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A couple friends are now watching Dark Matter now (\o/), so I watched a few of the early episodes last night to watch along with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sheron ... and then, because the episode where we stopped was a terrible note to stop on, skipped ahead to an episode in season three, so what's under the cut is are a couple of random spoilery thoughts about that episode. Sorry, Sheron. XD
I skipped ahead to the time loop episode because after watching several eps in a row in which everyone is at each other's throats and distrusts each other, not to mention all the SPACE ZOMBIES, I just needed a feel-good episode in which everyone is getting along, and 3x04 is possibly my favorite feel-good episode from the whole series. (Aside from the OH GOD DYSTOPIA of the ending. Which I am choosing to believe is an avoidable possible future, because the idea of Five ending up alone and broke at the end of everything is too much to take.)
Anyway, though, one thought I had while watching 3x04 after having just seen 1x05 (with the introduction of David Hewlett's handler character, in addition to SPACE ZOMBIES) is that the role of Adrian in S3 was probably written for Hewlett and then scheduling conflicts intervened. I have nothing whatsoever to base this on except guesswork, but he's basically the same character and they pick him up after a stray conversation about "wait, why aren't you Tabor, where's Tabor" so it's very likely that Adrian was actually going to be Tabor and then they had to change it last-minute.
And there's that scene where the walks-through-walls assassin is about to kill Three and Adrian clocks him over the head with the timey loopy device ... which really struck me on rewatch, because Adrian has zero fighting skills, is something of a coward, and has been pretty much the comic relief up to that point, and he and Three don't even like each other. But in a crisis, he actually does something that's pretty damn heroic for anyone, especially for someone whose self-defense skills are next to zero.
He drove me crazy in the first couple of episodes but had kind of grown on me by this point. I'm glad Solara and Adrian made it off the ship alive, unlike pretty much every other character who travels with the core Raza crew for more than half an episode. ;D
Actually, given that the end of season three turned out to be the forever ending, they actually left everything in a not-too-bad place for most of the major and minor characters. (with one exception, he's not dead, we never saw the body, LA LA LA LA) I'm still completely gutted that we never saw Shaw and Sarah again, or found out where the Android Revolution Front plotline was going to end up, but at least they're all alive, out there in cancelled-show limbo.
sheron ... and then, because the episode where we stopped was a terrible note to stop on, skipped ahead to an episode in season three, so what's under the cut is are a couple of random spoilery thoughts about that episode. Sorry, Sheron. XDI skipped ahead to the time loop episode because after watching several eps in a row in which everyone is at each other's throats and distrusts each other, not to mention all the SPACE ZOMBIES, I just needed a feel-good episode in which everyone is getting along, and 3x04 is possibly my favorite feel-good episode from the whole series. (Aside from the OH GOD DYSTOPIA of the ending. Which I am choosing to believe is an avoidable possible future, because the idea of Five ending up alone and broke at the end of everything is too much to take.)
Anyway, though, one thought I had while watching 3x04 after having just seen 1x05 (with the introduction of David Hewlett's handler character, in addition to SPACE ZOMBIES) is that the role of Adrian in S3 was probably written for Hewlett and then scheduling conflicts intervened. I have nothing whatsoever to base this on except guesswork, but he's basically the same character and they pick him up after a stray conversation about "wait, why aren't you Tabor, where's Tabor" so it's very likely that Adrian was actually going to be Tabor and then they had to change it last-minute.
And there's that scene where the walks-through-walls assassin is about to kill Three and Adrian clocks him over the head with the timey loopy device ... which really struck me on rewatch, because Adrian has zero fighting skills, is something of a coward, and has been pretty much the comic relief up to that point, and he and Three don't even like each other. But in a crisis, he actually does something that's pretty damn heroic for anyone, especially for someone whose self-defense skills are next to zero.
He drove me crazy in the first couple of episodes but had kind of grown on me by this point. I'm glad Solara and Adrian made it off the ship alive, unlike pretty much every other character who travels with the core Raza crew for more than half an episode. ;D
Actually, given that the end of season three turned out to be the forever ending, they actually left everything in a not-too-bad place for most of the major and minor characters. (with one exception, he's not dead, we never saw the body, LA LA LA LA) I'm still completely gutted that we never saw Shaw and Sarah again, or found out where the Android Revolution Front plotline was going to end up, but at least they're all alive, out there in cancelled-show limbo.
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I loved Solara, but Adrian really got on my nerves.
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Also, I've seen rumors that Wexler might have been added to the crew in S4, which ... way to make Adrian look good by comparison, show. XD
Solara was SO GREAT, though. I'm so glad she made it through the season alive.