User blog comment:Drgyen/Burning Skies is a contrived piece of.../@comment-1191892-20120612063208/@comment-1275506-20120612120004

Most disappointing is having William Dietz on board; I mean if you looked back in the books, you see some expy and call outs in BS. The Miniutemen are Freedom First that shares the typical survivalist and paranoid conspiracy theorist going against the man, and portrayed the "true" heroes of the day; evil humans trying to screw over their species; and typical action hero.

I mean the story shows how America is being invaded by the Chimera and that the local Americans were pretty clueless of what the hell is actually going on the outside world and could have explored this on their reactions of seeing the Chimera for the first time and unprecedently trying to survive it. I expect that once they realized that their government was keeping this in the dark there could have been civil unrests and finger-pointing at the Grace Adminstration, but it goes on that "yeah, so there are actually space monsters invading Earth the entire time, OK" mentality and acting like it is friggin WW2 in the books. Unfortunately for BS, the ending goes on a hopeful note and we KNOW how it goes in R3; it's a forgone conclusion from here and not so different from the Star Wars prequels.