Dark Matter: Going Out Fighting
August 28, 2016 2:12 PM - Season 2, Episode 9 - Subscribe

In a desperate hope to save their ailing leader, the crew attempt to pull off a dangerous mission inside the headquarters of Dwarf Star Technologies.
posted by fimbulvetr (11 comments total)
 
Well that all seemed too easy, didn't it? Especially getting rid of Three's shadow creature. This one almost felt like a filler episode, not the second last (if that's what it is) episode of the season.
posted by sardonyx at 8:49 PM on August 28, 2016


It brought aliens into the story! Their universe has been completely human up till now and the blink technology with the behind the scenes military-corporate alliance desperate to get it for some reason, and now it shows why - there's an external threat of aliens coming to their sector of the universe that is going to overwhelm their petty local planet empire factions.

It also means that the prediction faction is now operating without a vital piece of information (or do they secretly know?) and the earth lab villains are working WITH/FOR the aliens.

So it was a organising piece to get the aliens into the picture, and I agree it was a workpiece episode but eh, a lot of their episodes feel that way. The localised blink tech makes them jumpers, no?

And Androids do Dream!
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 1:27 AM on August 29, 2016 [1 favorite]


This not the penultimate (according to IMDB) but it did seem a bit rushed, with an alien (which is not like us - the Dark Matter, maybe?), a rescue or two, Two dying then not dying, and finding out what Wheaton does when he's not in TBBT.

The last episode of the season is teasingly titled But First, We Save the Galaxy, so there's that.
posted by arzakh at 4:22 AM on August 29, 2016


Glad I was wrong about the episode numbers. I guess I just thought since Killjoys was operating on a shortened season, Dark Matter was under the same restriction.
posted by sardonyx at 7:09 AM on August 29, 2016


there's an external threat of aliens coming to their sector of the universe that is going to overwhelm their petty local planet empire factions.

Ok, I missed something, what aliens ?
posted by Pendragon at 7:20 AM on August 29, 2016


The tentacled black ooze thing that took over Three. Might not be an alien though. Dwarf Star Technologies already made a synthetic human, so there is no reason they couldn't be making other synthetic life forms. I liked this episode, but the black ooze thing was a little too much like the black oil stuff from X-Files.
posted by fimbulvetr at 7:26 AM on August 29, 2016


I interpreted it just as some enhanced animal, but I can see how you would call it an alien.
posted by Pendragon at 10:43 AM on August 29, 2016


The whole episode was just a framing sequence for the line mentioning the House of Frying Daggers restaurant.
posted by detachd at 9:01 PM on August 30, 2016 [8 favorites]


Evil Will Wheaton specializes in nanobots, so I assumed the oozing black stuff was a "grey goo" of nanobots that had enough computing power to take over a human. (This was foreshadowed when the supersoldier attacked Three, Wheaton said he was "100% Loyal" implying that the nanites were controlling his thoughts as well as providing physical strength and healing.)

I like to think they're going somewhere with that, but I think it will be forgotten completely.

I also thought the "loyal" nanobots were going to take over Three's brain. But they went a different direction... I think.
posted by mmoncur at 8:59 AM on August 31, 2016


I loved Rook's line "I don't think I'm going to give you that pillow."

Getting rid of the black ooze was way too easy, and they didn't do anything very interesting when 3 was under its influence. I would normally expect the way it was resolved to be a writerly tactic to make me suspect it would come back to haunt them later, but while I think the plotting on this show has been much improved this season, I still don't trust that the writers are working at that level.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 10:21 AM on September 5, 2016


The whole episode was just a framing sequence for the line mentioning the House of Frying Daggers restaurant.

my husband was sort of asleep and I woke him up to make sure he'd heard that line!
posted by supermedusa at 12:00 PM on November 19, 2016


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