I've played a lot of Mass Effect series and Starfield.

Any other games you feel give you a Dark Matter - esque experience?

EDIT: Outer Worlds is also a good one. A short but fun ride.

Came across this audiobook on youtube, and I highly recommend it for any avid readers/listeners here.

It's basically about a crew with a sensitive past, going against oppressive AIs and corporations. If not on suspicious missions and jobs. They even have their own 'five' and 'Truffault' of sorts.

It takes abit for this to be the case. But yea, the more I get into it, the more it really reminds me of Dark Matter. And could probably fill up a dark matter induced hole from the show's cancellation.

Waymaker Wars: https://youtu.be/yhPD4xx05Ys?si=COBMtdsrzgFn_16A

Okay so I have watched dark matter 2 or 3 times now I really love it but no matter how good I pay attention I get so confused especially all the corporation's. I've written all that I heard down as you can see (sorry I have bad handwriting) but while looking at this especially mikkei first there friendly then there not. I get so confused but now mostly my question are there people who do understand all those corporation's etc

Sent by some more advanced civilization to prevent greedy, violent humans from infecting the rest of the galaxy.

So finished another Rewatch.

Another reminder about getting screwed over on a perfectly good series.

Well written , great action, lovable characters etc...

now reliving the disappointment.

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Alright, so I’ve been rewatching DM lately and jotting down notes whenever a character mentions a span of time. Season 2 and 3 have a lot of ambiguous time-jumps, but S1 is given a solid end-point: the Android states in S2E1 that it's been 47 days (and change) since waking up from stasis. So setting the stasis emergence as day 0, I think we can get a rough outline of the timeline for season 1, which I’m going to outline here as coherently as possible.

My absolute anchor points:

• S1E1: day 0
• Early S1E3: day 5
• Mid-S1E7: ‘a couple weeks’ so day 10-20 probably. i’m choosing 16 for no particular reason.
• End S1E13: day 45 (allotting about 2 days between when>!the GA takes the ship!< and when the crew is fully processed and awakened in S2E1)

Relative anchor points:

• S1E3-S1E4: about 28-30 hours
• S1E4-S1E5: seemingly a few days
• S1E5 takes place over at least a day, maybe two
• S1E6 takes place over a few hours
• S1E7 happens shortly after S1E6 and seems to take place over two days (maybe)
• S1E7-S1E8 has a multiple-day gap, which I’m putting at about 5 days- the android is still repairing, but Four thinks Three’s had sufficient time to get over his dead wife
• End S1E9-end S1E10 is two days
• The bulk of S1E11 happens over a few hours, though the jump at the end may be a couple days
• S1E12 takes place over several days and ends back-to-back with S1E13
• S1E13 takes place over two days

Thus, my proposed timeline:

• Day 0: Wake up! Android boots up, tells them they’re en route to the mining colony, and everyone sleeps.
• Day 1: Go down to the planet, discover their identities.
• Day 2: Mining colony fight, crew is stated to be ‘a few days out’ from the nearest space station
• Day 5: Start of S1E3, 26 hours out from the Shadfu-2, prior to The Complications^((TM)) with the relay switch
• Day 7: Start of S1E4, the crew docks at Shadfu-2 (and then leaves in a hurry)
• Day 10: Start of S1E5, Tabor contacts them about the zombie freighter
• Day 12: Zombie freighter, Two gets bitten
• Day 14: Start of S1E6, the crew tells Tabor about the freighter, Five spends multiple hours lost in their memories
• Day 16: Start of S1E7, they open the vault and awaken Sarah
• Day 21: Start of S1E8, the crew docks at Vega-5, Six finds out he’s a cop
• Day 25: Beginning of S1E9, they’ve seemingly been hanging out at the station for a bit, the crew finds out Four is gone
• Day 27: End of S1E9/start of S1E10, Truffault recruits them to steal the white hole bomb
• Day 28: Rendezvous with Truffault, meet Wexler et. al, steal the device late that night
• Day 31: Deliver the device to Iriden-3 after disposing of Wexler et. al
• Day 37: Early S1E12, news of the white hole bomb has spread, Tabor contacts them for Rook
• Day 41: Arrive at Rook’s place, Two gets taken
• Day 42: The crew comes back for Two- daylight on the planet, but they’re wearing different clothes, so I presume she was there overnight.
• Day 44: Android is disabled before dawn, Four gets drugged
• Day 45: The Raza is taken into custody

Disclaimers & notes:

• ‘day’ is used loosely as they very rarely go places with actual day/night cycles, and I have no idea what their sleep schedules are like. So 'day' is whenever they're awake and 'night' is when at least one of them sleeps for a while.
• as you can see, there are some ambiguous jumps where I could be off by multiple days, so take all of this with a large grain of salt. perhaps an entire salt lamp-sized piece.

In my new rewatch, I cant help but see Android as Pinocchio wanting to be more Human.

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I fell in love with this show and despite knowing that it was cancelled before even starting it, I still took it hard.

Anyway, Joseph sent me the virtual episodes and initially I dived right in, but if there is any hope of resurrection I'd rather not spoil.

So is there any?

Doing a new Rewatch. Every year at least once.

In my opinion I think the Raza is one of the best designs in a series, very practical and realistic.

Love to have a Model of it. I know their a 3D print models out their but their allot of Money from what Ive seen.

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So I found out about this new show “Dark Matter” and wondered where I could stream it. I only have Amazon Prime Video, so I thought maybe I'd be lucky and the show would be on Prime Video. And to my surprise, there was actually a show called “Dark Matter”, but halfway through the first episode I thought, “Wait, is this the right show?”. I kept watching the show anyway, and I'm glad I did, because I really enjoyed it. I watched all three seasons within a few days. Towards the end of season 3, I started to think that this could be yet another sci-fi show that ends with a cliffhanger, and it sucks to be right. Man, why do they always have to do us dirty like that? I don't even want to watch the new “Dark Matter” anymore, I want more of the old show!

Im curious: Who else found out about this show because they were looking for the new show with the same name?

I've run two versions of this already (once on Discord & once on Tumblr) and both times it ended in ties, so clearly I need a larger sample size. No option for 'teal' - you gotta pick a side.

View Poll

https://reddit.com/link/1ekztbl/video/0jjmoezvywgd1/player

I thought season 1 was very good. I love Sci-Fi, and I love shows with an interesting and inventive premise.

I imagine it's difficult for writers to balance, keeping the premise alive and relevant, without flogging it to death.

Ultimately I've found that there's just a few too many things going on, that I haven't necessarily gelled with.

• The idea of a future dominated by corporations is interesting, but for mine it was never truly explained well enough. The idea of a "Galactic Authority" that is immense and powerful, yet apparently wields no actual power against the corporations, just doesn't work IMHO.
• The whole weirdass camp "Space Shogun" storyline is comically absurd, and should not have become a feature.
• The "fresh-start" transformation of the crew, into a more "Robin Hood" type band, was a good premise for the show. However the way in which, in season 3, they've simply become a bunch of hapless boobs, stumbling from one pointless hardluck story to the next, has been demoralising. Doesn't make for enthralling tv.
• Just once, I'd like to watch a sci-fi show that doesn't go down the "Androids are People too" rabbit-hole.

https://reddit.com/link/1ek3sfq/video/es6d0a1b9pgd1/player

This was the reel our VFX team submitted for award consideration.

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https://reddit.com/link/1ehq3eh/video/06plp4u4y3gd1/player

Though most con goers were excited about her role as Knives Chau in the Scott Pilgrim movie and series, I was ecstatic to bring up Misaki when I got to her table.

I am happy to report how wonderful she is and that this was her first con.

Now, if I could just get ‘round to meeting the main cast.

When I set out to cast Commander Truffault, the strategically-minded high-ranking member of the interstellar corporation known as the Mikkei Combine, I automatically thought of Torri Higginson who had played Dr. Elizabeth Weir on Staragate: Atlantis. I reached out to her, told her about the role and she agreed to an audition - that she absolutely nailed. I loved Torri's portrayal of Truffault that combined the shrewdness and leadership qualities of Weir with the dangerous swagger of Mae West. But, in the original plan, the character was not supposed to survive past the show's 11th episode. That was the episode in which the Mikkei Combine take delivery of white hole bomb technology that ends up destroying an entire world. But, as it turned out, Torri had a scheduling conflict and would only be able to appear for the first part of the two-parter. So I rewrote script, losing the Truffault and saving her character.

Commander Truffault appeared in six more episodes, becoming a fast fan favorite, and was still alive and well when the show was unceremoniously canceled. So, if we ever get a shot at miniseries, you can be sure you'll see her again.

All things being equal, I'm happy things worked out this way. She was a fun charcter to write for. And, if we had lost her in season 1, we wouldn't have gotten this boss sequence in season 2.

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Nothing bogs down the script-reading experience for me like elaborate action and scene descriptions. I curse any writer who asks me to read a script, and then forwards me one replete with big fat paragraphs of meticulously detailed settings, characters, action, and clever camera work. A little goes a very long way. Which is why my scripts tend to be lean in that respect.

Having said that, I do tend to be a little more precise when describing fight sequences as I try to imagine fun and/or ayptical beats, maybe offering some direction on where I need the characters to end up.

When I first started working on Dark Matter, I would write fairly detailed fight sequences and hand off to our Stunt Coordinator (and eventual series director) John Stead, trusting he would fulfill my vision. And I quickly discovered that not only did he meet expectations, but consistently and impressively surpassed them. So much so that as the series progressed, I began to gradually pull back on my choreo description, giving him the freedom to pleasantly surprise me. Which he did, time and time again.

Finally, while writing the show's third season episode "Hot Chocolate", I reached the point in the script where our two former friends and now sworn enemies, TWO and Ryo Ishida, face off in a knock down drag-out fight. I remember sitting at my laptop, trying to decide what I could put in that would make this battle extra special. And, after thinking about it for a couple of minutes, I realized that it didn't really matt because John Stead would make it great. So I simply wrote: "She launches herself at him and they fight. It's glorious!"

And it was.

https://reddit.com/link/1e85hts/video/cglbd3bmmqdd1/player

So I went through a while back and pulled a bunch of the crew's wanted posters shown throughout the show to compare across time. One and Six never get their own wanted posters, only their aliases (Corso and Jones), and it’s just the one poster each. Five gets one… I think it’s a wanted poster, but it’s in a different format, presumably because she’s not on the 10 Most Wanted list. Or maybe it’s because she’s a minor, or maybe it’s just an internal GA file and not a wanted poster. Unclear! Regardless, I’m choosing to focus on Two, Three, and Four’s here.

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Four’s charges don’t seem to change over the course of the show, but his name does, which is very funny to me. It’s listed as Ryo Tetsudo up through the end of S2E1, and it only changes to list Ryo Ishida after S2E2. Seems like maybe when Misaki showed up she went ‘hey…. y’all know that’s not his name, right??’ and the GA folks had to fix it. I’m not sure how it took them that long to figure it out, given that a random reporter for the galactic news network got it right ages ago, but the GA clearly has some issues with their administrative process anyways. Good for them for finally getting it right, I suppose.

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Unclear whether or not Three’s charges change over the course of the show. The Blink Drive scientist in the past has a G.A. file that must have been downloaded post-S2E1, because Two’s wearing the prison uniform. Three's charges are the same in that file as in S1. When Kierken’s robot scans Three in S2E11, it says he’s wanted for terrorism (in connection with the white hole bomb), but earlier in that episode we see that neither Two nor Four have that on their list of charges, so I’m thinking they were wanted for questioning regarding terrorism but weren’t formally charged with it yet.
(You might notice that Boone’s NCIC number changes- the first two posters list his number as 27482-2947-1, but the last one lists him as 275009-5647-3, which is actually Ryo’s ID number. Though truthfully, I’m not certain if Three has his own, given that the number on his first two posters actually appears to be Griffin’s. F’s in chat for the poor I.T. guy who’s going to be stuck figuring that one out for the G.A.)

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yea, that text is gonna be Really small. In my defence, Two gets a lot of posters.

Two’s charges do appear to change over the course of the show. The Most Wanted posters seem to list charges in descending order of severity, and I’m not sure where armed robbery and extortion would rank. Either way, armed robbery is basically a normal Tuesday for the Raza and extortion could be almost anything, so those aren’t particularly intriguing. But the kidnapping charge appears to be new, since we know from One and Three’s posters that it ranks above theft and piracy. I suspect that it’s from when she snatched Tabor, but I could be wrong.

The corporate espionage charge is particularly interesting: it can’t be from the white hole bomb (or everyone would have it), it can’t be from stealing retinal scans to break into Rook’s place (or Three would have it), and it can’t be from taking the blink drive, since she wasn’t known to be involved in that (and Three would have it). It may be an old charge that Rook filed against her so that he’d be pinged if she was ever arrested, but it does seem like it’d be risky for him to link her to his company in official documents, seeing as how she’s living evidence of his company’s illegal research and could expose his whole scheme.

Also Two has apparently been cleared of the piracy charge, which is hilarious. Maybe she did so many crimes that they just ran out of space.

And as a final note in case you’re curious: the GA's listed heights/weights for each character appear to be:

One- 6’0”, 210 lbs
Two- 5’9”, 148 lbs
Three- 6’0”, 210 lbs
Four- 5’9”, 185 lbs
Five- 5’4”, 110 lbs
Six- 6’1”, 210 lbs

(Caveat that Two and Four’s were quite difficult to read; Two’s is partially deduced from the fact that her metric measurements seem to read 178 cm/67.2kg but I may be misreading).
No, I don't know how the GA folks convinced themselves that One, Three, and Six are somehow all the same weight. Maybe they weighed Corso and Boone while carrying multiple guns each. And also eyeballed Two's height while she was wearing her heeled boots.