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Jump shark moment? Spoilers ahead


I'm in episode 10 of the last season of Defiance, or actually I just finished that ep, and I was really disappointed, and I felt to me that no wonder the show didn't get another season. If I was watching it in real time I would have been so annoyed.

Spoiler ahead for those catching up just like me: Why did they allow Nolan to kill the VC? They could have let him just wound her. She was so nice and was really trying to bring peace. All this stupid hallucinating to me was not necessary, and if it was, he didn't have to kill her.

That's my take on it and I feel if I was watching at the time it was actually shown I would have felt to stop watching, but because I only have 3 more episodes I'm going to continue to the end. Anyone felt like I did? Please put the spoilers over it as there are still people catching up with this show, which I really do like, all things considered.


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I think this was one of many jump shark moments that happened in the second half of the season or, more precisely, after the Rahm Tak arc ended. People here were discussing many possible paths the show could've taken and most of these seemed more reasonable, enjoyable, and could've helped the show get another season than the one the showrunners actually went for. The one event after which there was no return for me, aka my jump shark moment, was when they killed off T'evgin making Kindzi the All-Mother Buffoon in charge of all Omec. All the development the Omec had received on the show (and in the episodic fun facts) in terms of their history, art, and technology was made to go down the drain for a butchered, animalistic, and completely unrealistic Dread Harvest. The Omec could've been the saving grace of the show but instead they ushered in the show's demise.

All in all, I think, the show needed to expand and it needed to do that earlier than it did. We should have met the VC Vice-Chancellor (and seen Brasilia) earlier than we did, we should have heard of the Omec and possibly seen them earlier than we did (or at least as early the game players did), and we should have seen more of the world they had created more thoroughly than we did. The main reason the show continues to be one of my all-time favorite scifi shows is its mythology and the expansive world the show creators had built for it. But all of that potential was eventually squandered on family dramas, a faux thrill factor, and drunken crying montages.

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I agree with you. I would have loved to have seen more of the Omec and of the world they had created. I would have liked them to have landed on earth and seen some of their development (in Australia as had been stated), or wherever they ended up. Someone really dropped the ball on this show. It had become a favorite binge-worthy show for me.

Maybe someone can take it up and maybe make a show all about the Omecs, although with Tevkin gone, I don't know. He was so strong in the beginning and they made him a sap in the end and killed him off.

BTW who is Brasilia again?

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Brasilia = Brazil

Not a person.

No f@cking sh`t lady does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza!

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