"Falling Skies lost me when they started bringing in the âGood Aliensâ into the plot." True, but the basic truth is that any civilization that has attained interstellar travel can routinely beat the snot out of any civilization that hasn't. Without help from a similarly-advanced civilization, humanity wouldn't stand a chance if they wanted to exterminate us. And in the meantime it would be a pretty boring show about people hiding like rats underground.
What usually loses me is that human-alien hybrid they always come up with.
Unless the alien is a hot Vulcan chick: