‘Falling Skies’ season 5 spoilers: Series boss on shocking Tom Mason twist

On Sunday night, “Falling Skies” concluded its fourth season in a way that you most-likely did not see coming: With Tom Mason out in space, seeing some sort of creature that was both mysterious and “beautiful.” What was it? Every shot in here was deliberate; you could not see the creature fully, but there was still an emotional, personal element to it. Some have suggested that it could be Tom’s wife, or a mutated form of something else that we have seen already.

Of course, you are not going to get answers right now, given that this would ruin something that is still almost a year away. However, showrunner David Eick did tell Entertainment Weekly that this will set up an “internal” and emotional story for Tom as we get near the end of the season:

“I’m not at liberty to deliver fully disclosed spoilers, but I will tell you that what Tom does see will prove to be the sort of lynchpin in what drives [the 2nd Mass] and provides a strategic angle for the 2nd Mass to pursue in the fifth season. I wouldn’t say they discover a doomsday device, but what they discover is a strategic weapon of sorts that will prove to have a great impact on what happens in the fifth season.”

Basically, what we got from the final minutes or so of the finale was hope, which is something that we have not had a whole lot of over the course of this entire series. There is a reason now to think that these characters could actually get out of this situation alive, and rebuild something similar to the society that they once had. That future is still a long ways away, but there is reason now to be excited.

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