Yep, I'm getting a lion vibe with her enlarged irises and red mane. Although I still can't tell if the lighter patches are supposed to be painted on, tattoos, or inherent skin color patterns. I thought they were tribal markings, but I'm no longer certain.

Well … there was a point to my comment … I wish I could remember it.

This episode makes me optimistic about the show's future direction. However, I think Falling Skies still has the benefit of having had two seasons to get its world-building out of the way and focus its narrative. Defiance is coming off a bit all over the place at the moment, and I attribute that to first season…

There is a scattered quality to how they're handling the multiple aliens, which makes it a difficult sell to people who are dropping in late to this show. I think it's mostly because they're doing a lot of world building here in the first season. With Falling Skies the narrative in Season 1 was focused on day-to-day…

In smaller communities, this is probably an unspoken rule of thumb. The tendency is to placate the public and keep everyone cooperating, rather than foment more division by enforcing a justice no one asked for.

Yeah, I'm thinking Stahma is very diplomatic in her drive for power. It's likely she wants to unify Defiance and rule over them by popular vote. I don't think she wants the instability of a fractured populace.

He seems available as far as ongoing TV series goes, but I can only go off of what they have on IMDB.

Well, his name isn't really Cochise. That's just the nickname Mason (I think) gave him. Mason is really intent on doing historical allusions, because that makes him deep or something.

The show has good intentions and sometimes has its moments, but it's so hit or miss that I don't bother putting in a lot of mental effort into their plotlines. Going through my comments it probably sounds like I'm hate-watching this show, but I'm really not, LOL! I enjoy it; I just don't enjoy the human characters.

I'm not clear about what you're saying. I'm getting the feeling that you might not like Anne's storyline … but I'm not sure.

I'm not sure if I'm remembering this right, but didn't the previous Overlord transfer his katra to Karen via mind-meld in his final moments? I think I recall her sobbing over his dying body as he mumbled some final words or somesuch. Isn't that why she got promoted to take his place?

Well I think your extrapolation works if you're not suspicious of the Volm. As you said, the WWII analogy would imply that the Volm are on the Allies' side. This being a Spielberg production, it's very likely I'm supposed to take all that at face value.

Yes, the same actress plays all the named Liberata on the show (though a voice actor dubs over her speech sometimes if it's supposed to be a different character), and all the Sensoth are played by one actor so far as well. I think the Volge are supposed to be sapient enough to develop technology. They evolved…

Ahahahahahaaaa! He played the Sensoth mother with the baby carriage! That's awesome.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Maybe it's actually referring to Kenya. Not that she wore black on her wedding day, but that the reveal is that she was married before. She was wearing black in her flashback scene, and I think she was wearing black in the present day NeedWant scene as well (can't be…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Hah, unfortunately your description of Nolan exacerbates the problem: that's a well-worn trope and any generic upstanding rogue can fill in that role. There's nothing that is specifically Nolan happening in the show. Like, I get that he's an archetype, but the show isn't…

@Kumagoro:disqus I'm thinking that the presence of the mole indicates that she does have something in the works, but so far the show isn't putting her in the game. She's a no-show and we're suppose to just take for granted that she's using her new super mind to work out probabilities for success on a plan of attack.…

Well, that's the thing: @disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus is asking whether the Espheni took over the Volm planet. Are they fighting the Espheni out of revenge? Are they liberating worlds just to weaken the Espheni's domination of the galaxy? Are they building empires? What is this war about?

Laurence Fishburne is busy eating human remains with Dr. Lecter.

Yes, the website fleshes out the characters and the world much more than what we're seeing on the show so far. I understand that the show focuses on the town and events within it, but things are brewing with the Earth Republic, the Votanis Collective, the Indogenes in Edmonton, Canada, the ark fall in the Rhone Valley…