Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Dark Matter - 'Stuff to Steal, People to Kill'

"It's like looking in the mirror... then punching your reflection and stealing
their badass coat."
As we tip over the midpoint of Dark Matter's 13 episode second season, the Raza crashes into an alternate universe thanks to a malfunctioning blink drive, and are almost immediately captured by the Mikkei Combine, who have been hunting the murderous mercenaries aboard this universe's Raza, who have been making hay with their own fully functional blink drive. Cue an attempt to steal the alternate Raza's jump drive and out-doublecross Mikkei's Commander Truffault, who of course wants the working drive for herself and is not shy of murdering a few people to get it.

Cue lots of fun with Two and Three pretending to be Portia Lin and Marcus Boon, while fending off a mutiny by guylinered swine Jace Corso and Wellick and Tash, a couple of mercenaries from the big heist episode of Season 1 whose main universe versions were both killed by Two. The fight between Two and Tash is much closer this time, however, as Two suffers a bout of the shakes. The AU Android is unexpectedly helpful, confiding that - in addition to a duty to protect the crew, even from each other, she feels especially indebted to Portia, for making her who she is, hinting that Lin was the one who changed her programming.

Back in the prime universe, Devon has vanished, so I guess no-one got him to A&E. An obscured resolution to a vague character. Then Two collapses.

Season 2 is definitely toning down Two's superhuman qualities, and her collapses would seem to be a sign of her nanites failing. I'd say this is because characters with vulnerabilities are more interesting, but then they bring in Nyx...

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