I Was Enjoying DARK MATTER ‘Til They ****ing Killed My Favorite Character
by Madeline Iva
***Yeah, this post is chock full of spoilers. You’ve been warned.*** Dark Matter is a successful comic book made into a Canadian television show that you can binge watch on Netflix–which is what I did. The gloomy ship, the tough characters and the cloudy mystery about their identity sucked me right in until I was devouring episodes left and right.
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One. He’s the good guy on a ship of tough criminals. So how did he wind up with them?
WHY I LOOOOOOOOVED DARK MATTER SO MUCH:
The premise is pretty brilliant. Six people wake up in sleep pods on a dark ship in space. Their memories have been wiped. In addition to that, the android that sort of runs the ship wakes up and starts attacking them, so they knock her out and end up injuring her. To get her back up requires a memory wipe, so she too doesn’t know what happened to them all. It’s science-fiction, but it’s also mystery. Who are they? Who did this to them? Why?
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Two. She’s hot.
They give themselves numbers and I knew that they’d eventually run into their pasts and get names, but it made me extraordinarily satisfied that they call each other by numbers. It becomes an alternative identity. Later on Three learns his name is Marcus–but if the others still call him Three, it’s like they’re disavowing his messed up Marcus past and saying that he can go back to being their three–i.e. annoying, but not a completely heartless dick.
I like One best. He is a good looking guy–but I mean, they’re all good looking, so really, it isn’t only that. However, in a ship full of tough people, he’s the good guy. Which is a little scary, because the rest (Five excepted) so obviously are not. I usually don’t like the super good guys. I like the maybe-villains. But One is played by a very talented actor, who via subtle expressions and delivery squeezes a three-dimensional performance out of a two dimensional character.
Three is all walking id, questioning every decision that isn’t based on pure selfishness–so of course, he is fun to watch and a bit of a wild card. Later on, we see Three has a real soft spot for women. At one point we think Two has been executed and Three’s face is really something to see in that moment. Three, also, is one of the best actors on the show–at certain moments.
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