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Tom is plagued by haunting memories of his time with the aliens and begins to speculate that they may have tampered with his mind. Elsewhere, Pope oversees an interview with Tom; Ben's hatred toward the skitters escalates; and scouts discover a bridge that could lead the group to safety.Free Download Video Falling Skies 17th June 2012 Episode On TNT  Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Falling Skies Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV. After spending the last several months mulling and anticipating the Falling Skies season 2 premiere, I finally got a look at the two-part debut including the episodes "World's Apart" and "Shall We Gather at the River". Result: I'm stunned. Since the creative team had little or no opportunity to course correct based on viewer feedback in season one, I sort of anticipated season 2 of Falling Skies would be a reboot in many ways, but I never expected the magnitude of improvements I've just witnessed. Falling Skies has set the standard for prime-time action and Science Fiction and delivered an opening act that finally fulfills the promise of a blockbuster level experience on the small screen. That said, the transition from season one is not nearly as jarring as you might expect. I definitely felt I was in a new world, and the Falling Skies' technical improvements were apparent from the beginning, but season one does not suffer as a result. This is a fluidly executed transition to a new narrative that will quite simply, pardon the cliche, blow you away. Here's a few points that stuck out to me:Where season one sometimes felt confined with sets like The School, season two of Falling Skies has a much broader scope and offers a more 'left behind' feel to the locales. Furthermore, the resistance camps feel like refugee camps now, with creature comforts at a minimum and an air of constant tension. The survivors are now living with the stress of occupation, and you can see its toll in every facet of daily life. Better yet, you can see and practically feel how this world penetrates the psyches of the characters, and informs their dialogue and interactions. It's darker, for sure, but it is also more textured than the world of season one.Everyone has hardened a bit here, but there is also an improved sense of realism. Some of the biggest changes are evident in Ben, who has gone from the skittish survivor of season one to a hardened warrior, and Ann (Moon Bloodgood) who has now honed her skills to those of a very qualified combat medic, but has become more withdrawn emotionally. All of the characters exist in a sort of shell-shocked haze, their psychologies bristling with battlefield idiosyncrasies, with even the most adapted—Pope, Weaver—becoming somewhat mechanized, as if they are burying themselves in the never-ending rigors of combat yet allowing grudging flashes of humanity to ooze around the cracks in their armor.We were lucky enough to speak to stars Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Colin Cunningham and Drew Roy, plus new showrunner Remi Aubuchon. And one thing came through loud and clear: This season, Pope's dark, twisted view of the world is a lot closer to the truth. Minor spoilers ahead...

We already presented some of our interviews with the Falling Skies stars a while back, focusing on the challenge of continuing the story after a really out-of-left-field season-ending cliffhanger. The good news is, after watching the first few episodes of the new season, we can attest the show does a pretty good job of making that cliffhanger pay off, and the new season is feeling a lot stronger in general. (We'll have a full review of the new episodes on Friday.)

The note we heard over and over again from the stars of Falling Skies during our interviews was: This isn't going to be as cozy as it was in season one. "It's even grittier," says Drew Roy, who plays Hal Mason. "It's no longer this nice little show where everybody feels like we're on a big camping trip. This one is serious. Each day is a battle."

The aliens are no longer screwing around — they're trying their hardest to wipe out the humans at this point, says Roy. Since we last saw the Second Mass, three months have gone by, and there's been a devastating battle called the Battle of Fitchburg, in which 100 people died.

In the first season finale, Tom Mason managed to damage the alien structure in Boston, which "felt kind of good to us, but all it really did was piss them off. So now they're on the hunt for us," says Roy. "We're going to spend the season on the run. We can't fight these aliens the way we are positioned right now. We're too small a group."

"There is no question the show is darker," says Colin Cunningham, who plays the sociopath Pope. "I think you're going to see changes in characters, because the stakes are higher. It's edgier." And there's going to be no doubt in season two that this world is "much more akin to how Pope sees it than how any of the other characters see it." All of the characters who were simpler and more idealistic in season one are going to get grayer and "a hell of a lot more complicated," Cunningham promises.

"I'll be honest. I just felt that it was more interesting. If we are ever going to defeat these aliens, it's better if we do it with our own ingenuity, and not a magic bullet," says Aubuchon, the new showrunner. "I understood why they did that in the first season. [But] I wanted the stakes to be higher, and I wanted us to to figure out a way in which we could basically battle these guys with our own tools and our own human ingenuity."

It's the difference between an alien invasion movie and a TV series: a movie has to end, with a laptop virus or a surprising alien weakness providing a victory. A TV series can go on and on, and build things more carefully, and also keep dealing the good guys a series of setbacks. "I don't want to make it easy for our heroes at all, to eventually win the war against these aliens."

"If the first season is about dealing with the initial horror of aliens coming to our planet and wiping 90 percent of us," says new showrunner Remi Aubuchon, "by the second season, it's pretty much sunk into everybody that these aliens aren't going anywhere. Our lives will never be the same again. We have to fight, and if we're to have any semblance of survival, we have to get these things off our planet."