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[Dark Matter] Heavy weapons, katanas and androids IN SPACE
Harry Dresden
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTHOdjil-R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7d3x1JRvuwSyfy's latest science fiction show, created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie. In the pilot a group of strangers wake up mid-flight on a spaceship in the distance future with no memory of who they are and struggle to find out what's happened and who they were. Paranoia grips the crew as they investigate who they can trust and if one of their own is faking the whole time. Then a homicidal android is woken up...
THE CREW
One
AKA Jace Corso
(Marc Bendavid)The first person to wake up, a docile individual who has no special skills, and is peaceful. Wants everyone to do the right thing, no matter what the cost is because he's a good man trapped on a space ship with a group of psychos.
Crimes: Murder, Assault, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Theft
Two
AKA Portia Lin
(Melissa O'Neill)Charismatic, an expert in multiple forms of combat, beautiful and whose able to learn how the ship works first. She quickly becomes the leader of the group by default. Has no time for nonsense, and tries to do her best by the crew.
Crimes: Murder, Assault, Arson, Theft, Piracy
Three
Marcus Boone
(Anthony Lemke)The team asshole. Looks out for himself first, second and last. Gruff, antagonizing, and always carrying a big gun. The show's Jayne, I guess.
Crimes: Murder, Assault, Kidnapping, Piracy
Four
AKA Ryo Tetsuda, aka Ryo Ishida
(Alex Mallari Jr)Stoic, calm and cool demeanor and master swordsman. In Space!
Crimes: Murder, Assault, Piracy
Five
AKA Das
(Jodelle Ferland)If Three is Jayne, she's the show's River. The youngest on board, she's got a knack for mechanics, has other people's memories and a kid with secrets.
Six
Griffin Jones
(Roger Cross)A man of integrity with no patience for bullshit. A simple guy, with great intelligence who knows how to defend himself.
Crimes: Murder, Assault, Smuggling
The android (Zoie Palmer)
An unnamed android who controls the ship with her mind and acts as their robo-butler.
The twist
The group are a band of infamous space pirates and wanted criminals called "the Razar", who are the secret, and feared, clean up crew for the galaxy's mega-corporations who use them to illegally kill any people who get in their way of valuable resources. No one knows what they look like or who they are. No one who sees them survives to tell the details. And now the crew has no idea what to do next with that information.
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I hope so, it had a damn good pilot.
on any other network? no. on Syfy it should be good for a couple of seasons at least. Defiance is still going so this certainly has a shot.
Right now the show is to generic and takes ideas from a number of different shows. The android might as well be called 7 of 7. The one guy with the big gun might as well be Jane 2.0. They are so heavy handy on it I'm sure it was done on purpose.
I'll probably stick around even if the show is total crap. I think it has potential though. This wouldn't be the first show that had a bad start for me and ended up being pretty good.
Not to mention Lost Girl had four seasons, which was 3 1/2 seasons longer than it would have ever gotten pretty much anywhere else on TV.
amnesia owns
when i have an upset stomach i drink milk of amnesia and it fixes it every time i just forget i was feeling like shit
Not sure what spoiler policy is. First episode:
Now, a good writer could have probably done the same setup without amnesia. But probably not without doing something else that's overdone.
I was pretty neutral on the first episode. I'm curious enough to see where it goes, but most likely I will miss an episode at some point and not go back.
Six is quickly becoming an awesome character on the show, and he's showing he might be the second on command subtly. It's another amazing performance by Roger Cross.
Lost Girl is Canadian actually. Its made by the Canadian channel Showcase and is a part of their "Has to have a certain percentage of Canadian produced material" block. Showcase is also behind Continuum and Haven. That's why it has lasted so long. That and hot lesbian make out sessions(and Ksenia Solo as Kenzi).
Dark Matter is wholly SyFy.
Hmm, the more you know.
As for this episode, I think my favorite moments/thoughts, by the numbers (har har)
One: Okay, he's kinda the weak link so far, but I'm feeling like it's going to be a buildup to when we finally see what he's suppose to be good at. Looked like he was a decent fighter though.
Two: Also enjoyed how she ended up solving the crisis.
Three: Got a laugh out of the whole naming your weapons bit with One: "what about the knife in your left boot?" "What? You don't name your knives. You think I'm pycho?"
Four: Liked his interrogation method for that corp soldier.
Five: I don't think
It feels like its basically Firefly with a crew full of Jason Bournes?
kind of
On a related note, does anyone know if season 2 of Defiance is streaming anywhere? I missed the last half while it was airing because we moved somewhere without cable, and I missed my chance to watch it on Syfy's website since they pulled it when the new season started. Which is super frustrating, by the way.
Ersatz Seven of Data
Gamora Lite
Summer Faux/Pseudo River
Asian Guy
Black Guy
Miner-Waifu
i have been impressed so far as well, although my expectations were super low. we'll see if it continues lol
Going by previous works we should be in good hands with the showrunner. It's only going to get better from here.
I like to think he was the con artist/Face of the band. The sort of empathy he has shown would also work in favor of someone who wants to figure out what people want and convincing them that his scheme is the best way to get that... until he screws them over.
...but yeah, he was probably a crazy axe murderer that ate live babies or something in his previous life.
He needs to find his unique niche before he'll compare to the original.
Nah, he's too action orientated for Wash. One fits him.
But he's their pilot!
Hmm. That is true.
One might be like that, but we haven't really seen One's talents come up, so we don't yet how he will act when he's faced with a crisis that he knows that he can solve.
Hope they can balance this out a bit more.
Comedy relief, another soldier for action scenes, and the source for inter-group conflict.
I'm still having trouble with the names around the middle of the group. One and Two are easy, as is Six as the only actor I recognized. I have trouble with names in general, though, and this naming convention doesn't help. I should get it eventually.
It'll be less confusing once, or if, they start adopting their real names, who are pretty cool and very Stargatey.
I wonder whether that Jace is actually Hrothgar?
After today's episode
I also loved how they focused on that jump clone commercial like we were going to find out later "Yep, either One or 'Jace Corso' is a clone" only for Jace to shoot it down by saying there's no way a clone could last long enough for everything to work out the way it has... though the memory download thing might explain why Five seems to have flashes of everyone's memories.
My new theory is that every member on the crew, aside from the android and Five/Das, are clones. Made and working for whoever created them to be the cleanup crew for the corporations. In effect they've stolen the meanest criminals personalities and bodies via downloading and cloning without having to hire the real thing. With the real people they're clones of none the wiser (except for One's original) they get their services without leaving evidence connecting them to these people so no one suspects who the Raza crew are since the originals are actively in the galaxy giving them alibis.