What Good Sci-Fi am I missing?
POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 07:08
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Dark Matter some face-off quantum leap stuff I will get back to it, probably won't have finished watching the older Dark Matter 2015 Canadian on the spaceship but what I seen of it I did enjoy
new Dark Matter 2024 I think its worth a binge watch, its a pity the DVD market is dead I used to enjoy buying them watching the extras, actor and director commentary and behind the scenes, will stream again with more free time.
the remake of Shogun is another show I need to finish (non scifi)
I still haven't watched Episode 5. It's hard getting back into it when you've got to wait a week in between.
I think it's a pity that they don't do "previously on Dark Matter". When those are done right they really serve the purpose of reminding you of things that are going to be pertinent in the current episode.
I'll watch it. Just not sure when.
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Black Mirror Season 7 Gets Major Production Update From Creator
https://screenrant.com/black-mirror-season-7-production-update-charlie
-brooker
Cancellation Watch: 3 Body Problem Will Run for 3 Seasons, Scavengers Reign Fails to Chart in Netflix Top 10, and More
https://www.cancelledscifi.com/2024/06/05/cancellation-watch-3-body-pr
oblem-will-run-for-3-seasons-scavengers-reign-does-not-chart-in-netflix-top-10-and-more/
The Alien or Aliens franchise could make a good horror series?
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Dark Matter 2024 I'm going to return to this show maybe binge watch. Interesting support characters in Dark Matter 2024 but also Two interesting stories happening here.
‘Farscape’ was probably one of the more out there shows, very impressive puppets
The new Dark Matter maybe a little of 2012 'Continuum' or 2002 Odyssey-5 in the show, still getting sliders vibes maybe a little V or 'The Pretender'
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/continuum/s01
There is a bit of 'Pirate' to these types of story a little hint of people abandoned as punishment or a cruel trick and rebellion and loot or booty, there are real-life examples Edward England is known today as one of the more humane pirate captains of the Golden Age of Piracy. The mutiny on the Bounty, the Dutch Netherlands a soddomite butt bandit left behind Leendert Hasenbosch, more Holland perverts and those who were accused of sodomy and marooned on separate islands of the Mangrove Group, the lost Lapérouse expedition, casting some people adrift on the ocean in a tiny boat, the marooned or 'Marooning' the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited are. The new Cylons in the Battlestar remake were impostors also, 12 Monkeys and a guy trying to fix everything 2015-2018, the German science fiction program “Dark” where people vanished, a mystery criminal in “Timeless” or Journeyman 2007 a cult hit.
When they first escape Jimmi Simpson's character Ryan is left behind with a bunch of bad people maybe unintentionally as the two escape
'Charlie' is a part of the plot being a main character
silly scifi? in a new world there is always a Single English Language Planet
The good thing about jumping to another world or another scifi planet is
English will always be spoken, the Alphabet the same no Soviet Russia Cyrillic script no Japan invading California and people writing German or Japanese.
Animals are almost the same no poisonous flying dinosaur
if you use a computer or library or phone everything is where it should be in the new world.
Currency the same US Dollars so your credit cards work and you can buy stuff with the cash in your pocket
Medical warnings and pills are similar, the period table of Chemistry has the same names
Everyone counts the same not a strange Binary base 2, not 5s not 12s, Babylonian numerals no Aztec, not Octal, not Celtic Vigesimal, not confusing Rome mixes of Letters and Numbers the Roman fractions, Kaktovik numerals, not Quadravigesimal, not Chinese Tetrasexagesimal, not Hexadecimal, not Bijective base-26 not some other ancient numeral systems, the warning signs and street lights are the same and the clocks are 24 hours in two am and pm periods of 12 hours
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Jason-1 freed by Amanda Lucas now doing their lost in space thing...romance side, Unrequited Love, platonic relationship? X-Files again?...trying to find his way home Quantum Leap style or Battlestar Galactica
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Jason-2 who stole someone's life and moved from Earth-2 into Earth-1 and it turns into an impostor story with Daniela and son
There might also be a question to find the impossible item...the vials, Ampoule being the 'Potion' it helps them jump across worlds, a magic Bullet or super pure water cures, the enchanted holy weapons or magic keys to open a door...usually tv shows ignore that they are running out of power and bullets and movies do it also with Impossible Magic Items Dropped?
maybe they will go to a world with someone dying who offers them a bag of 'magic science stones' or the vials?
It's interesting the visuals and fx they are doing with the budget I will go back to Dark Matter, the visuals are excellent I'm not sure what they spent on tv it can be anywhere between 450 K 500,000 thousand to $4 Million Per Episode, Stargate franchise made episodes for 1-2 million, Japan would make some martial arts toon thing for 90K ish maybe $100,000 but then Amazon The Rings of Power came along and did a whole other level of stupid, Fallout I think was 150 millio
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‘Dark Matter’ Creator Blake Crouch on Ways Series Expands Jason’s Story From Books, and Why His Favorite Scene Almost Didn’t Happen
https://variety.com/2024/tv/awards/dark-matter-blake-crouch-book-serie
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Wayward Pines
http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/last-town-wayward-pines-se
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I had to kind of skim past your posts today and I'm skipping the articles for now just because I didn't want any spoilers. I still haven't watched episode 5 or 6 yet.
I did see that you mentioned 2007's The Invasion. I don't particularly recommend that one unless you're a superfan of the Body Snatchers vibe. I consider myself part of that culture, and I didn't care much for The Invasion. I can't list any complaints specifically, especially since I saw it all the way back in 2007 or 2008, but I couldn't even tell you one thing about it other than it's a Body Snatchers flick.
I have vivid memories of many scenes in the 50's version, the 70's version and the 90's versions. I have vivid memories of scenes from even off-brand Body Snatchers movies like The Puppetmasters, which brought in Donald Sutherland as an obvious nod to the most exceptional of the Body Snatchers movies. (If you somehow haven't seen The Puppetmasters yet, that's a recommendation from me).
I think The Invasion was just typical Hollywood cash-grab mentality. They didn't have anything new to say. It was just time to make another movie about the IP. Maybe the rights were near expiration date if they didn't. I'd say the best thing to come of the 2007 version was that the internet was in full effect already when it came out and it probably turned people on to previous, superior versions of the franchise they might not have known existed otherwise.
ETA: Oh... I should mention that I can't blame my history of drinking problems on not remembering The Invasion. At the time I saw it, I had only seen the 50's version and the 90's versions. I remember watching all of them again right after watching the Kidman version, which was the first time I saw the 70's version and it was terrifying. I've since watched that movie twice and even watched the 90's version again, but never had any desire to go back to 2007's version.
Seriously though... That dog with a human face scene in Sutherland's version is the stuff of sleep paralysis demon nightmares.
Shit dude. Gets me every time I watch it. One of the best horror scenes ever created, IMO.
I'll never forget that scene for the rest of my life and I was probably around 28 years old when I saw it. I wonder how much more impact it would have made had I seen it around the same time I watched The Thing for the first time with my old man when I was 5 years old.
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Great to see a return of the Ryan character played by Jimmi Simpson
Jason-1 vs J-2
I didn't need a recap since I wrote a lot about the Dark Matter 2004 tv show in this thread
but if it gets more layered I can see why they would need a 'Previously on Battlestar' or 'Previously on Farscape' style recap
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Ha! great episodes 2024 Dark Matter and catching up now, twists I did not expect
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Great to hear man. I'll be watching them soon.
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How far are you? Don't want to discuss any spoilers. I'm curious what twists you did not expect.
I actually finally got around to watching Episode 5 just now.
Quite a bit of character development with a huge helping of Existential Dread.
I'm still loving it.
There is one part that's about 4 minutes long that I just loved, but I can't talk about it until I know you watched episode 5.
I love shows like this that make you think about choices and how you think you would handle situations outside of the mundane. It's really good writing when you can empathize with and understand the motivations behind character's decisions. Especially when when they're making really bad choices.
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I think I'm current now on ep 7, it feels like its all lined up for a conclusion soon like a mid-season ending or end of season finale but I don't know whats a season anymore back in the old days with DVDs and television a season was almost half a year 24 episodes an episode per week on tv? I didn't realize Roxann Dawson had done so much writing and directing, known for her Star Trek acting playing the half Human half Klingon character B'Elanna Torres
interviews
didn't know he was Australian good job at hiding the accent
Never read any of the writers original works
I will have to pick up one of the many books by Blake Crouch
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?144343
,
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/pan-mac-wins-auction-blake-crouch-s-
dark-matter
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/modernsignedbooks/2016/11/01/msb--blake-c
rouch-discusses-latest-books-good-behavior-and-dark-matter
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