Judged on its own merits it was a really well put-together episode, very ambitious. But it felt strangely out of place, and I think that was mostly because the conceit revolved around a piece of hypertech. The tech has always been the weakest part of Defiance, because I think the show is afraid of sinking into Trekkie…

Tonight added another interesting wrinkle to the Indogene backstory. Apparently they take great pains to assimilate culturally even if it's just to lull test subjects into greater compliance. Given their technological prowess, maybe their entire phenotype is a compromise between their original appearance and something…

While I respect the arguments put forth in this thread, I have to come down on the side of the audience members who clearly see the writers stressing that E-Rep is bad. Like, cartoonishly bad. Defiance wasn't a hellhole before they arrived, and it's clear that they haven't really done anything to live up to this…

It's especially egregious when that 20-something has an obligation to pretend to be younger than they are on a television show. We have to hold them to a higher standard then.

That's probably why most of us are still watching our own lives.

I think it was clear last week that Stahma's juuuuuuust fine with Datak being in prison. It does expose a bit of her personal, cultural hypocrisy that she wants her men to be ruthless and strong right up until it becomes too much of a liability - I mean, at this point she's basically baiting her own son to kill her…

Nolan doesn't really have much to say back to Berlin about his own psyche because it's the essence of Han Solos to pretend not to give a shit even when they eventually do. He also doesn't enjoy pulling out his war experience card to shut people up, and that's probably what it would have taken in this case. Berlin…

The explanation was the complete bullshit from last season's wrapup. The younger, hallucinated version of Irisa that's now apparently urging her to kill is, arguably, a manifestation of an AI embedded into the highly advanced piece of alien technology with which she interfaced in exchange for it resurrecting Nolan…

It's been fairly well established the Datak is a sex fiend, and it's been suggested that to some extent, all Castithan males are - or are trained by their culture to act like they are. Moreover, the higher your status, the more sex you're supposed to demand, and from multiple sources. If you have power/money and don't…

For many of the better male comics, the dick is about more than just the dick. Ironically, it's a gateway of sorts.

It was a nerd minstrel show for quite awhile, and while I'm sure that endeared it to the usual CBS demographic, it soured a lot of younger viewers on it, possibly irredeemably.

The show's scattered about everything, but I like to think of the non-Grimm-o-vision Grimm powers as a take on Nietzsche's "that which does not kill me, makes me stronger" - only taken very literally/physically and amped up quite a bit from the normal human baseline.

This show really shouldn't tease its audience with any hints that Juliet might break it off and leave Portland - because when that doesn't happen, it's going to be a major disappointment.

Jared's the weak link and the prime bait. Once he gets him, he doesn't have to take wild risks anymore. He can call the tune.

I can't help but disagree about Bonnie. She "died" as she "lived:" as a plot device so literal and obvious that it was an insult to the human actor that was cast to play it.

"This is really great—if only Metatron had been pulling stuff like it from the very beginning of the season."

I'm not sure how any real lawyers can sustain the fantasy that their jobs would make for good television if they were accurately portrayed.

Come come now. She's not just fat. She's fat, lazy, overbearing, uncultured, and saddled with a host of other freak show ailments besides just her beyond-morbid obesity.

It very well could be, though in that case I would expect the werewolves to survive the transition back to human.

Probably full time, which can feel like bizarro world when going to college involves attending one class every 2 months.