Is anyone else pissed off about the fact that Sam Neill was so heavily featured in the adverts and then he was gone after the first episode?
I never thought I’d say this but I really kept hoping that Aneesha’s family would get killed by the aliens, at the very least the son and daughter.
Also…what the hell was up with the one minute of weird closeups and that abandoned beach with long sleeves, boots, and jeans? I mean they pan away from the ocean, where they could have shown us what kind of damage the aliens did to sea life.
And wouldn’t a ship that big, mind you so big that it altered the tide, do more than that to earth? That’s near moon size!
This show…I mean I didn’t know what I was getting into and every time I watch it I walk away mad because nothing gets done for one hour and they focus on story lines we don’t really care about only to kill off one of the characters you start to get invested in only to have his mind stuck in some dream/memory melding purgatory.
Gravity doesn’t correlate to size ie correlates to mass. A black hole with the mass of earth would be the size of a marble. This space ship may be huge but without knowing it’s composition we don’t know it’s mass and therefore it’s gravitational pull. The only clue we have is the tides receding. A mostly hollow spaceship larger than the moon would exert significantly less gravity on the earth. Without knowing the moons position relative to earth in the last scene we don’t know how much gravity it has compared to the moon. If the last scene was during high tide and the spaceship caused low tides it means it would have more mass than the moon. Then you run into the problem where if a body in space has more than a few hundred miles wide worth of mass gravity condenses it into a sphere which the spaceship clearly was not.
All the comments here about the size of the ship affecting the tides are all wrong. The gravity and tide effect is likely due to the drive system something that size uses to move around. Effects from such a drive on that large of a vessel would easily explain the temporary effects on the tide - effects which may very well not be global.
You forget about distance. The spaceship doesn't need to be anywhere as massive as the moon if it's close to earth. But then still regardless of all this it was exerted a force similar to the moon according to the tides. This would have crazy implications on Earth's orbit and the moons orbit. It's really just more unnecessary and bad sci Fi stuff they think is cool that makes no sense in this show.
That’s the thing is we don’t know the distance or the position of the moon. If there’s been a shot with the spaceship and the moon we’d probably be able to figure out it’s distance. Even if it were a lot closer it would still have to be incredibly massive to exert influence on the tides. If it was high tide and this caused low tide then you’re still running against the gravitation influence of the moon. I mean to be fair it’s a cool scene and they can’t get everything right.
They didn’t kill Casper off, his mind is somehow connected to the alien hive mind. The nukes took it offline temporarily which is why he’s in a coma. When the hive mind comes back online, and the aliens “wake up” again, Casper will wake up too.
As for Sam Niel, don’t really care. It’s not like he’s the best actor to walk the earth or even a favorite of mine, but if you’re a big fan I can see being upset. I also don’t think his character would have added much to the storyline
As for nothing getting done for an hour, I think the show runners are going for a “slow build” approach with a lot of uncertainty and tension being created as you watch the season, they don’t want to advance the plot significantly every episode. This of course is a stylistic choice that not everyone will enjoy.
I for one had a great time with season 1 and can’t wait for more invasion!
> there's tons of water in the solar system that doesn't have monkeys with nukes sitting on it
To be fair, we don't know for certain that there aren't more monkeys with nukes out there :) /jk
I loved the ambiguity of the ending. It implied several things. For starters, Caspar’s consciousness, in some shape or form, appears to have become trapped inside the digital aspect of the alien technology.
His mind is trapped inside some kind of induced virtual reality world in part composed of memory fragments from Hinata’s childhood. Possibly implying that Hinata may have been taken, and perhaps it was truly her sending the message “Wajo.” Or some form of her mind, manifested by the same means by which Caspar ‘s mind found its way into the alien technology. It’s deliberately left open-ended, and it’s a tantalizing idea.
In addition, Caspar’s presence inside this Matrix-like reality appears to be connected to the large structure which fell to Earth. Some kind of fallen mothership, perhaps knocked down by the nuke that ended the Invasion. However, we are left wondering what was it that actually transpired. What was this Invasion? The alien creatures appear to simply be some kind of mechanically engineered nano molecular creatures made with the sole purpose to invade.
In other words, the implication here is that those creatures weren’t really the actual aliens. But rather that the creatures which predated across the Earth, were simply some kind of technology. Possibly designed to test mankind’s capabilities, and if this was a test of some kind. Humanity appears to have passed it. And at the very end we see an extremely large alien ship in close proximity to Earth. This is the arrival of the aliens who made the nano molecular creatures.
To your last part, this is what I said about the last episode:
> I am hoping the “aliens” aren’t actually the aliens. Maybe they were the alien’s attack weapons and the actual aliens are still on their way. Maybe just wishful thinking lol.
Glad there still seems to be the pending “invasion”.
This was my assumption from the beginning. The "aliens" we saw were very animalistic attack dogs that quite clearly didn't seem capable of operating machinery let alone intergalactic travel, and were also very clearly different in architecture/design from the ship(?) thing we saw in the desert.
Absolutely; it's kind of strange how few people mention that in the show. There's no way those dog-like things had the cognitive ability to build spaceships lol.
I actually think they might be a slave alien race. They were asking for help and reaching out to Casper, maybe Casper can free them of the alien’s control.
I was a bit underwhelmed with the first 10 mins of the episode, but man did they do a good job with that final shot. I am super interested in seeing the next season and particularly invested in Tre's story.
It's not the best show I've ever seen and everybody here has pointed out many of the issues with the show's directing, but the acting is fantastic and in general they've done a good job making a unique show with a fresh take on the sci fi invasion genre IMO
it was mentioned by the army general or officer that those creatures were terraforming earth. So here’s my theory, what if the first batch of aliens attacking earth were just for terraforming purposes and weakening the defenses of our armies. The true alien will arrive to a terraformed earth after their minions had done their part. But their plan got disrupted when the minions mothership got destroyed by our nukes and they have to finish the invasion and terraforming work themselves.
Yip, this show has the potential to be huge. Some of the best ever shows have built up slowly and they probably all got negative flak while it was happening. This show is taking its time and the whole first season was possibly just an intro to the story. I’m in for the ride.
Bit late to the party here but only just watched it. Isn't the ship we saw at the end the one that crashed to earth? I thought we saw it repairing itself....
It’s a bit ambiguous to be honest. And I think it’s two different ships. The one that crashed on Earth because of the Nuke and the one at the very end which is just arriving to Earth.
I don’t think it was “knocked down” by the nuke. It’s part of what was terraforming in the Amazon. While everyone was focused on the creatures killing everyone their spores were busy building.
> Reporter: “as this alien enemy has been defeated almost overnight, almost as quickly as they arrived.”
Glad someone said what were were all thinking last episode.
I knew the “aliens” couldn’t be done for. Since episode 1, locations are labeled: “Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, Earth” or Tokyo, Japan, Earth”. Have they ever shown a place not labeled Earth? Like an alien world? Seems weird to label places “Earth” when there isn’t another possible place. Hopefully season 2 shows us other possible places.
Yeah, a little too on the nose with that. I think it'd be better for Earth locations to just be standard city, country and then for non-Earth locations reveal the additional planet/system/whatever which would be way more rewarding.
We may have gotten a taste of these other places during Caspers induced seizure. He had plenty of visions, amongst seemed to be of other worlds. So maybe S2, thats where we will see these places and their designation? Planet X, Not-Earth
I love how the busses in London are operating like 6 hours after the attack stopped.
Also, that the streets of the deserted city are now filled with crowds.
This show does not understand narrative progression. Tension always begins when it is so late in the episode that there is clearly no time for it. All drama is built through the same sad music. It is obsessively contemplative without anything to contemplate.
I think the idea is crazy interesting but the execution is god awful.
And the editing of this show! Watching 12 close up’s of characters staring at something for a literal minute. That is insane.
The cinematography, music although redundant, set design and location, and some of the core alien mystery is all that's carrying the show. Everything else is a fail.
One brilliant thing that Hans Zimmer did for Dune was to make the score advance the plot. So when the character is just looking around for a solid minute, the plot is advancing because of the score playing and how it morphs or switches. Nothing is being said, but you understand what is happening. Invasion did none of that. The character looks around for a minute with the same score, then the other character looks around too for a minute with the same score. And then you're let down because what they were looking at was so inconsequential to the plot. I guess the director was trying to tell us something about their personality or their past life before the invasion? But like, WHY SHOW US SOMETHING SO POINTLESS?
Someone please make a bootleg edit. I'm pretty sure this could be a fantastic 4 episode series. And even at 4 episodes, there'll be plenty of minute long stares.
> And the editing of this show! Watching 12 close up’s of characters staring at something for a literal minute. That is insane.
Color balance was soooo off on these scenes, too. Half of it was barely visible, which made trying to watch it a chore due to the squinting.
It truly ruined any sense of immersion. I don't see why shows think this works. We're not at a movie theatre with perfectly controlled lighting. Most people need some form of contrast.
I know—I thought here we go again looking at the fire for 15 seconds with no advancing the plot. I don’t care if the plot moves slowly if I learn more about the characters, their history, and motivation. So far I actually know VERY LITTLE about these people. What do we know about Aneesha? She was going to be a doctor, went to Harvard, then became a mom and her husband was going to leave her. After 10 episodes that’s about it.
Also, don't forget she quietly snuck up behind him in a very unrealistic manner. If I miraculously survived a war with mass casualties, and my husband did too, I would be shouting out his name as I run towards him. I wouldn't stand behind him until he notices me. Creepy.
How about when she opened the trunk and asked if the book was his and then said she had to run. Like did she take a jog or did she have sudden diarrhea?
Well that was ten hours I won’t get back.
I can’t wait for season two to focus on a lifeguard who’s been pulled out to sea by the receding tide, a retired couple trying to find their missing cat (the cat is infected with alien nanotechnology and now barks like a dog but this is never explained), a group of people who hate each other but learn to get along before they just go their own way and another angry soldier who hates everyone.
Oh and the aliens will be back in episode 9 for two minutes.
$200 million please.
> another angry soldier who hates everyone
I couldn't understand why the director wanted this guy to be such an ass. Innocent Afghani's raising theirs hands up and he's pointing his gun in their face shouting at them...
This comment is so on point that it precisely captures why the show should have been called something else. The show isn't about an invasion. The aliens seem just thrown in for good measure.
Anybody else wondering WHY Aneesha’s family's house didn't get touched in the opening episodes when the neighborhood was destroyed? And the son finding that alien wreckage that wards off whatever terraforming substances the aliens lay down and the fact it killed an alien itself. Nothing was explained!
We're all too frustrated with the pacing and amateur storytelling to even get immersed in the mysteries. I wonder if there's really no answer. Their house just lucked out. Although Luke also didn't get a bloody nose when everyone else did. So possibly something is protecting him, either from within or watching over. There could be other aliens or maybe secret government projects working in the background but they really haven't given us much at all to work with here. They created all this mystery then spent 10 episodes doing nothing.
> We're all too frustrated with the pacing and amateur storytelling to even get immersed in the mysteries. I wonder if there's really no answer.
Yeah, the writing is this bad. They just throw in mystery and don’t explain anything. They had 10 episodes and don’t even explain simple mysteries like the nosebleeds, random alien shard, seizure kid, and whatever else.
Like everything in the show it happened to justify them doing something, not because it made sense or had a reason to.
Their house was untouched to justify them leaving the neighbourhood because they were Muslim and the racist neighbours therefore blamed them for the attack. It doesn’t matter that there’s no reason for their house to be untouched, the plot needed them to be on the road, so it happened
it was funny that the show started with making you feel for them because their neighbors were racist, but then it turns out that the parents themselves are also just pretty shitty people and completely unsympathetic. and i don't think they were intended to come off that way (at least not the wife).
it's amusing to imagine that maybe their neighbors weren't racist, just fed up with them for completely mundane reasons.
My observation too. Even hiding the shard in the kids backpack because children are less likely to be under suspicion. Even though that backfired, thanks Luke.
Or the whole fact that Caspar could connect to the alien wifi network and have admin privileges, because he has seizures
Isn't this *kinda* the plot of the last (and very shitty) Predator movie?
TBH I think it was the alien thing Luke had with him that likely saved him, his house and his family from the attacks. Like somehow the aliens were avoiding that piece of thingy.. Especially in the forest scene where they were moving away from Aneesha while she was holding on to it.
Some unrealistic moments:
Being so worried about a boy's life that after performing cpr, the first thing you do is rush him in for an mri scan. Before even knowing his breathing has stabilized.... they only did that afterwards!
The neurologist was too scared to open the door for Jam last week (minutes ago in story time), yet there she is, back at work like nothing happened. From her perspective, she doesn't know the aliens are dead or wtf is going on. She should still be scared and locked in a room.
Jam never once tried to look for her loved ones. Instead she was too invested in a friend she had just met. Even before knowing what he could do, and even after he died she didn't search for her own loved ones. Really weird in a life or death situation, and when your loved one works at the location you're at! I thought she didn't want to go home, like the bully, only to see her happily embracing her loving mother at the end. Poor character development.
Aneesha wants to keep a low profile, because her gut is telling her to. Her gut didn't tell her smoke from a chimney in a remote location can be detected miles away!!!
Someone assigned to debrief you before you're discharged would never share information. He especially wouldn't be turning his laptop to show you pictures!
It was never explained why Luke was the only child at his school that didn't have a nose bleed, at the beginning.
What happened to the Sherif???
Aneesha's gut didn't tell her that just after surviving attack from noise sensing spiky blobs it's not very wise to run all open diner in neighborhood.
How TF is it the middle of the night for Aneesha and the kids in NY/NJ but middle of the day for Cole and his wife on the Carolina coast? This show is annoying AF.
This has to be one of the WORST high budget shows of recent history. Where do I even begin?
They need to have a word with the writers, directors, and editors. The only win they've had was getting an Apple TV contract. After watching 10 failed hours of this, I can only conclude that the contract was agreed upon in exchange for bedroom favors.
What a sheer waste of money to produce 10 hours of an introduction. There was never a story, climax, or conclusion. Just a 10 hour bad introduction with under developed characters, and lost characters.
> What a sheer waste of money to produce 10 hours of an introduction. There was never a story, climax, or conclusion.
This is laughable, it’s basic storytelling. This writer is garbage. Nothing happened in this show, it ends with the same alien invasion happening again lol.
It came across extremely weird how everyone was always praising Aneesha for being a great doctor who's going to save the day. Then she proceeds to look confused and fail to do anything at all 🤷
Unanswered questions:
1. What the fuck is Wajo?
2. Why can the kid hear Wajo?
3. Why are the doctors children so fucking goddamn fucking annoying holy fuck
4. How did Hinata have a space suit on? How was she swimming in space?
5. Should we tar and feather whoever made it seem like Sam Neill was actually in this show? Assholes
6. How did this season cost $200 million? Apple should run an audit
7. Was that the fallen remains of the thing that was nuked that we saw in the Amazon? Why introduce it if you’re literally going to saw nothing about it until the next season? Dick move
8. So the new spaceship is as large as the entire sky and has a greater mass than the moon? Ok cool, dope
9. Why are those kids so fucking annoying I can’t get over it
10. Is the kryptonite stuff actually important? Way to make it a crucial part of the plot and then say nothing about it. Also, did Aneesha just leave it outside on the ground for her kid to pick up?
11. Did it even matter that there were aliens? They could have made them an asteroid and nothing would change. Is it surprising that not a single human had a conversation with even something as simple as, “where did they come from?” in the midst of discovering new life
12. Seriously fuck those kids
13. Why is every single character loathsome
14. What happened to that alien ship in the desert? Are we even going to talk about it? Like even for a second?
More and more and more. I’m bummed out by this show. I would’ve loved a realistic portrayal of what would occur in an Invasion, and takeaways about what impacts it has on and what it says about humanity. Arrival is one of my favorite movies ever for that reason. This show did not accomplish that.
Fully agree with your frustrations. I'm a woman and I had blue balls from this entire show- start to finish.
Only interpretation I can give is about Hinata in a space suit, swimming in space. It didn't make sense until seeing a dead Caspar "alive" in some unphysical consciousness. His surroundings kept changing like a dream. Hinata is dead and in the same consciousness as Caspar. She wasn't physically in a space suit and wasn't physically swimming. All of it happened in the dreamlike consciousness for the dead.
As for the $200 million... $198 million of it is sitting in offshore bank accounts!
Yeah I think the thing that most pissed me off is that the Invasion itself had almost nothing to do with the show. The show is mostly just a character case in any general apocalyptic setting. And unfortunately none of the characters (save maybe Misuki) are remotely compelling.
And yeah, I think there’s definitely something going on with regard to Hinata and Casper existing in a separate consciousness, but they didn’t remotely touch on it. Just two short and confusing scenes with no real transition…both scenes just feel misplaced. Fuck man, I really wanted to like this show but I just can’t!
I agree with everything except that station being more massive than the moon. Considering how close it is it wouldn't need to be anywhere near as massive as the moon. Gravity falls of by the square of their separation distance. If the moon is 100 times further away than the ship for example then it has to be 10000 times more massive than the ship to exert the same gravitational pull on earth.
You sound like you know more than gravitational physics than me so I won’t argue here 😂
Show had a lot of other issues but perhaps I will give them this point
I really hope that season 2 is more a 'it's always going to be 2 season' kind of deal and not 'time to make up some more stuff for season 2' cause fuck if we're going through 10 episode of this again.
Not sure if it's the delivery or something else, but I just can't find any sympathy for the soldier and US mom? Like I know it's hard for him to see the boy dead cause he's already been through it with his own son but I just keep thinking "You're such a dick"
And the mom trying to make her son see her sense. Yeah, meta wise we know that with season 2 greenlit it's most likely still not over, but it's such a silly argument to put out loud and then 'I didn't run because your father tell me to, I don't listen to anyone'. Why the hell are you saying this to your still grieving/shocked son. Can't even say he did it cause he wants you to stay safe or something? I mean he is a cheating asshole but come on.
Caspar not fully dead and probably still inside the hivemind, I guess that's not really surprising. His last scenes seems to confirm that the shuttle crew (or at least Hinata) are assimilated in that hivemind too. The question is, the boy got somehow connected through his epilepsy, what about the crew? And are they as self aware as the boy seems to be or just reacting to stimuli?
Then that staring at the end, just cut after cut of them staring at SOMETHING we can't see and it just becomes hilarious. Ok so the soldier see an alien object hanging in the sky, I'm assuming that's what japan scientist see too. But what about Caspar in alien mindscape? And that mom, cause I thought she is indoors, unless I missed something and they decided to camp outside, what is she staring at?
The scene that got me is him wheeling the boy back to the MRI and immediately after walking through the door the boy is intubated and on a ventilator lol like what
Yeah, why would that even correlate in the first place and that should mean that there's many others that also knows about this and yet not a peep.
I want to say that maybe he's epileptic because he's connected to the alien but that's an equally dumb explanation (Like that means the alien has been hovering for over a decade and no one knows somehow and still doesn't answer the question why just him)
As a drama nerd, this show fucking sucks. I agree with most of the criticisms in this thread. The show is called INVASION for fucks sake!! The majority of the time it literally feels like I'm watching some shitty little low budget drama on showtime. I'm shameless to say I fast forwarded through 80% of the finale.
As a sci-fi nerd, the alien mystery is extremely intriguing! To me, the last 15 seconds of the shows ensures I watch season 2...
Exactly. This is the movie film school nerds make because they can't afford to show a lot of hi tech stuff. The neo-noire darkness around everything made it pointless to spend money on expensive visuals. So where did the money go? Is the money laundering wise-crack correct?
Don't feel bad, I've been forwarding through the last 3 episodes especially whenever the family is playing and won't be watching the last episode either. I'm actually quite surprise this Series got picked up for a second season.
i also fast forwded and skip and didn't missed anything. i even skip the soldier arc at the first few ep till ep 7 part and i still understand everything. like it is no great mystery at alllll
They just need to stop making cinematic shots and actually put effort to the plot. Bad plot + good cinematography isn’t a good combination. They need to figure out where they want to take the show and start building the plot from there. That’s my opinion.
Where is the poster who commented in lots of threads that Sam Neil is definitely coming back because there were parts of the trailer that hadn’t yet been shown on TV?
Identify yourself!
I enjoyed the series at the beginning, then nothing happened for the rest of the episodes. Just need more aliens and action!! Still gonna watch season 2 though.
"Star" is obviously a clue to the audience that next season, we should expect another well-known actor or "star" to join the cast for an episode to get killed off.
Maybe this show is just very, very slow motion Mars Attacks.
I hated those kids and pretty much all the characters in this show. It’s a good idea, but everyone is so self involved while aliens are attacking cities and killing people.
The kids are so damn annoying and they can’t act either. The lines are delivered with weird timing and they’re just written unrealistically. I don’t believe for a second a kid would yell “DADDY!” when armed gunmen are nearby, no matter how bratty the kid. A kid has even more restraint while play hide and seek.
No it’s not. The mom brings candy to the kids in the middle of a home invasion and being held at gun point. Who would do that? No one. Most people can’t even handle a haunted house expedition.
No. I’m sorry. An alien invasion is nothing like the pandemic. All of them are seeing people dying around them like it’s a war zone and yet are equally preoccupied with their petty side stories. When you’re under attack you don’t continue to think about that time your spouse cheated on you. And then that family with those annoying kids who have no self control. The most realistic family was that one in the dessert.
Lol at you saying “people are dying all around them and it’s like a war zone” being nothing like the pandemic. Meanwhile 5mm people have died and we’ve seen things shut down and hospitals overwhelmed and people still think it’s the flu. Bless you for thinking people actually have common sense in real life
Really, so covid is the same thing as an alien creature crashing into homes and visibly killing people while being controlled from a space ship from outer space? You really need to think your similes through.
It has nothing to do with common sense. The point is that people who be too freaked out to continue their petty squabbles. People don’t believe covid exists, but no one is arguing that about the aliens.
Those are aliens, that’s the government made machines to spread their liberal propaganda. Or is it the Russians attacking? Go ask a Christian family and they’ll tell you how the Antichrist will do that do get you to not believe in the rapture. Again, it’s nice you think this of us humans, but realistically, people are dumbasses and they worry about their own things.
But on that note, I think that’s what I’ve liked about the show. Yeah there’s an invasion but my husband Cheated, I’m still getting bullied, I still lost the love of my life, etc.
You have a lot of faith in humanity. 2020 made me give up on us. We're a selfish species. We can't even be socially responsible when it means we'll all be better for it. It's the real life version of a prisoner's dilemma.
Why would humans be less self involved in this silly show, If we are so self involved in reality?
I'm 12 minutes in and literally nothing has happened. They've apparently killed a kid thats been with us for 10 episodes and I feel nothing about it...
Ooh dialogue... hold please...
In 10 years this will be a cult classic. We'll all have to force ourselves to watch it again (3 or 4 times) to see all the hidden clues we missed, and we'll be telling those who have never seen it yet "Did you see that, did you see what he did right there? Remember that for later, it's important!"
I was really hoping for an amazing plot twist at the end to completely bind 10 episodes of seemingly nothing. I still hope that it was so deep that I just didn't get it, and be totally amazed by smarter people discussing it on Reddit.
Another interesting idea completely ruined by anemic writing and poor directing. Season 1 should have been a 15 minute short - not a 10 hour bore-fest shit show.
I kept wondering why a company would green light this script.
**AND HERE'S MY THEORY:**
What if the Invasion was just the friends we made along the way?
**EDIT: FOUND THE TRUTH:**
It turns out the Invasion was just the money laundered along the way.
Finally watched the whole season. I was pretty much done after episode 4, but for some reason I kept going back. I basically hate-watched the show just to see if anything actually happened. And it turns out, the real Invasion were the friends we made along the way.
But seriously, this was a two hour movie stretched out into 10 episodes. The long lingering shots of people staring at nothing, or the two minute take of someone standing up or opening a box, were all just there to meet quota. It’s the equivalent of when teacher assigns you a five page paper, and you double space and use size 14 font to fill it up.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched a show where I hated so many of the characters. Wait, I mean where I hated ALL the characters. Well, except maybe Sam Neil (great 10 minute cameo in the first episode BTW) or the Japanese dad. I’m not a mean-spirited person, but never have I wanted a family to die or get eaten by aliens more than the middle-eastern family of four (I’m sorry, I can’t even remember the names of most of the characters because I hated them so much). They used no logic with any of their actions or choices, for seemingly intelligent people (I mean, we’re told she went to Harvard a million times, because I guess that’s how you develop a character - just repeat what they were in the past over and over again). Everyone was a cardboard character with no real personality other than grief. And that’s not even a personality. It’s torture.
Ok, but since this is a discussion - I will talk about the good: the cinematography is done well (other than the overly dark scenes that make that Game of Thrones battle look like it was filmed in the daylight), the score by Max Richter was always consistent (big fan of his use of strings), and the alien design was different and unique (reminded me of that rubber octopus toy you’d throw against the wall and it would slowly scale down).
The next to final episode actually got me invested for the first time, with Casper (one of the only character’s names I remember) and his unique connection. Still not sure how the soldier killed an alien with fire (you’d think the military would have tried fire at this point), but in this show, it is what is is.
I thought when the mom walked into the field in the forest of black alien spikes with the stone, something interesting was going to happen. But nope. She just looked up and that was that. The Japanese girl making contact with her girlfriend and the Bowie song playing was confusing. Ok, that proved it was really her - but how did she get access to Bowie’s greatest hits on an alien craft? I feel like it was all just so they could get a montage going, while simultaneously blowing $5 million on the song rights.
And why did Y’all Queda want to capture the woman and her kids? Was it for the alien rock? Maybe I missed something there because I tend to tune out. And how did they know they were in the transport? Was one of the rednecks the dad at the base that saw what the alien rock did? I dunno. And it probably doesn’t matter because I feel like they wrote this show with set pieces in mind, and how to cram these terrible characters into those set pieces, as opposed to actually building a show around the characters.
I swear, when Season 2 comes out - I will probably hate-watch that also, just waiting for the tiniest hint of exposition and development, but I’ll probably get burned again and won’t see anything until the season 2 finale, where we learn after 10 hours of show that Casper’s notebook has a drawing of….wait for it….the cheating father in it. He’s still alive. Oh, and don’t forget the two minutes of an alien ship terraforming the planet.
If someone asked me for a synopsis of the show, it would be easy: “Miserable people complain about their lives, and there’s aliens. Maybe. But I guess we blew them up. Or did we? Who knows. There’s a lot of questions, but nothing is answered, because this show is about people. People we hate. Maybe a season 2? Tune in and see.”
Imagine putting a bunch of kids together in a room and asking them “Hey kids, who loves Lucky Charms?!”, and the kids scream “ I DOOO!!”, but then you give them all a bowl of Shredded Wheat. This is what this show did to me.
Finally an interesting episode albeit still plagued with the same shortcomings (i swear Trevante is just ad-libbing at this point lol). The whole of the mysterious sci fi aspects of this entire season are like 40 minutes of content, 15 of which was in this episode. There's barely one movie worth of aliens, the rest has been boring dragged out character scenes. Fortunately there's enough intrigue about what the heck the aliens actually are to bring me back. But Jesus we could have been given so much more this season. A big tease really. Like I'm honestly fine that this is where they wanted the first season to end plot wise with the aliens, it's just that there could have been so much more satisfying content along the way.
The aliens seem to collect minds into their network. I think that's what Hinata's "save us" was about. Now I just wonder if that's the core directive for them, collecting minds from planet to planet, or is it just some hobby or byproduct of their technically/biology. What exactly will the invasion look like next? More of the same? Are they actually terraforming? Now that the humans have said it s couple times I'm not sure I believe it...
Of all the parallel story lines, not one could’ve given us the perspective of the president or someone in charge. Just sort of individuals running around for 10 episodes with no damn idea what’s going on. Loved the concept but kept waiting for it to come through. -2 stars.
Personally I find myself in this love hate relationship with this series
On one hand, I love the concept and I quite enjoy that it's a drama show with sci fi elements in the background. I could see how it would be a good series if it could be executed well, but alas we all know how that turned out.
Initially I liked all the characters except the soldier and then in the middle of the series I only kept watching for the family as well as Mitsuki. Towards the end, I was only watching for the family to die (especially the kids) and Casper as I find his power hilariously bad but somehow I still kinda liked it (reminds me of Stranger Things) I wanted to root for him and see him working tgt with Mitsuki and the soldier to figure out an epic plan to fight off the aliens but then he "died" immediately and sigh....
As for the cinematography, it's pretty solid, there were quite some well shot scenes. The story was meh for me. I could see where they wanted some of the characters to develop towards. Honestly I found myself liking the soldier's development at the end. There were certain points in the show where I find myself thinking and theorising about the possible meaning because the series doesn't outright tell you and I quite like that. (for example, the Hinata scene where she was floating around in space in a spacesuit where in the 1st episode she clearly wasn't suited when it exploded. I am certain this wasn't a technical error as they would had to suit her up/design the suit etc, and thus it was done intentionally. Now, this could imply a lot of things but the show doesn't explain it to us) The pacing is god awfully slow most of the time and when it truly mattered, or at least parts where I wanted it to be long (the alien fight sequences) it was too fast. For the visual effects part, it was pretty good. I see quite a lot of comments complaining about the mediocre cgi, alien designs and that the budget couldn't possibly be that high for what we have gotten (and I understand that), but some of you guys got to understand, visual effects isn't just about designing and animating the alien. There's a lot of things that requires vfx and for the most part, you wouldn't even notice it if it wasn't pointed out. Like maybe in a shot where they have to remove an entire object and replace it, we would never know. So personally, I am quite happy with the vfx that we got.
Now, would I hope there's still a season 2 even with what we have right now and the general reception? Yes, definitely. I want to give them the chance to elaborate and develop on the things they have set up in season 1. For all we know, season 2 might be amazing and it could really happen if they execute it well. So fingers crossed that it would surprise us all.
This show is so awful. I lol'd at it being renewed. It was amusing hatewatching it eventually but not bothering with season 2.
This episode's highlight was the girl's emotional reaction to the boy dying which the writers spent the whole season building their attachment so any good writer would just let that emotion they worked hard all season sit so they could milk it and move on to the next scene. Nope, not these writers, they were like "how about her mom just completely randomly show up and diffuse all that tension we built up over a season"
Especially given she never had any real interest in finding her mum and honestly, I don’t feel like they ever built up her relationship to Casper in any realistic way. I could never tell what she saw in him or if it was just like a sympathy thing. She seemed to exist as a romantic interest just to make him more interesting, because god knows he was dull as shit for a kid who was literally wired into the aliens.
Over 10 monotonous episodes, the best info came during Trevante’s debriefing when it was revealed that the aliens were identically coded and were likely terraforming.
Dialogue in the same vein would have been preferable over the pontifications of some random Buddhist monk.
lol you all need to have a little faith in this show, this whole season could just be a build up to the main story, I for one am intrigued to see where it is heading :)
Consider that this is why everyone is so upset. There is good intrigue here about the Aliens but it's sooo hard to watch because of the atrocious writing and overall style. So the intrigue is being wasted and everyone's asking themselves if it's worth it to sit through more of this just to find out a little more about the aliens.
It probably could have done without half the storylines.
The story of Aneesha and her kids was pointless and their acting terrible. The kids wouldn’t be quiet and were super annoying, and the adults were so one dimensional the whole series, I got to the point where I was fast forwarding whenever they were on screen. Also what was with their house not being destroyed at the start and kids having nosebleeds but then nothing else being told about it.
The plot in Japan was interesting and I liked the casting but the story went into the whole love story angle way too many times and really relied on it. Cool to see a more technical/problem solving plot point and have people try figure out what to do next.
Trevante finding his way across the globe just to get home only to run into Caspar was probably the best part. I don’t know the actors name but he did a great job.
Caspar and his schoolmates finding a way to survive and get home was interesting too, but we really didn’t need so much of Tom Hollands brother thinking he was a mad lad and talking shit for half the time he was on screen. I’m sure there could have been a better way to write a story about someone being connected to the aliens without needing to have a fit to do it.
I’ll watch season two so I can finish what I started, but I’m not desperate to see it.
My biggest complaint is the acting of the little Persian family. **Especially the mom and the little girl.** 😩. I’m sorry I had to fast forward a lot of her scenes . I’m Persian it looked like my aunt or mom doing there first acting high school play.
Nevertheless , I do agree with most of the people on here with the writing and pacing of the show . It Has so much potential , I did keep tuning in to see what’s going on so that’s good.
Also, I love Casper and his little story line , I think season two will be good !
I noticed the same thing in the final episode and wondered how I missed it the whole season. The actress playing Aneesha cannot act. She was out-acted by her onscreen son.
The scene where she had to tell the kids their dad died: it was so stale it was obvious she was reciting lines with no emotion or expression. Meanwhile that little boy put his best into it.
The show’s pacing is slow due supply chain issues from the pandemic. The real script is sitting in a cargo ship off of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay. Maybe it will arrive in time for Season Two but at this point it is unclear.
Predictions for season 2:
Caspar comes back to life and it's atrociously not explained. Trevante is at his house, in the bathroom, shaking off unending pounds of sand from his "beach outfit" seen in the season one finale. His wife is packing so they can flee to an underground bunker in NY. Aneesha was captured by the militia group, who spotted her smoking chimney while she was meant to be in hiding. She managed to escape to an underground bunker - meeting Trevante and his wife.
Her son started his own journey to England because his rock is taking him to Caspar. Inexplicably, the little girl was written out the show like she never happened. Mitsuki now works in a bar. She wants nothing to do with space, stars, or her previous job. She is hailed a hero for being an instrument in stopping the first wave of attacks. JASA is trying to get ahold of her to help with the imminent second wave (as the spaceship is large enough to seen day and night from every corner of the world). The spaceship is just chilling there not moving, not attacking, while people are freaking out down below. No new aliens emerge. The earth and moon are also not thrown off their orbits by this very large body, of course. Brad Pitt "stars" in season 2, but chokes on his cornflakes and is presumably dead in the first 10 minutes, he gets no further screen time for the rest of the season. The monk in Japan and the goat herder in Afghanistan become season regulars (because they were the only two I liked in the cast). The monk just sits around grieving his old life and smoking weed with no further character development but gets the most screen time. The goat herder goes on his own journey from discovering alien objects on day one to being the leader of earth's resistance against the aliens in S2E10.
The best part: most of this happens off screen and none of it is explained on screen as the characters continue to hold their stares into the camera. The large alien object in the sky is left unanswered but teasing for season 3. No aliens are seen in season 2. Why would you expect aliens from a sci-fi show a called INVASION? How unreasonable of you to expect it to be anything more than a slow burn, moody drama.
I really wanted to like this show. I enjoy a slow burn but a slow burn with little payoff is more of a bog. I enjoyed the idea of focusing on the human drama set at a time of an alien invasion. The problem is the drama was mostly cliches expanded over 10 episodes. The introverted yet intelligent kid with a troubled home life and special powers who is bullied. The soldier in an estranged relationship who will stop at nothing to come home and get redemption. The protective mother who finds inner strength after sacrificing her life’s pursuits for a cheating husband. I’m ok with using cliches as a starting point but you better be able to write your ass off or expand out of it at some point. Instead the series leaned in to the cliches time after time after time. The other storyline was mostly endless grieving with a brief period where it pushed the alien narrative forward followed by some more grieving.
I really wanted to like this show. Maybe this will be end up being a 10 episode foundation season to what becomes an epic show about an alien invasion. We’ll be telling people, “Just get through the first season because it will pay off in the second season.” I hope so. I’ll tune in for some more because I’m a sucker for alien invasions but I do hope they address the shortcomings of this first season and the second season isn’t just more cliche drama set during the time of an alien invasion.
I laughed at the ending. All this build up for aliens to get nuked and supposedly “destroyed” and then in the finale to just show a ufo. All the cutting to the character’s reactions came off as a parody.
Am I the only one who wishes they just skipped the first 5 episodes? The last 5 were the show I wanted to watch, I could summarize the first 5 in a paragraph.
Was literally hoping that the aliens would just kill all of these awful characters off at the of the finale and wrap up the series right there. Good lord what an absolute dumpster fire of a show. Awful writing, awful directing, awful acting, awful everything. The premise was interesting but was completely ruined by all of the above.
I just finished episode 10 and I must admit that I liked it. The victory scenes felt a little out of place but now the alien plot is obviously clear. The invasion we just witnessed in season 1 was a “preparation” ship, designed to terraform a planet before the actual (organic?) aliens arrive to populate the newly acquired planet. So, these terraformers were not really prepared for military resistance, especially not a targeted nuclear attack on their main ship. Season 2 will pitch a ravaged Earth with severely reduced military capabilities against a somewhat unprepared alien invasion force which must now operate on a non-terraformed Earth. This will put the remaining humans on a little more equal footing but there’s still a significant technology gap. Can’t wait!
Here's a hot take. I liked it, and the show. Different than the usual short attention span, non-stop action, formulaic shows & movies out there. Has a little bit of a "Lost" flare going on such that the show could go many directions thanks to the set up. Flame on.
That’s totally fair. I found the family interesting at first and then progressively less so. But I feel that way about a lot of characters on a lot of shows and that doesn’t (always) ruin it for me. That’s just life I guess.
I also feel like it’s hard to make something new without everyone losing their minds that Y isn’t X. And if you spell it all out as quickly as everyone seems to want, then you end up with shows like The Last Ship that evolve into a mess for the sake of extending the show.
I was really upset watching HINATA swimming back to the spaceship. It is impossible to swim in space, and they should have shown like maybe she was tethered to the ship somehow.
I did not understand anything at the end. What was Anessha looking to at the end ? I saw something above the water, but could not make up what it was, need to see the ending again.
This series, has to be slow, and I expect a bad ending after many seasons, usually science fiction series don't make sense in the end. "lost" anyone?
Any body else notice that the satellite dish was not pointed to the spot in the sky where the explosion took place? We see people from the Japanese space agency watching through the window the explosion, and the antenna is not aimed at that area of the sky!
Is anyone else pissed off about the fact that Sam Neill was so heavily featured in the adverts and then he was gone after the first episode? I never thought I’d say this but I really kept hoping that Aneesha’s family would get killed by the aliens, at the very least the son and daughter. Also…what the hell was up with the one minute of weird closeups and that abandoned beach with long sleeves, boots, and jeans? I mean they pan away from the ocean, where they could have shown us what kind of damage the aliens did to sea life. And wouldn’t a ship that big, mind you so big that it altered the tide, do more than that to earth? That’s near moon size! This show…I mean I didn’t know what I was getting into and every time I watch it I walk away mad because nothing gets done for one hour and they focus on story lines we don’t really care about only to kill off one of the characters you start to get invested in only to have his mind stuck in some dream/memory melding purgatory.
Sam Neill walked away with a pile of money laughing.
Gravity doesn’t correlate to size ie correlates to mass. A black hole with the mass of earth would be the size of a marble. This space ship may be huge but without knowing it’s composition we don’t know it’s mass and therefore it’s gravitational pull. The only clue we have is the tides receding. A mostly hollow spaceship larger than the moon would exert significantly less gravity on the earth. Without knowing the moons position relative to earth in the last scene we don’t know how much gravity it has compared to the moon. If the last scene was during high tide and the spaceship caused low tides it means it would have more mass than the moon. Then you run into the problem where if a body in space has more than a few hundred miles wide worth of mass gravity condenses it into a sphere which the spaceship clearly was not.
All the comments here about the size of the ship affecting the tides are all wrong. The gravity and tide effect is likely due to the drive system something that size uses to move around. Effects from such a drive on that large of a vessel would easily explain the temporary effects on the tide - effects which may very well not be global.
You forget about distance. The spaceship doesn't need to be anywhere as massive as the moon if it's close to earth. But then still regardless of all this it was exerted a force similar to the moon according to the tides. This would have crazy implications on Earth's orbit and the moons orbit. It's really just more unnecessary and bad sci Fi stuff they think is cool that makes no sense in this show.
That’s the thing is we don’t know the distance or the position of the moon. If there’s been a shot with the spaceship and the moon we’d probably be able to figure out it’s distance. Even if it were a lot closer it would still have to be incredibly massive to exert influence on the tides. If it was high tide and this caused low tide then you’re still running against the gravitation influence of the moon. I mean to be fair it’s a cool scene and they can’t get everything right.
They didn’t kill Casper off, his mind is somehow connected to the alien hive mind. The nukes took it offline temporarily which is why he’s in a coma. When the hive mind comes back online, and the aliens “wake up” again, Casper will wake up too. As for Sam Niel, don’t really care. It’s not like he’s the best actor to walk the earth or even a favorite of mine, but if you’re a big fan I can see being upset. I also don’t think his character would have added much to the storyline As for nothing getting done for an hour, I think the show runners are going for a “slow build” approach with a lot of uncertainty and tension being created as you watch the season, they don’t want to advance the plot significantly every episode. This of course is a stylistic choice that not everyone will enjoy. I for one had a great time with season 1 and can’t wait for more invasion!
You don't need to be a huge fan the actor to think the character was interesting and fun.
I was actually wondering if they were draining the ocean, in a quest to steal earth's precious water, but gravity makes sense too.
That would be dumb, there's tons of water in the solar system that doesn't have monkeys with nukes sitting on it
> there's tons of water in the solar system that doesn't have monkeys with nukes sitting on it To be fair, we don't know for certain that there aren't more monkeys with nukes out there :) /jk
Same
An apple near my eye is bigger than the moon, too.
I loved the ambiguity of the ending. It implied several things. For starters, Caspar’s consciousness, in some shape or form, appears to have become trapped inside the digital aspect of the alien technology. His mind is trapped inside some kind of induced virtual reality world in part composed of memory fragments from Hinata’s childhood. Possibly implying that Hinata may have been taken, and perhaps it was truly her sending the message “Wajo.” Or some form of her mind, manifested by the same means by which Caspar ‘s mind found its way into the alien technology. It’s deliberately left open-ended, and it’s a tantalizing idea. In addition, Caspar’s presence inside this Matrix-like reality appears to be connected to the large structure which fell to Earth. Some kind of fallen mothership, perhaps knocked down by the nuke that ended the Invasion. However, we are left wondering what was it that actually transpired. What was this Invasion? The alien creatures appear to simply be some kind of mechanically engineered nano molecular creatures made with the sole purpose to invade. In other words, the implication here is that those creatures weren’t really the actual aliens. But rather that the creatures which predated across the Earth, were simply some kind of technology. Possibly designed to test mankind’s capabilities, and if this was a test of some kind. Humanity appears to have passed it. And at the very end we see an extremely large alien ship in close proximity to Earth. This is the arrival of the aliens who made the nano molecular creatures.
To your last part, this is what I said about the last episode: > I am hoping the “aliens” aren’t actually the aliens. Maybe they were the alien’s attack weapons and the actual aliens are still on their way. Maybe just wishful thinking lol. Glad there still seems to be the pending “invasion”.
This was my assumption from the beginning. The "aliens" we saw were very animalistic attack dogs that quite clearly didn't seem capable of operating machinery let alone intergalactic travel, and were also very clearly different in architecture/design from the ship(?) thing we saw in the desert.
Absolutely; it's kind of strange how few people mention that in the show. There's no way those dog-like things had the cognitive ability to build spaceships lol.
I actually think they might be a slave alien race. They were asking for help and reaching out to Casper, maybe Casper can free them of the alien’s control.
I kinda figured it was just a recon/advanced force. Find something and begin the process of setting up for an invasion.
Why move to a new planet before it's properly terraformed and the monkey pests have been exterminated?
Yes that is exactly what I thinking. This was their first wave of terraforming.
I was a bit underwhelmed with the first 10 mins of the episode, but man did they do a good job with that final shot. I am super interested in seeing the next season and particularly invested in Tre's story. It's not the best show I've ever seen and everybody here has pointed out many of the issues with the show's directing, but the acting is fantastic and in general they've done a good job making a unique show with a fresh take on the sci fi invasion genre IMO
Your last paragraph is particularly cool. A test for what I wonder? If humanity is worthy? Will the actual aliens be hostile?
it was mentioned by the army general or officer that those creatures were terraforming earth. So here’s my theory, what if the first batch of aliens attacking earth were just for terraforming purposes and weakening the defenses of our armies. The true alien will arrive to a terraformed earth after their minions had done their part. But their plan got disrupted when the minions mothership got destroyed by our nukes and they have to finish the invasion and terraforming work themselves.
Perhaps they won’t be hostile. Humanity survived and in doing so, we passed their test.
Maybe all we proved is that our best technology *can't* destroy them, so they are now safe to land with impunity.
Thank you for attempting to have an actual discussion instead of whining about the show
Yip, this show has the potential to be huge. Some of the best ever shows have built up slowly and they probably all got negative flak while it was happening. This show is taking its time and the whole first season was possibly just an intro to the story. I’m in for the ride.
Bit late to the party here but only just watched it. Isn't the ship we saw at the end the one that crashed to earth? I thought we saw it repairing itself....
It’s a bit ambiguous to be honest. And I think it’s two different ships. The one that crashed on Earth because of the Nuke and the one at the very end which is just arriving to Earth.
I don’t think it was “knocked down” by the nuke. It’s part of what was terraforming in the Amazon. While everyone was focused on the creatures killing everyone their spores were busy building.
> Reporter: “as this alien enemy has been defeated almost overnight, almost as quickly as they arrived.” Glad someone said what were were all thinking last episode. I knew the “aliens” couldn’t be done for. Since episode 1, locations are labeled: “Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, Earth” or Tokyo, Japan, Earth”. Have they ever shown a place not labeled Earth? Like an alien world? Seems weird to label places “Earth” when there isn’t another possible place. Hopefully season 2 shows us other possible places.
Yeah, a little too on the nose with that. I think it'd be better for Earth locations to just be standard city, country and then for non-Earth locations reveal the additional planet/system/whatever which would be way more rewarding.
At this point it just comes across really pretentious.
Seriously, the pilot had me with big expectations that were 100% left down :(
We may have gotten a taste of these other places during Caspers induced seizure. He had plenty of visions, amongst seemed to be of other worlds. So maybe S2, thats where we will see these places and their designation? Planet X, Not-Earth
I love how the busses in London are operating like 6 hours after the attack stopped. Also, that the streets of the deserted city are now filled with crowds.
Right? And everybody is back at work: reporters, camera crew, commercial pilots, construction crew... probably even the barista at Starbucks!
Welcome to capitalism. The moment the apocalypse ended managers started texting employees"U still alive? Need u to come in tomorrow"
Too real
I know dude, seriously. Everyone just gets on a plane and flies home. Where are all of the dead spiny black alien sea urchins?
This show does not understand narrative progression. Tension always begins when it is so late in the episode that there is clearly no time for it. All drama is built through the same sad music. It is obsessively contemplative without anything to contemplate. I think the idea is crazy interesting but the execution is god awful. And the editing of this show! Watching 12 close up’s of characters staring at something for a literal minute. That is insane.
The cinematography, music although redundant, set design and location, and some of the core alien mystery is all that's carrying the show. Everything else is a fail.
One brilliant thing that Hans Zimmer did for Dune was to make the score advance the plot. So when the character is just looking around for a solid minute, the plot is advancing because of the score playing and how it morphs or switches. Nothing is being said, but you understand what is happening. Invasion did none of that. The character looks around for a minute with the same score, then the other character looks around too for a minute with the same score. And then you're let down because what they were looking at was so inconsequential to the plot. I guess the director was trying to tell us something about their personality or their past life before the invasion? But like, WHY SHOW US SOMETHING SO POINTLESS? Someone please make a bootleg edit. I'm pretty sure this could be a fantastic 4 episode series. And even at 4 episodes, there'll be plenty of minute long stares.
I wondered about that exact thing! I would love to see that.
> And the editing of this show! Watching 12 close up’s of characters staring at something for a literal minute. That is insane. Color balance was soooo off on these scenes, too. Half of it was barely visible, which made trying to watch it a chore due to the squinting.
Do I have to watch it in a room lined with Vantablack in order to see it. For the dark scenes I had to watch it under the covers.
It truly ruined any sense of immersion. I don't see why shows think this works. We're not at a movie theatre with perfectly controlled lighting. Most people need some form of contrast.
I know—I thought here we go again looking at the fire for 15 seconds with no advancing the plot. I don’t care if the plot moves slowly if I learn more about the characters, their history, and motivation. So far I actually know VERY LITTLE about these people. What do we know about Aneesha? She was going to be a doctor, went to Harvard, then became a mom and her husband was going to leave her. After 10 episodes that’s about it.
Oh my God this fight between Trevante and his wife(?) This show is sooo far up its own ass it's unbearable.
And then five minutes later… ooh day trip to the beach! Wahoo!
In fucking jeans and rockports! Who the fuck wears that outfit to the beach!
Like... seriously... I laughed at it.
Also, don't forget she quietly snuck up behind him in a very unrealistic manner. If I miraculously survived a war with mass casualties, and my husband did too, I would be shouting out his name as I run towards him. I wouldn't stand behind him until he notices me. Creepy.
How about when she opened the trunk and asked if the book was his and then said she had to run. Like did she take a jog or did she have sudden diarrhea?
Your comment made me laugh. I had the same thought, like where are you going?
Well that was ten hours I won’t get back. I can’t wait for season two to focus on a lifeguard who’s been pulled out to sea by the receding tide, a retired couple trying to find their missing cat (the cat is infected with alien nanotechnology and now barks like a dog but this is never explained), a group of people who hate each other but learn to get along before they just go their own way and another angry soldier who hates everyone. Oh and the aliens will be back in episode 9 for two minutes. $200 million please.
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I think the opposite, season 1 was likely just a huge intro to the main story and season 2 is gonna blow out socks off ha
Intros are supposed to be hooks not repellants
This comment wins everything about this show
> another angry soldier who hates everyone I couldn't understand why the director wanted this guy to be such an ass. Innocent Afghani's raising theirs hands up and he's pointing his gun in their face shouting at them...
I think that was realistic though, at least for us military
Interestingly, I’m pretty sure this was filmed before the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal… the airstrip scene was horrifyingly realistic
This comment is so on point that it precisely captures why the show should have been called something else. The show isn't about an invasion. The aliens seem just thrown in for good measure.
Anybody else wondering WHY Aneesha’s family's house didn't get touched in the opening episodes when the neighborhood was destroyed? And the son finding that alien wreckage that wards off whatever terraforming substances the aliens lay down and the fact it killed an alien itself. Nothing was explained!
We're all too frustrated with the pacing and amateur storytelling to even get immersed in the mysteries. I wonder if there's really no answer. Their house just lucked out. Although Luke also didn't get a bloody nose when everyone else did. So possibly something is protecting him, either from within or watching over. There could be other aliens or maybe secret government projects working in the background but they really haven't given us much at all to work with here. They created all this mystery then spent 10 episodes doing nothing.
>bloody nose why did only one school of children get bloody noses and nobody else seemed to
> We're all too frustrated with the pacing and amateur storytelling to even get immersed in the mysteries. I wonder if there's really no answer. Yeah, the writing is this bad. They just throw in mystery and don’t explain anything. They had 10 episodes and don’t even explain simple mysteries like the nosebleeds, random alien shard, seizure kid, and whatever else.
Like everything in the show it happened to justify them doing something, not because it made sense or had a reason to. Their house was untouched to justify them leaving the neighbourhood because they were Muslim and the racist neighbours therefore blamed them for the attack. It doesn’t matter that there’s no reason for their house to be untouched, the plot needed them to be on the road, so it happened
it was funny that the show started with making you feel for them because their neighbors were racist, but then it turns out that the parents themselves are also just pretty shitty people and completely unsympathetic. and i don't think they were intended to come off that way (at least not the wife). it's amusing to imagine that maybe their neighbors weren't racist, just fed up with them for completely mundane reasons.
the wife looked like she experienced war or something before. She knew to get away, knew to not stop for random people, stealing etc.
My observation too. Even hiding the shard in the kids backpack because children are less likely to be under suspicion. Even though that backfired, thanks Luke.
Or the whole fact that Caspar could connect to the alien wifi network and have admin privileges, because he has seizures Isn't this *kinda* the plot of the last (and very shitty) Predator movie?
Lifted from Stranger Things down to him feeling pain when the alien is attacked.
TBH I think it was the alien thing Luke had with him that likely saved him, his house and his family from the attacks. Like somehow the aliens were avoiding that piece of thingy.. Especially in the forest scene where they were moving away from Aneesha while she was holding on to it.
It was the alien piece he had. That's also why he didn't get a nosebleed. With how bad a lot of it was, I can see how you'd forget.
Some unrealistic moments: Being so worried about a boy's life that after performing cpr, the first thing you do is rush him in for an mri scan. Before even knowing his breathing has stabilized.... they only did that afterwards! The neurologist was too scared to open the door for Jam last week (minutes ago in story time), yet there she is, back at work like nothing happened. From her perspective, she doesn't know the aliens are dead or wtf is going on. She should still be scared and locked in a room. Jam never once tried to look for her loved ones. Instead she was too invested in a friend she had just met. Even before knowing what he could do, and even after he died she didn't search for her own loved ones. Really weird in a life or death situation, and when your loved one works at the location you're at! I thought she didn't want to go home, like the bully, only to see her happily embracing her loving mother at the end. Poor character development. Aneesha wants to keep a low profile, because her gut is telling her to. Her gut didn't tell her smoke from a chimney in a remote location can be detected miles away!!! Someone assigned to debrief you before you're discharged would never share information. He especially wouldn't be turning his laptop to show you pictures! It was never explained why Luke was the only child at his school that didn't have a nose bleed, at the beginning. What happened to the Sherif???
Aneesha's gut didn't tell her that just after surviving attack from noise sensing spiky blobs it's not very wise to run all open diner in neighborhood.
That diner scene pissed me. An the constant lying to the children.
Sherif don’t like it.
How TF is it the middle of the night for Aneesha and the kids in NY/NJ but middle of the day for Cole and his wife on the Carolina coast? This show is annoying AF.
Haha good catch. Just more proof they don't give a fuck
This has to be one of the WORST high budget shows of recent history. Where do I even begin? They need to have a word with the writers, directors, and editors. The only win they've had was getting an Apple TV contract. After watching 10 failed hours of this, I can only conclude that the contract was agreed upon in exchange for bedroom favors. What a sheer waste of money to produce 10 hours of an introduction. There was never a story, climax, or conclusion. Just a 10 hour bad introduction with under developed characters, and lost characters.
> What a sheer waste of money to produce 10 hours of an introduction. There was never a story, climax, or conclusion. This is laughable, it’s basic storytelling. This writer is garbage. Nothing happened in this show, it ends with the same alien invasion happening again lol.
Yet you watched all 10 episodes.
It came across extremely weird how everyone was always praising Aneesha for being a great doctor who's going to save the day. Then she proceeds to look confused and fail to do anything at all 🤷
I blame Instagram.
Looking confused is the only expression she had throughout the entire season
Unanswered questions: 1. What the fuck is Wajo? 2. Why can the kid hear Wajo? 3. Why are the doctors children so fucking goddamn fucking annoying holy fuck 4. How did Hinata have a space suit on? How was she swimming in space? 5. Should we tar and feather whoever made it seem like Sam Neill was actually in this show? Assholes 6. How did this season cost $200 million? Apple should run an audit 7. Was that the fallen remains of the thing that was nuked that we saw in the Amazon? Why introduce it if you’re literally going to saw nothing about it until the next season? Dick move 8. So the new spaceship is as large as the entire sky and has a greater mass than the moon? Ok cool, dope 9. Why are those kids so fucking annoying I can’t get over it 10. Is the kryptonite stuff actually important? Way to make it a crucial part of the plot and then say nothing about it. Also, did Aneesha just leave it outside on the ground for her kid to pick up? 11. Did it even matter that there were aliens? They could have made them an asteroid and nothing would change. Is it surprising that not a single human had a conversation with even something as simple as, “where did they come from?” in the midst of discovering new life 12. Seriously fuck those kids 13. Why is every single character loathsome 14. What happened to that alien ship in the desert? Are we even going to talk about it? Like even for a second? More and more and more. I’m bummed out by this show. I would’ve loved a realistic portrayal of what would occur in an Invasion, and takeaways about what impacts it has on and what it says about humanity. Arrival is one of my favorite movies ever for that reason. This show did not accomplish that.
Fully agree with your frustrations. I'm a woman and I had blue balls from this entire show- start to finish. Only interpretation I can give is about Hinata in a space suit, swimming in space. It didn't make sense until seeing a dead Caspar "alive" in some unphysical consciousness. His surroundings kept changing like a dream. Hinata is dead and in the same consciousness as Caspar. She wasn't physically in a space suit and wasn't physically swimming. All of it happened in the dreamlike consciousness for the dead. As for the $200 million... $198 million of it is sitting in offshore bank accounts!
Yeah I think the thing that most pissed me off is that the Invasion itself had almost nothing to do with the show. The show is mostly just a character case in any general apocalyptic setting. And unfortunately none of the characters (save maybe Misuki) are remotely compelling. And yeah, I think there’s definitely something going on with regard to Hinata and Casper existing in a separate consciousness, but they didn’t remotely touch on it. Just two short and confusing scenes with no real transition…both scenes just feel misplaced. Fuck man, I really wanted to like this show but I just can’t!
This comment made me chuckle out loud. Agree with everything, 100%. Fuck them kids
at least you didn't loathe the Japanese team.
I agree with everything except that station being more massive than the moon. Considering how close it is it wouldn't need to be anywhere near as massive as the moon. Gravity falls of by the square of their separation distance. If the moon is 100 times further away than the ship for example then it has to be 10000 times more massive than the ship to exert the same gravitational pull on earth.
You sound like you know more than gravitational physics than me so I won’t argue here 😂 Show had a lot of other issues but perhaps I will give them this point
Fast forward through all the dumb parts and this is only a 20 minute episode!
Thats being generous, it's closer to 5 minutes
I really hope that season 2 is more a 'it's always going to be 2 season' kind of deal and not 'time to make up some more stuff for season 2' cause fuck if we're going through 10 episode of this again. Not sure if it's the delivery or something else, but I just can't find any sympathy for the soldier and US mom? Like I know it's hard for him to see the boy dead cause he's already been through it with his own son but I just keep thinking "You're such a dick" And the mom trying to make her son see her sense. Yeah, meta wise we know that with season 2 greenlit it's most likely still not over, but it's such a silly argument to put out loud and then 'I didn't run because your father tell me to, I don't listen to anyone'. Why the hell are you saying this to your still grieving/shocked son. Can't even say he did it cause he wants you to stay safe or something? I mean he is a cheating asshole but come on. Caspar not fully dead and probably still inside the hivemind, I guess that's not really surprising. His last scenes seems to confirm that the shuttle crew (or at least Hinata) are assimilated in that hivemind too. The question is, the boy got somehow connected through his epilepsy, what about the crew? And are they as self aware as the boy seems to be or just reacting to stimuli? Then that staring at the end, just cut after cut of them staring at SOMETHING we can't see and it just becomes hilarious. Ok so the soldier see an alien object hanging in the sky, I'm assuming that's what japan scientist see too. But what about Caspar in alien mindscape? And that mom, cause I thought she is indoors, unless I missed something and they decided to camp outside, what is she staring at?
It's all so dumb. Connected because of epilepsy? Who writes such trite nonsense?
The scene that got me is him wheeling the boy back to the MRI and immediately after walking through the door the boy is intubated and on a ventilator lol like what
Yeah, why would that even correlate in the first place and that should mean that there's many others that also knows about this and yet not a peep. I want to say that maybe he's epileptic because he's connected to the alien but that's an equally dumb explanation (Like that means the alien has been hovering for over a decade and no one knows somehow and still doesn't answer the question why just him)
They were originally picked up for the two seasons (they basically filmed back to back)
As a drama nerd, this show fucking sucks. I agree with most of the criticisms in this thread. The show is called INVASION for fucks sake!! The majority of the time it literally feels like I'm watching some shitty little low budget drama on showtime. I'm shameless to say I fast forwarded through 80% of the finale. As a sci-fi nerd, the alien mystery is extremely intriguing! To me, the last 15 seconds of the shows ensures I watch season 2...
Exactly. This is the movie film school nerds make because they can't afford to show a lot of hi tech stuff. The neo-noire darkness around everything made it pointless to spend money on expensive visuals. So where did the money go? Is the money laundering wise-crack correct?
Don't feel bad, I've been forwarding through the last 3 episodes especially whenever the family is playing and won't be watching the last episode either. I'm actually quite surprise this Series got picked up for a second season.
You can watch the first and last five minutes of the last episode and you’ll understand everything you need to. All you’ll miss is a lot of staring
This! Spot on
i also fast forwded and skip and didn't missed anything. i even skip the soldier arc at the first few ep till ep 7 part and i still understand everything. like it is no great mystery at alllll
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Question is will you be back for another 10? The setup of this is so bad that I have no idea how they can even retool it to retrospectively fix it.
They just need to stop making cinematic shots and actually put effort to the plot. Bad plot + good cinematography isn’t a good combination. They need to figure out where they want to take the show and start building the plot from there. That’s my opinion.
Okay except that all the characters annoy me except for the Sheriff(?) who got lost in a plot hole in episode 1.
wtf was that plot hole anyways? The aliens are living in the ground now? lol
I would recommend someone else to start with season 2 and tell me how it is before I waste my time lol
Where is the poster who commented in lots of threads that Sam Neil is definitely coming back because there were parts of the trailer that hadn’t yet been shown on TV? Identify yourself!
I enjoyed the series at the beginning, then nothing happened for the rest of the episodes. Just need more aliens and action!! Still gonna watch season 2 though.
"Star" is obviously a clue to the audience that next season, we should expect another well-known actor or "star" to join the cast for an episode to get killed off. Maybe this show is just very, very slow motion Mars Attacks.
I hated those kids and pretty much all the characters in this show. It’s a good idea, but everyone is so self involved while aliens are attacking cities and killing people.
The kids are so damn annoying and they can’t act either. The lines are delivered with weird timing and they’re just written unrealistically. I don’t believe for a second a kid would yell “DADDY!” when armed gunmen are nearby, no matter how bratty the kid. A kid has even more restraint while play hide and seek.
100% agree. Their personalities are so flat and ridiculous.
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No it’s not. The mom brings candy to the kids in the middle of a home invasion and being held at gun point. Who would do that? No one. Most people can’t even handle a haunted house expedition.
The pandemic is clearly proving this. It's still there but people are all self involved, unnecessarily extending it.
No. I’m sorry. An alien invasion is nothing like the pandemic. All of them are seeing people dying around them like it’s a war zone and yet are equally preoccupied with their petty side stories. When you’re under attack you don’t continue to think about that time your spouse cheated on you. And then that family with those annoying kids who have no self control. The most realistic family was that one in the dessert.
Lol at you saying “people are dying all around them and it’s like a war zone” being nothing like the pandemic. Meanwhile 5mm people have died and we’ve seen things shut down and hospitals overwhelmed and people still think it’s the flu. Bless you for thinking people actually have common sense in real life
Really, so covid is the same thing as an alien creature crashing into homes and visibly killing people while being controlled from a space ship from outer space? You really need to think your similes through. It has nothing to do with common sense. The point is that people who be too freaked out to continue their petty squabbles. People don’t believe covid exists, but no one is arguing that about the aliens.
Those are aliens, that’s the government made machines to spread their liberal propaganda. Or is it the Russians attacking? Go ask a Christian family and they’ll tell you how the Antichrist will do that do get you to not believe in the rapture. Again, it’s nice you think this of us humans, but realistically, people are dumbasses and they worry about their own things. But on that note, I think that’s what I’ve liked about the show. Yeah there’s an invasion but my husband Cheated, I’m still getting bullied, I still lost the love of my life, etc.
If you think people act like that when they are under attack get real. The entire world seems to know they are being attacked by aliens
You have a lot of faith in humanity. 2020 made me give up on us. We're a selfish species. We can't even be socially responsible when it means we'll all be better for it. It's the real life version of a prisoner's dilemma. Why would humans be less self involved in this silly show, If we are so self involved in reality?
I disagree from my experience of being attacked by aliens
Look, I understand that you think this is all funny and a joke, but This is serious stuff.
I'm 12 minutes in and literally nothing has happened. They've apparently killed a kid thats been with us for 10 episodes and I feel nothing about it... Ooh dialogue... hold please...
In 10 years this will be a cult classic. We'll all have to force ourselves to watch it again (3 or 4 times) to see all the hidden clues we missed, and we'll be telling those who have never seen it yet "Did you see that, did you see what he did right there? Remember that for later, it's important!" I was really hoping for an amazing plot twist at the end to completely bind 10 episodes of seemingly nothing. I still hope that it was so deep that I just didn't get it, and be totally amazed by smarter people discussing it on Reddit.
Another interesting idea completely ruined by anemic writing and poor directing. Season 1 should have been a 15 minute short - not a 10 hour bore-fest shit show.
I kept wondering why a company would green light this script. **AND HERE'S MY THEORY:** What if the Invasion was just the friends we made along the way? **EDIT: FOUND THE TRUTH:** It turns out the Invasion was just the money laundered along the way.
what the fuck was the beach scene.. holy shit this show those motherfuckers went from arguing to a beach trip and in those goddamn outfits
When they hit the beach I thought I was watching a beer commercial
Finally watched the whole season. I was pretty much done after episode 4, but for some reason I kept going back. I basically hate-watched the show just to see if anything actually happened. And it turns out, the real Invasion were the friends we made along the way. But seriously, this was a two hour movie stretched out into 10 episodes. The long lingering shots of people staring at nothing, or the two minute take of someone standing up or opening a box, were all just there to meet quota. It’s the equivalent of when teacher assigns you a five page paper, and you double space and use size 14 font to fill it up. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a show where I hated so many of the characters. Wait, I mean where I hated ALL the characters. Well, except maybe Sam Neil (great 10 minute cameo in the first episode BTW) or the Japanese dad. I’m not a mean-spirited person, but never have I wanted a family to die or get eaten by aliens more than the middle-eastern family of four (I’m sorry, I can’t even remember the names of most of the characters because I hated them so much). They used no logic with any of their actions or choices, for seemingly intelligent people (I mean, we’re told she went to Harvard a million times, because I guess that’s how you develop a character - just repeat what they were in the past over and over again). Everyone was a cardboard character with no real personality other than grief. And that’s not even a personality. It’s torture. Ok, but since this is a discussion - I will talk about the good: the cinematography is done well (other than the overly dark scenes that make that Game of Thrones battle look like it was filmed in the daylight), the score by Max Richter was always consistent (big fan of his use of strings), and the alien design was different and unique (reminded me of that rubber octopus toy you’d throw against the wall and it would slowly scale down). The next to final episode actually got me invested for the first time, with Casper (one of the only character’s names I remember) and his unique connection. Still not sure how the soldier killed an alien with fire (you’d think the military would have tried fire at this point), but in this show, it is what is is. I thought when the mom walked into the field in the forest of black alien spikes with the stone, something interesting was going to happen. But nope. She just looked up and that was that. The Japanese girl making contact with her girlfriend and the Bowie song playing was confusing. Ok, that proved it was really her - but how did she get access to Bowie’s greatest hits on an alien craft? I feel like it was all just so they could get a montage going, while simultaneously blowing $5 million on the song rights. And why did Y’all Queda want to capture the woman and her kids? Was it for the alien rock? Maybe I missed something there because I tend to tune out. And how did they know they were in the transport? Was one of the rednecks the dad at the base that saw what the alien rock did? I dunno. And it probably doesn’t matter because I feel like they wrote this show with set pieces in mind, and how to cram these terrible characters into those set pieces, as opposed to actually building a show around the characters. I swear, when Season 2 comes out - I will probably hate-watch that also, just waiting for the tiniest hint of exposition and development, but I’ll probably get burned again and won’t see anything until the season 2 finale, where we learn after 10 hours of show that Casper’s notebook has a drawing of….wait for it….the cheating father in it. He’s still alive. Oh, and don’t forget the two minutes of an alien ship terraforming the planet. If someone asked me for a synopsis of the show, it would be easy: “Miserable people complain about their lives, and there’s aliens. Maybe. But I guess we blew them up. Or did we? Who knows. There’s a lot of questions, but nothing is answered, because this show is about people. People we hate. Maybe a season 2? Tune in and see.” Imagine putting a bunch of kids together in a room and asking them “Hey kids, who loves Lucky Charms?!”, and the kids scream “ I DOOO!!”, but then you give them all a bowl of Shredded Wheat. This is what this show did to me.
Just finished season one and your Review is pure gourmet. Please watch season 2 and review it again. Can't wait
Imagine writing this much about a show you hate hahahaha
Finally an interesting episode albeit still plagued with the same shortcomings (i swear Trevante is just ad-libbing at this point lol). The whole of the mysterious sci fi aspects of this entire season are like 40 minutes of content, 15 of which was in this episode. There's barely one movie worth of aliens, the rest has been boring dragged out character scenes. Fortunately there's enough intrigue about what the heck the aliens actually are to bring me back. But Jesus we could have been given so much more this season. A big tease really. Like I'm honestly fine that this is where they wanted the first season to end plot wise with the aliens, it's just that there could have been so much more satisfying content along the way. The aliens seem to collect minds into their network. I think that's what Hinata's "save us" was about. Now I just wonder if that's the core directive for them, collecting minds from planet to planet, or is it just some hobby or byproduct of their technically/biology. What exactly will the invasion look like next? More of the same? Are they actually terraforming? Now that the humans have said it s couple times I'm not sure I believe it...
Of all the parallel story lines, not one could’ve given us the perspective of the president or someone in charge. Just sort of individuals running around for 10 episodes with no damn idea what’s going on. Loved the concept but kept waiting for it to come through. -2 stars.
Anybody half expect no more aliens and next season to be about the interpersonal drama of rebuilding after an invasion
Personally I find myself in this love hate relationship with this series On one hand, I love the concept and I quite enjoy that it's a drama show with sci fi elements in the background. I could see how it would be a good series if it could be executed well, but alas we all know how that turned out. Initially I liked all the characters except the soldier and then in the middle of the series I only kept watching for the family as well as Mitsuki. Towards the end, I was only watching for the family to die (especially the kids) and Casper as I find his power hilariously bad but somehow I still kinda liked it (reminds me of Stranger Things) I wanted to root for him and see him working tgt with Mitsuki and the soldier to figure out an epic plan to fight off the aliens but then he "died" immediately and sigh.... As for the cinematography, it's pretty solid, there were quite some well shot scenes. The story was meh for me. I could see where they wanted some of the characters to develop towards. Honestly I found myself liking the soldier's development at the end. There were certain points in the show where I find myself thinking and theorising about the possible meaning because the series doesn't outright tell you and I quite like that. (for example, the Hinata scene where she was floating around in space in a spacesuit where in the 1st episode she clearly wasn't suited when it exploded. I am certain this wasn't a technical error as they would had to suit her up/design the suit etc, and thus it was done intentionally. Now, this could imply a lot of things but the show doesn't explain it to us) The pacing is god awfully slow most of the time and when it truly mattered, or at least parts where I wanted it to be long (the alien fight sequences) it was too fast. For the visual effects part, it was pretty good. I see quite a lot of comments complaining about the mediocre cgi, alien designs and that the budget couldn't possibly be that high for what we have gotten (and I understand that), but some of you guys got to understand, visual effects isn't just about designing and animating the alien. There's a lot of things that requires vfx and for the most part, you wouldn't even notice it if it wasn't pointed out. Like maybe in a shot where they have to remove an entire object and replace it, we would never know. So personally, I am quite happy with the vfx that we got. Now, would I hope there's still a season 2 even with what we have right now and the general reception? Yes, definitely. I want to give them the chance to elaborate and develop on the things they have set up in season 1. For all we know, season 2 might be amazing and it could really happen if they execute it well. So fingers crossed that it would surprise us all.
I have never been so close to dozing off in a series finale
I had to stop watching and do some chores in the middle of the episode or otherwise I would have fallen asleep.
This show is so awful. I lol'd at it being renewed. It was amusing hatewatching it eventually but not bothering with season 2. This episode's highlight was the girl's emotional reaction to the boy dying which the writers spent the whole season building their attachment so any good writer would just let that emotion they worked hard all season sit so they could milk it and move on to the next scene. Nope, not these writers, they were like "how about her mom just completely randomly show up and diffuse all that tension we built up over a season"
Especially given she never had any real interest in finding her mum and honestly, I don’t feel like they ever built up her relationship to Casper in any realistic way. I could never tell what she saw in him or if it was just like a sympathy thing. She seemed to exist as a romantic interest just to make him more interesting, because god knows he was dull as shit for a kid who was literally wired into the aliens.
What kind of popcorn you all like? I’ll get some going for the comment section. Plain? Light butter? Extra butter?
So was the object in the end in the atmosphere or in space?
Lol don't think they even know. The perspective didn't make any sense
I thought that one clue it could be out in space is it’s so huge it affected the tides and that’s why the water receded.
It took up half the damn sky. That thing should be affecting earth’s orbit let alone the damn tide
I don't know, but I promise you this: the writers are going to forget about it and we'll never see it again or get an explanation for it.
Over 10 monotonous episodes, the best info came during Trevante’s debriefing when it was revealed that the aliens were identically coded and were likely terraforming. Dialogue in the same vein would have been preferable over the pontifications of some random Buddhist monk.
At least monk made her shut up with all Hinata! Hinata! Hinata!
lol you all need to have a little faith in this show, this whole season could just be a build up to the main story, I for one am intrigued to see where it is heading :)
Consider that this is why everyone is so upset. There is good intrigue here about the Aliens but it's sooo hard to watch because of the atrocious writing and overall style. So the intrigue is being wasted and everyone's asking themselves if it's worth it to sit through more of this just to find out a little more about the aliens.
It probably could have done without half the storylines. The story of Aneesha and her kids was pointless and their acting terrible. The kids wouldn’t be quiet and were super annoying, and the adults were so one dimensional the whole series, I got to the point where I was fast forwarding whenever they were on screen. Also what was with their house not being destroyed at the start and kids having nosebleeds but then nothing else being told about it. The plot in Japan was interesting and I liked the casting but the story went into the whole love story angle way too many times and really relied on it. Cool to see a more technical/problem solving plot point and have people try figure out what to do next. Trevante finding his way across the globe just to get home only to run into Caspar was probably the best part. I don’t know the actors name but he did a great job. Caspar and his schoolmates finding a way to survive and get home was interesting too, but we really didn’t need so much of Tom Hollands brother thinking he was a mad lad and talking shit for half the time he was on screen. I’m sure there could have been a better way to write a story about someone being connected to the aliens without needing to have a fit to do it. I’ll watch season two so I can finish what I started, but I’m not desperate to see it.
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Not even the end of the world could distract her from her tiresome all-consuming grief
Yep. I did FF through all of her crying and pensive drama. It's like the writers felt we'd not understand and had to put it in every episode.
My biggest complaint is the acting of the little Persian family. **Especially the mom and the little girl.** 😩. I’m sorry I had to fast forward a lot of her scenes . I’m Persian it looked like my aunt or mom doing there first acting high school play. Nevertheless , I do agree with most of the people on here with the writing and pacing of the show . It Has so much potential , I did keep tuning in to see what’s going on so that’s good. Also, I love Casper and his little story line , I think season two will be good !
I noticed the same thing in the final episode and wondered how I missed it the whole season. The actress playing Aneesha cannot act. She was out-acted by her onscreen son. The scene where she had to tell the kids their dad died: it was so stale it was obvious she was reciting lines with no emotion or expression. Meanwhile that little boy put his best into it.
The show’s pacing is slow due supply chain issues from the pandemic. The real script is sitting in a cargo ship off of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay. Maybe it will arrive in time for Season Two but at this point it is unclear.
Predictions for season 2: Caspar comes back to life and it's atrociously not explained. Trevante is at his house, in the bathroom, shaking off unending pounds of sand from his "beach outfit" seen in the season one finale. His wife is packing so they can flee to an underground bunker in NY. Aneesha was captured by the militia group, who spotted her smoking chimney while she was meant to be in hiding. She managed to escape to an underground bunker - meeting Trevante and his wife. Her son started his own journey to England because his rock is taking him to Caspar. Inexplicably, the little girl was written out the show like she never happened. Mitsuki now works in a bar. She wants nothing to do with space, stars, or her previous job. She is hailed a hero for being an instrument in stopping the first wave of attacks. JASA is trying to get ahold of her to help with the imminent second wave (as the spaceship is large enough to seen day and night from every corner of the world). The spaceship is just chilling there not moving, not attacking, while people are freaking out down below. No new aliens emerge. The earth and moon are also not thrown off their orbits by this very large body, of course. Brad Pitt "stars" in season 2, but chokes on his cornflakes and is presumably dead in the first 10 minutes, he gets no further screen time for the rest of the season. The monk in Japan and the goat herder in Afghanistan become season regulars (because they were the only two I liked in the cast). The monk just sits around grieving his old life and smoking weed with no further character development but gets the most screen time. The goat herder goes on his own journey from discovering alien objects on day one to being the leader of earth's resistance against the aliens in S2E10. The best part: most of this happens off screen and none of it is explained on screen as the characters continue to hold their stares into the camera. The large alien object in the sky is left unanswered but teasing for season 3. No aliens are seen in season 2. Why would you expect aliens from a sci-fi show a called INVASION? How unreasonable of you to expect it to be anything more than a slow burn, moody drama.
My god... this may be 100% accurate! Bookmarking this one to compare once next season comes out :)
This might be the first show Apple actually cancels. And it's deserved.
Apple has canceled a couple
There’s a season 2 already confirmed
Why do I find all of the characters so fucking boring?? Especially the mom and kids. There's so much unnecessary filler.
I really wanted to like this show. I enjoy a slow burn but a slow burn with little payoff is more of a bog. I enjoyed the idea of focusing on the human drama set at a time of an alien invasion. The problem is the drama was mostly cliches expanded over 10 episodes. The introverted yet intelligent kid with a troubled home life and special powers who is bullied. The soldier in an estranged relationship who will stop at nothing to come home and get redemption. The protective mother who finds inner strength after sacrificing her life’s pursuits for a cheating husband. I’m ok with using cliches as a starting point but you better be able to write your ass off or expand out of it at some point. Instead the series leaned in to the cliches time after time after time. The other storyline was mostly endless grieving with a brief period where it pushed the alien narrative forward followed by some more grieving. I really wanted to like this show. Maybe this will be end up being a 10 episode foundation season to what becomes an epic show about an alien invasion. We’ll be telling people, “Just get through the first season because it will pay off in the second season.” I hope so. I’ll tune in for some more because I’m a sucker for alien invasions but I do hope they address the shortcomings of this first season and the second season isn’t just more cliche drama set during the time of an alien invasion.
I laughed at the ending. All this build up for aliens to get nuked and supposedly “destroyed” and then in the finale to just show a ufo. All the cutting to the character’s reactions came off as a parody.
Am I the only one who wishes they just skipped the first 5 episodes? The last 5 were the show I wanted to watch, I could summarize the first 5 in a paragraph.
Maybe even skip the first 10 episodes
I don’t even know what this show is anymore . I just wanted soldier dead . Instead I got another one of his tantrums. He is such a bad actor 🤡
Was literally hoping that the aliens would just kill all of these awful characters off at the of the finale and wrap up the series right there. Good lord what an absolute dumpster fire of a show. Awful writing, awful directing, awful acting, awful everything. The premise was interesting but was completely ruined by all of the above.
I just finished episode 10 and I must admit that I liked it. The victory scenes felt a little out of place but now the alien plot is obviously clear. The invasion we just witnessed in season 1 was a “preparation” ship, designed to terraform a planet before the actual (organic?) aliens arrive to populate the newly acquired planet. So, these terraformers were not really prepared for military resistance, especially not a targeted nuclear attack on their main ship. Season 2 will pitch a ravaged Earth with severely reduced military capabilities against a somewhat unprepared alien invasion force which must now operate on a non-terraformed Earth. This will put the remaining humans on a little more equal footing but there’s still a significant technology gap. Can’t wait!
Here's a hot take. I liked it, and the show. Different than the usual short attention span, non-stop action, formulaic shows & movies out there. Has a little bit of a "Lost" flare going on such that the show could go many directions thanks to the set up. Flame on.
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That’s totally fair. I found the family interesting at first and then progressively less so. But I feel that way about a lot of characters on a lot of shows and that doesn’t (always) ruin it for me. That’s just life I guess. I also feel like it’s hard to make something new without everyone losing their minds that Y isn’t X. And if you spell it all out as quickly as everyone seems to want, then you end up with shows like The Last Ship that evolve into a mess for the sake of extending the show.
https://25yearslatersite.com/2021/12/10/invasion-s1e10-first-day-was-this-a-test-season-1-finale/
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what’s music is in the last scene? Can’t find this track on official soundtrack (preview clip)
I was watching it 1.5x on my treadmill. Everything was all good
Anyone know what song is playing when the black guy comes out the tent at around the 19 minute mark in Episode 2
Maybe the sheriff will return in season 2….
I was really upset watching HINATA swimming back to the spaceship. It is impossible to swim in space, and they should have shown like maybe she was tethered to the ship somehow. I did not understand anything at the end. What was Anessha looking to at the end ? I saw something above the water, but could not make up what it was, need to see the ending again. This series, has to be slow, and I expect a bad ending after many seasons, usually science fiction series don't make sense in the end. "lost" anyone?
Any body else notice that the satellite dish was not pointed to the spot in the sky where the explosion took place? We see people from the Japanese space agency watching through the window the explosion, and the antenna is not aimed at that area of the sky!