Invasion

1. Larkin is trapped in the car and she hears HER radio twice, she even tries to reach it before getting out of the car. Yet, she leaves the car and \"FORGETS\" the radio?? Her only mean to contact her family and she \"forgets\" it??? I don\'t buy that. Script error no X.



2. Not happy yet, instead of going BACK to the road she left, she thinks it will be easier to find help getting further into nowehere... If the answer is that she was escaping from the army... no kidding, they would have been able to kill her already if they were still looking for her. Script error no X+1.



3. She\'s in pain, in someone else\'s car, and they decide that it\'s best to stop and find some sort of nasty restrooms than just getting some clean fresh air right there where they already are... I mean, if someone is buying that they really need to stop the car cause she\'s in pain, I really cannot understand how these people can also buy that she\'s much better hidden in the nasty restrooms than just getting fresh air and not be out of the sight of other possible cars passing by. Script error X+2.



4. Russel is together with his brother in law (Larkin\'s brother) looking for Larking, quite desperately already since they know for a fact that she\'s lost. Yet, they start some sort of cheap-chat about their lives... for god\'s sake, have you guys been seriously looking for someone and after 1 hour of search you start talking about your feelings and other silly stuff??? Not buying that either. Script error X+3.



5. And who cares about the psycho-drama between Jessie and his mother? Seriously, we got the idea: Jessie does not trust her, let\'s leave the transparent details for the forum. Script error X+4.



And so on... I started with the \"script error\" no. X because there were quite some within the first 6 episodes. I\'m a series fun, I like them, from \"Lost\" to \"Desperate Women\", from \"House\" to \"Gray\'s Anatomy\", and \"Invasion\" looked like a good one, the idea is good, or so it seemed, but I\'m not sure I\'m waiting any longer... for nothing.



Ugh, I thought this was to be *this* year\'s series. I was wrong.

this episode was a load of bull****. it only revealed one thing, what the alien looked like.(squidlike,how original)The main plot being larkin after the car crash was slow and boring. The subplot with jesse and his mom was slow and overdramatic if you ask me. This episode was a dissapointment after the exciting previous episode and i hope that the rest of the season doesn't carry on in this trend. Overall, it was a poor episode with a poor plot. Is it me or does invasion not seem like a science fiction show? this is segarules signing out. Goodbye !

In this episode Larkin's life is in trouble. Larkin gets a ride with a guy who is pretending to be a foreigner. This is a little slow episode, but you don't mind that it is, the characters are so rich and they populate this rich universe. So much is invested with the characters' inner battles, Russel and Tom are fighting each other. They don't know what the other might be up to, Larkin's been caught in between that battle. There's a battle between those that were changed by the hurricane and those that survived it. That conflict is starting to take shape here and we're beginning to see its face.

very gud episode i was on edge of my seat and dint get up once. i have one thing to say why does everybody have a problem with the character larkin maybe shes undeveloped for a reason she may have something big to hide i hope this episode proved she is needed in the show so boo to all of u who think she shud be cut ur wrong , shes sooo much more enjoyable to watch then mariel tahts for sure and her and russel make a sweet couple u lot are jus jealous

i have waited many episode to see if this storie line impproves to a better storie teller. In this episode we still do not know what are the intension of the aliens and the writers and directos i think do not make a good job on conecting frame to frame. Some of the frame and scenes take to long ot develop and when you see it the hour has gone by already

I am talking about Larking and the car crash, obviously the Men in Black/Military Ford driving division is on to her from the last episode and boom she decides to take the road into the swamp after the hurricane and more rainy days. Ok all thats good an exciting except two things. One is why didnt whe take the radio with her when she freed herself from the car and two why didnt she take her shoes? Ohh well that happens, they still could have changed it to make sence, like make it at nite when they cant find her but she has the radio and the Ford drivers are on her tail so she cant recognize where to go. Besides that it was exciting edge of your seat type of feeling, with a lot of gore when she had to extricate the tree from the 2 week old 350 pound corpse to steal his boots. All in all good fun the mistakes in episode made the suspense funny, not suspensful. I dig it when Hollywood/TV Land make mistakes, makes me feel better, you most people would enjoy this episode.

Why all the crazy thing with the dead corps, for a car that is not even working end after that for the boots ? ... She's not so much in trouble. She as just too take the way back from where she as her accident to go back to the road...

Not a very good episode...

Clearly under the 6 others episode...

Big shock!!! The baby is fine!!! Sorry, had to drop that in there...



I usually tape all my shows, and watch them in a row, and this is the second one today where I have been caught yelling at my tv, "Bad cgi, BAD CGI!!!" The scene near the end, where Russell and Dave are in the truck, almost at the spot where the fisherman has left Larkin - the green screen is so obvious it's pathetic. Please, the show has been given a full season order, don't skimp on us now.



I must also point out that the episode summary is a little misleading - in no way did Larkin "barely survive" the car crash - in fact, relatively speaking, she was totally fine!!! You knew the pregnancy thing had to come into it, and honestly, if it's going to continue, she better start showing some kind of bump soon or it won't be at all believable.



Anyway, still watching, and hoping that they speed up the revelations a little - can't take too many episodes like this before becoming totally apathetic.

This episode was not one of their better ones. It added to the mysterious working of Tom and all the secrets he\'s keeping. They are really making a suspicious character. I was so perplexed as to why Larkin didn\'t take the radio with her when she managed to free herself from the car and ran. Plus, I know she was concerned about her baby, but no one should just jump in a truck with a stranger. Plus, I think Russell should have been more concerned for his wife.

As usual, I'm writing this review as I watch the episode.

So on with the review.....







Could they make Larkin's character ANY stupider? Man I feel sorry for the actress playing her. I wonder if she realizes she's playing an individual with an IQ barely exceeding room temperature.



I won't rehash the idiotic things she did two episodes back. My review of that episode was encyclopedia length already.



However, this episode, so far, my eyes were rolling the whole time she was on the screen, doing one asinine thing after another.



She sees a car is folowing her. What does she do? Drive to a crowded area where she will be safe among other people? No, she smashes through some sort of roadside barrier and takes off into the wet mud, figuring she can just off-road it to get away......to where? The swamp?



Then she drives at top speed around turns on wet muddy roads in the rain, while her head is turned around BACKWARDS to see if anyone was following her. i swear as soon as she turned off the main road I knew she was going to wreck. The only question is whether the car following her would be smart enough to follow. Miraculously, and conveniently, they weren't.



So she crashes. So she's laying there unable to unbuckle her seatbelt. So, instead of simply leaning her seat back and slipping out of the seat, she breaks the rearview mirror to get some glass shards to saw away at the seatbelt.



And immediately slices a gash into her forearm.



Sigh....poor Larkin.

Poor, poor intelligence of a lobotomized hippo Larkin.



So at the end of the last scene in which she is still trapped in the car, we see her desperately screaming at her radio that is laying in the back seat. Scream louder Larkin....then the radio will work! Poor Larkin.



So, the next scene, we see her wandering through the swamp...all alone...without her radio. You remember the radio..the one that Russ had been trying to contact her on for God knows how long. The one she was frantically trying to grab as she sawed away at her arm ... oops ... I mean the seatbelt. Yeah...that's th e one. She forgot it. lef tit in the stupid car.



Poor Larkin.

Poor, poor dumber than a bag of hammers Larkin.



And then, does she wander back down the muddy path her car bulldozed for all of 20 yards before crashing? Back to the main road she was dumb enough to turn off of? No. She wanders into the swamp.



Sigh.



So then she finds a corpse. This was actualyl a stroke of luck because she finally met someone capable of thinking on the same level as her.



And then Russ finds her shoe in the mud. Hmm. She steps out of her shoe after travelling on foot for at least 50 yards (the distance Russ said he had been tracking her) and she was too dumb to bend over and put it back on.



Wow.



Then we see her at the car with the dead man in it. I guess the writers wanted to add some scary suspense or something, so they have her smash in the rear window and then reach through it, pushing past the corpse to unlock the front door so she can open it. Umm...couldn't she have just smashed the front window? Or maybe the passenger side one?



Poor Larkin.

Poor, poor Hannibal made her eat portions of her own brain Larkin.



Now..I have to admit, I liked the pine scented leaf thing haning from the rear view mirror of the corpse's car. Nice touch. Guess it must've really been working overtime.



Now, I understand she's frustrated after pulling the log out of the corpse's gut and then pulling his 250 pound carcass out of the driver's seat (one-handed I might add...she may be dumb, but the girl is strong), but when she has her little fit, banging on the steering wheel, I really have trouble feeling sorry for her since the actual owner of the vehicle is a 2-week old corpse laying on the ground beside the car she's trying to steal. Now don't get me wrong. I have no problem with her taking the car and leaving the dead guy for gator-food. I'd do the same thing in her situation. But, I just can't help feeling more sorry for the dead fat guy who's been rotting in his car for 14 days and is now going to be left to be chomped on by the local wildlife.



And then, since she was too dumb to pick up her own shoe when she somehow stepped out of it while walking (no...it happens to me all the time), she steals the dead guy's shoes.



Poor dead guy.

Poor, poor shoeless dead guy.



Ok. We get a glimpse into the weird childhood bonding rituals betwen Larkin and Dave. Apparantly Larkin used to hide from Dave in the same spot repeatedly and throw berries at him when he couldn't find her. And apparantly this happened quite often. And apparantly Dave fell for it time and time again. Apparantly stupidity is genetic because we've finally found someone dumber than Larkin.



Poor Dave.

Poor, poor berry covered Dave.



Quick question. If Larkin had trouble not stepping out of her own shoes, ones that presumably fit, how is she going to keep the shoes of a much larger man on her feet. Won't they be that much more of a challenge for the cranial challenged dear?



So she gets in the hillbilly truck and doesn't notice the bloody knife in the floorboard. It's really not her day is it? Not since season one and two of '24' and the awesome plight(s) of Kim Bauer have we seen a heroine have such a, well, such a really bad day.



And at this point, the episode isn't even half over yet.



So the "fisherman" tells her he can take her no further than the main road. Then he will drop her off. She seems concerned about this. She is about to panic. I dunno, I'd feel pretty good about getting off at the main road and away from this weird fisherman guy. I mean, it's a "main road" right? So at the main road, won't she find, I dunno, other people who can maybe give her a ride? I dunno, but she really seems to want to ride with this "fisherman" guy.



Wow.



Ok. They'er getting cose to the main road. Larkin starts having pains. The "fisherman" wants to stop at a crapped out old shop odf some sort and break into it so she can, well, I'm not sure exactly what she's supposed to do here. She's pregnant, injured, possibly losing the baby and they stop because this ramshackle shed "might have a bathroom". That's it guys. Go have a quick pee. That'll take care of everything. And Larkin thanks him and asks him not to leave her. How about refusing to get out of the truck and telling him to drive your ass to the dang hospital Larkin?



No jokes about that one. It's just too stupid for words.



Now, the fisherman sends Russ and Dave off, lying about Larkin's wherabouts. He has something planned for her. Why he suddenly has an interest in her when he didn't want to let her in the truck in the first place is beyond me. If he wants to keep her with him (for whatever nefarious reason) wouldn't he have been eager to get her in the truck in the first place? Wouldn't he have said he'd be happy to take her to the hospital, and then taken her to this shack? Why bother telling her he's going to dump her at the main road? Why, if he didn't want to let her in the truck in the first place, is he suddenly interested in her now?



Maybe he's one of the Others and wants to take her baby. If only Charlie were here to rescue her.



Larkin finishes puking and cleaning up in the god-awful flithy sink and teh fisherman tells her they are stuck there. Hey! the pains went away! I guess that magic bathroom did the trick after all! I'm such an idiot!



Larkin asks about the noise she heard. Was he talking to someone? She thought she heard a car. But, dumbass that she is, she didn't bother coming out of the bathroom to investigate these sounsd of salvation as soon as she heard them. Well, I guess we can excuse that oversight. After all, the magic bathroom needed time to heal her grievous wounds.



Sigh.



Getting off the Larkin soapbox for a second...



We find out what has been bothering Jesse about Mariel. It's not how distant she has become or how weird she has been acting. It's not the fact that she smells different as Rose so aptly put it. Nope. He saw her kiss Tom a few years ago before the divorce. That's what that story has been building up to. How very......ummmm.....soap opera. But hey, at least she puts his mind at ease. "Divorce sucks, Jesse." Great parenting skills there Mariel.



Back to the Larkin thrashing already in progress.



HEY! Larkin found a clue!!! Clinton sent troops in '94. The kid can't be 9. He must be 11! Ok. Was there ever a kid to begin with? Or is the whole thing fabricated? Either way, shouldn't the fisherman know what year troops were sent? And can't he do the math if he's going to use this story? We'll see. But I'm just oh so proud of Larkin for firguring out that this guy might not be entirely on the up and up.



Another quick diversion. The scene where Russ and Dave are riding in the truck right after Larkin figures out that the fisherman might be a creep....the background out the passenger side window is the worst fake background I've seen in a long time. Blue screen, green screen, whatever. Didn't Hollywood master this stuff a long time ago? Why does this scene look so fake?



Jesse and Mariel made up. Awww....I think I'm gonna hurl.







Back to Larkin's story...





Oh



My



God



How



Stupid



!!!!!



The fisherman takes her back out to the truck and they take the time to have a leisurely conversation about the squid the guy caught. So the squid, and the money it represents to the fisherman, is the reason he was willing to leave an injured pregnant woman on the side of the road forcing her to barge her way into the truck.

Uh huh.



Upon seeing the squid and hearing that the military is involved, Larkin's spidey sense suddenly perks up. Ooooo...a clue for her story! Never mind the dying baby she's carrying...that there is a whopper of a squid. Larkin smells Pulitzer!!! WOO HOO!!! Keep on talking crazy fisherman dude!



Oh...and how convenient that of all the people who could have driven by at the exact moment she stumbles from the swamp, the driver happens to be someone with first-hand clues that will help her investigation. Wow!



So, the fisherman takes off when he sees Russ and Dave driving up. Umm...why the hell did he send them away in the first place? He wanted to get his money for the squid so he's in a hurry and didn't want to pick her up in the first place. This makes no sense. I hope they say what was going on here before the end of the episode or I'm gonna have to assume it's just crap writing.



Well, it's crap writing regardless...but anyway...



Is there anyone that Mariel doesn't tend to in the hospital? She's what? Chief of staff or whatever? What exactly is her specialty? Last I checked, Chief of staff isn't a specialty...it's a job title. Larkin comes in, a high-risk pregnancy with injuries, trauma both psychological and physical and Mariel takes over. No OB/GYN in sight. Hey...who needs a competant specialist? Mariel's a friend of the family after all...she can handle it!!



Blech!!!



Ah...they called her doctor...."He's on his way in." Still.....you'd think there would be an attending OB/GYN somewhere on the premises. I mean....you'd think.



You have got to be kidding me. Tom hired some guy to fish a squid out of the flipping swamp so he could show it to Larkin and throw her off track? In order to accomplish this, the fisherman HAD to fake an accent because there are no American born fisherman around I guess. Fortunate I guess that while tracking Larkin down, she stumbled out of the woods just as he was driving by. But I'm still confused. What the hell was the point of him telling her he wouldn't let her in the truck at first? There was ZERO reason for that. There was ZERO reason to tell her that he was going to dump her at the main road. Why did he bother with the stupid story about his 9-year old son? It was totally unnecessary given his real motives. He could have just kept his stupid mouth shut. I can see why he took her to the roadside fruit stand. Tom wanted him to stall. Ooooook. Gotcha. Stall until he could find out who the people in the car were who chased her off the road. They, of course were Air Force, still overtly following her everywhere she goes, but never stopping to talk to her. Why the hell did they let her leave the base in the first place? It's the flipping military! You break into their base, they arrest you and force you to explain yourself. Simple. Why bother shadowing her in the first place? God this is stupid!



I would honestly be dissapointed in this episode if the whole series didn;t suck so bad in the first place. It's one of those shows which, like a wreck on the side of the road, you just have to slow down and crane your neck at...just to see how bad it really is. I just can't stop watching, if for no other reason than to see how horribly stupid they make Larkin.



Congrats Invasion writers....you have a loyal viewer here! Keep the idiocy coming!!!

This episode was good it shows conflict and resolution between characters like Jesse and his mom but they did it without taking the actual story any where. I also think the larkin disappearing was an attempt to stall the story to draw it out hopefully we see something this week.

The last 5 minutes were the only worthwhile part of this episode.





Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it\\\'s not a revival of the series \\\"V.\\\"



Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it's not a revival of the series "V.



Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it's not a revival of the series "V.



Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it's not a revival of the series "V.



Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it's not a revival of the series "V.



Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it's not a revival of the series "V.



Agree with everyone else... This episode epitomizes this entire series... As much story as they have revealed so far could have been done in 3 episodes. Too bad it's not a revival of the series "V.

Erm didn\'t Larkin had a radio she was so hard trying to reach before she cut her seat belt, which radio so suddenly disappears after she does cut her belt? That pretty much makes this episode the worst I\'ve seen yet this year! Is it me or the screenwriter was drunk while writing this stupid episode?

In short: Boring bridge episode in which very little happens and very little is revealed. If you missed this one, you'll learn all you need to from the 30 second recap at the beginning of the next episode.



I'm not usually impatient with "Invasion" though I get why other reviewers have been. But watching this episode after its broadcast, I just ended up fast forwarding through much of it.



I have to be honest that I didn't care about 1) Jesse's tiff with his mom or 2) Larkin's escape from the vehicle and plight.



To be really frank I think that the writers' decision to make Larkin pregnant but not visibly pregnant took away from the sense of peril. Yes, I know they had Russell remind us at least twice that she is pregnant and had her experience stomach pains - not followed by bleeding I might add, but it didn't phase me. And I was confirmed in that view when at the end everything is fine.



I just don't care much about the Russell-Larkin storyline. They haven't made me care. Larkin is just kind of strong-headed eye-candy.



The Underlay's relationship is way more interesting. Could be because they are the "invaders", could be because the actors who play them are older and more accomplished.



The ending does mark a turning point, because the sheriff puts Larkin's life in danger and doesn't seem at all bothered by that - but then again, he's the kind of guy who doesn't second guess his own decisions.



Yes, he shot that raving guy in the earlier episode, but from what we saw that was plausible/justified. The guy did make to fire on him.



But in this episode he really steps over the line - the writers succeed in giving us the sense that he will do anything to protect something (though we don't know what).



To throw Larkin off the scent he is willing to risk her life, and her baby's life, and part with a large sum of money. But as before, we still don't know what Sheriff Underlay knows (hey, is his name an all too obvious allusion to what lies beneath).



Don't they have any other doctors in that town besides Mariel? I would find it creepy if my ex-wife were to give my current one a pelvic.

Just when I thought the series was gaining momentum, we get an episode that seems to take its sweet time a little too sweetly. Actually, I don’t think there was much sweetness and light in this episode at all. Underlay got to show how devious he can really be, using Larkin’s accident as a means of information control, with only a little concern over the fate of her child. Oddly, he seems very concerned with her particular survival.



So the goal was to eliminate the threat against Larkin from the military while also giving her information that will satisfy her curiosity in a convincing manner. I’m not sure Underlay will get what he’s looking for, because Larkin doesn’t seem like someone who would be so easily swayed. Sooner or later, she would begin wondering why the military would be interested in glowing squid!



Meanwhile, the intrigue begins to escalate in terms of the human drama. I had wondered about the breakdown of Russell and Mariel’s marriage, given how strongly Jesse felt about it in the pilot, and now we have an answer. Mariel is rather deeply in denial if she thinks getting together with Underlay while still married was somehow not casually connected to the break-up. It may not have been a direct cause, but the psychological/emotional state that led her to that choice was most certainly a factor.



While I was impressed at the level of Larkin’s suffering, especially that horrific incident with the dead man in the hatchback, the episode itself didn’t cover much in terms of plot or even character development. I don’t see Jesse becoming less bitter any time soon, especially since he has serious abandonment issues and that will only be reinforced as more and more people are “possessed”.



The writers have now demonstrated on several occasions that Underlay has something in mind for Larkin, so it’s time for them to start dishing out something new. This episode’s events could have been cut down to two acts without much being lost in translation, and it would have left room for more tension. The fact that Larkin wasn’t going to die (let’s say the odds were clearly very low) made the situation a lot less tense.



Considering that her ordeal made the baby’s survival rather absurd, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the writers seem to be treading water. A measured pace doesn’t have to lack intensity. “Lost” doesn’t move forward in its timeline any faster than “Invasion”, but this far into the season, there had already been some important plot developments. This series is relying a lot more on the family drama aspects, and right now, it’s simply not getting the job done.

Most of the episode was filler, with Larkin being "rescued" by a man claiming to be a fisherman. As the episode progresses, we see that he has a bloody knife, he lied about his family, and he also lied about speaking to Russell and Dave. At this point, we don't know what his motives are or who he is protecting (himself, the Sheriff, or Larkin). In the meantime, Larkin becomes suspicious and demands to know what is going on -- the fisherman shows Larkin a giant squid he caught and tells her that the military is paying him to catch strange fish with lights. In the last few minutes, we find out that the sheriff asked the fisherman to stall Larkin's return until he is sure who the people in the dark car are and what they are doing. It turns out the people are chasing Larkin and are from the military. The sheriff tells the fisherman that they are no longer a threat. The fisherman tries to find out more from the sheriff, but the sheriff won't say anything more. Oh, and of course, Larkin and the unborn fetus are okay at the end.