Jason panics, cornered, and urges Daniela and Charlie to leave town immediately.Jason panics, cornered, and urges Daniela and Charlie to leave town immediately.Jason panics, cornered, and urges Daniela and Charlie to leave town immediately.
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Alice Braga
- Amanda Lucas
- (credit only)
Dayo Okeniyi
- Leighton Vance
- (credit only)
Marquita Brooks
- Dawn Lawrence
- (as Aina Brei-Yon)
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Featured review
Staying pretty close to the book with some plot improvements
I see reviews by people that didn't read the book who seem to be lost or bewildered by the twists the adaptation is taking.
Eliminating the message board thing where other Jason's coming to Jason Prime timeline was a better choice just showing that Prime Jason is realizing how f-ed up the situation is meeting and seeing other desperate ones showing up.
It's a bit lost that they all think of the bad guy Jason who kicked this all off is referred to as Jason2 by our Prime Jason and the others. The whole fight between Jason2 and the scarred alt-Jason in the library where he leaves the dead alt in a bathroom stall went on way too long and wasn't an improvement over the book action though.
If they are going to wrap it all up to how the book ends in the one remaining episode it will take a ton of compressing the book story. I suspect they are going to set up the final book confrontation and end on a cliff-hanger and finish it or even extend it another season. Probably change it all together from the book ending.
I think this is rather a dangerous game to play with book adaptations. An example is "American Gods" which tried to draw things out into multiple seasons that the production got in deep trouble behind the scenes, producers left, others came in and before the epic battle ending - the series was cancelled! So it's incomplete and has really NOTHING to attract anyone from watching it now knowing it just dies before the big ending the book had. Still, it's a book worth reading.
And "Dark Matter" also is a great book worth reading. I do worry that if they go with a cliffhanger without at least finishing the book then the show could be cancelled as well like so many and we won't get the payoff that the book has.
And I get it - the book has a great ending - BUT there's still a big "Then what happened?" as there's great potential to wonder about all the other Jason's running loose in this multi-verse - AND are there more villains like Jason2 out there as well. AND how will the core family of original Jason, Daniella and the kid actually are able to pick up the pieces and move on and create a new life?
There's also a hard to transmit. Psychological aspect that our Prime Jason has to live with and go through - if there was a version of him able to be so evil - then the question is are we all capable of having that evil in ourselves? And that obviously shows up in Jennifer Connelly's performance of Daniella in this episode. They had a carefree, trusting life before all this went down and now she's seen a version of her husband who she knows is doing secretive and possibly horrible things - so even if she can be certain that this is her Jason - what might she not know about him? Is he capable of the evil his doppelganger has been?
And that's the great kind of ideas good scifi does - despite all the SPECIAL EFFECTS that dominate scifi movies that are escapist and action-adventure - this kind of scifi shows us we don't think about a lot of things as deeply and critically as we think we do.
The downside of the series is it's star to me. Joel whatever his name is just has resting BAD GUY FACE. He doesn't seem at any point to be a happy go lucky kind of guy and I don't se him as a great fit for the main character. I would have loved to have seen Jennifer's real life husband play the part because he's such a better actor and I think he has way more range as an actor.
I don't know if it's even really made a point of in the book - but Jason and Daniella were to me super happy and an in love before all this goes down and I don't get this from the tv adaptation. I think there was a lot of Jason thinking about how absolutely in love he was with his wife and it doesn't come across here.
But that's a big problem in casting actors for parts in tv and film and it is really super-critical for a story like this. So like with so many casting-mismatches you have to sigh and go along with it. I love Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" but going by the book the casting of Jack Nicolson and Shelly Duvall are awful. Jack is crazy from the get-go and as a fan of the book it made me super-mad 40+ years ago to originally watch that film. But it's grown on me.
Dark Matter as a series is THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN THIS YEAR! But I still have issues with it, and went back and re-read the book to confirm them. And as always the book is better, but some of what Couch has done here to tweak his original story are actually improvements. I'd read a revision of the book with those changes and I think like it a lot.
What's been great is even knowing the road-map of the book, the tweaks have been great surprises - where are we going with this? To be surprised - to not have a clue where the plot is going next is a rare thing.
I'm going to be bummed to see this end. I would like a second season to see where else it could go into the unknown...
Eliminating the message board thing where other Jason's coming to Jason Prime timeline was a better choice just showing that Prime Jason is realizing how f-ed up the situation is meeting and seeing other desperate ones showing up.
It's a bit lost that they all think of the bad guy Jason who kicked this all off is referred to as Jason2 by our Prime Jason and the others. The whole fight between Jason2 and the scarred alt-Jason in the library where he leaves the dead alt in a bathroom stall went on way too long and wasn't an improvement over the book action though.
If they are going to wrap it all up to how the book ends in the one remaining episode it will take a ton of compressing the book story. I suspect they are going to set up the final book confrontation and end on a cliff-hanger and finish it or even extend it another season. Probably change it all together from the book ending.
I think this is rather a dangerous game to play with book adaptations. An example is "American Gods" which tried to draw things out into multiple seasons that the production got in deep trouble behind the scenes, producers left, others came in and before the epic battle ending - the series was cancelled! So it's incomplete and has really NOTHING to attract anyone from watching it now knowing it just dies before the big ending the book had. Still, it's a book worth reading.
And "Dark Matter" also is a great book worth reading. I do worry that if they go with a cliffhanger without at least finishing the book then the show could be cancelled as well like so many and we won't get the payoff that the book has.
And I get it - the book has a great ending - BUT there's still a big "Then what happened?" as there's great potential to wonder about all the other Jason's running loose in this multi-verse - AND are there more villains like Jason2 out there as well. AND how will the core family of original Jason, Daniella and the kid actually are able to pick up the pieces and move on and create a new life?
There's also a hard to transmit. Psychological aspect that our Prime Jason has to live with and go through - if there was a version of him able to be so evil - then the question is are we all capable of having that evil in ourselves? And that obviously shows up in Jennifer Connelly's performance of Daniella in this episode. They had a carefree, trusting life before all this went down and now she's seen a version of her husband who she knows is doing secretive and possibly horrible things - so even if she can be certain that this is her Jason - what might she not know about him? Is he capable of the evil his doppelganger has been?
And that's the great kind of ideas good scifi does - despite all the SPECIAL EFFECTS that dominate scifi movies that are escapist and action-adventure - this kind of scifi shows us we don't think about a lot of things as deeply and critically as we think we do.
The downside of the series is it's star to me. Joel whatever his name is just has resting BAD GUY FACE. He doesn't seem at any point to be a happy go lucky kind of guy and I don't se him as a great fit for the main character. I would have loved to have seen Jennifer's real life husband play the part because he's such a better actor and I think he has way more range as an actor.
I don't know if it's even really made a point of in the book - but Jason and Daniella were to me super happy and an in love before all this goes down and I don't get this from the tv adaptation. I think there was a lot of Jason thinking about how absolutely in love he was with his wife and it doesn't come across here.
But that's a big problem in casting actors for parts in tv and film and it is really super-critical for a story like this. So like with so many casting-mismatches you have to sigh and go along with it. I love Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" but going by the book the casting of Jack Nicolson and Shelly Duvall are awful. Jack is crazy from the get-go and as a fan of the book it made me super-mad 40+ years ago to originally watch that film. But it's grown on me.
Dark Matter as a series is THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN THIS YEAR! But I still have issues with it, and went back and re-read the book to confirm them. And as always the book is better, but some of what Couch has done here to tweak his original story are actually improvements. I'd read a revision of the book with those changes and I think like it a lot.
What's been great is even knowing the road-map of the book, the tweaks have been great surprises - where are we going with this? To be surprised - to not have a clue where the plot is going next is a rare thing.
I'm going to be bummed to see this end. I would like a second season to see where else it could go into the unknown...
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