#blogcherryblossomthings watches falling skies

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Season two and I still love this show with the new-tier aliens and Tom and Ben’s self-awareness and of course Will Patton just kills as Weaver, but still. The hair! Especially my girl Lourdes and Anne performing surgery and other nasty bits with all that lovely hair hanging loose all over the place?

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If this is a real quote, Dingaan for the win. Anyone who puts a Mason in his place post-season 3 deserves a parade.

Now I have to rewatch to find this quote.

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So very telling how when Hal was supposedly the mole, everyone took exactly zero seconds to fall all over themselves to tell him and each other that it wasn’t his fault and the rebel skitters had to make a special trip to cure him of the bug.

My poor Lourdes got no such special treatment. They literally were talking about euthanizing her when three episodes ago Tector was admonished for referring to bugged Hal (who was literally RIGHT FUCKING THERE when the skitters caught dumbass Anne and poor baby Lexi) as a target while bugged Hal was holding Tom hostage.

Poor Weaver too, come to think of it. It can’t be easy blatantly losing brain cells like this, especially in front of a lady like Peralta who is somewhat clearly interested.

Oh, I get it now. Hal was too important to be used as bait, but Tom is perfectly at ease using a doctor (just as or far more useful than one fighter) as bait to get revenge. What an ass.

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I’m about five episodes in to Falling Skies and I’m here for all of it. But the one thing that makes me absolutely crazy is most of the women with their long flowing hair all over the place. Realistically, they would all do as Karen did and pull their hair back most of the time if they didn’t go ahead and cut most of it.

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Falling Skies 4.07

Oh, ouch. Pope literally told her to stick with the Masons because they are all untouchable, forgetting that everyone around them drops like flies and they don’t care as long as it’s no one too close to them.

Okay. Pope going off the rails later makes a little more sense now. I’d forgotten about this exchange.

But I still think they chose the laziest, safest, most boring way to burn through time they didn’t actually have, given all the shit that happened in the very last episode.

WTF! That’s how Tector goes out? One lone Skitter after doing us all a solid and incapacitating Tom for a few minutes and he doesn’t even get to make any meaningful difference?

Just mean to tease Maggie’s death with all the folks I actually would have liked to see live.

And then Dingaan spends a later episode claustrophobic so Tom can inspire him despite the fact that Tom’s decisions have gotten everyone around him (but none of his family members) killed?

This show, man. All the Masons survive and the hell with everyone else except Weaver, who lost everything while Tom still has almost his entire family intact and a replacement for the family he did actually lose.

And I ended up liking Rebecca more than Anne by the time all was said and done.

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My poor Lourdes. You above all others (except maybe Weaver) deserved so much better.

Team Pope all the way from here on out, even knowing how it ends.

Tom and Anne SUCK.

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4.06

Tom: “I’mma handle Lexie.”

4.07

Tom: *doesn’t handle Lexie*

Again I ask, how does anyone still trust this lying liar who lies?

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And how did Maggie not face consequences for knowing something was wrong with Hal and not saying one damn word even when Hal himself wanted to? She is horrible and never got called on her selfishness.

I’m still not convinced it wasn’t Eyebugged!Hal who murdered Manchester. Lourdes would have had to have been monitoring Anne and her absence to murder Manchester would have been noted.

So, yes, not buying Hal not sabotaging the humans beyond hand-delivering Anne and Alexis to the Espheni and Lourdes taking the fall for the entire seven months of Espheni mole activity.

How did anyone trust any Mason after this?

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She accidentally got pregnant again?

Weaver spent five seasons with no sex life and (I repeat) the only doctor accidentally got pregnant twice?

Okay, this was not nearly the dumpster fire BSG turned into. I can watch it over and over.

But I think it did end stupidly.

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Rewatching this show makes me realize I’m totally Team Tom/Rebecca. I knew what the Mason men had lost by watching the first time, but then rewatching after seeing Tom’s impression/memory of Rebecca and then seeing how the season five new aliens chose to manifest in her form to Tom, makes the earlier mentions of her more impactful.

Plus, Anne just went off the rails in season four and did not recover.

I’m surprised I became so attached to Rebecca. She played one of the Jennifer Munsons and her version was my second least favorite supposed heroine on As The World Turns (the first being the awful Carly Tenney).

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For the love of God, why are you not locking those harnesses up if you don’t have your very first de-harnessed-and-lived-so-far kid under twenty-four hour watch? I mean, it’s common sense! Porter? Weaver? Mason? Glass? Hell, this sounds like it would be another perfect way for Dr. Harris to demonstrate how stupid he thinks everyone else is. That’s all he’s really been doing if you forget about the fact he managed to de-harness someone without killing him.

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I think this was the best episode so far, especially for a series that never quite defined itself and lasted five seasons and we’re here talking about the tail end of season two.

My favorite trope for anything is that no one is quite wrong and no one is quite right. I loved Mutiny in season one as well.

2.9 The Price of Greatness managed to skirt around that line brilliantly, despite the fact that this continues to be a series that really has no idea what it actually wants to be other than sci-fi because hey! alien invasion!

I’ve lost patience with the Maggie character because she’s just a bunch of badass! chick tropes thrown into a blender. At least Karen needed help with water buckets before she got harnessed.

And Pope was right this time. Welcome to your coup, Tom and Dan. Have fun with that! 🤗

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Terry O’Quinn, nice.

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Also, I do love Tector.

The scenes with Weaver in Death March were *chef’s kiss*.

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I guess I’m supposed to be impressed by Maggie’s utter badassery or whatever with a gun in each hand and being unable to hold a barely civilized conversation, but I’m just not. She has the makings of a great character, but whatever vulnerability there is just feels fake and tacked on.

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Season 3 Scattered Thoughts

Robert Sean Leonard, Stephen Collins, and Michael Hogan. Who else will turn up on this show, after we’ve already seen Henry Czerny and Steven Weber?

Honestly, how did we go from Manchester under house arrest to Manchester happy as a clam trying to single-handedly revive the CIA?

I like that Weaver is softening, but don’t like that he’s turning into a yes man in public for Tom, who is literally now the WORST. I would have liked to see more of Marina Peralta throwing signals at Weaver and Jeanne directing him on the appropriate responses. Not enough of the Weavers and Peralta for my liking.

I’m intrigued by the dilemma faced by Ben and Denni. Face an uncertain future with their spikes and being useful versus having the spikes removed and all of sudden having every bit of usefulness in the war effort stripped away? Why couldn’t they spend more time on that than Evil!(but not really)Hal?

Come to think of it, how much of the humans’ bad luck was on Hal’s head and how much was on Lourdes’ head? It seems the reveal of Lourdes being controlled let Hal off the hook quite handily when he was the one who was there when Anne and Alexis were taken. Fucking Hal and fucking Maggie, who enabled him. Neither of whom appear to be facing any consequences. But it’s all Karen and Lourdes’ fault. Okay, show.

RIP, Dai and Crazy Lee, among others. You’re not Masons or Mason yes-men, so you’re toast.

And why the hell is Tom being such a bitch to Pope when it’s only the two of them after a plane crash with enemies all around? Almost like he knows he’s got plot armor.