The Final Conflict
I might as well place a spoiler warning here, before letting you read this post. Every comment so far has complained about it, but I really wouldn't consider what I disclose a major spoiler warning... More like information to encourage you to watch and to give you an idea of what to expect. If you're already truly planning on watching it, and you want it to be a complete surprise, then don't read this. But if you still haven't decided if you want to or not, then go ahead!
So I've just finished the fourth season of Earth: Final Conflict... I think it's safe to say that each progressing season has just gotten better and better. As the series goes on, the Taelons start becoming more and more overt in their plots, and the plots become more devious, desperate, violent and careless. Zo'or, the leader of the Taelons, becomes more and more insane and crazed by the fact that the Taelons are going to die out in his lifetime, and Da'an, Taelon ambassador to North America, becomes more and more torn between his race, who are bent on surviving at all costs, and the humans, who are the cost. You have to feel sorry for him when he tries what little he can do to alleviate the suffering, only to have his efforts thrown back in his face because he's a Taelon. Of course, he isn't completely innocent, but it was still a little sad.
Most of the primary characters are gone, and it's really sad to know that you won't ever see them again, but there are a few main characters left who got stuck with the culmination of the Taelon's plans gone more awry than anyone could've ever guessed. The Taelons are gone, their organic mothership is dying in orbit, and all their embassies and buildings are empty and lifeless. The show's top-notch sinister character, FBI Agent Ronald Sandoval, is, of course, still alive and more bitter and eccentric than ever, with new allies and the full intent of ruling Earth instead of merely saving himself at all costs.
I'll have to watch season 5 completely, of course. I always was a little skeptical with the changes made throughout the seasons, but they've always been better than the last... But with such a season finale, it almost feels like Stargate SG-1's season 8, where everything has this nearly perfect ending before jumping into the next crisis. (Except, this finale was nowhere near peaceful, but it was somehow fulfilling and had a sense of finality. Sort of like Surface, if you ever saw that, where it ended in the midst of absolute chaos, but somehow felt like a good ending.) I guess the most accurate description would be that this is a sort of epilogue to the Taelon story. The aftermath of their final plan is going to wreak havoc on the humans as much as, if not more than, their plans did while they were still alive.
Even with this weird season 5 opener, my report remains the same! Earth: Final Conflict is one of the most under-rated science fiction shows there are, and it's probably one of the best I've seen... Perhaps even better than Stargate. And, speaking of which, let's just say that the whole aliens eating sentient life force? Not Stargate's idea... (Once again, I find that their once-thought original idea isn't so original after all, bleh.) Indeed, the Taelon's final plan went very, very wrong.