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I have no memories
of how it started.

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I was born into the world
that came after.

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After the arc falls began.

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After the terraformers changed
the world forever.

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When the destruction
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it wasn't exactly earth anymore.

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Something new
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Hi, I'm Grant Bowler.

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Over the next half hour, you'll

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go behind the scenes of the

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biggest entertainment event of

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2013 with the people who are

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bringing it to life.

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Watch the show, play the game.

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This is the making
of Defiance.

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In present day, arcs appear

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in orbit around planet earth.

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We've come not to attack it,

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but to find a new home.

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Things go terribly wrong and

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war ensues.

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And then there is this

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cataclysmic event.

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The alien arc ships explode.

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When those pieces of arc plummet

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to earth, they resurface the

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planet in this massive

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geological event.

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What's left of the human race

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and what's left of the alien

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visitors find themselves on a

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planet that's neither earth nor

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alien.

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Aliens and humans are

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learning to coexist together on

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a really strange new planet.

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Welcome to Defiance.

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Drop the net, we're coming in.

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That arch!

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Is this St. Louis?

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Once.

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Now we call it Defiance.

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St. Louis has been buried

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under hundreds of feet of earth

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and debris.

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This new town has been created

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on top of the old town.

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But the one familiar element

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is the famous
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is still standing.

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It's a really eye-popping,

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jaw-dropping environment.

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It's a hybrid between alien

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culture and human culture.

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This is quite the party town

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you've got here.

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The show is essentially a

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show about hope.

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We live in a great place.

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It's a place where the eight
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There is that

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post-apocalyptic Western and

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Sci-Fi element to it.

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You're new in town.

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How can you tell?

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The characters and the

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dynamics are so rich and the

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story is so kind of...

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It sounds weird, anything with

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aliens in it, but human.

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Every time we get ahead
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This is different.

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People in this town are

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aspiring to rebuild and not just

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survive, but to really live in

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this world.

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I do this...

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So Alak can aspire
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than was available to me.

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If this event really happened

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and we were making the show

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35 years in the future, when we

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just point a bunch of cameras at

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the drama that is unfolding,

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this is the idea of how the show

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is going to feel.

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I'm starting
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What would the survivors try

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to make this world into?

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In any successful

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science-fiction show, you need

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to create an environment that

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transports the audience.

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The key to the show visually

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is the juxtaposition of the

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utterly strange and bizarre,

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different with the familiar and

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earthbound.

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You all know what to do!

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One of the unique elements is

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that we're introducing a lot of

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alien flora and fauna.

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Even though there's been a

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devastating war, that

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environment is very rich.

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It's filled with life.

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The world of Defiance does

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come to life when you walk on

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set.

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We actually have a back lot

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the size of a football field.

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The colours that we chose are

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brighter, blues, some spice

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colours, to define the hope that

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is in this town.

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When I came here and I saw

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this huge set with such detail,

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it was amazing.

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I've worked on films that

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aren't as ambitious as this.

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What you see at the end of

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the day should be cohesive and

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believable and real.

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Fire!

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What people are going to see

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when they tune in
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epic world, this extraordinary

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landscape that's both familiar

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and unfamiliar and unusual alien

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characters, big action and

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intimate character drama.

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There's a big sweep to it.

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There is a real heart to this

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piece and there's real drama to

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these characters.

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No one has ever tried to do

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anything this complex in a

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television series before.

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The possibilities are absolutely

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limitless.

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The population of Defiance is

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really a melting pot.

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Castithans are sort of the

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supermodels of the votan races.

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You have the Irathients, who are

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a feral race, they tend to be

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wild.

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You also have Indogenes, who are

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the technical geniuses and the

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intellectuals, your Sensoths,

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who look like Wookies, the

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Liberata who are kind of a

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serving-class race.

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And then of course
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Our story begins focusing on

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two characters,
Nolan and Irisa.

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He found her as a child.

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He's basically adopted her and

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taken her under his wing.

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Projected impact at 20 clicks.

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Nolan's an outsider and not

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particularly good with people.

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He's not a joiner, he's not a

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follower, he's not the cutest

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and cuddliest of creatures.

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You only see his soft side,

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really, when it
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They have a really close

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bond.

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They're fiercely loyal towards

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each other.

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We live and we die together.

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Irisa is a complicated

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character.

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She's an alien, but she has many

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human qualities.

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She's great with a knife.

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I don't know how good she is

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with her feelings.

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If someone wrongs her, let's

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just say you wouldn't want to

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get on the wrong side of Irisa.

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She carries many weapons all

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over her body.

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She's ready for anything.

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She's a fiery one, watch out.

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Two other characters that are

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central to the drama of Defiance

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are the sisters Amanda and

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Kenya.

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They have a deep love for

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each other.

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Amanda protected Kenya from a

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very young age.

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She and her sister fought

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their way through the Pale Wars.

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They lost their mother, and

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Amanda basically became the

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primary caregiver.

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Now Amanda is the mayor of

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the town.

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She's an idealist.

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She really believes that humans

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and aliens can live together

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peacefully as one, and she

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fights for what she believes in

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to a fault sometimes.

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I'm going to stand up
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and I hope that each

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and every one of you
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With Kenya, what you see is

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never what you get.

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She's somebody who has a lot of

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secrets.

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Kenya is running
the NeedWant,

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anything you need,

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anything you want, which is sort

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of a bar hangout, gambling

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establishment.

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It's a place where anything

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you want, you can get, sexually,

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spiritually, socially, and Kenya

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is at the epicentre of all of

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this.

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Oh, God.

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We have two families that

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represent the
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in the town.

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There's the Tarr family and the

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McCawley family.

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Rafe McCawley is the richest

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man in town, and he runs the

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mines that are sort of the

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lifeblood of Defiance.

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Rafe is a tough guy, he's

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grown up tough, he's learned how

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to be tough.

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Drop the blade, or I drop you!

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Datak is essentially the

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town's mobster.

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Datak Tarr is the kind of

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individual that, if somebody's

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in his way, they had better get

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out of his way.

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The Tarrs are the most

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powerful alien couple in

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Defiance.

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Stahma appears to be the

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dutiful wife.

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Behind closed doors, things are

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much different.

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She wields her power in more

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of a gentle and submissive way,

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whereas his forcefulness is much

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more reckless and needs to be

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controlled, and Stahma does

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control it.

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Bathe with me.

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Rafe McCawley and Datak

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essentially hate each other's

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guts.

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Rafe doesn't like what Datak

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does for a living, he doesn't

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like the fact that he's a

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Castithan and
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not like the fact
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kid, Alak, is hooking up with

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Rafe's daughter, Christie.

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I think when Alak looks at

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christie, he sees everything

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that his parents would hate.

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I can't believe that my boy

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is having anything to do with

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these horrid, ugly looking

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humans.

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My relationship with Alak is

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that possibility, that little

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gleam of light at the end of the

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tunnel that, yes, there is hope

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that Votans and humans can live

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peacefully together.

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The show is really about the

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survival of the human spirit.

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I think what makes Defiance

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unique is hope, maybe it's

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possible to have hope and maybe

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it's possible to rebuild

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something in the world.

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When I first read the script,

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I just got enormously excited

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about what the challenge of

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building that world would be

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like.

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I've never done a show that's

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had this degree of complexity

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and nuance.

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It's really exciting because you

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feel that there is a real world.

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Imagine an alien civilization

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showing up on your doorstep one

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morning seeking a new beginning.

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This opens up so many worlds for

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us to tell so many interesting

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stories that I think audiences

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are really going to be riveted.

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How we're bringing Defiance

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to life is an enormous, enormous

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team effort.

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The alien cultures have their

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own religion, songs, traditions.

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It's really what it would be

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like if it happened.

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And action!

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We have a lot of smart, funny

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people sitting around a table

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kind of just throwing ideas

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around.

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Some days it feels like you're

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cooking with gas when you're

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breaking an episode, other days

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it feels like you're struggling

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a little bit.

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Kevin has a great philosophy in

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the writer's room, which is that

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you check your title at the

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door.

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Anyone can say whatever they

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think about any episode.

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You're always free to express

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your opinion, you're always free

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at any point in a story break to

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say I'm not sure this works...

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And maybe this version would

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work better.

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Nothing personal.

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Defiance has really had me

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use all my skills on one show.

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There's so many varied looks,

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from the humans to the different

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alien races.

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If I could put it this way, it's

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like walking into the bar in

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Star Wars.

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Their eyes are different, the

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bridge of their face and the

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bone structure almost changes

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and it's really like looking at

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a completely different...

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not a person...

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a completely different being.

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When an actor sits in the

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chair for the first time with

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the prosthetic makeup, it's

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really fun to see the character

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appear in front of your eyes.

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My process starts fairly

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early.

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It takes just under two hours,

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and I start off by going into

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hair, then I got into prosthetic

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and then back into makeup and

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then the very last thing to go

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in is the huge contact lenses,

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which kind of bring it all

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together.

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It's quite a process, and I

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don't feel like I'm Irisa until

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every part of that process is

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done.

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The most surprising

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transformation for me is at the

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end of the day when I pop my

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eyes out and I take off my wig

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and there's this brown-eyed girl

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blinking back at me, and that's

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where I get the, wow, where does

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she come from?

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Bear McCreary, our composer

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and his main title
music for the

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show is just absolutely

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stunning.

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He's really taken the idea of an

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eclectic immigrant drama and

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he's really run with it from a

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musical standpoint.

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We say okay, we have this Castithan
ritual scene, we have

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to write that.

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So we write a prayer, it's

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translated into Castithan,

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that's sent to Bear McCreary,

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who writes a melody for it, it's

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sent back to us and the actors

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and we learn it and we actually

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perform it on the set.

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And the beauty of that is that

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he's going to be weaving the

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melodies from the alien songs

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that he's created into the score

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and so the whole thing
will have

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a complete melodic tapestry.

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The languages are amazing.

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We worked with David Peterson

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who did all the language for

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Game Of Thrones.

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For Defiance, I created two

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full languages, one for the

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Irathients and one for the

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Castithans.

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They write out the words and

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then they spell it out

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phonetically how to pronounce

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them and then got sent mp3 files

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and we record ourselves saying

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the word and then we send it

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back to them and they say, "No,

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that sounded horrible, say it

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more like this."

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Oh, schtako.

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Schtako.

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Schtako.

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You people smell like schtako.

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_

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Tony Curran, who plays Datak,

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he's got it down.

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(Speaking Castithan)

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Which is Castithan for,

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"That's all, folks."

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It's the first time someone

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has taken a network television

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show and a gaming platform and

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combined them into one shared

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universe.

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I am so excited about the

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video game.

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It's a ground-breaking

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entertainment experience.

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What's unique about this show

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is that it is the only show on

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television that has a crossover

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video game.

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We've designed the show and

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the game so that you can watch

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the TV show and not play the

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game, or vice versa, but it's a

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much deeper, more immersive

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experience if you choose to do

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both.

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Mmo gaming stands for

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massively multi-player online.

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What that means is, you're

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playing on the same game space

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with thousands of other players.

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The game of Ddefiance
takes place

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in San Francisco.

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You'll have vehicle combat

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but also online persistence, you

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can level up.

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The story never ends.

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It is one of the most exciting

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online games ever created.

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This is the first time it's

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ever been done, where you have

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two portals into the same world.

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You can inhabit the world as

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a player that's actively moving

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through the world of Defiance,

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and you can turn on the TV and sit

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back and watch great drama

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unfold.

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Seeing ourselves jump from

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the game to the series is going

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to be astonishing.

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Nolan starts in the game.

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My character and Irisa ride into

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frame, so the game will launch

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and in the time it takes us to

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drive from San Francisco to

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St. Louis, the show will launch,

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and I've never actually seen

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anything like that happen

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before.

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This show's really a lot of

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fun, and we're having a lot of

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fun making it, and hopefully a

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lot of that fun will show up on

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the screen.

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The concept behind it, of

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this sort of frontier town,

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trying to work together, live

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together, I just thought the

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idea was amazing.

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It's science-fiction meets

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Shakespearean meets adventure

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meets romance.

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There's no other show out there

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that really has all those

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components into one new world.

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No one has ever tried to do

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anything this complex

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before.

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The possibilities are absolutely

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limitless.

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