As promised, we have more Falling Skies appetizers for you as we approach the banquet of alien-battling goodness that is the Season 2 premiere, delivered to our screens this Sunday. Star Noah Wyle recently generously gave the press some time and some tasty nuggets to chew on about the upcoming season.

SciFi Mafia asked Noah Wyle if the second season felt familiar during shooting, or if it was a lot different:

Noah Wyle: No there were some significant differences, you know we moved the production from Toronto Canada to Vancouver, so we had all new crew for the most part, we only had two or three people on staff that were there in season one. We had almost a brand new writing staff certainly a new show runner, so it wasn’t like we were building on internal momentum. We sort of had to start and get to know each other all over again which gave it a different air, just sort of ambiently.

And then storytelling wise, I thought we really stepped up a notch, not having to dedicate so much of our screen time to exposition, establishing the world, establishing the characters. Allowed us a little bit more freedom to be creative in fleshing out these character arcs and exploring the mythology of the aliens and why they’re here and who they are and how we’d radically misunderstood the situation in season one.

Excellent, more about the aliens! And – radically misunderstood the situation? Yes, I definitely want to see that.

SciFi Mafia also asked him if he has a favorite episode from the second season:

Noah Wyle: There’s some really good ones in there, I would say out of the 10 I am really proud of 8 1/2 of them.

That Noah Wyle, what a jokester. Or was he serious? We’ll be seeing soon… Thanks so much to Noah Wyle for taking the time to talk with us about the new season.

Falling Skies Season 2, starring Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Colin Cunningham, and Drew Roy, premieres this Sunday at 9/8c with two episodes back to back on TNT.