Friday, 2 September 2016

Dark Matter - 'Going Out Fighting'

It's that man again.
Just a few days after seeing the return of Wil Wheaton's black hat hacker Chaos in season 3 of Leverage, I get to see his return as Rook in 'Going Out Fighting'.

With Two's nanites breaking down, her only hope is to infiltrate the lab on Earth where she was created, in the space station atop Dwarf Star Technology's space elevator. The initial infiltration goes well, but then Rook nabs Three and Six and it's up to the rest of the team - including Two, with her nanites overclocked to let her, if you will, go out fighting at the cost of extended lifespan - have to Blink into the station to rescue them, defeat a newer version of synthetic lifeform and acquire the necessary nanites 2.0.

Fecking black oil, man.
In an odd little coda, Three is infected with mind-controlling alien squid ink (if this is a link to The X-Files I may scream.) Six spots that he's acting strangely and they are able to evict the gribbly pretty sharpish, so I'm assuming that there is more to come from that corner. Three's reaction to learning that Six has saved his life again is priceless, and of course Wheaton is an absolutel prize prick once more.

At this point, everyone seems to have forgotten about Devon. There's not even a mention of the erstwhile medic when Three is in an inexplicable state.

As we go on, Dark Matter continues to be entertaining, but soundly loses out to Killjoys in the space opera field.

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