I really loved defiance.
There are problems, least of all the queen, like when they are boarded by pirates theres 5 of them. but when the queen turns up there is all of sudden about a hundred pirates for the queen to kill.
Also what happened to the davis unit running the mutiny. one minute he is giving orders the next he is hiding round a corner with a hole in his head. i still don't get what happened there.
But there is so much to love here, it truly feels like it is set in the universe just as isolation did.
To see the colonial marines portrayed as the bad guys was fantastic as the marines in these stories and video games bore me to absolute tears so i really loved how they changed them up.
what i would really love to see is not colonial marines but weyland yutani commandos, those bad boys drawn up by tristan jones or stephen thompson, put me down for two copies.
One thing i would like to say is i really appreciated the way the story dealt with mental health, especially from the mindset of zula, her broken heart and feelings of having let her unit down by being injured in battle really hit the nail on the head. then to have her have to kill some of her former comrades for the greater good is powerful story telling.
Hollis's trauma from surviving a chestburster was very well done. i really liked how defeated she was after it and to see her killed off didn't sit well with me even though you don't actually see her get killed, just knocked out for surgery. So i have had a thought, what if she isn't dead. After reading the synopsis for the upcoming resistance i started thinking what if hollis is the one running the bio weapons programme and has gone all Dr Church with her research. they both survived their own chest burster removal and her knowledge would be more beneficial to W-Y than a dead body. Wouldn't it be great if there was some sort of link to hollis and resistance. maybe make hollis an antagonist for zula. Just a thought.
anyway, great podcast. was really happy you finally talked about this amazing story.