Television Dark matter season finale thoughts

[666]

Warning: if you haven't watched the show up to Episode 7 yet there might be some spoilers to you.

Anyways I watched the season finale today and I thought the ending was pretty dismal and they missed out on a great opportunity. Prior to the finale we see more and more 'Jasons' from different dimensions converging on the same world and they all want the same thing:

To have their wife and kid back. So some lucky bastard of the Jasons gets to her first and convinces her he's the real one so she goes with him. It's the final scene that really irritates me though:

Spoiler

Chad Jason and his wife go to leave the world and all the other Beta cuck Jason's are standing there outside of the portal box like 'we're not here to stop you, we just want to say bye..'

Then the bitch wife doesn't even say bye and walks past about 50 of these other Jason's leaving them all blue balled and wide-eyed. If she had any decency she would've let all the other Jason's run a train on her as a final farewell.

That would've been a way better ending. Or Alpha Jason could've shown a little empathy and picked one of the cuck Jason's to take along with them to the new dimension and spit roast her high fiving eachother but he's a greedy little bitch too. Just so much wrong with that ending I had to share my thoughts on the matter.

 

[Hog-train]

Underwhelming ending. They could have run a bukakke train.

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Yes it did get kind of confusing at the end. I suppose the writing could have been a little bit better to reassure the audience that the main Jason found them. I guess you just got to assume it's him unless shown otherwise

 

[SmoothPies]

The book gave the ending scene a lot more detail and it wrapped it up a bit better.

For example, Chad Jason was a lot more active on the message boards, and he is the one that actually proposes a lottery system as he feels the moral dilemma of being the one that ends up with the family. Daniella shuts that down after the house raid.

Overall though, I agree... I think they could have finished it a little better.

The author's best book IMO is Recursion, it's a unique take on time travel. I hope they make that one next

 

[Bojka]

I thought it was a very good show, but yeah the ending wasn't great. If there were infinitely many good Jason's, there should have been infinitely many realities with the correct Daniela to return to as well (as the reality with bad Jason and the correct Daniela would've splintered into infinitely many timelines in the weeks/months good Jason was gone). They could've explored that and it didn't really make sense why so many of the good Jason's would've converged into one of the infinitely many versions of reality they could've returned to either. Especially since a lot of the good Jason's would've died or not made it back for whatever other reason.

I also thought some of the good Jason's diverged too much in behaviour when they were the same person up until not very long ago.

It ended up sacrificing logical coherence for drama in the end.

 

[666]

I thought it was a very good show, but yeah the ending wasn't great. If there were infinitely many good Jason's, there should have been infinitely many realities with the correct Daniela to return to as well (as the reality with bad Jason and the correct Daniela would've splintered into infinitely many timelines in the weeks/months good Jason was gone). They could've explored that and it didn't really make sense why so many of the good Jason's would've converged into one of the infinitely many versions of reality they could've returned to either. Especially since a lot of the good Jason's would've died or not made it back for whatever other reason.

I also thought some of the good Jason's diverged too much in behaviour when they were the same person up until not very long ago.

It ended up sacrificing logical coherence for drama in the end.

Yea man way too much difference in personalities too

 

[milliniar]

I thought it was a very good show, but yeah the ending wasn't great. If there were infinitely many good Jason's, there should have been infinitely many realities with the correct Daniela to return to as well (as the reality with bad Jason and the correct Daniela would've splintered into infinitely many timelines in the weeks/months good Jason was gone). They could've explored that and it didn't really make sense why so many of the good Jason's would've converged into one of the infinitely many versions of reality they could've returned to either. Especially since a lot of the good Jason's would've died or not made it back for whatever other reason.

I also thought some of the good Jason's diverged too much in behaviour when they were the same person up until not very long ago.

It ended up sacrificing logical coherence for drama in the end.

I actually mentioned that to my wife lol. But not all had ampoules. But any who did should've been able to think of it.

 

[Hog-train]

Yea man way too much difference in personalities too

Yea but in an infinite amount of realities, different Jasons would have had different reactions to this extreme stimuli.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

The book gave the ending scene a lot more detail and it wrapped it up a bit better.

For example, Chad Jason was a lot more active on the message boards, and he is the one that actually proposes a lottery system as he feels the moral dilemma of being the one that ends up with the family. Daniella shuts that down after the house raid.

Overall though, I agree... I think they could have finished it a little better.

The author's best book IMO is Recursion, it's a unique take on time travel. I hope they make that one next

This guy gets it. And yes, Recursion is his best work. Very interest take on time travel and memories.

 

[deviake]

Lol, thought this was a different Dark Matter from back yonder that was cancelled, was wondering why it was being brought up

 

[Renard]

I don't think he told Daniela he's the "real" one. There's a scene in the car where it's implied Jason explains the whole thing. If he explained it properly, she knows none of the Jasons are fake. The particular Jason we follow the entire story is the one who wins though.

If you like stuff like this you'll enjoy the movie Coherence if you haven't seen it already. It executes the concept in a more logical and succinct way.