The most heartbreaking thing I saw in Falling Skies was a pile of abandoned books. Tom pulled A Tale of Two Cities and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea from the pile, briefly weighed them, then cast one aside. Personally, I would have picked 20,000 Leagues, but whatever. A Tale of Two Cities has more in common with Falling Skies, what with the multiple protagonists and the revolution and all. I can already see Tom filling the Charles Darnay Role while Colin Cunningham’s character, John Pope, fills the role of Sydney Carton. Tom’s choice says that Falling Skies isn’t going to be about the fantastic; it’s going to be about revolution.
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