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1. I won’t be watching s3 of Dark Matter. Or encouraging others to watch.

2. Nyx is dead. This has been confirmed. I also don’t like or support a campaign for the return of loved characters who were treated poorly and killed off in shitty ways. This is like trying to persuade people to go back to an abusive relationship, this time for the sake of ratings and to save a show which should have known better the first time around.

3. At the end of the day, this season of Dark Matter proved that they have an effective ban on queer characters in place. If this show doesn’t care about its queer fans, then queer fans shouldn’t be made to feel they should keep watching and supporting the show. You can keep it.

#dark matter #bye

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Fuck the Dark Matter writers for converting Nyx to a staging ground for Four/Ryo’s manfeels (that no one felt because there was no chemistry) and fuck them for turning Misaki into the jealous wingnut. Like could they have handled it any worse? But most of all, fuck them for killing Nyx.

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She’s not dead but I agree with everything else.

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Every remark made by Melanie Liburd, Melissa O'Neil and, not least, Mallozzi on his blog and on other social media has been pretty clear that Nyx is dead, Liburd won't be back for s3. I understand if people would prefer it not to have happened, but that doesn't make it so.

No,

this blog will not be stringing people along to wait & watch for s3 of DarkMatter with hints that Nyx will return. I leave the baiting to those with few scruples.

#dark matter

So I was giving Dark Matter a second chance after the homophobia that crept into s1. I won’t be giving them a third chance. Here’s why:

The first part of s2 was promising. 2x01 was especially good. And then from around 2x07 it was like a switch got flicked and they started doing bizarre things with Nyx’s character (like weakening her in the sparring with Four because, oh I get it, because this is apparently the rule of a hetero ship tho we already knew that Nyx could match Two and Two could beat Four easy). They also left scenes between Two and Nyx on the cutting room floor because, well, we can guess: the chemistry between Nyx and Two pretty much eclipsed anything between Nyx and Four. And after 2x08, it’s like there were magically no scenes at all with just Nyx and Two, for some reason Four had to be in them at the same time. These were decisions the writers made. There’s more, but that’s the gist of it.

The writers want a show where there are not only no queer characters, but wanted to remove even the hint of it.

ftr, I don’t agree with queer fanfic being used as a substitute for queer in canon. In practice that would mean supporting queer invisibility and erasure, and I don’t support shows that do that. So, this blog is being archived. And I won’t be watching Dark Matter next season.

I recommend American Gothic if anyone hasn’t already seen it and wants to wash the bad taste of Dark Matter out. It’s not scifi, but it is a pretty good thriller and not at all homophobic.

May the time come soon when scifi treats it f characters well and is not blighted by homophobia - because let’s be real, the complete absence of any queer characters in Dark Matter speaks to some serious issues, as does the tendency to destroy f characters for the sake of manpain.

Over and out. The archives of this blog are here.

#dark matter #adieu

Nyx is dead. Confirmed [x].

Fuck the stupidity

#dark matter #spoilers

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Fuck the Dark Matter writers for converting Nyx to a staging ground for Four/Ryo’s manfeels (that no one felt because there was no chemistry) and fuck them for turning Misaki into the jealous wingnut. Like could they have handled it any worse? But most of all, fuck them for killing Nyx.

achlois

I agree with you on everything except that last part; I don’t think Nyx is actually dead, she’s pretty popular and the writers will want to drag out this “love triangle” (I use that term loosely) for as long as they can. But yeah. Maybe I’m just bias, but I don’t like Nyx/Four either. 😝

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Except so far we have: a final scene of Android not rushing to her side but instead holding her hand (and we know Android can read biosigns from a distance and treat medical conditions); and MO’N refering to ML’s presence on the show in past-tense.

So here’s the thing: Nyx still being alive in s3 would be really really sloppy writing.

That said, I don’t doubt that the writers have a thing for “love triangles” (which are the most boring and lazy way to induce drama). But if that’s true and they’re going to play that out for s3, I don’t know if it’s worse or better than if Nyx were dead. And really, I wasn’t opposed to Nyx/Four. But I just didn’t see any feelings from either for the most part, the sex scene between Android and the other Android was a zillion times sexier than Nyx/Four, and the only time I saw feelings was when Nyx was angry at Ryo. It just didn’t leap off the screen or anything ever really. So besides everything else, it feels like such a waste of a good actor (Liburd I mean).

#dark matter spoilers

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Random Nyx’s caps from Dark Matter 2x11

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#rip #nyx

I was bitter about nyx for a while (I figured they would ruin her) but now I'm like, you know what, who cares? We know the real nyx wouldn't have depended on some guy, so I say we write our own versions and keep the character alive in the fandom. Fics, art, whatever. There has got to be people out there who can do this shit. I go back and watch the first few episodes whenever I'm pissed about nyx because that's when I think she was the most genuine. Before they started cutting stuff.

It’s true there was a mid-season shift in Nyx’s character. And I’m all for people keeping the character alive in fic, if they want. I’m bitter about Nyx because I liked her character a lot, and she brought something extra to the show. But to be really honest and kind of blunt, I’m also bitter because the whole thing about turning Nyx into a method for Four/Ryo’s feels … a) I never felt/saw those feels, and b) idk if he’s not a very good actor or the direction/script is off, but not even having two characters introduced so we could see his feelings (Nyx and Misaki, erk the manpain premise) made me feel/see those feels onscreen

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TELL ME THEY DID NOT JUST KILL OFF NYX. TELL ME THEY DID NOT JUST KILL OFF A BLACK WOMAN FOR DARING TO BE SOMEONES LOVE INTEREST

I SURE AS HELL HOPE NOT I WILL FIGHT.

I asked Melissa in the Periscope session if there was anything in the finale that came as a big surprise to her. She said it was what happened to Nyx. She said that she really didn’t like that it happened, and that she loved having Melanie on the show. But, the distinct impression I got is that Nyx is sick, but that her fate was left hanging in the balance. I think it’s too early to tell what’s going to happen.

Honestly, I hope that there’s some awesome Twyx fanfic to have some fan speculative stories to resolve this in the meantime… :D

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Ok but “loved” is past tense.

I think it’s unlikely that her life hangs in the balance. The final shot we get is of Android holding Nyx’s hand - not rushing her to medical or anything.

Also fanfic isn’t a way to ignore/fix the shitty things that writers do on a show so we can keep watching a show that does shitty things. And the signs they were heading in a really problematic direction were there since 2x07-08, with Nyx/Four - Nyx went from having her own plot arc to being all about Four/Ryo’s feelings. Idk about anyone else but I thought Four asking Nyx to be the Empress sounded so implausible I wasn’t surprised that it was really just a setup for Misaki to be recast as the jealous crazy woman and the instrument of Nyx’s death. Erk and double erk.

#dark matter spoilers

Fuck the Dark Matter writers for converting Nyx to a staging ground for Four/Ryo’s manfeels (that no one felt because there was no chemistry) and fuck them for turning Misaki into the jealous wingnut. Like could they have handled it any worse? But most of all, fuck them for killing Nyx.

#dark matter #spoilers

There better be some inkling of movement away from the hetfest of s2 in the finale is all I’m saying

#dark matter #finale

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Oooh, Nyx and Two catching up for some girl time.

*wonk*

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just gals being pals(TM)

#twyx #dark matter

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So looks like the threesome hasn’t panned out

#two #nyx #three #dark matter

Dark Matter s3. Some wants & don’t wants

Want

-Twyx -More characters closer to Five’s age -An alliance between the now-beheaded Seers and the Raza (excellent Twyx arc, yes?) -Diversify the writers’ room and the directors. Please -Tash or Portia to be on the alt-Marauder -A plot arc for Three that isn’t about him having heart -Six x Anders -Did I mention Twyx?

Don’t want

-The Raza as an intergalactic police force. Like, Killjoys? -Any more prohibition on queer characters -The gendered division of roles that has crept into recent episodes/day casting -An alliance between Zairon/Ryo and the Raza - better as an enemy if at all -One, Corso. Enough no more. If he’s on the alt-Marauder that’s just shark-jumping stuff

What do other people think?

#dark matter #s3 wants

So Nyx finally dumps Four over Milo. As predicted

#dark matter spoilers #nyx #four