Falling Skies Preview: Ben’s Bond With the Skitters ‘Will Scare the Hell Out of the 2nd Mass’-TVLine

          

Here's an article by TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich, which gives a preview of tonight's episode, episode 2x04 "Young Bloods" with some scoop on the episode from showrunner Remi Aubuchon. In the article Aubuchon talks about the possibility of Ben being a threat to the 2nd Mass and his connection to the Skitters. Here's an excerpt from the article:



Could it be that Ben is a greater, more stealth threat to the 2nd Mass than his father? “Well, that’s what it seems like at this stage,” says showrunner Remi Aubuchon. “Certainly in this moment.”

Ben himself, though he lives every day with the eeriness that is the remnant extraterrestrial spikes on his back and the crusting skin that is slowly turning him into one of them, seems unsettled by his odd interactions with the aliens as well. (Pay particular note tonight when he stumbles across a lab where the harnesses are farmed.)

“What surprises Ben and what should surprise us and what will eventually scare the hell out of the 2nd Mass is that he is connected in a way with the Skitters that he never, never thought was possible,” previews Aubuchon.

So while it’s nice to have super-stamina and other cool tricks in his repertoire, especially as those assets help the resistance whittle down the ETs’ numbers, it all comes with one big out-of-this-world “catch.”

“We thought, ‘OK, he’s got this strength and agility, because he had been harnessed,’ but we thought he was free of the connection” he had when that otherworldly slug was attached to his spine, Aubuchon says. “But in that one particular moment [with Red-Eye], it’s pretty clear that he is very connected to them.”



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