Last week’s episode ended on a real shocker when One was apparently gunned down by Jace Corso. In “Kill Them All” Dark Matter has taken that initial shocking moment in the season premiere and increased it exponentially. This is the second time in as many episodes that we have been completely surprised.
No one else “dies” but a beloved character has taken off the gloves and shown her real center and it is not soft and gooey after all. (Although another character does come very close to expiring in this episode.)
“Kill Them All” starts with a very wealthy (apparently) woman who is searching for Five. Calling the girl Pumpkin her reaction at learning where Five is does not come across as maternal. It seems someone has a score to settle.
Commander Shaddick (Franka Potente) questions Six about his time on the Raza. He reveals that the crew learned he was an undercover GA officer and that Five saved him with the memory wipe program. Shaddick accuses Six of taking too long to act and being partly responsible for the destruction of medical research facility.
Shaddick moves past the veiled accusation and both she and Six agree that the explosion was meant to be an act of corporate war. The next Raza crew member to be questioned is Five. The commander tells her that Emily Kolburn is Five’s real name but she opts to stick to her “adoptive” name of Five.
The two speak of how Five got on board the Raza and Shaddick surmises that she was a stowaway. Rather interestingly, Shaddick says that Five’s file revealed that there was no one who “would give a damn” about her. Apparently something has been covered up as the rich woman at the start of the episode seemed to give more than a damn…
As with Six, Shaddick accuses Five of aiding and abetting the Raza crew and killing all those people in the Mekei Combine and the destroying the planet. Shaddick mentions the girl can help Six by snitching on the crew and Five refuses. The Commander threatens Five but says she can play nice.
Five: “No I don’t think you can.”
Shaddick: “Why do you say that?”
Five: “Because you’re obviously an incredible b*tch.”
The warden (Carlo Rota) orders the three Raza crew members murdered before Shaddick can question them. Nyx offers to help the three escape and mid negation Two, Three and Four are sent to waste disposal. Once there they are locked in the disposal system to die.
Arax lets them loose.
The commander brings Six in to order The Android to relinquish the ship’s files. Six tells her to cooperate but the robot refuses on the grounds that he was never really member of the crew.
Six
Shaddick questions the rest of the Raza crew. She tries to turn each crew member. Four is told that he will be extradited for killing his father. The warden is not happy that the prisoners were not killed.
Commander Truffault (Torri Higginson) attempts to get Three to sell everyone out. He refuses and she does something to his eye. After their meeting he trades two days rations for a lipstick from Nyx. He draws the blueprint to the prison under his mattress.
Arax tells the three remaining crew members that he wants to join their prison break. Nyx brings bad news; the supply run has been cancelled. Four makes plans to get his extradition ship for their escape.
Anders (Jeff Teravainen) reveals that Six’s former crew mates are marked for murder or life imprisonment. Six apologizes to Five and she tells him he needs to help them get out. Two meets with Six when she is put in solitary. He offers to help out the team.
Four is collected from the infirmary by his extradition escort. Five enters the lab where The Android is being held and Shaddick believes that she will order the robot to cooperate.
Inside the room, Five tells the commander that she lied. The woman slaps Five and The Android looks angry. Shaddick takes a weapon from a guard and points it at Five’s face. She orders her to cooperate or she will die.
Four is taken from the infirmary. The intern argues for him to stay and accompanies four to the ship. Two is released back into the general population and the the riot begins. Six disables the locks on The Android. Five asks the robot if she will do exactly as she says and The Android replies that she will.
Five then says, “Kill them all.”
The Android does.
Joseph Mallozzi, who wrote this episode, has yanked the rug right out from under the viewers by having Five turn into Pike Bishop from The Wild Bunch. It is the computer hacker who says the title line “Kill them all” with all the quiet venom and coldness that the “Bunch’s” leader uses when he says “If they move kill ’em.”
This was a genuinely shocking moment. Five has always been the good one. The kind one. “The kid.” This has all changed and it shows just how little we really know about the littlest Raza member.
Meanwhile the riot continues until the sonic disabler is set off and everyone goes down. As the guards begin clearing up, the nanites repair Two and she begins the escape by changing the frequency of the disabler. The warden shuts off the main power as everyone starts coming to.
Five stops and retrieves the weapon that Anders repaired and she starts using it to stop guards in the hallway. Four has a fight with his escort using samurai swords after they all wake up. Just as he starts to fight his childhood friend Misaki (Ellen Wong) Five shoots her.
Ellen Wong as Misaki
As the escapees start to leave Anders arrives to stop them and Six shoots his colleague. The two exchange shots and Six goes down. Anders looks like he might be dead.
Six is wounded so badly that they put him in stasis. The ship has all the Raza crew, sans One, and three new additions to the team. Nyx, Arax and the intern.
The Raza crew learn about One’s apparent demise. The rich woman learns that Five escaped and she prepares to collect the escapes.
Dark Matter has ripped off the childish facade of Five and shown that underneath it all she is a coldblooded as any of the crew members. This was another shocking episode and one that kept things moving along at a wicked pace.
(On a cheerier note, Three ate much less in this week’s episode although he did manage to snag some grapes from Arax.)
Kudos to Jodelle Ferland for kicking arse in “Kill Them All.” This seasoned actress has got massive chops and she is not afraid to use them. (She gave this reviewer goosebumps when she passed the death sentence on Shaddick and her cronies.)
Season two continues to be a rollicking roller coaster ride of reveals and close calls. Dark Matter airs Fridays on SyFy and Space. Watch this show as this is entertainment with a capital E.
The Dark Matter season two opener; “Welcome to Your New Home,” starts with Two, Four and Three being told to strip down to their skivvies. After being handed their all purpose prison outfits they move into the general population of the prison.
One and Five are in a separate room and Six comes in to reveal his true identity (Lieutenant Kal Varrick, Galactic Authority, Special Investigations Unit) and to explain what happened. Five feels betrayed and angry. She slaps Six and tells him to shut up. As the three argue, One’s attorney shows up and stops everything. He is to be released.
Six recommends that Portia (Two) be kept in isolation but lies about the reason. He neglects to mention the nanites. One is placed in a hotel room and his lawyer suggests he get his old face back. He refuses and asks for the police files on his wife’s murder.
Three meets some old colleagues from his past and just as things get interesting, a female inmate shows up. Her name is Nyx and she stops things from getting out of hand. Nyx takes over bullying Three and Two arrives to intervene. The two women fight and Nyx seems an even match for the enhanced Two.
The women are shot (stunned) and Three wakes in the infirmary. Another inmate tells him that getting injured is the way to get special treatment. Two regains consciousness in solitary confinement.
The Android refuses to cooperate with the data technician and he threatens to take the information by force. The robot then explains that her security measures will destroy everything. (The Android still has that glitch. When told her personality matrix will also be destroyed she states that will be “regrettable.”)
One meets the temporary CEO of his dad’s (now his) company. Darius, who was a personal friend of One’s father, is anxious to get the new owner back in the driver’s seat. One is not keen to start yet. He wants to investigate his wife’s murder. He seems intent on clearing Marcus Boone and finding the real culprit. Derrick (One) tells Darius that he wants to question the only witness to his wife’s murder.
Three thugs attempt to force Four to meet with their boss. He refuses and begins fighting. A riot ensues and the prison shuts it down with a sonic disabling device.
Lt. Anders (Jeff Teravainen) fixes the faulty weapon from the Raza. He tells Six that the trial that was being pushed for the other crew members has been postponed. Anders suggests that Six back off as it appears to be a big corporate battle. “Justice,” says Anders, “left the building a long time ago.”
Two and Nyx meet in the “holo” yard. The two talk. Six goes back on board the Raza and finds part of his personnel file has a blocked portion on it. He visits Five, whom he has been plying with gifts, and asks her to hack the classified part of his file.
He also tells Five her real name Emily Kolburn. She is 16 and both her parents are dead. Five ran away from an orphanage at age 12 and she is a survivor.
One learns that the witness he wanted to speak with was killed in bar fight.
Four goes to see prison gang leader Arax Nero. Nero explains to Ryo that the warden wants the instigator of the riot handed over for punishment. Arax reveals that there are two gangs in the prison and he tells Four about the sonic disabler and how the guards are made immune to the device.
Nero warns Four about trying to escape and threatens the diminished Raza crew.
Three is assigned to the prison laundry.
Six stops by to see One and tells him that Five will be okay; the charges are being dropped. The two men talk and Derrick reveals that something does not feel right. He believes that Darius wants him out of the way. Six says he is being paranoid after spending too much time on the Raza.
Back in the laundry, Three decides to injure himself. Five hacks the blocked portion of Six’s file and Three ends up in the infirmary. The gorgeous nurse is gone and the old “clever” inmate is also missing. He has been moved to the psych ward for self harming. “Shock treatment,” the intern tells Three.
In solitary confinement, Nyx tells Two that the rushed trial is not normal procedure. Six confronts Anders about the GA decision to bomb Hyadium-12 and learns that the Lt. told him before he lost his memory. Six is angry that the GA murdered innocent people and it is a game changer for the undercover agent.
Again.
Four reveals the news about sonic disabler to his two shipmates. They believe that Two’s nanites will help her with the riot control device. Three is upset that Two has made nice with Nyx. “Please tell me that you did not make friends with her. She’s mean.” (Perhaps the best line in the episode.)
Five is told she will be sent to a “group” home as they escort her to be transported, a woman arrives and stops the proceedings. She is Commander Shaddick (played by the brilliant Franka Potente) who informs Six that she is taking over the Raza case.
The youngest crew member is now not going to a group home and the promise of no criminal charges has been taken off the table.
Back at the motel room, One; Derrick Moss, answers his door to find Jace there. “Long time no see,” the criminal says as he draws a silenced pistol and shoots Derrick repeatedly. He appears to finish off the murder with a single shot to the head.
Cue audience shock.
Season two of Dark Matter continues to peel back layers and reveal more behind each character and the storyline. Six is still a man upset by mass murder though. The Android is still delightfully irascible and unmoving in her loyalty to the Raza crew and her personality matrix.
Five is still the unknown factor here. Despite the new information revealed by Six there is a lot more here than meets the eye. This show continues to surprise and mystify. So much is going on here with the characters alone that even watching carefully does not reveal all the clues on offer.
(Prepare for another shocker next week. A real “We told you so” moment for one of the characters…)
Two, aka Portia (Melissa O’Neil
Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie are pulling no punches this season. Although…harking back to season one; at one point it seemed that Portia (Two) was murdered. (Shoved outside the ship while in space.) Could One’s murder be a ruse, something that the richer than rich magnate paid Jace to help him pull off? Only time and more episodes will tell.
Kudos to Anthony Lemke for continuing to make Three the most interesting and amusing character on the show. Also hats off the Jodelle for bringing it as the “Artful Dodger” of the Raza.
Dark Matter airs Fridays on SyFy and the Canadian science fiction network Space. Tune in and do not miss an episode.
At long last Dark Matter is returning to our screens. Co-creatorJoseph Mallozzi has kept his promise from last year’s interview with Mike’s Film Talk and kept the mystery burning bright. The show’s season two premiere airs tomorrow; 1 July on SyFy and while it may be a tad slow, compared to last year.s finale it does manage to be pretty shocking.
Looking at the first two episodes, but not reviewing them yet (That would be spoiler city and very unpopular with everyone.) fans are in for a treat with season two. The gang are all back and we learn more about their past lives.
Six is revealed to be a law enforcement official and the rest of the Raza crew are split into criminal and “not-criminal” quarters. Two, Three and Four are all placed in with the general populace while One and Five are in protected custody.
The Android is in a tech lab and proving to be a handful.
The first episode is slow, it is, after all, setting up this new predicament for the crew and it is a bit stationary compared to the fluidity of space. This is prison and it entails rules, gangs and “fitting in.”
All the characters, with the exception of Six, are exactly as we remember them. Three is irascible and quite comfortable in the stir. Four and Two are equally at home in this prison environment.
More is learned about the bombing, which so disturbed Six when he suffered from double memory loss. There is a lot going on behind the scenes and it looks like a few more people may be joining the Raza crew.
Brit actress Melanie Liburd is Nyx; an inmate who appears to be a match for Two, seems to be on board. Although things get off to a rocky start initially. Gang leader Arax Nero, played by Mike Dopud, is also supportive after starting out on the wrong fool Nero and Nyx may be “on-side” but their motives are a tad unclear at this point.
There are a number of well known performers turning up in this season of Dark Matter. Keep your eyes peeled for Franka Potente to make an appearance. The Run Lola Run and Creep actress (who was spectacular as the hit-woman in The Bridge) shows up and knocks it out of the park.
The actors all continue to deliver in spades. Even in this new setting they all maintain their characters and the paths they walk. One crew member, however, shows a new side. This surprising turn also shocks a little.
One slight word of complaint would be that there was not enough Zoie Palmer in the opening episode but that is rectified by episode two. Before then the crew learn that there is much more going on their arrests and imprisonment. A device must be found in order to stop a corporate war.
Zoie Palmer as The Android
Dark Matter airs Fridays on SyFy. Tune in and be ready for a slow open but pay attention! If you have forgotten last season a lot of hints are hidden in plain sight in this show. Do not miss this season two open. In the mean time let your excitement build and watch this trailer. One more night…
A September 1, press release from SyFy has announced that the popular science fiction drama mystery Dark Matter has been given the greenlight for a further 13 episodes in a second season. SyFy will premiere the Prodigy Pictures property in 2016 . Dark Matter follows the six member crew of the Raza who initially wake as strangers in a ship that is about to crash. With no memories of who they are the group bond and the first season followed their journey as they became a team and then a family.
According to SyFy the series got around 1.8 million viewers during its first season on the network. The Senior Vice President of Program Strategy for SyFy, Chris Regina revealed that the series has a passionate fanbase who are “loyal and engaged with the show’s creators.
Show runner, executive producer and creator Joseph Mallozzi told MikesFilmTalk that he is “Looking forward to blowing audience minds for one more year!” Joseph gave the site an in-depth interview about Dark Matterand it’s season one finale.
Dark Matter was created and developed from Joseph and Paul Mullie’s graphic novel of the same name and was developed with Prodigy Pictures (who produce Lost Girl). Dark Matter stars Melissa O’Neil, Marc Bendavid, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr., Jodelle Ferland, Roger Cross and Zoie Palmer, with a recurring role by David Hewlett.
Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, Vanessa Piazza and Jay Firestone are executive producers for the show.
For anyone who watched the first season this will be exciting news. The season finale was a two-hour surprise ending that left many questions for fans. Now there will be a chance to learn more about this fascinating verse. The season one finale can be viewed here and the MikesFilmTalk recap and review can be read here.
Congratulations to Joseph, the cast and the crew for getting a second season. Fans will be, as I am, excited that this brilliant show is coming back.
[UPDATE] For those fans of Dark Matter who watched the season finale and read this interview afterward, the actor seen walking the “long slow walk” off the ship with Six (Roger Cross) is none other than Canadian actorJeff Teravainen who plays Galactic Authority Officer Lt. Anders in episode 8 and the final episode of the season. To all those who ventured guesses via social media thanks for playing.
On August 26, after watching the season one finale of Dark Matter, MikesFilmTalk (MFT) got to interview show runner, creator, and executive producer Joseph Mallozzi.
Dark Matter is the latest offering from the man whose name is synonymous with science fiction. The award winning writer/producer has been involved with all three Stargate shows, SG1, Atlantis and Universe.
Joseph and I have been direct messaging on Twitter since I began writing reviews and recaps of Dark Matter and the first thing I discovered when talking to him on the phone is that Mr. Mallozzi is one heck of a nice chap.
During our call, Joseph spoke of many things; not, however, ships and sails and sealing wax, but the topics were varied.
Dark Matter Cast:Anthony Lemke is not like his character but in some ways, he can be. When someone new shows up on set, it is Anthony who automatically meets and greets the visitor.
Jodelle Ferland is the most experienced in terms of acting. Jodelle has been working since the ripe old age of 2 and now at 20, she has a total of 18 years in front of the camera.
Jodelle and Roger both lived near Joseph, as did many of the cast and crew, and it made for a real feeling of family.
Roger Cross and Jodelle Ferland used to watch The Walking Deadat Joseph’s place, along with his girlfriend, and he would make milkshakes for the occasion.
Jodelle Ferland (Five) and Roger Cross (Six). “The Walking Dead Fans.”
Alex Mallari Jr came across as such as nice and open person in conversations after auditions that Joseph actually began to secretly root for him to play Four. Once he had been cast, Alex also had to come in very early each day to have his tattoos covered up before filming. He got up even earlier to work out every day.
Julie Benz (Star of Defiance, another SyFy Friday show) used to walk her dogs in the same park that Joseph walks his and they talked quite often. She is, Joseph says, “A very nice lady.”
None of the Dark Matter cast knew the ending until right before shooting on episode 1.13 began. Joseph took the entire group of actors aside and revealed “the reveal.”
Dark Matter Season Finale:
MFT: Thank you so much for having a chat with me tonight. I’ve got to tell you I just finished watching the season finale and have one thing to say, “Wow!”
Joseph:Well, when I first envisioned this show, or conceived the show and had the initial concept, I had two big moments in my mind that I wanted to hit. Everything else sort of fell into place. Those two big moments were; the big reveal in the pilot where they find out that they are murderers and mercenaries and the last sequence of the finale where the Galactic Authority sweeps in and you see all our familiar surroundings…The feeling of the ship was like a home away from home in many ways. Not just for the characters but for the viewers as well and to see all these strangers come and take it (the ship) and to see everyone carted off and the last shot is the empty corridor and Andy Mikita, the director of the episode, did a wonderful job there.
MFT: Plus you get that moment of unreality where you see that Six is walking out. And you’re like “Oh no!”
Joseph: Right. Exactly.
MFT: The first thing I thought was, “Six?? He’s the grown up of the group. It can’t be him.”
Joseph: Well, I’ll just say, there’s more to the story there. It’s not as simple as…on the surface it looks like he’s just turned against them but there’s more there…A few hints that are in the episode and then if we get a season two…Well, we’ve already got a game plan and everything will be explained in the second season. And there will be a lot more questions. If you thought season one’s finale was big, ooh you wait till you see the end of season two.
MFT: Jumping now to Five and the conversation that she had with Six – it seemed to me that everyone kept putting a gun in her hand over the last two episodes.
Joseph:Yes, yes…
MFT: And she tells Six now I’m more like you and he says that ironically they’ve all be trying to be more like her and failing. To me, Five is the most mysterious member out of the entire crew, we know least about her out of everyone else on the ship. She is my favorite character, I refer to her as the “Artful Dodger,” she was the street kid who picked pockets to survive and I thought it was interesting that when she heard the recording her level of trust went right out the window. It shows just how fragile their relationships all are.
Joseph: I’m curious, Michael, as you watched the finale and you drew toward the end…Did you have any suspicions, a suspect?
MFT: I decided it was Five, especially after the tape (recording) and the reveal that she could do so much more than we ever suspected, like programming and so on, and that the dream, at the beginning of the episode, revealed that her experience with this bunch on the ship was pretty abysmal and this caused her to wipe everyone’s memories so they could all start fresh. Am I miles away here?
Joseph: Not really, you are fairly close. All the pieces are there to figure out. I said to the crew, the cast, just before we started filming on episode 13…We actually had 12 out of 13 episodes scripted before we went to film except for the last one. Even then. we kept the reveal a secret except for the last day and I gathered the cast on the bridge like an Agatha Christie moment, “I’ve gathered you all here…” Which, incidentally, we ended up filming and that we’ll release as a special feature.
Five, the memory wiper…
Joseph: I told the cast that the person who wiped their (character’s) memories may not be the one to worry about. She (Five) finds the recording, she overhears Two and Four threatening someone and she confides in him and Six, who at this point becomes savvy about certain things has pieced it together and realizes that she is the one who wiped everyone’s memories. Like the Android points out in Episode 3, the code was rushed because they had to get to the stasis pod, maybe that was not the original intent…And again this is something we’ll explore further down the road…But in all probability she was going to target certain memories and as a result of the accident, or the rushed code, wipes everyone’s, including her own. She asks Six, “Well why would I do this” and he says to protect someone. It’s clear now why she did it and who needed protecting.
MFT: Well, I’ve got to say that I love everything that you guys have done and for me everything clicks into place. Sorry, this is turning more into a fan-boy gush than a Q&A.
Joseph: That’s all right I love it, I love feedback.
MFT: I mentioned, in my notes for the finale preview, that we finally meet Two’s Geppetto and he turns out to be an evil bugger strapped in a bed. It is not even Will Wheaton’s character as he is the tool, or instrument, of the bed-ridden man.
Joseph: This is another one of those moments where more questions arise. You know the man ask Alex, “How old is this body?” Alex replies “24,” so you see what happens. Indeed, what does happen? Why does this individual need a body and his regular forms deteriorate so his team are working on developing a superior form which is why they created her (Rebecca/Two/Portia Lynn) and why they are working on another prototype. And the work is so secret that they cannot allow her or the crew of the Raza to survive. If we do get a second season there will be more to come on that front.
Rebecca/Two the first prototype…
MFT: I love that whole part of that storyline. I mentioned in my review that the first thing I thought of was the video game Mass Effect 2 with Miranda Lawson, the genetically enhanced “perfect” human character. I love the way the show gives nods and winks to other works in the genre.
Joseph: My influences for the show were varied. I mean I grew up being into comic books and anime, science fiction and television, film. We like to drop the occasional tributes throughout, and we used to do the same in “Stargate.”
MFT: I just love it. Going back to show and the actors, a lot of whom (my apologies to the cast here) I’d never heard of before the show, Zoie Palmer’s Android goes through the ultimate of almost sacrificing herself for Two, will she get a chance to do that again, but this time for more than just Two?
Joseph: Well, you know, Paul (Mullie) and I have convened an early writer’s room, we haven’t heard whether there will be a season two but we are fairly confident…We have the 13 episode game plan, we have the beginning, middle and the end. We have the major moments that we want to hit and we have 7 out of the 13 episodes outlined and we have some great stuff planned for all our crew, including the Android.
MFT: Speaking of other cast members, my first question for Alex Mallari Jr as Four, is did you channel your inner Caine. [Joseph laughs] You know, “Accused of a crime he did not commit, Caine is forced to flee his country…”
Joseph: It’s funny you know. That when we held auditions, I had to call several actors back, around 50 or so, and Alex was so honest and open that I ended up secretly rooting for him to get the part of Four.
Nice chap…Alex Mallari Jr, aka Four.
Joseph: He does a great job as do the entire cast.
MFT: Alex does come across as incredibly sincere on screen. I’ve sort of (rightly or wrongly) classed him as a sort of Jean-Claude Van Damme, a very fit chap, martial artist who wanted to act and is very good at it.
Joseph: He makes it look easy but Alex is the one, I mention it on the blog, who gets up at three in the morning to get his tattoos covered each day and then on top of that has to work out. It is amazing how many weapons he mastered for the first season.
MFT: I’ve got to ask, re: Two…Are there any other personalities in there, First there was Two, then Portia and now Rebecca…
Joseph: No. Those were just names, not personalities. Alex called her Rebecca and when she left she became Portia. It is interesting to note that the name she took for herself, she abandoned Rebecca for Portia and essentially she also abandons Portia to become Two.
MFT: I’ve just got to mention Will Wheaton’s character. I adore Wheaton anyway, since his days as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and everything else he’s done. His Alex was so snotty as a villain and yet the second things get rough, he’s gone. Alex points out that Rebecca has nothing wrong with her. There is no flaw, so essentially she is just naturally aggressive.
Joseph: Yes. [laughing]
MFT: Just out of curiosity, did you have an “alternate” ending set up? I know that you said this was your ending from day one, but did you have a “plan b” if things went a different direction? Or was it always going to be that situation where everyone was all out and “down for the count” at the end?
Joseph: Yes! I always approach each installment of each season like a book with a definite beginning, middle and end. So basically as a result of what happens in the finale, season two heads off into a wild and very different direction. But it was always that way…I knew who the mole was going to be and one of the great things about the show was we had time to really develop the stories. Basically it allowed us to seed in little clues and hints along the way.
Zoie Palmer as The Android
Joseph: You know it’s funny, I just saw, on the internet, where someone posted a photo from episode 3 where the Android is about to go out on her EVA and she turns to Two and Two says, “We can’t do this without you.” And Android says, Well, you can” and then turns around and leaves. I remember people going on line and saying what a weird inflection for her to say “you can.” And other people going “no, no, no, that was just the way the actress’s delivered the line.” The entire first season was peppered with little clues and hints. One, I’ll leave with you, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the individual who flanks Six in the “slow walk” out at the end, you’ve seen before.
MFT: I thought he looked familiar! But to be honest, I was still too flummoxed at Six walking out while everyone else was carted out…I did think, “Blimey he looks familiar” and the more I think about it, I seem to remember seeing him at the mining community, if I’m not mistaken.
Joseph: You are mistaken!
MFT: Darn! I’ll have to look this one up now [I’ve still not figured out where this chap was before, although I think it was at the General’s camp where Six went for revenge.] I’ve got to ask, was it One that Two and Four wanted to “off?”
Joseph: Well, all that will be revealed in season 2, it could have been One or it could have been Six…That will all be explored more in the next season. It is safe, though, to assume it is one of those two.
MFT: What was the biggest difference between working on Dark Matter and Stargate?
Joseph: Miles different. For a start I was playing in someone else’s sandbox essentially. In Dark Matter we got to tell our own stories, although we did to an extent in Stargate as well. There were differences in budget obviously and things were set up differently. Of course we were working on 13 episodes for Dark Matter versus 22 or 20 and in Stargate we had all the stories in advance and that was such a luxury. In terms of our own show, everything was planned accordingly, Paul and I planned for each episode and we knew we weren’t going to run out of money at the end of the year.
The interview finished shortly after and Joseph revealed two things. One, he is a huge Stephen Chow fan (Shaolin Soccer) and he is pretty confident that Dark Matter will get the pick up for season two.
Sadly, it looks like the Time Zone God, or perhaps the Jet Lag Deity has sabotaged the Alex Mallari Jr. interview for now. MikesFilmTalk will be covering Dark Matter, season two, if it is picked up and I have already put in requests to speak with Joelle Ferland and Anthony Lemke and Zoie Palmer and Alex and…
MikesFilmTalk would like to thank Joseph Mallozzi for taking time out of his busy evening for chatting about: Dark Matter, why Canadian TV has so many great shows out at the moment and a slew of other subjects that did not make into this interview.
Melissa O’Neil and Anthony Lemke, Two and Three…Mark BenDavid aka One – opting not to kill Three…
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