re: Dark Matter - Series on Apple TV

Good show so far. JC is great but the other female is a boring not very good actor.

I feel the show is much like how I felt about the book. It’s entertaining but kinda forgettable. To me Recursion is a much better story. Upgrade is on the same level as Dark Matter.

There is now an alternate Dark Matter thread on this page trying to take over our spot.

Hope they don’t try to take us back to their Tigerdroppings M/TV board.

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To me Recursion is a much better story.

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Recursion is better, but they’re close in my book. I would love to see that story adapted.

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Upgrade is on the same level as Dark Matter

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Nah, Upgrade was arse. It’s not as unique, and half the book is just filler reciting gene sequences. The final thoughts on the theme of empathy was interesting, but the rest of the book was a bit of a chore.

This shows is nuts. I really don’t know what to think right now.

I've gone back and forth from "it's ok" to "it's very good" - but yeah, worth watching I think. It drags a little from time to time but the last couple episodes have been strong.

Apple has done a really good job putting together "original" (book based) content that isn't particularly formulaic and is going to seem weird/unique to most of their audience (DM, Slow Horses, Severance, Silo). I've really appreciated that.

Apple TV has been knocking it out of the park lately. Been watching this and Presumed Innocent, both great shows!

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It was a good season

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It has been

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There’s just gonna be a bunch of dead and alive Jasons all over Chicago now?

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Hopefully we find out in the finale next week.

Great show. Jennifer Connelly needs to have a hamburger.

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So there are all these “Jason 1s” but only one original origin point? How does that work?

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For convenience, say the origin point was when the original Jason 1 (Jason Prime) and Amanda first escaped Velocity by going into the box. They then spent 3 episodes jumping through different worlds, with a lot of different choices being made between both of them, and spawning an exponentially growing number of variant branches.

Each of those infinite Jason’s originally came from the same universe, where Jason 2 abducted them. That is home to every one of them, while most are presumably lost to the multiverse forever, numerous ones found the way to navigate their way back and all converged in the same Prime universe.

One thing the show changed was all of Jason 2s box frickery after the abduction. IIRC, he never goes back in the box in the book. Having him jump around numerous times, and each time knowing how to actually pilot the box and get to the correct destination, without spawning infinite Jason 2 variants who end up back in the Prime Universe, is a major plot hole.