This article was brought to my attention today:
Dark Matter: All the loose ends we want tied up
“Watching the closing moments of Dark Matter was a little like taking a book out of the library and finding out some colossal douchenugget had torn out the last chapter.”
Well, yes. That WAS more or less it.
Lucas Hill-Paul, the writer of the article, lists the following loose ends.
The Black Ships
“An imposing fleet, their arrival promised an exciting new threat for season 4. Sadly, we’ll never get to see who or what were in the pilot seats.”
One of the biggest builds planned for the show’s fourth was the interior of one of these black ships as a mid-season episode would have seen our crew, under the direction of the Galactic Authority, teaming with a Stellar Defense Corps special forces unit (including black ops specialist Solara Shockley) to infiltrate and take out one of the enemy ships as it drains/draws immense power from a nearby star. THAT episode would have given us a sneak peek inside the black ships – and a confirmed visual on the invaders.
Aliens
The aliens were actually introduced back in season 2 (“Going Out Fighting”) when THREE became host to one. They made another appearance in season 3 when the crew stumbled upon a secret Dwarf Star facility containing an army of bio-synthetic beings – as well as a gateway to…somewhere else.
TWO is compromised
TWO is compromised by one of the aforementioned aliens and takes out our Android – only to be taken down, in turn, by Ryo Ishida. If you’d like to find out what lay ahead for TWO, check out the –
Virtual Season 4 – Episode 4.01
SIX is dead?
Say it isn’t so! Was that really a Goodbye Forever hug he shared with FIVE in the the final moments of the season 3 finale? For the answer to that, I once against direct you to…
Virtual Season 4 – Episode 4.01
Sarah
And what of Sarah, THREE’s former love? When last we saw her, her consciousness had been uploaded to an android body. Well, the plan was to see her rise to prominence within the leadership of the android liberation movement – but a series of events would eventually lead to a schism, an internal power struggle, and Sarah’s accession as our Big Bad for the show’s fifth and final season.
The Android’s Future
Late in season 3’s fourth episode, All the Time in the World, Android does a little time-skipping and experiences future flashes of herself: being stunned by THREE on the bridge (revealed, in a later episode, to actually be our AU Marcus Boone), in the mess with TWO grieving the loss of someone closer to her (planned for season 4), disassembled on an operating table (another season 4 story), and, finally, on the bridge of the Raza where she encounters a much older FIVE who offers her a few predictions. She cites: the Dwarf Star conspiracy (that we begin to unravel later in season 3’s eleventh episode, the appropriately titled “The Dwarf Star Conspiracy”), the doubled deception (a hint at a late season 5 turn), Kryden (we are introduced to Kryden in the first episode of the show’s fourth season – see above), Carina (FIVE’s long lost sister introduced in our virtual season 4 episode here, here and here), the Accelerated (season 5!), the fall of the House of Ishida (witnessed later in season 3’s “My Final Gift To You”), “A meeting with your creator” (Episode 310, “Built, Not Born”), and the Black Ships (we glimpse in the season 3 finale).
It’s frustrating – like knowing a huge secret but not being able to divulge to anyone.
Anyway, stay tuned. Dark Matter season 4’s fourth virtual episode will drop in the coming weeks – and it’s a terrific time travel tale scripted by none other than Stargate’s very own Carl Binder!
[And a huge thanks to Tom Gardiner for all the awesome gifs!]
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