I haven't watched it yet, but you've piqued my interest and I have nothing better to do today. I'll just point out that pretty much everything is derivative in some way.

I have it recorded, but was thinking about jumping in on the game as well. Have not played an MMO for some time.

Haven't watched it yet, been playing other games.

I was thinking about trying out the MMO now that I've gotten a taste for the show.

Also, how big is your neighborhood? Mine's small enough that I know almost everybody's name, even people I've never met. And even people whose names I don't know, I usually know their dog's name and some embarrassing bit of gossip about them that one of the neighbors told me.

I've played the game and watched the pilot.

The game has, so far, started out promising with a few bugs, but Trion has been updating regularly and has already fixed some of the more noticeable problems. The game is a third person shooter and a MMO for PS3, PC, and X-Box. You can find better info on the game so I'll talk about how it affects the show. In the game Nolan is perceived as a a normal protagonist. But throughout the first few episode missions, you begin to notice he will fight for what is right, but he keeps his best interest in the front of his mind at all times. The TV series showed him as more of a good guy and less of caring for himself, but the show is very very young, and so this is likely to change slightly. I felt as though the story is good for both and has a feeling of District 9, except the aliens are far from as helpless.

I'm excited to see how they both develop. Until next weeks episode I will continue to play the game with high hopes.

If you caught the making of program Sunday night, the game takes place *beofre* the show. So presumably, Molan will get less and less self centered and more and more the good guy.

^^ Wrong thread above. My bad.

I have lost all faith in modern television's ability to make a decent science fiction series. The trend now seems to always favour a long, slow build-up in the first series (or first two if you're really lucky) followed by it being cancelled and the whole remaining story fudged into one far-fetched hash, or the budget being slashed and a final series produced with only 3 charaters and sets that would make the original Star Trek blush.

I have high hopes for this one. IT seems SyFy is finally getting back on track. But it alos seems a great number of the actors and actresses are non-Americans so I'm hoping it is something that, even if it gets cancelled, gets picked up by BBC America or something. Also, check out Orphan Black on BBC America. It would never float as a mainstream show in the US (too sexy to the point of side boob and lead actress walking away from camera butt naked for all to see and too cereberal as the typical American is too stupid to follow the plot) but it is probably one of the best science fiction shows aired in the US (Doctor Who being probably *the* best of course).

Dr Who has some kind of inner dynamo akin to the Duracell Bunny, but mostly I have little trust in the BBC either. What they did with Outcasts was awful!

I'm almost tempted to stick my head in the sand and watch Buck Rogers repeats until Blake's Seven comes out :p

Buck Rogers? With Ziggy and Theopolis? At least it had Erin Grey, but still... Wtach Babylon 5 over and over until something good comes along. Yeesh!

Mock ye not Ziggy. He was at the pinnicle of American acting in his generation. Only Mork and Mindy could compare.

Babylon 5 was pretty good, I admit, but I'm worried it'll look dated if I see it again. Buck Rogers looked dated when I first saw it so it avoids that problem.

If I'm going to be watching any Sci-Fi show over and over again it's going to be Firefly or Star Trek TNG. Come on now guys.

I watched the pilot, and it was pretty good. I'm excited for more.

Then watch classic Battlestar Galactica back when Face was Starbuck.

@ghug - I agree on Firefly except it had too few episodes. That's why Babylon 5. Many seasons there and they got better and better and better. Plus some pretty damn good made for TV movies.

Well... I watched most of the first episode and got ever so slightly bored. The backstory lacks plausibility, the characters look like they've been plucked from a strange combination of Game of Thrones, Planet of the Apes, and a few cheap westerns, and at the end of it all I really couldn't have cared less if someone nuked the lot of them.

I'll put it on hold for a while and come back if I hear good things in the future.

@ Draug... going back to Buck Rogers... I was thinking of Twiki, not Ziggy. In fact I can't actually remember anyone called Ziggy aside from the computer in Quantum Leap.

@Draug - Here's the question. I am very interested in this show. But I don't know if I want to put my heart and soul into it. Give me a thumbs up or down. Do you recommend it or not? No in-between. Just a simple yes or no.

I'd suggest watching the pilot yourself. It's only an hour and a half long and it won't be a waste of your time.

I liked it. Fully approve so far and anxious to see how it develops. And happy to see it's on Hulu, 'cause I'm about to cut the cable again..

If it is on Hulu, then I will give it a shot. But I got burned by that freaking Alcatraz and am still haunted by the time and energy I spent caring. CARING! And they had a freaking bat-cave on Alcatraz! And that was supposed to make sense!

Thumbs up on Defiance.

And it was Twiki or something like that. Sorry about that.

@Draug - We seem to have some of the same tastes, so I wil take your thumbs up and run with it.

@Krellin It's so easy to watch whatever you want without having cable. Been cable free for 2 years and have never had a problem.