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10 Shows Like Apple TV’s ‘Dark Matter’ For Those Intrigued By Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Concepts
https://www.augustman.com/my/entertainment/film-tv/best-shows-like-dar
k-matter/
I've seen 3 of them, and they were all great.
Not sure how similar they really are to Dark Matter, but just based off of my likes I would say the rest of that list is something I might have to look into.
It's funny they mentioned Travelers. I was wondering if that was going to show up on that list. I wouldn't probably have thought that this morning, but on the 4th I was talking with one of my old friends and somehow we both ended up raving about Dark Matter. At some point he had asked me if I'd seen Travelers too. (I did, but only the 1st season before getting my dad and brother to watch it, but I never finished it since it was one of the many, many shows I was watching and quit cold turkey when I quit drinking).
Personally, I don't really see the parallels between the two shows other than they're both sci-fi, but it's been a long time. But it was enough for my buddy to bring it up, so there must be something to that list. On Fringe, I could see the box being part of a several-episode arc in a parallel universe.
It's cool my buddy was watching these shows. If he was ever into sci-fi when we were kids he never showed it. He's the guy who taught me to build my first computer back in the late 90s, so it really doesn't surprise me that he is. Just a shame to find that out in my mid-40s when we were hanging out since we were 10 years old.
His old man was a quiet, tough-guy ironworker foreman, so maybe he wasn't introduced to sci-fi when he was younger by his dad like I was. Or maybe he got enough crap for being "nerdy" and into tech from his old man as it was and didn't add a whole bunch of love for sci-fi on top of it while he was living at home. He did end up following in his dad's footsteps after all, when I was sure that he was going to have a life working in tech.
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I have never really seen 'Fringe' I maybe seen part of maybe two unfinished episodes, maybe the start of one or the end part of another episode. It seemed ok, X-files like but maybe too long too many season to invest for me, it probably did not help that I began to dislike 'Lost' and J. J. Abrams was also co-creator of that show, for a while J J was everywhere even if you didnt want him liek JarJar in StarWars his style and his face would keep showing up, he would pop up in all places.
Travelers was another I quit, it just seemed like it would go on too long, I blame 'Lost' for me quitting tv shows when I feel they were wasting my time.
and for your build my first computer buddy angle
an old show people talked of
Halt And Catch Fire
staying with scifi not much from the West, BBC Dr Who or British scifi has gone weirdo so maybe a South Korea show.
Lots of movies Young Gun in the Time, The Host, Save the Green Planet, Space Sweepers, Doomsday Book,
'The Host' was enjoyable
tv show Mouse or Mauseu is high rated but seems more current, murder thriller, today dystopia,
the South Koreans are all over tv and film and gamer productions, they now helping produce cartoons like X-men and video games 'Stellar Blade'
The tv show Are You Human Too? or Neodo Inganini is high rated
'Moving' is also high rated a mix of super hero and military government spy thriller and scifi.
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a lot of hype around 'The Penguin'
the movie came out as Cinema and films struggled to come back from Covid
its a spin-off on 'The Batman' remake in 2022 by Matt Reeves Robert Pattinson stars as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell.
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I have never really seen 'Fringe' I maybe seen part of maybe two unfinished episodes, maybe the start of one or the end part of another episode. It seemed ok, X-files like but maybe too long too many season to invest for me, it probably did not help that I began to dislike 'Lost' and J. J. Abrams was also co-creator of that show, for a while J J was everywhere even if you didnt want him liek JarJar in StarWars his style and his face would keep showing up, he would pop up in all places.
I don't blame you for not wanting to get into it. Getting into a show with 6 or 7 seasons would feel like homework to me.
I also don't blame you for not wanting to watch something JJ Abrams was involved in either. I used to think that it was Kurtzman who kept JJ on a leash here and made the show great despite JJ being involved, but maybe it was Roberto Orci who managed that. I haven't had any respect for Kurtzman after he did what he did to Star Trek.
This wasn't a show with a LOST ending. They did a great job wrapping it up. My old man loved this show and hated the last season, but when I saw the last season it was my favorite. When he told me he was watching it a 2nd time a few years back I told him to really try to have an open mind about that last season and he told me that I was right and the last season was his favorite after a 2nd watch. That first time he watched every episode weekly while it was on TV. Maybe binge watching it the 2nd time is what allowed him to appreciate that last season and it had nothing to do with my input.
Fringe is worth a watch for real if you can ever get over the length of the show and the fact that JJ and Kurtzman were involved.
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a lot of hype around 'The Penguin'
Nope. Not interested.
Can we please let cape movies and TV shows die for 10 or 20 years?
Let's make Deadpool & Wolverine the last hurrah until 2045, please.
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not sure if it will be good
More DC stuff Creature Commandos animated comicbook TV series
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Not made for me. That's for sure.
If you see it, I'd love to hear what you thought. I can't imagine watching any pre-woke Comic Book cartoon, or even re-watching ones that I did like when I was a kid like Batman: The Animated Series or the 90's X-Men. There's no way in hell I'd watch a cartoon put out by WB/DC or Disney/Marvel in 2024.
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Very strange how they now remake 90s X-men and 90s Batman...out of ideas.
I might give Pantheon a go, the animated feel and sound, its a better improvement.
there was a time when everything was looking the same drugged out drunken low effort 'Cal Art' and it is Not a good look the CalArt ...Thundercats reboot or ‘CalArts style’ StevenUniverse, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Fairly OddParents, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Gravity Falls, everything had these big round football looking heads but not current or funny like South Park, it all looked very same-sh or similar,
There are studios that keep there own look or style, Generator Rex, Sym-Bionic Titan, the Marvel DC stuff at least try to stay ahead of the Japanese.
There are those Matt Groening Simpsons Futurama guys who do their own thing 'Disenchantment' it got mixed ratings, maybe it is bad and it also seems like it came out 8 years too late after HBO Rome or Period pieces or Game of Thrones.
I understand why kids don't watch a lot of Western animtion, first 'The Message' is terrible the DEI and SJW political stuff, next issue is bad animation. So the young adults the kids have taste, they move to South Korean shows or anime Japan movies ....glad Patheon at least looks different, maybe it shares similar animation style to a mix of Japanese anime and 'Invincible' the whole 'Skybound North' or 'Amazon MGM Studios'
If I don't watch Pantheon I'm glad its getting better
At least the cartoon studios movie animation studios see they have a problem and need to step it up
its kind of crazy how dominant Us animation used to be from Disney to Pixar, The Aristocatst, Wizards, to 90s Batman, 90s X-Men, The Little Mermaid, Lion King, the Jungle Book, to the controversial Ralph Bakshi and arty guys with 'American Pop' and then slowly the guys from Japan or France or SKorea replaced all the American toons.
maybe it can rsie after a decline and it come back
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Yeah... that Ralph Bakshi was a strange case.
I'd never heard of him before, but I happened on Fritz the Cat very late one night in my early 20's and was kind of fascinated by it, simply because I'd never seen anything like it before. I can't say that I particularly liked it or anything, but I did end up renting it once to watch the whole thing after that.
I found out more about him from the internet and tried watching some of his other movies. They're pretty much unwatchable, IMO. I know he has a pretty sizable cult following, and I felt somewhere inside of me that I really should like his stuff, but man... I just can't. That Wizards movie was one of the worst animated things I ever saw and I didn't even finish it.
I'm going to give you another bite on Pantheon, since you seem so resistant to give it an opportunity. I really don't want to because I don't like spoilers.
I'll just say that ultimately it ends up having quite a bit in common with Dark Matter (2024), and I did not see that coming at all.
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first the bad news
Lionsgate Revenue Drops 8% in June Quarter, Starz Loses 500,000 Subscribers
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lionsgate-q1-2025-earnings-starz-su
bscribers-1236100649/
the good news and entertainment growth? South Korea product, Smaller indie US shows growing, European tv shows, the Japan comeback anime to Live action, Shogun is remade
THE ONE PIECE | Production Notes Vol. 1 Staff Interview
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