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Castle last night was a rerun so I don't feel too worried about spoiling anyone. It was centered around a sci-fi convention, and specifically an old TV show that was sort of a cross between Galaxy Quest and the reboot of Star Trek. It was made abundantly clear that though the show in question only ran for half a season a) it was not Firefly and b) it did have a loyal following. Castle thought the show was dreck. So naturally once he started running it down, we discover that Becket was a geeky fan of the show.
( Differences in fans and what they do. )
All of which is a long winded way to get around to a new show coming to cable that has been fairly widely advertised, Defiance. I can see myself as a teenager being interested in it. but even if I had cable TV I think I'd avoid it. It seems like another Mad Max rip-off; post-apocalyptic Earth, this time with aliens, lots of people running around armed to the teeth, but with very little in the way of agriculture to keep them all alive. Can't say I mind aliens that look generally like humans, but interbreeding stretches far beyond my limits of belief. The story is set in what once was St. Louis. The premise is that, due to unfortunate events, an alien terraforming mechanism tore the Earth up leaving humans and aliens all mixed together in groups fighting bad guys of all races and mutants (hey, there have to be mutants and/or zombies, right?) for survival. As implied earlier, I think teenage boys will go for it if anyone. Defiance comes out in video game form today; I think the TV show starts next week. I've seen footage of a beta version of the game on youtube. The game seems like a generic shoot-em-up with races drawn from the show. The women one can play as in the game are appropriately sexy looking and the playable men, mostly look like steriod-poisoned body-builders. The catch with this game is that you must be on-line to play which gives all kinds of opportunities for the producers to make money off it. Who knows? Defiance may become the next big fandom.
( Differences in fans and what they do. )
All of which is a long winded way to get around to a new show coming to cable that has been fairly widely advertised, Defiance. I can see myself as a teenager being interested in it. but even if I had cable TV I think I'd avoid it. It seems like another Mad Max rip-off; post-apocalyptic Earth, this time with aliens, lots of people running around armed to the teeth, but with very little in the way of agriculture to keep them all alive. Can't say I mind aliens that look generally like humans, but interbreeding stretches far beyond my limits of belief. The story is set in what once was St. Louis. The premise is that, due to unfortunate events, an alien terraforming mechanism tore the Earth up leaving humans and aliens all mixed together in groups fighting bad guys of all races and mutants (hey, there have to be mutants and/or zombies, right?) for survival. As implied earlier, I think teenage boys will go for it if anyone. Defiance comes out in video game form today; I think the TV show starts next week. I've seen footage of a beta version of the game on youtube. The game seems like a generic shoot-em-up with races drawn from the show. The women one can play as in the game are appropriately sexy looking and the playable men, mostly look like steriod-poisoned body-builders. The catch with this game is that you must be on-line to play which gives all kinds of opportunities for the producers to make money off it. Who knows? Defiance may become the next big fandom.