Defiance ep 1

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Originally Posted by AgentMytho

It's funny from the game you only see a few plot-centric aliens, but in the show they are everywhere (I guess it is just a population issue in general). Although I still didn't explain why they came to earth (over hundreds of years), and why they felt the need to terraphorm it when it is already perfectly suitable to all the voltan races (unless the goal was to eliminate the current population).

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Their home system (a binary star system) was wiped out in a stellar collision. Something REALLY BIG (I believe a wandering star) hit Sulos and cookie fried the whole system. Their travel time was approx 5 thousand years. The terraformers were to convert what they though was a primordial Earth into a recreations of the Votan worlds. As far as we know, they were NOT deliberately set off. They crashed to Earth during the Arkfall event when the Votan Arks exploded for an unknown reason part way through the war. Many of them fired off automatically with no pre-programmed control and ran wild. They messed up the Votan on Earth just as much as the humans.

Holy backstory, I didn't know all of that. Guess I missed whatever tie-in media that was on. LOL. I had heard the deployment of the terraformers were accidental though, right?

Hey, maybe we can use this for more thorough reviews instead of everyone making their own thread? For once? Huh? :D

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Originally Posted by jonwes

Hey, maybe we can use this for more thorough reviews instead of everyone making their own thread? For once? Huh? :D

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But law and order are my enemies though...

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Originally Posted by Dandrielas

But law and order are my enemies though...

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All right... fair enough. LOL.

I give it a 6/10

I agree with rathb18 in too much of the soap opera vibe. Pretty archetypal characters, some things feel forced, and some of the CGI was cringe-worthy (the car chase scene looked like a poorly made video game). Not all is bad, though. I like Nolan and Irisa, they saved the episode for me.

I'll definitely keep watching though, it might just have a slow start but develop into a good show.