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Four/Ryo Tetsuda, S1E9, Dark Matter, directly before murdering the messenger 

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I’d like to shoutout to my homegirl Android as she pulled one of the classiest moves in Season 1 and went to apologize to Creepy Droid in that one episode when we knew shit was going down. If none of y’all knows what I’m on about, here’s a breakdown:

As the scene opens, my precious pistachio approaches and informs Doll Droid what she’s about

It’s all goin’ good. Good goin’. Nothin’ wrong. You on the right track.

She owns up to her shit and keeps moving forward. Don’t want a stone unturned and all that classy stuff. Now, the other Droid sorta lookin’ at her like she’s got a few sensors loose:

I mean, look at her. Just sort of….not there. While my BEAUTIFUL PEANUT pours out her chipboard of a heart. She even extends a metaphoric hand of understanding, even though this housewifeDroid™ is clearly just not on the same level as the BEE:

AND THEN SHE DROPS THIS ABSOLUTE FUCKIN BOMB:

JUST

she’s perfect, bye.💅🏽

And I KNOW I ain’t the only one just sittin’ on the side like 

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Day 5 - Funniest Moment

That time Android gave the  DonutHole™ a verbal smackdown.

My last few #darkmatterweek posts are coming late, like the Raza, but they arrive none the less. 

Day 4 - Favorite Episode

Season 1 Pilot

Dark Matter Week Day 4: Favorite Episode: 107

Continuing the episode by episode coverage, here is episode 7. This coincides perfectly with Day 4 of Dark Matter Week: Favorite Episode

Without a doubt, this was a favorite for me. The crew finally gets to see what’s in the vault.

Three is increasingly fretting about the woman they find in the stasis pod, at first wanting them to thaw her out, and then wanting to put her back when he finds out she’s sick. He doesn’t know his connection to her at this time, but something in him knows. Anthony Lemke is just fantastic in this episode, so completely authentic. Three watches Sarah with such intensity, like he knows somehow that she’s important even if he doesn’t remember. When Sarah (played by the amazing Natalie Brown) wakes up and hugs him, he looks so shocked.

One of my favorite moments is when Three rushes into his room to clean everything off his bed to give her somewhere to sit. He’s looking awkward, flustered, like he wants to find a way to make her at home but doesn’t know how to. She tells him that she knows his life, and that it’s okay. She understands.

Zoie Palmer as the Android is, without a doubt, another standout performer in this episode. The Android goes through jealousy as she tries to keep up with Wendy, the other android the crew found in the vault. From constantly pointing out her accomplishments to trying on a ridiculous and awesome array of accents, the Android shows increasingly more that she is more than a “robot”. Wendy’s presence brings out a streak in the Android we don’t otherwise see, and Ruby Rose’s performance is a lot of fun. A brief moment of appreciation for such comments as “dunking the cosmic donut.”

The flashback scenes with Sarah and Three/Marcus are perfect. There’s a clear conflict for him - he feels that he’s not the man who stays. He learns, by being with her, that he can be not just the man that stays, but the man that is worthy of a woman like Sarah. He works on the land at her home, and he stays with her when she’s sick.

In the present, when she collapses, he cradles her in his arms and rushes her back to her stasis pod to put her back. Before she goes to sleep, she assures him:

We’ll make new memories.

She doesn’t even question it, she is confident in Three, in what they mean to each other. Sarah dying is heartbreaking; in fact, one of the single most heartbreaking moments in this series. When he leans down over the pod to say a silent goodbye, his hand on the glass…

After Sarah’s death, One apologizes, taking some blame for what happened. Three is blunt - he tells One flat out that it’s not his fault. I appreciated this because it really showed something important about each one of them. One has a good deal of compassion, and for Three, that he’s not interested in pointless grudges.

Dark Matter Week Day 3: Favorite Relationship/Friendship: Five and Six

Five is in a unique position in a number of ways: she’s the youngest, she’s not a convicted criminal, she’s a stowaway, and she has everyone’s memories locked away in her head.

In episode 3, when Five finds the dead boy, it’s Six who seems to understand.

When she’s trapped inside of her own mind and they can’t wake her up, it’s Six that goes in. He doesn’t know what he’s going to find, whose memories they’ll be in, but he doesn’t flinch. He talks her through why she needs to leave, and hugs her. He gets through to her.

At one point, Five asks Six to teach her to fight, he says no. It’s not because he doesn’t think she’s capable, but I felt it was out of a desire to protect her, to keep her out of the line of danger. He gets irritated with her and tells her she’s not part of the crew, which was horribly hurtful to her, but the most important thing happened: he apologized. Friends make mistakes, but what makes a friendship strong is when you can admit when it’s happened, and make it better.

When Five becomes afraid of Two in episode 13, it’s Six she asks to stay with her. She trusts him to protect her.