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Comic Con 2014 Interview – E.P. David Eick of Falling Skies

By: Robert Prentice
Falling Skies

This may be David’s first year directing Falling Skies but it’s far from his first show. David has a lot of experience taking a show and sending it in directions we would never have thought. Press had the chance to sit and pick David’s brain about season 4, the finale and what to expect in the final season of the show. The moon was always a big part of the marketing efforts for season 4 and starting with this Sunday’s episode we will start to see why.

Among the spoilers learned, we can expect a major character death before this season is over. The Espheni have already proven that they are not of a hive mind like we first thought and there appears to be opposing opinions on how to deal with the humans. On one side you have the monk who wants to continue his experiment on Lexi and has started to experiment on Ben as we saw when Ben was inflicted with the same pain and injuries as the monk. On the other side you have Scorch who wants nothing more than to recapture the 2nd mass and skitterize them once and for all. Eick teased that the Espheni have a thing for genetic manipulation and we can expect to see new iterations of existing species as they continue to work on their master plan.

What we don’t know is what the monk has already done to Ben prior to the events of last weeks episodes. Ben was in a coma for 4 months and we know Lexi was meeting with the monk during their entire stay in Chinatown, so what might he have been doing to Ben without him knowing it? What is his master plan for Lexi and how does that tie into the human transformation project the Espheni tease about? Check out the 5 part interview with David at Comic Con.

Falling Skies was picked up for a 5th season and David shared the news that director Greg Beeman would not be back for season 5. However, several directors we have had from our favorite episodes of seasons past will be back to direct various episodes.

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