Agreed, and they showed the social consequences, highlighting that over there it was still thought of as emasculating and a form of castration. I thought it was a very organic way of lightly highlighting sexual politics and the character's sensibilities in wanting no more children, contrasted with the coworker who was…

Eh, the more that I think about it, it wouldn't be impossible for sonya to become a homicide detective. As they mentioned in the end, there's like 5 murders a year in El Paso, not exactly a high stress environment, that limits the amounts of interactions she has to make compared to other major cities. I could imagine…

Actually that would fit in well with the locale. El Paso is also notable for a very large army base, Ft. Bliss, that has had a very high number of German soldiers and their families training there. There's also a number in the air force base in near-by Alamagordo. So that could've actually made a very logical backstory

If there was one thing that got to me about this show, it was that Sonya, a detective for EPPD, had to be TOLD about the vicious murders in Juarez. That is something EVERYONE knows. Local news sometimes covers it, and mexican newspapers are in grocery stores in El Paso.

hey those 1,000 words on nipple descriptions don't write themselves.

Anybody know if there were different writers from season 1 and the next two, because the decline in quality is staggering

High population, poverty, widespread police corruption, ineffectual government, drug cartels with a higher GDP than most nations. Civilization functions in a lawful society because we have a reasonable expectation that if our property or persons are threatened, our government will work to protect us. Without that,…

Awesome to see El Paso used, though I argue with Todd's assertion

True, this book seemed to really rely on readers buying into the juvenile fantasy of it all. 

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Tell us wise Fringe agent, is there a color coded universe where Happy Endings didn't get an ending at all?

Someone just told me that's how Coupling ended (I sadly believed them)

Hey Kaiser. I've got to ask, with all due respect, do you grade Defiance on a curve? I understand that grades are subjective, people like different things, etc., but I feel you've acknowledged many of the same criticisms I've had for the show, this episode even, and yet I'm still surprised by both the episode grade,…

I held on to watching that show as long as I could, as it hovered between levels of "not bad enough that I can still watch it", though i would change the tab whenever somebody walked by.

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Did you see what that cape was capable of? How was that not sci-fi?

Every time i see that name, my brain autocorrects it as "Go Googly Eyes"

what was the book description of the werepire, was it just as trashy as tb werewolves?

Naked alcide werewolf uses bite… Naked Sam automatically uses "shift into fly"and attack misses.

eh, that's pretty risky. It's like a cocaine addict transferring cocaine in your nose without inhaling, if he's able to do it, probably not much of an addict.

Can't express how amazing that is