Dark Matter: We Should Have Seen This Coming

August 6, 2016 7:09 PM - Season 2, Episode 6

Strapped for cash, the crew follows Nyx's lead on a mission, only to find out the target is personal.
posted by rednikki (5 comments total)

Not quite as good as the "android go wild" episode but getting better, although loss of memory seems to increase naivete, ok kids lets just trust this new criminal.
posted by sammyo at 12:56 PM on August 7, 2016

I'm really feeling at this point the first season didn't have to happen. We could have (pretty much) just jumped into this point in the story line with group of criminals who don't really trust each other, but who still have to work together and been almost exactly where we are.
posted by sardonyx at 1:22 PM on August 7, 2016

Did this show have more oomph in the first season? I wish the pacing was quicker, the dialog had more pizzazz - something. They need an injection of fun romp to lighten up all the suspicious moping.
posted by Squeak Attack at 10:04 AM on August 8, 2016

Not a great episode, but
Pontypool's Bruce McDonald directed.
Hansmeed reminded me a little of Donald Pleasance.
posted by detachd at 6:02 PM on August 9, 2016 [1 favorite]

I liked one scene in this one: When Two finds the Android in normal Android clothes acting robotic and wonders "Hey, I thought you had a magic upgrade that made you act human." And the Android says yeah, but while I'm on the ship I just want to be myself.

Nice inversion of the Pinocchio / Data trope of androids desperately wanting to be "real".


That guy REALLY did look like Donald Pleasance, though.
posted by mmoncur at 1:22 AM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]