FALLING SKIES AND THE MARCH TO CHARLESTON

FALLING
SKIES AND THE MARCH TO CHARLESTON

by
EVELYN ALTHEIMER-FAIN on 07/06/12

On Falling
Skies, episode 204, ‘Young Bloods’, Hal (DREW ROY) discovers that the spites on
Ben’s (CONNOR JESSUP) back are active, and that Ben is very secretive about
them. 

However,
just what are those spikes doing? Were they used to defuse Ben’s hatred of the
Skitters? Since his encounter with them in the woods, he appears bitter and
more fearful and confused. On the other hand, are they a communication link
that the aliens are using to discover the humans plans? 

Captain
Weaver (WILL PATTON) is briefly reunited with a daughter he believed dead, only
to lose her again.

Moreover,
what of this move to Charleston? Was the lone pilot telling our human the truth
of a gathering of human or was she what Tom Mason (NOAH WYLE) refused to become
- a Judas who is encouraging the humans to travel to a settlement that is
really a Skitter’s entrapment camp.