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'​Defiance' Returns With Great Promise And, Uh, Several Handjobs

Discussion in 'TV, Music and Movies' started by NaboCane, Jun 20, 2014.

  1. NaboCane

    NaboCane Banned

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  2. ToddPhin

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    This is another show I have saved on my IMDB watchlist to keep me reminded about it.
     
  3. gunn34

    gunn34 I miss Don & Dan

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    I liked the show. Not the ending it had, but the show was good.
     
  4. Sethdaddy8

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    This show was a total let down for me. I came to hate it actually. The review from this article wasn't enough to win me back.
     
  5. Ohio Fanatic

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    Meh. the show had a lot of potential, but had zero depth to any of the characters or story. Usually, I anticipate sci-fi shows needing time to develop, but I couldn't watch the finale. If it improves through season 2, I'll go back and watch it later.
     
  6. NaboCane

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    The farthest-reaching—and, frankly, the saddest in its triteness—effect that Joss Whedon's 'Firefly' has had on scifi after it is the inclination of lazy writers to set their universes in Western-style or frontier-style environments.

    It was something that Whedon pulled off spectacularly well because he wrote it well and because his characters were real and fully-fleshed out, in a universe which was also made real and felt real.

    From the first episode, this show has had dull, predictable, two-dimensional characters that are more caricature than human.

    Another trite, yet overused scifi trope is the inheritance of the large-forehead/ridged-forehead trait in alien species from the many iterations of 'Star Trek.'

    One thing we know about evolution and natural selection is that, in species which develop intelligence and verbal communication, no physical trait is "wasted" on decorative, superfluous ****. A larger forehead would only develop over millions of years to accommodate a larger brain; a ridged forehead is something which is retained only in non-intelligent species such as reptiles, as a decorative feature to attract mates in the absence of intellectual communication.

    This show is full of the worst of the many scifi tropes and blunders in universe-building which plague bad writers.

    You can't make great stories out of that.
     
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  7. NaboCane

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    However...

    Captain James T. Kirk is live-tweeting 'Defiance' tonight.

    The universe can go ahead and end right after that; the pinnacle of our existence shall have been achieved.
     
  8. Sethdaddy8

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    You know...you really are an elegant son of a *****.
     
  9. padre31

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    Liked the first season, and liked some of season 2's story lines, some better than others...
     
  10. padre31

    padre31 Premium Member Luxury Box

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    As for Nabo's point, what mankind cannot truly grasp is the effect such density earth has, when mankind eventually branches out, the lower gravitational pull will mean elongation of everything

    To go poetic "the center cannot hold"

    Sorry Lucky, many generations away for your pinga elongating
     

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