Basement X

Who's watching this?

I enjoyed last week's first episode. I thnk it was two episodes in one. Can't remember.
The tone of this medium. By this I mean it's not BSG grim. It's not Star Trek/Bablyon 5/Stargate SG1/Atlantis light. It's somewhere down the middle.

Set in a world with several races populating Earth after an invasion. New towns exist where old ones used to and our drama is set in what was St Louis, but is now called Defiance. A town where many races live side by side. Cultural and racial differences seem to be the subject matters for a series like this plus a little political side shennanigans. All of this taking place slightly behind the main premise of new sheriff does sheriff work in a mixed alien world.

Going back to what I mentioned about race and culture, episode two has just opened up (watching it right now) with some dodgy traitor justice point. I wonder which point in time or current culture you think you can see an allegory towards? Ho ho ho.

I saw the pilot and thought it was ok. Some of the CGI wasn't great in a few spots (like the car chase). I thought the plot was a good mix of other series. Haven't had a chance to see the new one yet but I will at some point.

The pilot was much more fun that I'd expected. I'll be keeping an eye on this one. I like that there are quite a few alien races, too.

jedispyder wrote:I saw the pilot and thought it was ok. Some of the CGI wasn't great in a few spots (like the car chase). I thought the plot was a good mix of other series. Haven't had a chance to see the new one yet but I will at some point.

Now that you come to mention it, even the initial scenes where you see landscape shots of the buggy-vehicle roaming around seemed like the tires weren't really making contact with the fake ground.

Does some of the cast seem like they were imported from Dexter? You've got Julie Benz as the Mayor and the british woman from session 2 as the white alien mum.

She's from Dexter? I know her from Brotherhood. Also a great show.

She's also from Buffy and Angel. One of the reason my friend and I are watching the show, we love to see what popular Whedonverse alums are doing.

The reason I will be watching it too.
Downloaded, but I've been burning through Sundance's first tow shows first.

What are these other shows, Brotherhood and Sundance?

I don't remember the British woman in Buffy?

While I'm not watching the show, I can tell you Julie Benz played Darla in the first season of Buffy and then later on in Angel. She was Angel's sire.

Are you kidding me? She's Darla?

Stocky Boy wrote:What are these other shows, Brotherhood and Sundance?

Brotherhood is an excellent show anyone should watch. It's a crime show about two brothers. One the local politician of an Irish neighbourhood, the other one a criminal returned from who knows where.

I'm so far behind on all my shows that I probably won't get to this for a long time; if that. I just got into Doctor Who and will probably watch Torchwood after Doctor Who and then maybe Defiance

Sundance is SUndance films, the film festival.

They started with TV this year.

Top of the Lake

and

Rectify

Check them out on IMDB or Wikipedia.

Both are awesome shows.