So I recently started watching Dark Matter on netflix. I am not looking for good or bad feedback on the show. I dont really care about reviews. However, the tech in the show and things of that nature is uncanny in resemblance to Elite Dangerous Universe. Just thought I would ask if anyone else has noticed that?
General / Off-Topic Dark Matter writers played ED?
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Bob Lighthouse
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Haha, agreed.
I just finished that a few weeks ago, while doing passenger runs...
It was Ascension before that!
So, now I need more cheesy sci-fi if anyone has recommendations.
I just finished that a few weeks ago, while doing passenger runs...
It was Ascension before that!
So, now I need more cheesy sci-fi if anyone has recommendations.
Farscape if you haven’t watched it. One of my favorites. Flash Gordon, not sure your age.
Bob Lighthouse
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Nice, thanks, haven't seen Farscape and will add.
"Old" so me and Flash go way back.
"Old" so me and Flash go way back.
Hahaha wasn’t sure. Most my age haven’t even seen Flash.
While i haven't thought that really anything else in this game is like anything in the show, the forthcoming Chieftain did strike me as instantly being very similar looking to the Raza (mostly because of its' engines, though an in game Raza would be more like an Anaconda or a Corvette, though we'd ideally have player controlled capital ships in Elite, even if we had more tough, relatively small ships like it'd be in this game*).
On the show, overall its' very good and i enjoyed watching it around or not long before Syfy (i miss the channels' old, normal name, the Sci Fi channel
...) put on series of the relatively similar show, Killjoys .
*On what ships an in game Raza would be more like, it'd hopefully be more like X3 Reunion's Hyperion (and specifically the original version of the ship as the first M7, before it was downgraded to an M6+ in TC) and Terran Conflict's Vidar - small, tough ships which punch above their weight, but which still lack the overall firepower and cargo space of an M2 etc, but can still destroy bigger ships easily, one on one, but perhaps not take on entire fleets, on their own as a proper capital ship can carefully do ,
Slight spoilers ahead ... spoilers ...
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Firstly while the show starts off very good, its' story and original points wanders a fair bit in the second series, though mostly recovers in the third, particularly with the fleshing out of the Android's character - unfortunately Syfy recently left the show on a cliffhanger, then cancelled it, so short of a film to finish it off or another channel picking it up, it'll never get a proper ending, but that happens with many shows, but doesn't stop them being worth watching :_ .
Indeed while you and others mentioned Farscape, i watched the series on Netflix, but it didn't have the two part mini series/DVD episode which finished it off, which last time i checked was available in full on Youtube (where i indeed had to watch it, though thankfully i could and hopefully people still can .)
Slightly bigger spoilers ahead, though they still don't spoil a massive amount...
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They annoying kill off one of the main characters in the second series, then introduce more characters which they then kill off or barely use themselves afterwards, while they half wrote out one of the shows' main characters in the third series, though they thankfully didn't completely get rid of them altogether...
Still, i'd give the show about an 8/10 overall, but like so many shows/things, it had the potential to be brilliant, it's still very good .
On the show, overall its' very good and i enjoyed watching it around or not long before Syfy (i miss the channels' old, normal name, the Sci Fi channel
...) put on series of the relatively similar show, Killjoys .*On what ships an in game Raza would be more like, it'd hopefully be more like X3 Reunion's Hyperion (and specifically the original version of the ship as the first M7, before it was downgraded to an M6+ in TC) and Terran Conflict's Vidar - small, tough ships which punch above their weight, but which still lack the overall firepower and cargo space of an M2 etc, but can still destroy bigger ships easily, one on one, but perhaps not take on entire fleets, on their own as a proper capital ship can carefully do
,Slight spoilers ahead ... spoilers ...
Spoilers
Spoilers
Spoilers
Firstly while the show starts off very good, its' story and original points wanders a fair bit in the second series, though mostly recovers in the third, particularly with the fleshing out of the Android's character - unfortunately Syfy recently left the show on a cliffhanger, then cancelled it, so short of a film to finish it off or another channel picking it up, it'll never get a proper ending, but that happens with many shows, but doesn't stop them being worth watching :_ .
Indeed while you and others mentioned Farscape, i watched the series on Netflix, but it didn't have the two part mini series/DVD episode which finished it off, which last time i checked was available in full on Youtube (where i indeed had to watch it, though thankfully i could and hopefully people still can
.)Slightly bigger spoilers ahead, though they still don't spoil a massive amount...
Spoilers
Spoilers
Spoilers
They annoying kill off one of the main characters in the second series, then introduce more characters which they then kill off or barely use themselves afterwards, while they half wrote out one of the shows' main characters in the third series, though they thankfully didn't completely get rid of them altogether...
Still, i'd give the show about an 8/10 overall, but like so many shows/things, it had the potential to be brilliant, it's still very good
.
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I just thought with the stations being somewhat designed in a similar format, plus all technology they have and they still use projectile weapons. Then the Raza only being equipped with rails and I believe plasma accelerators. It just seemed like a lot of the technology was exactly the same or very similar. Not something I have seen before in any of the Sci Fi shows I have tuned into.
Plus Dark Matter came out I believe a year after ED.
Plus Dark Matter came out I believe a year after ED.
Well the show and ship definitely came out before the forthcoming Chieftain
. On the tech in it and look of the show, reminds me more of that seen in Mass Effect and MAYBE Firefly, Andromeda, the Battlestar Galactica reboot and Rebel Galaxy.
Also the weapons used in the show remind me more or the X series' than this games'
.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213327/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(video_game_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Galaxy
Yeah - thanks for putting me on to the show - not bad - same it never got finalised - I hate that when they just can a show without wrapping it up. in any case - similarities to the chieftain aside (which in turn has similarities to the MV 22 Osprey in a way) - no. Nor real similarities to ED I see...
Bob Lighthouse
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I just realized the Raza's front engine nacelles tilt, instead of the back ones, but it's only the front ones iirc.
Ya the nacelles do. I made the mistake of re-watching the 1st episode with my wife. She enjoyed it and I have had to postpone until she gets caught up. I just thought some of the tech like hearing them discuss plasma accelerators or rail guns, how they still use projectile weapons with bullets, torpedos, missiles, etc. Then in like episode 4? they try to steal some tech off a space station and it resembled early concept art from frontier. Overall not a huge comparison, but enough and they launched at similar times I thought it was interesting.
Lngjohn I know what you mean about canceling shows that you're into. I to this day am frustrated that Farscape was canceled. Granted, I didnt find the show until Netflix, but now I am upset it ended as abruptly as it did. It did get a little squirley tho and appear to jump a shark there towards the end.
Lngjohn I know what you mean about canceling shows that you're into. I to this day am frustrated that Farscape was canceled. Granted, I didnt find the show until Netflix, but now I am upset it ended as abruptly as it did. It did get a little squirley tho and appear to jump a shark there towards the end.