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To all of the people who found this thread by googling "Tricia Helfer tops Jennifer Connelly", let me just say I understand your disappointment. Seriously though I enjoyed Dark Matter the book, and the review of the Apple TV show that I read implied that it departed enough from the source material to be sort of its own thing by the end.
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In hindsight, it was a little misleading.
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May 8, 2024 09:56
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Trig Discipline posted:To all of the people who found this thread by googling "Tricia Helfer tops Jennifer Connelly", let me just say I understand your disappointment. Isn't this what AI was intended for? I never read the source material but the show seems pretty decent so far.
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Trig Discipline posted:To all of the people who found this thread by googling "Tricia Helfer tops Jennifer Connelly", let me just say I understand your disappointment. Hopefully it doesn't divert too much because the book gets pretty bonkers pretty quick and it would be pretty disappointing if they don't do some of the weirder parts.
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h3r0n posted:Isn't this what AI was intended for? Do you want cylons? Because this is how you get cylons.
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May 9, 2024 01:37
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Trig Discipline posted:Do you want cylons? Because this is how you get cylons. https://twitter.com/Naija_PR/status/1647733898967674881
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May 9, 2024 02:33
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Watched the first episode of Dark Matter and I think I'll tune out. Maybe once the season has dropped I'll watch it? The first episode seems to tell me what the rest of the season/show is about and it's not hooking me in. I'm (episode 1 spoiler, with me guessing for the rest of the season) not too interested in watching Secondary Protagonist trying to live the life he always wanted and Prime Protagonist trying to figure out how to get back.
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May 9, 2024 12:41
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The ending to episode two of Dark Matter got me. Was wondering where it was going, but it's got a similar brutal swiftness with plot points that Good Behaviour shared.
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May 9, 2024 14:01
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Major spoilers for Sugar Vulture originally tweeted both the headline and picture from this article and only removed it after a ton of backlash. I even agree with the main conclusion, but let people decide for themselves. E: They still have the headline on their front page... SimonChris fucked around with this message at 14:16 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 14:08
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Yeah not really sold on Dark Matter after one episode. I don't think I've seen this lead guy in anything else and honestly I just don't care for him. The episode just seemed to lack a certain energy.
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May 9, 2024 16:42
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Edgerton's such a black hole of non-charisma I feel like I'm getting vertigo and falling into the screen. Somehow he's a producer. The show had better go to the apparently-promised 1000mph next-level-bonkers ASAP if they want to overcome that drag. Sure, shoot hot-artist-Connelly and not mom-Connelly, why don't you. Great decision. I am being sarcastic, Tim Apple.
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May 9, 2024 18:20
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Finished the first two of Dark Matter, I'm interested enough to watch the rest of the season. I did like that the Velocity Corp goons drove EVs, so that you know they're Extra Villainous.
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May 9, 2024 19:41
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Does episode 2 get much more interesting than episode 1?
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May 9, 2024 19:57
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Kind of a prosaic answer to the mystery of Sugar.
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May 10, 2024 02:59
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Yeah but I still dig this show bigtime. Anyone know what that end credits song is?
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May 10, 2024 05:07
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Is John Sugars friend the lead of Dark Matter? Wtf is going on
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May 10, 2024 07:21
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No, they just look similar. Though I wouldn't put it past Apple, they reuse their actors a lot. The airsick navigator from Masters of the Air is also John Wilkes Booth.
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I ended up watching episode 2 of Dark Matter. It was better than episode 1 but yeah, not really grabbing me to be honest. Something I've been noticing with Apple TV+ shows is how insane everyone's houses are. Like, the homes we see are just huge and expensive and filled with stuff. Everything is wide open and filled to the brim with decorations, art, fancy everything. There's just so much stuff. It feels more like a super fancy hotel lobby rather than a home that someone actually lives in. Best way I can describe it is that the Apple TV production crew models every home set based off of one of Tim Apple's vacation homes.
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May 10, 2024 11:22
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Is John Sugars friend the lead of Dark Matter? Wtf is going on I don't know anything about the show but hey just a general gripe. Seriously what the gently caress is it with writers ALWAYS naming the main guy John. Is there some law? Is it like 555- phone numbers?? "People in movies or TV are always just named John. Don't like it, go to Russia"
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Data Graham posted:I don't know anything about the show but hey just a general gripe. Seriously what the gently caress is it with writers ALWAYS naming the main guy John. Is there some law? Is it like 555- phone numbers?? "People in movies or TV are always just named John. Don't like it, go to Russia" Now I'm just picturing some Russian complaining that every main character is called Ivan.
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:Now I'm just picturing some Russian complaining that every main character is called Ivan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGH2QYJaRU
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May 10, 2024 14:04
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Boris Galerkin posted:I ended up watching episode 2 of Dark Matter. It was better than episode 1 but yeah, not really grabbing me to be honest. It’s a trend with all modern TV productions aimed at international audiences (Americans), even BBC stuff. Insane aspirational level homes, that in most cases don’t fit at all with the characters, area they’re in or anything else. For anything set in London, the main characters family will be shown with a full on townhouse with a £500k kitchen opening out into the garden. A single mother, applying for a part time job, is living in a spacious, immaculately decorated (presumably council) flat with a large balcony, in actual London.
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Data Graham posted:I don't know anything about the show but hey just a general gripe. Seriously what the gently caress is it with writers ALWAYS naming the main guy John. Is there some law? Is it like 555- phone numbers?? "People in movies or TV are always just named John. Don't like it, go to Russia" You're in luck, the main character in Dark Matter is named Jason!...Dressen. Yeah, I don't know why either.
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Dark Matter: I'm getting targeted ads via Instagram to join the "velocity vaccine study" 
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May 10, 2024 22:50
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Concanstellatiocellened. Good, I'd rather see Noomi Rapace in something better.
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If that ending actually had intent of continuing with a second season, then they should've trimmed down season 1's story and got whatever nonsense season 2 would be into the end of season 1. I have a hard time believing that there was a season 2 actually planned out
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What a waste of time that show was.
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Scrotum Modem posted:If that ending actually had intent of continuing with a second season, then they should've trimmed down season 1's story and got whatever nonsense season 2 would be into the end of season 1. I have a hard time believing that there was a season 2 actually planned out I don't think the creator actually had a plan for the show so much as just a bunch of random ideas and moments that he had no idea how to fit together see for example this quote from him about the finale: Originally, it was very trippy, and we were going up to the ISS and following a dog walking around in zero gravity. I might still use this, but you saw angels reflected in her eyes and the dog was like her. People said, “What the hell is that about?,” so I had to come up with another ending, which had a bit more to do with the story. And then, it just made sense to see Jo in all her glory turning around. It shocked me and surprised me when I wrote it, but it seemed to be quite a nice way to end the [season].
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Dark Matter and Constellation have the near identical plot but on the ground instead of in space, involving a dude instead of a lady. It’s very weird. My daughter is like, “Apple TV is multiple reality multiple reality aliens aliens.. and then there’s Ted Lasso.”
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Anyone who says "it shocked me and surprised me when I wrote it" should not be allowed to write TV shows. He sounds like an idiot who is just mashing the keyboard and is amazed by what comes out.
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I like the part where he wrote the original version of the finale and then everyone said "what the gently caress is this poo poo supposed to mean?" and he had no idea
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Cojawfee posted:What a waste of time that show was. This is how I feel. There was so much good in it but also so much bad.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Dark Matter and Constellation have the near identical plot but on the ground instead of in space, involving a dude instead of a lady. It’s very weird. My daughter is like, “Apple TV is multiple reality multiple reality aliens aliens.. and then there’s Ted Lasso.” I think the same thing is happening at netflix lockwood & co: a teenage girl moves into an old house with two young boys and they investigate ghosts because only children can see them locke & key: a teenage girl and two young boys move into an old house and they investigate ghosts because only children can see them
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Boris Galerkin posted:Best way I can describe it is that the Apple TV production crew models every home set based off of one of Tim Apple's vacation homes. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as an ‘Apple Tv production crew’. The shows are actually produced by other entities and Apple either provides the funding or buys the show from someone else. They don’t directly employ the crews necessarily. This is pretty much the way the other streaming services work as far as I know. Now, could they have stipulated that the houses in the shows they produce look a certain way? Sure, but I’d be surprised if that was the case.
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That's correct, but I thought one of the things about getting a show on Apple TV is that Apple is hard to work with and inserts themselves into the process more than other platforms? At least that's what I remember reading about when Apple TV first launched. I was kinda (half) joking that the production studio would show a screener that has a normal average house interior design to Tim Apple and he'd say "Huh, why does the main character's house look like that? I've never been in a house that looks like that. You're out of touch, you should come over to my house to see what houses really look like."
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Dark Matter is surprisingly bad so far. It feels like it's less interesting and has worse pacing than Constellation, which is impressive. I guess that it doesn't help that it spends two episodes setting up a premise that is already clear if you've read a one line description of the show and the acting doesn't seem good enough to make that interesting. It just makes me want to watch Counterpart again. mystes fucked around with this message at 14:22 on May 12, 2024 |
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mystes posted:It just makes me want to watch Counterpart again. such a good show, and it didn't go for 4-5 seasons and ruin everything, it wrapped everything up in 2 now I see the creator also created the new shogun which is also a treat
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mystes posted:Dark Matter is surprisingly bad so far. It feels like it's less interesting and has worse pacing than Constellation, which is impressive. It took two episodes for the main characters to realize that there is another reality, and that was figuring it out on their own. It took like six episodes for Jo to figure it out, and that's with half the characters screaming "there's another reality" at her while she flip flops on whether she wants to accept it or not.
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Yeah that was Constellarion’s biggest mistake. Jo and a few others bumbling around in the dark for over half the season while the viewers clearly know what happened from episode 1. It’s really bad writing. Really bad. I was glad to see constellation get it out of the way as soon as possible. It lets the show sit back and settle in on figuring out resolution instead of drawing out some “oohhh multiple reality mystery”.
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Ironic typo. The most annoying thing about Constellation is that these were supposed to be highly capable professionals.
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