Falling Skies Stars Discuss Series Run At SDCC
The final season of Falling Skies has arrived, and with it comes the cast’s final appearance at SDCC as part of the series. Noah Wyle and Moon Bloodgood took to San Diego Comic Con for the show’s farewell panel (via IGN) to talk about their journeys, and revealed that nothing has simple with this show. Wyle revealed:
“Falling Skies has been atypical, in my opinion, because we’ve had a lot of different showrunners and leaders over the years and so each time we got a new showrunner the show would take off on a new direction. And so it has changed its tone and it has changed its style a lot. We already knew that we’d come to this final battle scenario that we’re in now in Season 5, but the line to get here was not a straight one.”
Add to that, Bloodgood noted that her character is still a mystery, even to her:
“I don’t think I ever actually figured out Anne. I still don’t know who she is, I suppose. At first, on the show I was very maternal. I was caring and a doctor and then I became a soldier and then I became more angry and I got more determined. But it was nice to start off as a softer character and then watch her become this mother who wants to fight for humanity and for her children and it all ties up in the end really nicely.”
To top it all off? Wyle revealed that they’ve been improving a lot of the story since the first season:
“When we first started out, the writer of the pilot episode – Robert Rodat – had this three year plan for the show. He had it mapped out in his head that far and then we sort of burned through all that in the first seven episodes of the first season. And so then we’d just write these cliffhangers for ourselves with no idea what the other end was. Something would fall out of the sky and we’d all look up at it and occasionally we’d write ourselves into a corner. So there wasn’t a lot of forethought to it sometimes.”
You’d think that this would mean the show was bad and doomed, and yet it lasted five seasons and 50 episodes. That is more than many shows can say. New episodes of Falling Skies’ final season are airing on Sunday on TNT.