A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is a great show, lots of dark undercurrents. Well cast in the main, fairly well scripted, but it's not particularly about the dialogue here (there are several gems though! Pay attention!)It's not any great profound show, however it's highly entertaining and intelligent enough to keep on being interesting.As usual with anything intelligent, it was mis- timed, and then the network sooks about ratings when they were the ones who moved it to a stupid time slot. (Stinks of office politics - " If I shunt this to a time slot where I know everyone is out for the night, then we can legitimately cancel that, which will make way for MY friend's project." COME ON GUYS, WE SEE YOU!) Which especially sucks, as they went on to spend money on that 'Expanse' piece of crapola instead.I really loved everything about this - I never played the game it's from, either but I'll go buy it now. The steampunk vibe mixed in with the Wild West grunge, plus aliens - what's not to like?Intelligent subplots make this so much fun and the whole feel made it much less 'twee' and immature than, say, Eureka. Eureka was a bit too 'quaint' for me to stick with, whereas this was more like a cross between Deadwood and Farscape (I spotted ya Rockne!), with a nice lot of nods to other stuff chucked in. As I said, what's not to like?Reading some of the reviews, I yet again feel as if some people watched an entirely different show from the one I saw. Syfy go on to waste money producing ratings fodder for the great unwashed - surely they could afford to throw the more discerning viewer a bone, and keep producing the quality stuff for a season or two more. So sick of these good programmes being shunted off for simplistic romantic claptrap disguised under a veneer of scifi/fantasy. Mills and Boone formula guff may be bad, but at least they don't pretend to be anything else!Nup - the dunderheads win again, and we get cut off at the pass.

This review contains spoilers, you have been warned.I think is only fair that this series got canceled, writers made many logical mistakes in the first joint 2 episodes of season 3 and throughout the series, the heroes skin alive a small patch from a doctor, already scared to death, that was perfectly capable of curing the barbaric woman, the hero calling her sweetheart after she put a 2 feet iron bar through the head of a boy, giving up to the demands of a terrorist barbaric father when they outnumbered and outgunned him? just WTF those writers were thinking? were they on drugs or drunk?Also the "good people" threatened to kill the doctor if she didn't cured the primitive woman, instead of comfort her saying that they needed her cured to save the town or why not threaten to arrest the father if he didn't behave.The writers dropped the ball clearly and the series and the viewers suffered; nobody saw this was crap writing? unbelievable!

It's 2046 and over 30 years since aliens travel to Earth. Failed diplomacy, a devastating war and mysterious destruction of the alien ships known as Arkfall led to the planet transformed and human civilization battered. Survivors from different alien species are trying to coexist uneasily in Defiance, what once was St. Louis. Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler) and his Irathient adopted daughter Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) arrive. He's put in charge of security of the town run by mayor Amanda Rosewater (Julie Benz). Datak Tarr (Tony Curran) and his wife Stahma (Jaime Murray) are manipulative and ambitious with their rebellious son Doc Yewll. Doc Yewll is an Indogene who tends to have superior technological knowledge.This is an unabashed sci-fi show. That's its strength as well as its weakness. It's overloaded with aliens, technology and futurism. The only thing missing is space travel. I would have preferred fewer kinds of aliens. It's questionable how such an alien menagerie could survive together before arriving on Earth. The future technologies require a lot of CGI and it pushes the limits for a TV show with budget limitations. The story is more in-line with an old fashion western. It has some interesting bits but this is for sci-fi fanatics only.

Defiance is one of those shows that you want to like, but often you just sit through episode after episode just shouting at the television. Be it a weak script, nonsensical twists or just awful CGI, everyone has their issues with this show. When you first hear about the concept, it sounds almost like it couldn't fail, and in a way that's true. I find myself drawn to this show even though i'm constantly let down by it, because even with all of its shortcomings it still has its own charm. The main characters are somewhat likable (mostly through good work of the cast who are the main reason the show is still watchable), even if you can't connect with them. And the settings are interesting even if they look awful on screen, but you will find yourself drawn to the world of Defiance nevertheless. This is one of those shows that i would only recommend to hardcore SciFi fans, if you have enough patience then Defience might be an enjoyable experience as long as you don't expect to much of it. You have been warned.