"A More Perfect Union" Part One.

 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

For a beginning let's start at the end.

When I say the end I am referring to the stunning conclusion to the season 2 finale of Falling Skies.  A new alien species has arrived (something I've been hoping for) and with this ending we have a new beginning.  But before I get too far let's take a look at this ending in the context of the this episode's title, "A More Perfect Union". 

There are two meanings to the episode title, (something that was drawn from the preamble to the Constitution), firstly, there is the literate meaning to to the phrase, "A More Perfect Union".  Our founding fathers realized that the idea of founding a more perfect union meant that it was an ongoing process.  That is why on the reverse side of the dollar bill we see the incomplete pyramid seal "Announcing (the) Concept" of a "Secular New Order".  In Roman numerals at the base of the unfinished and ongoing pyramid is the year 1776 when it all began.

Much of the inspiration of Falling Skies has been drawn from the American Revolutionary War.  The ragtag unit of the 2nd Mass mirrors the Minutemen that originally stood against tyranny and oppression.  Their struggle laid the foundation towards a more perfect union and the 2nd Mass has followed in their footsteps in rebuilding what or forefathers had wrought.  In fact, I would say it is their sacred mission.  The tyranny is the same only the faces have changed.

So is there a second meaning to, "A More Perfect Union"?  With the timely intervention of "Red Eye" and his rebel group of Skitters the 2nd Mass has destroyed the Overlord's "Super Gun" and apparently allowed the arrival of a new species of alien.  So does "A More Perfect Union" announce the alliance of this new species with the remnants of Earths population?  TNT flashed on the screen "Ally or Enemy" as the episode concluded.  With Red Eye out of the picture and the Skitters severely damaged the "Union" may well be a partnership between the new arrivals and we "Earthlings".  Will it be "more perfect'?  Or will this obviously superior race become our new masters?

The new alien did show his face (her face?) as he disembarked from his vessel and he held up no weapon despite being drawn upon by the 2nd Mass and the Continental Army.  We can construe from this that he means us no harm as these are universal peaceful gestures.  So the "More Perfect Union" could refer to the saving grace of this alien arrival.  I posited in my blog post. "An Overture From The Overlords" that the Overlords weren't the biggest fish in the pond.  That they were actually on the run from a bigger fish and their work on Earth was incomplete and hurried.  I was hoping that their incomplete victory was due to the fact that they were being pursued and whatever was chasing them wasn't far behind.  That "Whatever" is here now.

Are these new aliens a galactic police force looking to apprehend the Overlords for their interstellar crimes?  Or are they a rival gang looking to usurp their opponents gains?  Just because they seemingly come in peace doesn't mean that peace will last.  The "Union" could be just a convenient alliance until the Overlords, or the "Espheni" as we learned from Ben/Red Eye, are defeated and there is a new "Sheriff" in town. 

I'd love the "Cosmic Police Force" angle.  These new aliens seem to have come in force but the "Super Gun" only covered the eastern portion of North America so that may mean they need Earth's help before they they can develop their bridgehead to what is our Battleground Earth.  If they are a rival "space gang" the alliance will be a tenuous one until either the new aliens get what they want and leave or Tom Mason and his fellow earthlings will have a new enemy to fight.  If there is to be a fourth season of Falling Skies the safe money would be on the latter.

 I'd like to draw attention to one of the final scenes as the alien pod craft descended.  By the way,  I say, "pod craft" as it held only one alien so it stands to reason there is a mother ship in orbit around Earth that dropped all these single seater pods to Earth (I hope we get to to that "mother" next season!) (Are these new guys so bad ass they only need to land one at a time?)

Take a look to the right portion of the above screen cap. We see an American flag as graffiti painted on a concrete wall.  The words, "United We Stand" are partially revealed on the flag.  Do these words portend the arrival of the space cops and the new alliance or just "fighting words" in the context of the original invasion?  Also note the field of blue of our flag.  Normally, it contains stars representative of our Union's states.  Instead we find here alien "heads" possibly meant to depict our overthrow or perhaps a failed alliance between the Overlords and Earth.  The "failure" meaning Earth was duped by the Overlords and Earth accepted a Trojan Horse from the Overlords which allowed their easy victory.  The alien heads as stars could be a parody of our new government replacing our failed old one due to their naivete.

It's not the first time we've seen iconic imagery from America's past similarly transfigured.  The above picture from season one shows the "Uncle Sam, I Want You For The U.S. Army"  poster painted on a wall.  Was this a form of protest, as graffiti normally is, to show how Earth was duped and America usurped by the Overlords and we have to answer to a new master and due his bidding? Was the artist making fun of this new/old alliance?

So, with the inclusion of the flag graffiti with the alien heads as stars at the end of this episode, was it meant to tell us that we are to be duped again and as the "The Who" once sang meet the "new boss same as the old boss"?

"A More Perfect Union"  Have the "police" arrived?  A rival space gang? How perfect will this new union be? Join me in my search for answrs!


Next up on "Battlin' Boston".

• Karen's "prophetic" warning.
• Hal's embrace with Ben.
• Anne's pregnancy.
• The Skitter alliance broken?
• What was that sound?