Lorien Legacies (TV Series)

The Lorien Legacies TV Series is a 2015 TV Series by HBO, based on the six books by Pittacus Lore. (I am Number Four, The Power of Six, The Rise of Nine, The Fall of Five, The Revenge of Seven, and We Stand as One)

Synopsis/Backround
The series is about Nine aliens from the peaceful Lorien race who have been hunted down by the genocidal alien race called the Mogadorians. The nine have been cornered to Earth, with their non-powered Cepans, followed swiftly by the Mogadorians and a mysterious second Loric Ship.

Episode one (Invasion):
The Episode goes over the Predictions of leading Loric Elder Pittacus Lore, who prophecizes the arrival and invasion of the Mogadorians, led by the sadistic Setrakus Ra. He predicted the Invasion taking place during the Quartermoon celebration, a week from this. Before leaving Lorien, he assigns Nine Cepans (Hilde, Conrad, an unnamed Cepan, Brandon, Albert, Katar, Adel, Reynolds, and Sandor) to Nine sucessors of the Loric thrones (The Garde), only children at the time. When he makes it to Earth, he assigns conspiracy thoeris Malcolm Goode to gather his most trusted friends to help greet the oncoming ships.

The war began during the Quartermoon celebration on the planet. The first part of the attack consisted of bombing the planet with missiles and destroying several locations where lots of loric were at that moment. Some of these locations include the Chimæra nightclub, the spires of Elkin, the Lorien defence academy. It is also known that before the attack, the Mogadorians disabled the grid by shooting large violet beams of energy in the sky. Unknown to the loric at first, the beams were draining the grid's power systems so that the grid would not function on the day of the invasion. The reason that the mogadorians could land so easily was because of the Loric; it was their own mistake. Since it was near the Quartermoon festival, the Loric believed that the violet beams were actually signs of the beginning of the Quartermoon but unbeknownst to them, it were signs to their doom. When the first missle barrage ended the mogs landed a part of their ground troops and beasts on the service to begin the attack. Shortly after they landed a second wave of missles came and even more ground troops touched down on the service. The loric fought extremely bravely but hardly stood a chance because they were unprepared and caught completely by surprise. It took the mogs 3 days to exterminate all life on the planet and at the end of the 3 days, they turned Lorien from a beautiful paradise into a wasteland. Loridas, the last Elder, made sure of the survival of the race, and puts a charm on the Nine successors, in order of when thhey get on the ship, allowing all numbers but one immortal till they are killed in order. Two ships made it off the planet. The first held the nine Cêpan, nine Garde, a Chimæra known as Hadley, and a pilot and the other carrying the final member of the Garde, Ella (only hours old at the time), her surrogate Cêpan, Crayton, two other Cepans, and at least 15 Chimæra. The Garde were destined to become the next generation of Elders and are hoped to return to Lorien one day and repopulate it.

Episode 2 (The Deaths):
The Episode, taking place 5 years later, is narrated by Adamus Sutekh, a Mogadorian who is studying the Capital in preparation of the Mogadorian Invasion of Earth, planned to happen 7 years from now. He and his adoptive brother Ivanick gets word from his Father, Lead General Andrakkus Sutekh, who informs them of the newly-discovered location of Number One, in a Hut in Malaysia with her Cepan Hilde. Adamus and Ivanick watch as Hilde defends and kills about seven scouts that attempt to kill her, but one eighth scout manages to blast her, killing her. One fends them off, and after Hilde dies in her arms, gains a Lecagy: the ability to generate Earthquakes. She demolishes the house, killing every Mog inside with rubble, and throws shrapnel to two other scouts, impaling them. however, a scout carrying a machete sneaks past her defenses and impales her, killing her. Her body is taken to Ashwood Estates, the Mogadorian Safehouse. There Mogadorian scientist Dr. Lockam Anu tests One's mind on Adam's, and Adam is put into a three year coma. During the coma, Adam's consciousness becomes one with One's, and he realizes that the way of the Mogadorians is not the right way.

Immediately after Adam's awakening, they discover Number Two, named Maggie Hoyle, living in England. Two created a dangerous blog post, and her Cepan, Conrad Hoyle, goes out to investigate with two submachine guns. He kills many Mog scouts, but runs out of ammo and is killed by Ivanick. Adam attempts to save Two, but fails when her throat is slit, also by Ivanick. Adam is given an honorable discharge by his father due to cowardly behavior.

Episode 3 (The Legacies):
Living in Texas at the time, Number Six (under the name Maren Elizabeth) and her Cepan, Katarina, are attacked by a scout in their neighborhood. The scout is apprehended by the Police, and they make it to New York. Unfortunately, she is tracked, and captured, taken to the Mogadorian Mountain base in West VA. There, after she and Katarina are tortured, Katarina is executed by the leader there. After eighteen months of rotting in Mogadorian captivity, Six develops her first Legacy: Invisibility, and escapes, after she kills the Mog who killed Katarina, causing him to desintegrate into ash.

Number Nine kills a rogue Mogadorian tracker just outside his Chicago home. Nine befriends Maddy, a human teenager. Unfortuneatley, Nine attracts Mogadorian attention while driving with Maddy through downtown Chicago in Sandor's car, and has a fallout with his Cêpan Sandor. There, Nine develops his Legacy of Antigravity. Nine is coerced by Maddy to go to her house, where she surrenders him to the Mogadorians in exchange for her parents' safety. Nine is taken to the Mogadorian base in West Virginia and his chest is confiscated. Nine is forced ro watch Maddy and her parents get killed by a Piken. Sandor is captured in Ohio, brought to the base and gruesomely tortured. Nine mercy-kills him.

Episode 4 (I am Number Four):
in 2010, Number Three, an African American named Hannu, is found by the Mogadorians. That night, Adam tries to warn him, but is too late. he is attacked, and after jumping across a ravine avoiding the Mogadorians, he is ambushed and killed by General Sutekh.

We then get Exposition Narration by Number Four after he recieves his scar from Number Three's death while on a boat. Now going by the name John Smith. Four and his Cepan flee to Paradise, Ohio, where he meets conspiracy thoerist Sam Goode, and falls in love with photographer Sarah Hart. He is, however, confronted by her jackass ex-boyfriend, football quarterback Mark James. John also adopts a dog, a Beagle he names Bernie Kosar.

To be continued...