Spielberg has been running on empty since his first billion dollars. Once a hard-charging outsider, he has become just another brain dead Hollywood Liberal, with contempt for us commoners. “Super 8” was awful. “Falling Skies” follows in the same tradition: bad plot, badly executed. All talk, talk, talk. Cheesy FX. Dialogue so bad the writers should be shot. Dark camera work to hide the poor production values. Another “kids save the world” chestnut. It will make its 13 weeks and then disappear, unmourned and unnoticed.
‘Super 8’ was NOT a Spielberg film. It was a tribute to him from a younger filmmaker.
I have been trying to watch “Falling Skies” and have been very disappointed. Could have been a lot better.
By the way I think you are right about Spielberg, he just is not what he was. I would say total creative burnout.