Dark Matter - 'We Should Have Seen This Coming'

Meet the new Android; largely similar to the old Android.

Lost in space. Surrounded by corporate douchebaggery. Low on gas. The crew of the Raza are hurting for funds since the GA stripped most of their assets, but Nyx has a plan for a heist, and like Three, she pretty much had us at 'heist'.

Sadly, it's not an elaborate heist; just your standard drop out of FTL, shoot a bit, board, raid and out. Except that there's a couple of things Nyx is holding back, such as the fact that she used to live on the ship they're raiding, that its crew are intellectually advanced 'seers' who combine data processing and intuitive ability with a vast database and a mechanical neural gestalt to predict the future. She's also here to rescue her brother, Milo.

"Okay; let me explain... No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

Unfortunately, Milo is one of the most gifted of the seers; much better than Nyx, who left before they perfected their techniques, and whose predictive powers are immediate and intuitive. This means that his old crew want him back, and although he blocked them from predicting the initial attack, with him out of the system they can predict every jack move and bluff the crew throws at them. This proves to be true, and they are forced to let Milo return in order to retrieve Six and Three and the marauder from a planet with a toxic atmosphere. This hands down defeat is a little disappointing, and overall it feels as if the purpose of the episode was really just to have Milo drop some knowledge before going back to the seers and committing suicide. Key reveals are made to Four - one of you will betray the others - and Five - something big is coming, and the Raza is going to be at the heart of decisions that shape the galaxy.

Key character points: Three accepts that, while he doesn't forgive Six, he can work with him again; Nyx's manipulation of the crew is apparently accepted without much comment, presumably because so much of the episode was just set-up; Two is getting the shakes; and the Android has opted to rever to her original persona around the ship, because it feels more like herself.

'We Should Have Seen This Coming' is a bit of an infodump, and while the crew are often on the back foot, it was a little dispiriting to see them so utterly outmatched. In particular, it would be nice to see gaps in the seers' abilities because then there would be implied gaps in Nyx's, where at present she is basically too perfect.