You’ve watched the show. Now play the game. Great news, Defiance fans: our partners at Syfy have provided us with a standard PC-edition of Defiance the game, for one lucky SciFiMafia.com reader. Join the futuristic online open-world shooter where thousands of players [...]
Read moreSyfy Picks Up DEFIANCE for Second Season
Although we would have been astounded if it hadn't happened, it's always nice to get the confirmation: Syfy has renewed its giant original production cross-platform transmedia series Defiance for a second season. This is great news for we fans of [...]
Read moreDEFIANCE Featurette, TV Spot, and Clips Get You Fully Ready for Tonight’s New Episode
Wasn't last week's episode of Defiance great?! I'm a big fan of the Spirit Riders so of course I loved it. Today we have a "Shooting the Shtako" featurette with executive producer/showrunner Kevin Murphy interviewing Stephanie Leonidas ("Irisa") about the episode, followed by [...]
Read moreFeaturettes, TV Spot and Clip Get Us Ready for DEFIANCE, No Shtako
Tonight's new episode of Defiance is easily my favorite of the first three. Maybe it's because I love the redhead Bohemian steampunk look of the Spirit Riders featured in the episode, but it's also because for me it's the one [...]
Read moreSoundtrack Review: Defiance (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
Music Composed and Produced by: Bear McCreary Release Date: April 2, 2013 Format: Digital Download Number of Discs: n/a (24 tracks, approx. 1.5 hours) Label: Sparks & Shadows About the Composer: Bear McCreary’s unique combination of atypical instrumental background (he is a professional accordionist) with rigorous [...]
Read moreGet a Sneak Peek at Tonight’s New Episode of DEFIANCE, Plus a Just-Released Recap of the Premiere
Tonight is the night that the first "regular" episode of Syfy's Defiance airs, and I'm a fan. We continue to learn about the world as it has been affected by the terraforming and the alien immigrants, and we see alliances [...]
Read moreStar and Showrunner of DEFIANCE Discuss the Pilot in Featurette, Plus Ratings News
If you watched the premiere of Defiance on Monday night, and if you posted about that on a social networking site, you were not alone. Not only did one of Syfy's biggest and most ambitious undertakings to date bring in [...]
Read moreSciFi Mafia Talks With the Stars of DEFIANCE, Premiering Tonight
Excellent, it's finally premiere day for Syfy's enormously ambitious new series Defiance. We've been waiting for this for nearly two years. Make sure to check out our review published earlier here at SciFiMafia.com, but in short, it was worth the [...]
Read moreTV Review: Defiance, Episodes 1-3
Genre: Sci-Fi | Adventure | Drama Air Date/Time: April 15 at 9/8c Network: Syfy Director: Scott Stewart, Michael Nankin Writers: Rockne O'Bannon, Michael Taylor, Kevin Murphy Summary: On Monday, April 15 at 9/8c, Syfy will present the series premiere of the highly-anticipated transmedia event, Defiance. Defiance is an epic drama [...]
Read moreSci-Fi Soundtracks Master BEAR McCREARY Launches Label SPARKS & SHADOWS
With the premiere of Da Vinci's Demons today, and Defiance on Monday, we have not only two great new series coming our way, but two great soundtracks, as Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead) is the composer for both. [...]
Read moreFeaturettes Reveal the Amazing Level of Detail in Syfy’s DEFIANCE
One thing that was made astoundingly clear at the Defiance press tour I attended last fall was the absolutely amazing amount of detail that is going into the production. These featurettes do a nice job of giving an overview of [...]
Read moreSciFi Mafia Talks DEFIANCE With Showrunner and Game Developer
Today's the day the TV/gaming Syfy/Trion cross-media experiment officially begins, as Defiance the MMO (massively multiplayer online) game is now available for Xbox, PlayStation 3, and PC. Start playing it today and by the time the series premieres in two [...]
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