Dark Matter: Superposition Show Only

June 5, 2024 6:57 PM - Season 1, Episode 6

Daniela suspects something's not right with her husband. Jason and Amanda grow closer.
posted by Kyol (12 comments total)

Well, that vault sure is something for Jason1 to deal with, won't it be? And there's a part of me thinking even if he gets to the right world, would he know? He'd see another Jason there with Daniela, just like all the barely adjacent worlds where he had Wheaties one morning instead of Cheerios.
posted by Kyol at 6:59 PM on June 5 [2 favorites]

just how is the box in every possible world. like there's a box just sitting there in some other universe where jason never even existed and nothing is being done to the box (surely you can use a crane or something to move it). Or does the box only appear when the door is opened. (In which case, has the box killed people by appearing?).

Now that the box is walled up in Reality Prime, I'm assuming we're getting no resolution this season (boo!)
posted by dis_integration at 9:21 AM on June 6

oh: fun fact, this episode was directed by Roxann Dawson, who played B’Elanna Torres on Star Trek Voyager. Sci fi royalty!
posted by dis_integration at 9:45 AM on June 6

Yeah, I'm kind of glad they haven't really answered that, but yeah - is there some goddamn mystery box sitting on the shores of Lake Michigan like the monolith in 2001 that nobody can get into? Or does it just pop in where it's more narratively useful for it to arrive? Or are we to believe that the Velocity lab, the run down warehouse and those vaguely ... North suburban? I'm not great on Chicago's skyline, to be fair, are they all supposed to represent the same point in space?
posted by Kyol at 10:50 AM on June 6

And I really hope they don't try and drag this out for another season. I mean, I'm enjoying the ride, but the show would have to take a significant shift to make it really stick for another 10 episodes in a second season? But IMDB has the usual telltale (2024-), y'know?
posted by Kyol at 1:32 PM on June 6

has it been established how (and why) jason2 sent jason1 to his precise world rather than just some random world? that seems like a big question
posted by tomp at 7:26 AM on June 8 [1 favorite]

Officially, no, I don't think so. I mean, I figure he was hoping Jason1 would throw his ex-coworkers off his scent for long enough that he could get established with Daniela1 and brick up the box, but Jason1 was less convincing than expected / Amanda2 is smarter than he gives her credit for, etc blah blah.

I get the impression this was a pageturner of a book, possibly to the extent that being able to sit down and ponder some of it between episodes makes some of it fall apart, maybe?
posted by Kyol at 7:38 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]

It was very rough dealing with A-Jason's cluelessness in the earlier episodes, but it's more enjoyable now that there's more universe-hopping.

I like the doom spiral aspect and B-Blair's little horror story. Did the Blair who was eaten by the bird/wasps bring them to that world? I'm not sure if guilt needs to be added to her sorrows.

I like that B-Jason is maybe the only person who is good at it because he is the universe's most monomaniacal wanna-be wife guy. Also please drop me off in paradise-Chicago.
posted by fleacircus at 9:11 PM on June 8 [3 favorites]

And there's a part of me thinking even if he gets to the right world, would he know?

I'd been wondering the same thing, but once the concrete started pouring my assumption was that the concrete itself, as evidence of sabotage, would let them figure they must have finally found the right spot.

Or are we to believe that the Velocity lab, the run down warehouse and those vaguely ... North suburban? I'm not great on Chicago's skyline, to be fair, are they all supposed to represent the same point in space?

I think we're definitely supposed to assume that, yeah (which has been a little confusing, because I had intuited the warehouse space and the Velocity lab as being below ground for some reason). In the first episode they had to drive a while to get to the warehouse, and we also learn Velocity is built a ways outside of the city proper. So I think we're meant to understand that both are just some distance around the lake rim, lining up with the view we see in the worlds with no building there at all.
posted by nobody at 10:45 AM on June 11 [1 favorite]

And honestly, from there? "Ok, I guess we gotta go back to a neighboring world and get a jackhammer or a rescue saw or something and start hacking our way out."

I'm mildly curious how they're paying for their hotel room and such, or if the universes are close enough that their existing credit cards basically work, right?
posted by Kyol at 11:21 AM on June 11

No idea how Ajason and Bamanda are paying for things. I'm surprised we haven't seen BJason going around with a pouch of diamonds or something.

A funny thing about this show is reminding myself that all this is really just about how Bjason can imagine any Chicago except one where Jennifer Connelly is single and interested in him.
posted by fleacircus at 12:42 PM on June 11 [2 favorites]

I'd be unsurprised if the box just shrugs off being contained.

I guessed Amanda-B caught up with family, off-screen, for funds.

Also, I wondered if Blonde Daniela was married to a Jason, and was roleplaying along.
posted by Pronoiac at 7:55 PM on June 19 [2 favorites]