Just started watching Dark Matter…

Apparently we’re six or seven episodes in already, so I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. The premise isn’t going to make anyone work too hard: Six individuals wake up on a space ship, with no memory of their past lives. At the moment our heroes(?) are rebelling against their employer by defending a mining colony.

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Dark Matter is based on a comic book (what isn’t?) and seems quite well done, so I’ll probably stick with it and see where it goes.

I have to say that it all does seem a bit familiar: six humans and a machine travelling on a space ship, righting wrongs committed by a sinister corporation?

Looks a lot like Blakes7 to me. . . .

Humans

I watched the cracking first episode of Channel 4’s new Sunday nighter which explores the ideas of machine intelligence. The action is low-key, but the premise is as fascinating as it is chilling: If machines become sentient then are they people, and should they be treated as such? I’d probably say yes, but a few of the characters portrayed in Humans clearly disagree.

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It’s not a new idea, and we’ve had a spate of similar movies recently (AI way back in 2001; I, Robot; Ex-Machina; Chappie; Her), but Humans is set in a present-day United Kingdom so it hits much closer to home.

Gripping stuff and well worth looking out for.