieval humans explains a lot actually. :P
shareI can buy the revenge angle. Might explain why when eaten, it killed pp. I can buy the Earth is only habitual planet in you galaxy. I can even buy the 1500 years ago because the area was remote and might not have a written language and forgotten culture. What I didn't like was learning all those things at the same time. Could and should have spread out that info through the series.
shareBut that's not all. Suddenly in the finale we are introduced to the concept of overlord hatchlings. We have a Mason Militia show up only because the term Mason Militia had been used this season. Do they do anything? No.
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Do they do anything? No.
Yeah, I know. I'm not an idiot. I just want to see what it, what these buggers look like [sic].share
In season four when Lexi enters the cocoon, I believe it's Cochise who discusses overlord hatchlings and how they're dangerous soon after birth, which heightens the tension surrounding Lexi's "rebirth" from the cocoon.
If anything I thought it was odd in the finale to see so much reiteration of previously established information.
I think it was shaq. He said 6/9 died. Later in cocheese's story its 11/11.
shareWell they probably used alien technology to wipe their memory lol!
shareWas there a point to the "They ate her to gain her power" line? Did I miss some allusion to humans having Eshpheni DNA in a previous episode or something?
The finale was pure applesauce.
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Eh that was actually one of the things I didn't take too much issue with. They apparently landed in Peru and it was a very small force. Fast forward 1500 years, the culture that existed in that area and apparently killed the small incursion force is long dead and all that's really left are the nazca lines which no one knows what they mean. A LOT of history can be lost in 1500 years. Looking at the real world for a moment, if there were books or something from 1500 years ago that clearly said "hey some sky monsters came down but we killed and ate them," would you believe it word for word or would you assume the primitives that wrote it were saying sky monsters because they didn't know what the animal they killed was?
In the zombie apocalypse, you don't have to be the fastest runner, you just can't be the slowest.
I liked the idea that they came to Earth earlier. What I hated was that the viewer didn't learn it until 15 min before the end on the series. At some point, have Mason discuss that maybe all the sightings, the aerial battle and visitors from the stars might have been true. Drop a hint here or there, not tell the viewers this everything as the series ends.
shareBad show, bad finale.
In the zombie apocalypse, you don't have to be the fastest runner, you just can't be the slowest.
I was thinking she meant 1500 "Espheni" years. I'm not sure if that would make the writing smarter or dumber.
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