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Get to Know Dark Matter Characters: Two (1/?)

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Dark Matter Questions Answered by Joe Mallozzi Yesterday!

Yesterday (July 24, 2021), Dark Matter showrunner Joseph Mallozzi sat down with Scripts & Scribes for a livestream on Youtube, and answered questions about the writing process, Dark Matter, and Stargate. Here are the Dark Matter questions and answers (questions are copied and pasted from the chat replay along the right-hand side of the video, answers are paraphrased).

Question: What happened to Sarah, Dr. Shaw and Portia’s daughter Katie in the Alternate Universe?

Answer: Sarah passed away, Dr Shaw is still in stasis, and Katie is still on a planet with Kryden for safekeeping.

Question: Did Ryo, Boone, Das, “Corso” and “Griff” all know about Portia’s nanites pre-mindwipe? Did Ryo, Boone, Corso, Wexler and Tash all know about them on the Alt crew?

Answer: The pre-mindwipe crew did know that Portia was an enhanced human. The Alt crew did not.

Question: Is Alt Wexler slightly nicer? ‘Cause Primary Wexler threatened to rape Five in front of One, and it’d be hard to accept Alt Wexler joining the crew in S4 if it’d be in his character to do the same.

Answer: Yes, Alt Wexler is nicer than Primary Wexler. More someone you could go out for drinks with.

Question: In that vein, is there a reason Alt Corso has the same hairstyle as One instead of Primary Corso’s hairstyle? 'Cause both were gunning for Boone, and if Wexler can be nicer, Moss could be less nice…

Answer: There was no real reason for the hairstyle, but that’s a very good point.

Unanswered Comment: You left that ambiguous on purpose; sneaky…

Question: What would Moss have done when they actually reached the mining planet if there’d been no mindwipe? I’m sad we didn’t get to see One join the outlaw crew more deliberately in S2, like Six because of the Executive Meddling that took him off.

Answer: He would have killed Boone.

Question: I meant what he would have done about being expected to kill the miners.

Answer: That’s hard to say because it didn’t actually happen. After he killed Boone, maybe he would have tried to stop the others and gotten killed.

Question: When One faked his death, did he anticipate that van Hoeven was going to hire an assassin (before the day was over, even) or did he hire Corso himself (without the latter knowing)?

Answer: One hired Corso himself.

Unanswered Comment: I hope One is in the miniseries, but it’s probably too much of a spoiler to talk about.

Question: To me one of the secrets of a GREAT show is a cast that just gels, they just like each other and have a ball. as in SG1 and SGA. was it like that with the Darkmatter cast ?

Answer: Yes!

Question: When you said on your blog that One would have returned as “an ally” in S4 (and presumably S5), that does mean helping from his position as head of CoreLactic rather than being on the ship?

Answer: Correct.

#dark matter

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Some exciting news from Joe’s blog today!

https://josephmallozzi.com/2021/08/09/august-9-2021-the-dark-matter-miniseries/

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Dark Matter Questions Answered by Joe Mallozzi Yesterday!

Yesterday (July 24, 2021), Dark Matter showrunner Joseph Mallozzi sat down with Scripts & Scribes for a livestream on Youtube, and answered questions about the writing process, Dark Matter, and Stargate. Here are the Dark Matter questions and answers (questions are copied and pasted from the chat replay along the right-hand side of the video, answers are paraphrased).

Question: What happened to Sarah, Dr. Shaw and Portia’s daughter Katie in the Alternate Universe?

Answer: Sarah passed away, Dr Shaw is still in stasis, and Katie is still on a planet with Kryden for safekeeping.

Question: Did Ryo, Boone, Das, “Corso” and “Griff” all know about Portia’s nanites pre-mindwipe? Did Ryo, Boone, Corso, Wexler and Tash all know about them on the Alt crew?

Answer: The pre-mindwipe crew did know that Portia was an enhanced human. The Alt crew did not.

Question: Is Alt Wexler slightly nicer? ‘Cause Primary Wexler threatened to rape Five in front of One, and it’d be hard to accept Alt Wexler joining the crew in S4 if it’d be in his character to do the same.

Answer: Yes, Alt Wexler is nicer than Primary Wexler. More someone you could go out for drinks with.

Question: In that vein, is there a reason Alt Corso has the same hairstyle as One instead of Primary Corso’s hairstyle? ‘Cause both were gunning for Boone, and if Wexler can be nicer, Moss could be less nice…

Answer: There was no real reason for the hairstyle, but that’s a very good point.

Unanswered Comment: You left that ambiguous on purpose; sneaky…

Question: What would Moss have done when they actually reached the mining planet if there’d been no mindwipe? I’m sad we didn’t get to see One join the outlaw crew more deliberately in S2, like Six because of the Executive Meddling that took him off.

Answer: He would have killed Boone.

Question: I meant what he would have done about being expected to kill the miners.

Answer: That’s hard to say because it didn’t actually happen. After he killed Boone, maybe he would have tried to stop the others and gotten killed.

Question: When One faked his death, did he anticipate that van Hoeven was going to hire an assassin (before the day was over, even) or did he hire Corso himself (without the latter knowing)?

Answer: One hired Corso himself.

Unanswered Comment: I hope One is in the miniseries, but it’s probably too much of a spoiler to talk about.

Question: To me one of the secrets of a GREAT show is a cast that just gels, they just like each other and have a ball. as in SG1 and SGA. was it like that with the Darkmatter cast ?

Answer: Yes!

Question: When you said on your blog that One would have returned as “an ally” in S4 (and presumably S5), that does mean helping from his position as head of CoreLactic rather than being on the ship?

Answer: Correct.

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Dark Matter Birthday Fic Idea

According to Joseph Mallozzi, not much time passes between episodes of Dark Matter, so when AU Wexler said in Season 3 that his primary counterpart, who died in Season 1, had been missing for a month, it was accurate. Which means it hasn’t yet been a full year since the pilot.

So with that in mind, and I’m honestly surprised no one has thought of this before, I can totally see the Android throwing the crew a surprise birthday party on the anniversary of their awakening. Half of them don’t even know their birthday birthdays anyway. Since it was her awakening, too, perhaps she’d even wipe her own memory of doing the planning after it was all set up, so that she could be surprised as well.

Preferably in an AU where One wasn’t killed off due to creative interference by the execs and was still with the crew as Mallozzi originally intended. Although he was going to bring him back in Season 4 if the show hadn’t been cancelled, so if this is set in the future, an AU might not be necessary for him to be on the ship (although Mallozzi’s blog post said “would return as an ally in Season 4″, so I’m not sure he’d have been a crew member again as opposed to helping them from his position as head of CoreLactic, in which case an AU would be needed in order for him to be on the ship on the day, unless the Android sent him an invitation).

Anyway, feel free to grab this idea. Multiple people even, I don’t mind; in fact, I encourage it!

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Some tidbits on Timescape from Joe’s blog! They’re tiny, but we can start to put together an idea of what the show is about. Also, I think it’s worth noting the last one. :D

#timescape #dark matter

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It takes a lot of buzz to keep a tv show alive, or to bring it to life to begin with. We’re trying to make sure that Joe’s next project launches solidly!

We’re genersting early attention even though we don’t know much; we’re gathering up fans to spread the word that we really want this sci-fi, time travel, space ship, aliens, found family, and more that we haven’t hear about yet show. Come join us on twitter at timescape_hq!

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From Joe’s blog: https://josephmallozzi.com/2019/08/06/august-6-2019-dark-matter-all-the-loose-ends-we-want-tied-up/

A lot of tidbits, but this stood out. I would have cried, but also, this would have been amazing.

#dark matter #sarah

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DARK MATTER | 2x01 Welcome to Your New Home

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103. Dark Matter. We’re six strangers and a robot. We don’t owe each other anything.

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Broken wrist, two fractured ribs, and a badly bruised left testicle. He had it coming.

Dark Matter (2015 — 2017)

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three being cute teddy bear

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Dark Matter Week Day 4: Favorite Episode: 107

Continuing the episode by episode coverage, here is episode 7. This coincides perfectly with Day 4 of Dark Matter Week: Favorite Episode

Without a doubt, this was a favorite for me. The crew finally gets to see what’s in the vault.

Three is increasingly fretting about the woman they find in the stasis pod, at first wanting them to thaw her out, and then wanting to put her back when he finds out she’s sick. He doesn’t know his connection to her at this time, but something in him knows. Anthony Lemke is just fantastic in this episode, so completely authentic. Three watches Sarah with such intensity, like he knows somehow that she’s important even if he doesn’t remember. When Sarah (played by the amazing Natalie Brown) wakes up and hugs him, he looks so shocked.

One of my favorite moments is when Three rushes into his room to clean everything off his bed to give her somewhere to sit. He’s looking awkward, flustered, like he wants to find a way to make her at home but doesn’t know how to. She tells him that she knows his life, and that it’s okay. She understands.

Zoie Palmer as the Android is, without a doubt, another standout performer in this episode. The Android goes through jealousy as she tries to keep up with Wendy, the other android the crew found in the vault. From constantly pointing out her accomplishments to trying on a ridiculous and awesome array of accents, the Android shows increasingly more that she is more than a “robot”. Wendy’s presence brings out a streak in the Android we don’t otherwise see, and Ruby Rose’s performance is a lot of fun. A brief moment of appreciation for such comments as “dunking the cosmic donut.”

The flashback scenes with Sarah and Three/Marcus are perfect. There’s a clear conflict for him - he feels that he’s not the man who stays. He learns, by being with her, that he can be not just the man that stays, but the man that is worthy of a woman like Sarah. He works on the land at her home, and he stays with her when she’s sick.

In the present, when she collapses, he cradles her in his arms and rushes her back to her stasis pod to put her back. Before she goes to sleep, she assures him:

We’ll make new memories.

She doesn’t even question it, she is confident in Three, in what they mean to each other. Sarah dying is heartbreaking; in fact, one of the single most heartbreaking moments in this series. When he leans down over the pod to say a silent goodbye, his hand on the glass…

After Sarah’s death, One apologizes, taking some blame for what happened. Three is blunt - he tells One flat out that it’s not his fault. I appreciated this because it really showed something important about each one of them. One has a good deal of compassion, and for Three, that he’s not interested in pointless grudges.

I loved this episode so much.

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