Sadly Rizzoli and Isles have gone on hiatus. Well not for long, they’ll be back November 28th. But until then we can enjoy a little Boston sports fandom from the last episode where we get a nice peek at Rizzoli’s digs.
Note in the background we get a tribute to the 2011 Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins, and not to be outdone the Red Sox get a World Series victory pennant. Er, maybe Rizz should put on her rally cap. The Sox don’t seem to be doing that well lately
She’s a true though, through thick and thin.
#FallingSkies - Join or Die?
I was on the website Seriable.com recently and the question was asked what the viewing audience thought the final scene of Season One of Falling Skies meant? It’s where Tom Mason is confronted by the Bi-pedal alien and he joins the alien on their craft as they are curious why humanity is still fighting back?
I answered something to the effect that the Aliens must be curious about us from an anthropological point of view because we had been so handily beaten so why are we still fighting?
I then began to think that maybe they don’t have time to fight a prolonged occupation. Perhaps they need to harvest what they need from our planet and move on because quite possibly something is pursuing them! It would also be to their benefit to train a dedicated fighting force behind to protect their conquest. Why destroy us if they could use us?
This could be what Tom Mason learns aboard the Alien ship. Join the Aliens in their fight and they will leave us alone and share the Earth’s resources. This could also buy Humanity time in their effort to evict the Aliens. “Join or Die was an old wood carving by Ben Franklin predating the Revolutionary War and as there are many parallels between that time and mankind’s current plight on the show I thought it fit perfectly.
So what do you think, on Falling Skies, will it be join or die?
What are those flashing lights for in Rizzoli and Isles?!!
In a recent episode of Rizzoli & Isles, Angie Harmon’s character makes a reference to the color light beacon atop the old Hancock building. If you follow the link you’ll get a complete description of the origins and explanation of the lights. But most importantly, flashing red means the Red Sox are in town!
http://www.celebrateboston.com/strange/weather-beacon.htm
On Falling Skies, Weren’t the Yankees just in Town???
The Yankees were just in town and dropped two out of three to the Red Sox. Boy, they look bitter don’t they? Maybe they should take their alien invasion road show back to NY where they might have better luck versus the Angels
The Weight of the World on Falling Skies.
Some things are mere coincidence and others purposeful. I’d like to think that the writers of Falling Skies knew what they were doing when Hal told his Dad Tom it looked like he had the weight of the World on his shoulders. There was a famous photo of President John F Kennedy taken in the Oval office. It was said he had the weight of the world on his shoulders.
So where are Tom, Hal and their plucky band of the 2nd Mass holed up?
John F. Kennedy High School of course. Coincidence or a nod to history?
Good News and Bad News for Boston in the year 2149!
The good news for Boston in the year 2149 is the new Fenway Park is finally open for business! The bad news is something about limiting family size to four. Why??!! Don’t they know the new Fenway Park holds 100,000 people!!?? The Sox are so damn popular in the future they had to nearly quadruple the size of the park!
Here’s hoping Fox’s Terra Nova has more Boston connections!
A Sneak Peek of Boston on Falling skies!
I grabbed this screen shot from the preview of next Sunday’s episode of Falling Skies. Our intrepid band is headed back to Boston and looks like Beantown has taken quite the beating. The Custom House Tower is visible to the far right so I would say this view is from the south. (Maybe south west.) Included is a Skyline picture of Boston in better times and one of the Custom House Tower for a closer look. Still haven’t seen what’s left of Fenway Park yet!
#Warehouse13 visits Boston!
It’s always fun when a TV show not set in Boston decides to drop by for a visit. This week it was the gang from Warehouse 13. Specifically Jinksy and Claudia. Claudia also remarked that their time there was very, “Thomas Crown Affair”. The Thomas Crown Affair was a Boston heist flick from 1968 that starred Steve McQueen. Mr. McQueen also got his props in a recent episode of Falling Skies. (At least I think so!) Artie from the Warehouse also stumbled into Boston and stammered out an excuse to Claudia that he was there for a Red Sox game. I don’t know Artie, if this was real time the Sox would be in Baltimore!
Prince Hal from #FallingSkies is now the Cooler King?
This particular photo set, like the previous one, isn’t about Boston either. But I was struck by the similarity between Hal tossing a ball off the lockers in the school hallway (ep. 4 Silent Kill) and Steve McQueen’s the “Cooler King” from the movie, “The Great Escape”. Both characters while away their time by bouncing a ball off the wall trying to relieve their stress. BTW, I call him Prince Hal after Shakespeare’s Henry V because of his new found heroic status. Next stop, King!
On #Falling Skies the Aliens have the whole Wide World in their Hands!
I usually post anything that has to with Boston from Falling Skies here on Battlin’ Boston but this I couldn’t ignore. Does anyone else remember the War of the Worlds TV show? They had a promo poster and a DVD cover that looked eerily like a scene from the Last Falling Skies. What is it about Aliens and their obsession for gripping the Earth? (And crushing it too!)
