I'm liking Stahma more now that she's got more going on than the scheme to take over the mines; the scene where she laid out her bargain to Amanda was terrific. (Although having her weaving a literal web at the end was a step too far.)

@avclub-6eff75e7ea1e4eaecc24df1ca043de61:disqus  But a lot of people, both indigenous and not, believe that magic, Gods and the like really do exist and work in their lives, and build rituals around them. Furthermore they do this despite the fact that scientific methods have shown to be reliable and seem to indicate…

I thought she was wearing an apron to go with the food play?

I was a little hopeful about the girl seeing as she had that little bit of a back story in that she grew up doing womanly stuff for her family after her mother died but nothing's really come of that either.

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The Romeo and Juliet subplot would be so much more tolerable if Romeo and Juliet had been introduced as actual characters first instead of just being plot tokens. The culture clash stuff is good (esp the Castithan dancing) but otherwise they're just random photogenic teens in love.

To be fair they've got a lot of characters and cultures to service. It's pretty hard to get them all off the back-burner so some will just have to come later when it's more handy. (I'm so sorry.)

A lot of indigenous cultures in Australia continue to practice rituals and the like. Hell, I grew up in a WASP family that practices a whole bunch of rituals related to quasi-magical stuff that is thought to be real (baptisms, eating transformed flesh and blood, ceremonies to celebrate folks rising from the dead - all…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I prefer shtako to dren; the consonants sound "harder" so it's much more satisfying to say. Although neither is up there with frak.

I'll defend the video-game choice's outcome as having some import. The writers evidently want Rafe to be a basically decent man as the audience understands such things, so he can't shoot a man in cold blood without a trial. At the same time the audience can't know what the big plan is yet so Ben has to die, or hang…

Yup, this.

I like that it's not yet clear how much trouble the Earth Republic really are. So far the only person who's said a bad word about them is the old mayor who seems to have her own reasons for wanting Defiance to stay independent and even the butler who was in on her scheme was surprised by how vehemently Amanda rejected…

I hope that the very last scene of the show is Nolan and Irisa standing on a beach in Antarctica. Well, if it gets a proper finale and I'm still watching anyway.

Honestly the "dragged-out" singing was my favorite part of the pilot. I liked that we got to watch Irisa slowly thaw and I liked that we got see them both enjoying the song at the end. I wish all the relationships on the show had been introduced so gracefully (not that any were especially clunky).

Um, the AV Club is reviewing "Lost Girl".

But it is super hot.

"We should always be NASA."
"It's thinking like that that led to antibiotic resistant strains of malaria."

"We should always be NASA."
"It's thinking like that that led to antibiotic resistant strains of malaria."

Well, less responsible for it and more of an enabler of it. (He didn't write the song; he just played the keyboard parts.)

Well, less responsible for it and more of an enabler of it. (He didn't write the song; he just played the keyboard parts.)