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| Shtako really hits the fan in Defiance Season 2 |
Wasn't a huge fan of SyFy's Defiance before although it was something to watch on a week night but season 2 has really stepped it up a notch and I'm loving every minute of it.
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| Meet the new mayor; provisional that is |
1. We killed off Kenya (or did we? Dramatic music here) and added a new character Niles Pottinger (played by James Murray) provisional mayor from the Earth Republic. We should hate this guy right? Here are reasons we shouldn't like him:
A. He killed off half of Josef's family.
B. He put a camera in Amanda's room for his own personal fetish.
C. He indulged Amanda's drug habit.
D. He put an implant into Amanda's head for whatever reason and it almost killed her!
E. He cut off Yewll's finger!
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| Niles isn't afraid to cut off fingers |
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| "What can I say I was 17 I thought it was funny." Awwwwww poor Niles |
But despite all that I can't hate the guy. In fact he's one of my favorite characters. Reasons to love this guy:
A. Turns out he was physically abused by Votan soldiers when he was 15 which traumatized him for life. So I can't help but say: "Awwww poor guy."
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| Just a lovely nature walk between rivals |
B. He saved his bio man companion Churchill even though he was ordered to let him die. And when he had to sacrifice him he was very broken up about it.
C. He out smarted that egotistical Datak Tarr (I don't know about you but that earns Pottinger points with me).
D. Come on how can you NOT resist that eloquence or charming smile?
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| Charming... |
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| "Generally when someone tries to play me it ends up very poorly for them." |
Niles fixates on Amanda because he had a school boy crush on her ex Connor Lang (Gale Harold). Hey every guy has that man crush and in "Put the Damage On" when Niles hallucinated Connor I just wanted to give him a hug. And when Mecardo berated him for "messing up" the recovery mission I wanted to kick that Viceroy's wrinkly ass!
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| Love... |
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| ...and other drugs |
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| Amanda really lets loose this season |
2. Maybe it was the wardrobe change for Julie Benz or taking over the NeedWant but Amanda has gotten better as a character. She's smart, tough and beautiful of course but this season we can add hot and sexy to the list. Amanda has become a much more dynamic character. She's been chasing that Blue Devil, brawling in the brothel and we find out that the real reason she aborted her baby was because it was her rapist's baby. She's become a deeper character who is finally letting loose after being voted out of office. No wonder Amanda gets all the guys: Connor, Nolan, and Niles. I kinda wish Kenya (Mia Krishner) would stay away longer so Amanda can keep her job as manager of the NeedWant but Kenya will be appearing this season. So let's see how Kenya's unexpected arrival will rock Defiance and Amanda.
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| "We live or die together" |
3. I never get tired of Nolan (Grant Bowler) and Irisa's (Stephanie Leonidas) father/daughter act or the look on everyone's face every time they explain their parent/child relationship. Nor do I ever get tired of their father/daughter teamwork and this season it's gotten more intense with Irisa keeping secrets about her serial killer activities. I think the reason Nolan and Irisa are so close is because they're both kind of children of tragic circumstance. We know Irisa has been through a trauma and God knows what Nolan's been through. I love their motto: "We live or die together." They should put that on t-shirts. And this season Nolan gives his usual "ain't no mountain high enough" attitude to protect his foster daughter from invisible powers set on Earth's destruction and who knows what sort of battle that'll put them both through the three hells.
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| Meet the new leader of the pack and she's a bitch |
4. In season 1 Stahma (Jaime Murray) was set in the back ground even though we know she's smarter and much more clever than her husband or any of the men on the show. So I'm happy to see Stahma rise to power and kick Datak to the curb. She's taking matters into her own hands and if anyone stands in her way they end up dead. Don't take any blend Stahma gives you.
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| It's like a bell goes off in your head right? |
5. Irisa's crazy murderous blackouts, the mythology behind those artifacts inside her body have gotten more interesting and have made Irisa's character take a very dark turn. The girl blew her own brains out but that was just a huge pain. Suicide is about as dark as you can get! Now we see that maybe she had a past life where aliens visited Earth 1,000s of years ago. Someone has been watching Ancient Aliens on the History Channel.
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| She could have told him but better be seen to be believed |
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| This would be the alien equivalent of "Black Face" |
6. I've heard of cross dressing but cross dressing as another species? We get into a whole other level of sexual strange on the show and Christie (Nicole Muñoz) is in front along with Viceroy Mecardo (are all E-Rep people perverted?). I'm glad that we get to take a closer more expanded look into Christie and Alak (Jesse Rath) and their marriage. The honey moon is over and these two love birds are seeing just how hard marriage really is especially when you marry young and are still trying to find yourself. Christie and Alak are in a period of growth where they want to find out who they really are and it may split them or bring them closer (or Alak can just shove that DJ blonde off the Arch as she's the rift in his marriage).
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| Alak gives the old "it was an accident" excuse |
7. We know that the Castithan culture is a patriarchal society but we didn't go too deep where we got a glimpse of the domestic violence that came with it. We see that women are basically treated no better than slaves and that child abuse was a constant practice. We discover that Datak was abused by his father but knew enough that it was wrong not to harm his own son. Well... until Datak found religion in prison and crushed Alak's hand.
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| Strange Bedfellows indeed |
8. Rafe McCawly (Graham Greene) and Datak Tarr (Tony Curran) were rivals in season 1 but in season 2 they've both hit a low point because of the Earth Republic occupation. Now they find themselves to be partners in order to over throw the E-Rep's hold over Defiance. They may not be friends but they're family and the more time Rafe and Datak spend together I think the more they'll begin to see that they were never that much different. But who knows. Maybe once they have their power back again they'll become rivals once more. What family doesn't hit a rough patch now and then.
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| Once again Tommy screwed up |
9. Is it me or does Tommy (Dewshane Williams) love emotionally closed off, tough women? Just a side note there. Although Tommy and Nolan weren't the best of buds in season 1 they still didn't experience this much friction. Maybe it was because Tommy was in charge for a while and liked not answering to anybody or because he was dating an E-Rep chick everyone called Berlin (Anna Hopkins) (I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing). Tommy's been stabbing Nolan in the back lately and fails to understand that there's a difference between upholding the law and getting justice. At least Tommy's loyal to Irisa; he even risked his relationship with Berlin to do so which lead to her having revenge sex with her ex's now ex boss Nolan (Nolan always wanted to see Berlin right?).
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| Who knew Yewll had this much baggage |
10. We finally got to see more into Doc Yewll's (Trenna Keating) mysterious sinful past when she used to play Angel of Death. Only this time it wasn't a sin come back to haunt her it was her ex Lev but she turned out to be an hallucination. So Yewll was in love but her lover killed herself because of the guilt she felt over killing innocent people, which could have been the reason why Yewll quit her job as evil mad scientist altogether and became a healer. Also she and Datak are friends now? Well that's one more than he had last season (and if you count Rafe that's two more).
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| "Defiance" deserves a pat on the back |
Defiance had a good start but it's really finding its rhythm in season 2 and I hope to see more seasons in the future.
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