While other cable channels in the United States only master order their own original series, the channel SyFy has eaten a dog in this difficult matter. It belongs to them legendary franchise "Stargate" humorous "Eureka" and the mystical "Haven", the brainchild of the new channel was the project "Challenge".

The land changed forever

The series "Defiance" tells the story of the distant future, when the planet Earth, the survivors will share with alien invaders, taking steady conditions fragile truce. For many years before that aliens deprived of their home space travelers, who long led a bloody war that threatened to end so that the two sides will destroy each other. And then a group of earthlings soldiers mutinied and refused further battles. Their example inspired others, and the race was able to reach an agreement.

The action takes place in the city call, the former St. Louis. Joseph Nolan (Grant Bowler) and his adopted daughter Ayrissa (Stephanie Leonidas) after the attacks of marauders are without transport and livelihood, they come to the city to earn money. In the call Dzhonzef meets his old friend Amanda (Julie Benz), now occupying the seat of the mayor. Nolan and his daughter, because of the insatiable thirst for justice, are in the first day of the drawn into the maelstrom of the city of events that lead to the death of the local sheriff, in whose place without hesitation, appointed Joseph.

The scale of the battle

"Call" - it does not swing series "Battlestar" Galactica ", it felt a certain parochialism. He is from the era when people like to watch the first season of "Stargate", in which the characters seem to be made a journey through space, but just stepped through the glowing ring. The "call" narrative in the same way makes a leap in time, leaving the audience in the future, which, if you look closely, is not far gone from the middle scenario postapokalipsisa.

Earthlings whether aliens or aliens without earthlings abused his planet to the plot is not so important, because the whole world still comes to the ruins. On the alien invaders viewers do not report almost nothing: their culture is about the level of human, their appearance only slightly exotic and, importantly, they can have offspring with people, that is, theoretically, have the likeness of species. The technology used by them, at first glance no different progressive. The question remains, how they managed to build huge spaceships, which flashed in the memories of the protagonist?

Like many science fiction series on the channel SyFy, in the "call" is not well thought out line of justifications, the viewers have to take everything on faith. With the first series of questions arise about what happened to the alien home planet, why did not they destroy people, using the same technology that allowed them to travel great distances, and began tormenting trench warfare on the surface of the planet? And such issues relating to the credibility of the logic of events, accumulated from series to series.

Flying pan

The series "The Call" is a joint project of the channel SyFy with the company-developer of computer games Trion. This is the first of its kind in the form of co-creation, combining in a computer game and the series together. Both products are at the same time, have many points of intersection in the fictional reality, influence each other, making the participants in the game - part of a series.

The development of an original idea of ​​the series was engaged Rockne O'Bannon, who along with Michael Taylor, Kevin Murphy wrote a fantastic drama. In the director's chair of the project, two masters of their craft: Michael Nanjing and Scott Charles Stewart.

Although the first of its kind idea of ​​such a compound of the game and the series, "Call" does not differ quality and well thought-out plot lines. Shtetl series and obvious savings on the special effects can not be compensated twisted drama, in the same "Fallen from the sky", as the show plays. Fiction is too demanding for material expenses of the genre, can be removed, even militant, with a small budget, but swung to Star Wars, it is not necessary to remove them not having enough money, not to get what you get in the "challenge" - mindless imitation.

Anna Chizh

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