Falling Skies or Amazon, you fucking bitch, why do you hate me?

I didn't love this show, this was my "I need noise while I eat fuck it let's watch this show". Regardless, I stuck with it and was willing to see it to the end. Through most of it, I felt better about my poor attempts at doing alien based narratives that weren't entirely sci-fi. But then Amazon yanked the show off the Australian site and we can't see the last half of the final season. I was tempted to do the Wikipedia spoiler run much earlier on but persisted so I had something to watch and laugh at maybe.

The last few episode synopses messed with my head. I have the weirdest narrative I did based on aliens focusing on Earth for an ancient reason and there were two warring factions affected by two humans and their fates. I very lazily killed the bad aliens with the old "Kill the Queen, kill the species" trope, and Falling Skies took that route. The revenge on Earth was based on a previous grievance for which the queen wants revenge.  It also relied on a main character losing their long term lover interest and bargaining with another species to save her in exchange for their good deed, which I kinda also did in the same narrative. I really didn't focus on any of the alien aspects it was about the fallout from the humans being involved, and ultimately humanity never finds out. It always tickles me when even my stupidest ideas turn out to be replicated by legitimate shows. There were also several loose ends that weren't followed through on and the show was suffering from flagging ratings. It's not good enough for me to find on DVD (I don't think it got a full release) and I won't pirate the rest, it's on Apple TV but I refuse to subscribe to anything new.

I also appreciated a YouTuber admitting they had an opportunity to do a book thing and chose not to because they didn't have a book/reason to write anything for the sake of a deal, especially since they wanted some kind of autobiography. And they knew the best seller status was bogus. I always appreciate anyone who gets an opportunity like this and eventually realises it's beyond them and it's not fair to deliver a substandard product for the sake of money.