Why Dark Matter has the PERFECT Sci-Fi Premise
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2024
- The makers of Stargate came up with the perfect science-fiction set-up. Six amnesiac strangers on a derelict space ship. Set in a cyberpunk corporate dystopia Dark Matter plays around with some really inventive ideas while touching on themes of memory and identity.
Let me tell you why it’s well worth a watch!
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Dark Matter was an amazing show. The premise was fascinating, the characters were multi dimensional, the writing was sharp, and the cast was phenomenal. I waa so disappointed when it was cancelled.
This has been my favorite show for years. It really deserved its full 5 seasons, but what it got was so incredible nonetheless. Great video!
Thanks so much!
It’s too bad it didn’t get to wrap up some of the stuff it teased for future seasons, but what we got is still really satisfying.
Glad to see the show getting some love
I can’t believe no one talks about Dark Matter. It’s got the writing and production quality of the better Stargate SG-1 seasons, plus one of the best opening narrative hooks in television.
Yeah, there are millions of Videos, reviews and reactions for Star Trek and Star Wars but the Videos for Dark Matter, well you can count them with your 2 hands. That sucks. Trek and Wars, although i love those huge franchises, are drawing all the attention on themselves, preventing a Show like Dark Matter to give air to breathe.
I loved this show, some of the best scfi of its age.
This show being cancelled was a crime.
Dark Matter definitely needs an ending. Best sci-fi show ever!!!
This show was a hidden gem. I never understood why they cancelled it, let alone on a freakin cliffhanger!
Zoie Palmer excelled as the android.
She was outstanding!
Her performance owed a lot to Mr Data, but she managed to make it her own.
boobs.....boobs... I like that word... boobs...
Great video recap!
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch it.
You made a terrific show!
Man that's a show that I actually miss
I LOVED Dark Matter!!! Damn them for cancelling it!!!
This ranks number 2 behind B5 for me. I know The Expanse is great n all, but Dark Matter is really so character driven with so many twists n turns in each season. Sigh... sad for us fans man. 😢
I was a bit peeved that this one got cancelled and Killjoys (which started the same time and aired in tandem) kept going. Not that Killjoys was terrible, it just wasn’t a patch on Dark Matter! At least it got three solid seasons and many of its stories got good conclusions. They definitely had some big plans for future stories though.
@@Phintasmo agreed!! Killjoy had no business out living Dark Matter. But thats all over now. Sigh...
Great overview of this series it was different and interesting I think with a bit more budget it would have helped. The set for the ship was excellent, weapons, costumes ect. CGI needed a bit more work. Overall it was one of my favorite show worthy of a rewatch.
I’ve got a soft spot for these shows shot in Canada on tight budgets. It forces the better ones to be more creative with what they have.
@@Phintasmoexactly, this little low Budget show is thousand times Better than anything Star Trek and Star Wars turned out in Recent years. Less is more.
My passion overflows on this topic.
Yes, it was a good show and I got invested into the show. I enjoyed the acting, writing, The sets, and show brought characters I cared about. Yes, It had some woke elements to it, on the dawn of the woke age of Hollywood mind virus. But for me it wasn't bad enough to ruin the experience of the show. It did have a huge cliffhanger at the end of season 3. I was very interested in season 4 and I could not wait for it to come out. But sadly, the powers to be, canceled the show in production they're in. To say the least, that pissed me off to no end. In my view, the most Important commodity we have is Time. Time I invested in the show went down the drain by some Executive A$$hole. This prove to me that Hollywood did not give a $hit about us, "The Audience". So for me, ever since the end of this show. I have not cared two fly'n F*CK's about #Hollywood ever since. Me as the viewer, if you do not treat me with respect then "F*CK YOU" Hollywood and the industry. For me, apathy has set in, so I'll watch RUclips, Rumble and other Platforms to enjoy entertainment. I'm looking forward to "YOU" my fellow content creator to replace Hollywood. Thank you for reading this RANT, It is greatly appreciated.
There’s always good stuff to be found somewhere - even if you’ve got to go back a few years to find it!
I remember there was a fun episode where they go back in time to Earth and are helped out by two teens, one of whom clearly has a crush on Five. When they're about to leave, Five tries to do the whole "we can't be together, but maybe that other teen secretly has a crush on you and you can date her!" only for the kid to point out that the other teen is actually his first cousin, and they have no interest in committing incest.
Both that and the Groundhog Day episode you mentioned are so much fun!
That one even threw in the unexpected jump to the future which added new layers to the show.
All the best episodes made good use of its excellent cast of characters.
😂 right! Thanks I forgot that. Such a good reversal of the cliche
Dark matter was a super fun show kind like farscape meets firefly
What a great explanation!!
That’s a really good elevator pitch for it. It’s not quite as good as either of those shows, but they made the most of what was a much smaller budget.
Killjoys was another really fun one.
still saddened that this show ended when it did. I really should revisit it.
You should definitely check out Threshold. Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner in the cast? Definitely a great thing to cover.
How have I never heard of this show!?
@@Phintasmo it's about the closest thing we'll ever get to a Delta Green tv series, and it's fantastic
got cancelled after 13 episodes not sure if it was the first time I ever Saw Dinklage or not, barely remember the Show though @@Phintasmo
@@PhintasmoShort lived CBS show that came out the same year as a show called Inavsion on ABC, and a NBC called Surface. All shows with an over arcing mystery and dealt with alien life invading our world. Also Supernatural aired that same season.
Stargate before the FALL (SG-1 & Atlantis) or "Stargate" the FALL (universe)?
The two show runners have writers/exec producer credits on SG1, Atlantis and Universe.
The way the characters talk and interact feels VERY like SG1.
Loved this show. Too bad one of the actors was not the easiest to work with.
I had no idea - which one was it?
@@Phintasmo marc bendavid
I loved this show as well, and was incredibly bitter they cancelled it instead of Killjoys, which didn't resonate with me (I admit only gave that one a 2 or 3 episode shot, but it just felt like the producers really liked Firefly and made a dollar store version). The cast of DM was so good and it was a great action space opera. The only thing I was worried about was the introduction of the magical, body possessing alien baddies, which I thought was a terrible idea. RIP.
Apparently Killjoys got a bigger audience - a sad indictment on the collective taste of the world!
The casting director deserved a medal for creating Dark Matter’s ensemble.
Oh wow. I was a little worried there that a bunch of Killjoys fans were going to jump on and tell me to go take a flying f----
@@Phintasmo
I enjoyed killjoys first season but it went off cliff after that. The setup mysteries turned into shlock
I'd love to see your take on Continuum. Six's actor plays a major character in it. Time travel, corporate greed, a terrorist cell that may have the right ideas, but has violence in its DNA...
Continuum does a lot with what looks like a really limited budget.
I've watched the first couple of seasons and really need to find the time to finish it.
I've got a soft spot for these sci-fi shows that are filmed up in Canada - you end up seeing the same actors and locations pop up in all of them!
I also remember it had one of the most fun Groundhog Day episodes I have ever seen
I just rewatched the entire series. It was definitely a little corny but it was SO FUN and the characters / actors had such good chemistry together. They really just started to flesh out the lore and story of the show before it was canceled. The Expanse somewhat scratched that itch, but it was no where near as fun as Dark Matter. I honestly didn't care about any of the characters either (except for the detective guy), where as with Dark Matter I was invested with and liked all of the main characters.
The Expanse is great if you want something dark and serious.
Dark Matter managed to have warmth and humour without trivializing the dramatic dtakes.
I think you should check out and maybe do some videos on: Firefly, The Expanse, the Orville, and maybe even SeaQuest.
We saw the first few episodes of this, but never got to finish the rest.
It’s worth sticking with.
Especially if you liked Stargate or Firefly, it’s kind of a mash-up of the two.
New gem to check out .. nautilus
Is that out yet? Could have potential with Nemo as a kind of anti-hero.
@Phintasmo well it has been aired but not everywhere I believe it will be on prime in October but there are ways of watching it ... some may be less then legit
Originally it was a Disney product and now it has zero coverage or reviews but I watched 90 % of it and I thought it was very well done
And nemo is more hero then anti
I loved this show. I was soooo angry after discovering this on Netflix, binging through 3 seasons, and then looking up when season 4 was coming only to find out it had already been canceled. 😠
Sucks it got cancelled, but I still recommend it because the way it wraps up still feels like a reasonably complete experience (until the thing happens at the very end).
Love this show star wars could learn something from this show
One of the best if not the best sci-fi show , too bad it came too early before the streaming era otherwise it would defenitly be picked up and saw its completion.
Also you seem like someone who likes scifi shows that are underapreciated i highly reccomend the show the first wave. Kinda like xfiles with some very good stories.
I never watched First Wave, but I remember some of the buzz around it. It only lasted one season right?
@@Phintasmo There are three seasons. Sadly, only the first is available on DVD. But it is available on YT: ruclips.net/video/0EoFqxxXQoc/видео.html&ab_channel=BYTHEGODSOFSCIENCEFICTION
Where can I find episodes of Dark Matter? Is series available on DVD?
This show was the definition of "adequate". Nothing amazing, but the initial seasons had some solid ideas and decent storytelling and scratched that Firefly-shaped itch. Not surprised it got cancelled though, season 3 went off the rails a bit and I think I stopped watching about midway through out of boredom.
Roger Cross' character being named "Six" was somewhat amusing to me. If you don't know why, look up his role in Fallout: New Vegas.
Have you seen "Killjoys", from the same time as this one aired?
I quite liked Killjoys - the lead actress had a lot of charisma.
But it was lighter in tone and more disposable than Dark Matter - I feel like the wrong show got cancelled.
I think you would like Killjoys too.
Killjoys was pretty good but it felt a lot more breezy and lightweight compared to Dark Matter. Depends what you are in the mood for.
Loved this show, so much LA m that I got the graphic novel that was the first version of the story. Just wish they got to end the story on their terms
Please do the Aeon Flux Animated Series!
The first season was really good. After that it kind of went off the rails.
I loved this show!! They always cancel the shows i love😢
It was an ‚alright‘ show imo, I don’t mean it in a diminutive way. ‚solid‘ is probably the right word.
Its not as deep and layered as something like Babylon 5 or the Expanse.
But its got a really fun cast of characters. There’s room in sci-fi for lighter shows like this in the Stargate SG-1 vein.
@@Phintasmo Definitely. I enjoyed the show. Maybe I will revisit it, it has been a while since I saw it.