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The Arch is popping up all over the world thanks to this show:

the count wrote:I propose a container village on the site of ballpark village and renaming it Defiance.

Not to get off subject however that's not a bad idea, there is actually a container village right outside Nationals Park in DC. It's my understanding that pop up retail was the idea of a local arts group, much better use of vacant land.

Gateway City wrote:In the preview for next week's episode, Rafe McCawley says they need to build a high-speed rail. Maybe a small allusion to the Chicago-STL high-speed rail.

Hahaha yeah, he just talked about how important access to high speed rail for further economic growth is!

I love it.

Datak Tarr's son broadcasts a radio show from the top of the Arch in this week's episode: http://www.defiance.com/en/series/video/2644849

In tonight's episode, the miner's son makes a semi-connection between some hieroglyphs in "Old St. Louis" and the 1811-12 New Madrid quakes. Could they have something to do with the Arkfall 200 years later?! Dun-dun-dunnn... Keep those references coming, Defiance!

Oh, and because I'll always take the opportunity to link to this song -- even under the most tenuous of excuses -- here's the exceedingly replayable "New Madrid" by Uncle Tupelo.

Some pretty cool action went down at the top of the Arch in this week's episode.

So the second season of Defiance is over -- delayed a year from the first season. Without giving anything away for people who have it taped, it looks like they left things set up for the possibility of renewal. But they also brought some things to a close for many story lines and characters in case this is it forever. It kind of looks like any new season would feature a different terraformed city -- probably Manhattan -- with the cast of characters who were leaving town at the end. But they didn't completely close the door on any of the main actors, but almost. In the last couple of episodes, they included Union Station underground, including the main hall. A future season will probably have some clips back in Defiance where the bordello still exists. And the Arch is still standing.

I think everyone was doing mixed drinks or drugs. And I didn't hear "Here Comes the King" once. Where was the AB product placement department? They should have shown all the old people guzzling Bud Light to show it became a healthy life extender.

I don't think they are going to Manhattan. It was destroyed. It has to take place in Defiance.

Gateway City wrote:I don't think they are going to Manhattan. It was destroyed. It has to take place in Defiance.

Uh, I think Defiance was largely destroyed -- it collapsed into the caverns below. Manhattan was "cleansed" and then terra-formed, not unlike the area around Defiance at the start of the series. I'm just going by what I thought I saw, I have no idea what they are planning at SyFy.

They said to Amanda in the show after Irisa bombed out Manhattan that "New York was destroyed." Amanda is from New York. They also said Old St. Louis was destroyed, but that was already underground.

Gateway City wrote:They said to Amanda in the show after Irisa bombed out Manhattan that "New York was destroyed." Amanda is from New York. They also said Old St. Louis was destroyed, but that was already underground.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes more sense. I'll watch the very end again.

RIP The Arch.

so basically they're erasing all connections to St. Louis. first they buried "old st. louis" and now they're blowing up the arch.

They wil probably fail to blow up the Arch. It is the symbol of the series.

^ yeah, you're probably right.

Ok, so they blew up most of the Arch. No radio station in the top anymore.