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Dark Matter Cast News: Sipos, Rose, Cadranel, Drummond

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 09/07/2018 by pixel5130/01/2019
Kate Drummond and Jodie Dowdall

Kate Drummond and Jodie Dowdall in the 2016 short film IT’S ABOUT TIME

Kate Drummond (Sajen in “The Dwarf Star Conspiracy“) stars as Claire Porter in the mystery/thriller NOWHERE. Claire’s teenage daughter Sarah vanishes after a basketball team hazing goes wrong. She is joined in her search for Sarah by the team’s coach (Rya Kihlstedt), whose desire to protect the team conflicts with her desire to help. First time director Thomas Michael co-wrote the script with Paolo Mancini. NOWHERE completed filming in and around North Bay, Ontario in June, and will be released in the US and Canada next year.

Drummond is also Fun Fanny in FRAT PACK, a comedy about Elliot (Richard Alan Reid), a shy British guy who just graduated university. He travels to the US for his mother’s wedding (she is marrying into a prominent American family), and is taken on an impromptu road trip by his future stepbrothers to a fraternity party. Along for the ride is their neighbor, Skylar (Rachel Risen), who catches Elliot’s eye. FRAT PACK is available on Amazon Video, and on iTunes. Daily Motion has a trailer. Continue reading →

Posted in Dark Matter, General, TV | Tagged Anne Mroczkowski, Designated Survivor, Inga Cadranel, It's About Time, Jessica Sipos, Kate Drummond, Nowhere, Ruby Rose, Signed Sealed Delivered, The Death and Life of John F Donovan, The Meg, The Rest of Us | Leave a reply

Five at the End of Time

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 29/06/2017 by pixel5102/02/2019

DARK MATTER – Season 3 Episode 4 – SPOILERS

Natalie Brown and Anthony Lemke

The temporal loop provides Three with time to decide how to deal with virtual Sarah.

The Raza is accidentally rescued from one of Ryo’s mercenaries by a time loop created by a device brought on board by Adrian Maro. From Three’s attempts to convince others of his plight, we learn that the first girl Solara ever kissed was named Trina, and that Maro once snuck off a space station in drag to avoid the Galactic Authority. Also, at least one corporation has made a breakthrough in phasing technology. Once convinced of the reality of the time loop, The Android makes things really interesting by engaging in what Five calls “time skipping”.

Michael Reventar

Ryo’s assassin Ash (Michael Reventar) was captured by Two (right) and made a permanent part of the Raza (left)

The Android’s first time skip takes her to the ship’s bridge. She sees Two on the monitor, then Three walks onto the bridge and shoots her. Second skip – Android is sitting with a cup of hot chocolate, crying. Two tells her that, in this instance, her tears are an expression of grief. Third skip – The Android is partially disassembled in a secure Electus Corp. research facility where she was transferred after her capture by the GA. She is questioned about her involvement with the Android Liberation Front. Her fourth and final skip takes her again to the bridge of the Raza, in a place nearly devoid of stars.

Jodelle Ferland

Five (Jodelle Ferland) guides the timeline by giving hints to The Android.

FIVE: “Hello, Android. Welcome to the end of time.”
ANDROID: “What happened to the stars?”
FIVE: “We’re in a place whee the stars are few and far between. A long, long way from home.”
ANDROID:
“This is the future?”
FIVE: “Yes. You’ve been doing some time skipping.”
ANDROID: “What happened to you? To us?”
FIVE: “Very bad things. I’ve been waiting for you longer than I can remember, and now that you’re finally here, I’m going to have to make this quick. You have a little over two minutes before you jump again.”

Five still refers to her as “Android”, meaning that even in the far future, The Android still has no name. The Android survives into the far future with black hair and one red eye. She must have survived as long as Five, or else she could not have time-skipped her consciousness to that time period. Five also says that the rest of the crew is “gone, long time ago.” She could have said dead, but didn’t. She said they were gone.

Zoie Palmer

Far-future Android, with dark hair, a Borg-like attachment on her right temple, and a red right eye.

A reasonable interpretation of Five’s crypticisms is that Five at some point repairs the time travel device (or obtains another) after the Android follows her instructions and destroys it. She has an intact device in the future, and has used it to alter the timeline for some purpose which she has not revealed, but why she needs to physically hand it to The Android is puzzling. The Android’s body is not traveling through time.

The low incidence of stars could be accounted for in two ways. Five could have used the device to take the Raza to the far future, a time after the disintegration of galaxies. Or she could have used the blink drive to send the Raza into the depth of intergalactic space where stars are also few and far between. Perhaps she sent other surviving crew members into different time periods.

With the clear purpose of influencing the timeline, Five gives The Android eight hints about what is to come. The clues are likely in chronological order. They are:

Anthony Lemke and Zoie Palmer

The Android (Zoie Palmer) and Three (Anthony Lemke) sing the French folk song Dominique, made popular in 1963 by Sœur Sourire. It’s part of Three’s French lessons which in turn are a part of Three’s attempts to convince the rest of the crew that they are stuck in a time loop and only he is aware of it. Zoie Palmer also sang in French in LOST GIRL episode 4.7, “La Fae Epoch”.

— Dwarf Star’s conspiracy
— The double deception
— Kryden
— Carina
— The Accelerated
— The fall of the House of Ishida
— a meeting between The Android and her creator
— The Black Ships

ANDROID: “What does it all mean?”
FIVE: “Not a happy ending for everyone, but a positive result for the rest of the galaxy. Telling you may motivate you to try to change your future, and I can’t take that chance.”

Like Five said, some crew members will have a happy ending.


NOTES

Brittany Johnson

Brittany Johnson (right) in the MURDOCH MYSTERIES episode “Friday the 13th 1901“

Brittany Johnson (Sardi in episode 2.11) will be Layla in LITTLE ITALY, the tale of a young couple, Nikki and Leo, who try to preserve their romance, despite a war between their families’ competing pizza restaurants. Emma Roberts, who plays Nikki, told Just Jared: “It’s a romantic comedy and the director is Donald Petrie, who did How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Miss Congeniality, and he worked with my aunt [Julia Roberts] in Mystic Pizza. It’s going to be a really fun movie; it’s one of those where you laugh, you cry, you smile. I feel like I haven’t seen any of those movies lately and those are what I love.” LITTLE ITALY recently completed filming in Toronto, and will be released sometime next year.

Jodelle Ferland and Marc Bendavid will be guests at Shore Leave Con, 7-9 July in Huntsville, MD.

Taylor Schilling and Ruby Rose

Taylor Schilling and Ruby Rose in ORANGE IN THE NEW BLACK

Ruby Rose (Wendy in episode 1.7) is Calamity in the musical comedy PITCH PERFECT 3. The second sequel follows the now separated Bellas as they reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour. They face a group which uses both instruments and voices. The film will be in US theatres beginning 22 December. A trailer is available on YouTube.

Posted in Dark Matter, science fiction, TV | Tagged Anthony Lemke, Brittany Johnson, Jodelle Ferland, Little Italy, Marc Bendavid, Michael Reventar, Natalie Brown, Pitch Perfect 3, Ruby Rose, Shore Leave Con, Zoie Palmer

Romance on The Raza

PIXEL 51 - STIMULI (The Blog) Posted on 19/05/2017 by pixel5102/02/2019
Zoie Palmer and Brendan Murray

The Android (Zoie Palmer) dreams of Victor
.

Saving the galaxy from corporate oppression is a full time job, so DARK MATTER’s band of fugitives has had little time for romantic entanglements. And somehow it seems that when two people get entangled on The Raza, one of the two often dies. For instance, Three‘s past-life girlfriend Sarah (Natalie Brown) was brought out of stasis for an episode and did not survive. One had a brief dalliance with Wendy the Pleasure Bot (Ruby Rose), then Wendy went rogue and was dismantled. (We don’t know what happened to her parts.) Here is a list of seven other relationships that have developed on The Raza, their (suggested) ship names, and what befell them.

Shaun Sipos

Doctor Devon (Shaun Sipos) might not be entirely aware of Emily’s crush on him.

Portia and Derrick (DERTIA) – One and Two had something going for a while. After One was identified by authorities to be Derrick Moss and not the fugitive Jace Corso, he was (for no identifiable reason) gunned down by Corso. Two was upset enough about the death of Moss that she hunted Corso down and personally killed him. (In the online role playing game World of Warcraft, Dertia is vengeance incarnate.)

Emily and Devon (DEVILY) – Five (aka Emily) began to have feelings for Devon Taltherd (Shaun Sipos), the doctor who helped the crew escape from prison on Hyperion-8. Before she could act on those feelings, Devon was stabbed and left for dead on Regulus-12 by one of Hansmeed‘s henchmen. Emily still doesn’t know what happened to him, and thinks he may have simply left without saying goodbye. We didn’t actually see Devon die, so he could still be alive.

Alex Mallari Jr and Melanie Liburd

Four (Alex Mallari, Jr.) polishes his sword
as he talks to Nyx

Ryo and Nyx (FOURNYX) – Nyx Harper (Melanie Liburd) was poisoned by the jealous and ambitious Misaki (Ellen Wong) at the end of Season Two, putting an end to her relationship with Four. This was disappointing in many ways, but mainly because of the excellent ship name. (The fornix is a triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus. Damage to the fornix can cause difficulty in recalling long-term information such as details of past events, but it has little effect on the ability to recognize objects or familiar situations. That is very similar to the sort of memory loss The Raza‘s crew suffered in the first episode of the series.)

Melisssa O'Neil and Anthony Lemke

Two (Melissa O’Neil) and Three (Anthony Lemke) – together in the altverse.

Portia and Marcus (PORCUS) – Two and Three had a one night stand before Two and One became a thing, but Three was put off when it was discovered that Two was not quite human (at least not in the usual sense) and the relationship did not continue, though before One‘s death, Three often seemed to be jealous of him and his relationship with Two. Portia and Marcus are definitely an item in the alternate universe. Three has almost died several times since, but on each occasion was rescued by Six. (Six (aka Kal Varrik, played by Roger Cross) is the only crew member who has had no romantic entanglements of any kind.)
.

Marc Bendavid and Ruby Rose

Derrick Moss (Marc Bendavid) encounters Wendy (Ruby Rose) in his quarters.

The Android and Victor (ANTOR) – In Episode 2.4, Victor (Brendan Murray) gave The Android her upgrade chip and shortly thereafter her first kiss. Six episodes later, The Android came close to having dream sex with him during her charging cycle. (The cycle ended just as she and Victor were getting started.) The Android has flirted with Three on a couple of occasions, but given Three‘s reaction to Two‘s origins, a relationship seems unlikely. So far as we know, nothing bad has befallen Victor. This could be because he has never physically been on The Raza.

Posted in Dark Matter, science fiction, TV | Tagged Alex Mallari Jr., Anthony Lemke, Brendan Murray, Ellen Wong, Jodelle Ferland, Marc Bendavid, Melanie Liburd, Melissa O'Neil, Natalie Brown, Ruby Rose, Shaun Sipos, Zoie Palmer

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