However, just because Pawter's plot was handled all in one episode doesn't make it better IMO.
Maybe, but they're taking so long to do anything with Devon that it's hard to say whether it will be handled well, and that in itself doesn't feel to me like the best way of handling it. This show's had a problem with having too many parallel arcs to give each one enough room to breathe in a short, 13-episode season, and now they've added at least two more arcs on top of what they already had. (True, they lost one of the cast members, so technically it's only one member larger, but the arc involving the Darren Cross conspiracy is still going on, just not being carried by One anymore.) Nyx and Devon have been regulars for multiple episodes now, and they've barely had anything to do, Devon especially. Heck, his role in his debut episode was so small that I didn't even realize he was there.
Taking a few episodes to set it up and resolve it is fine also
Sure, if it's done well and paced well. This just feels too cursory and half-hearted to me. Perhaps because it's so cliched, the whole "doctor with a drug problem" thing. It didn't feel cliched with Pawter because it was just one more piece of the characterization that had already been established for her, but with Devon, we don't really know anything else about him yet. So far, he's even more boring than One was.
and as was mentioned by Sojourner, an addiction like that shouldn't just "go away" because the episode that handles it is done.
I think Pawter's drug problem has been alluded to on occasion, and I'm sure the writers haven't forgotten it.
That feels more like TNG to me; everything neatly compressed within one episode (or at best, a two-parter) and then never mentioned again, or at best paid lip service (like the inane "warp speed restriction").
Or like both of the episodes about the people from Three's past? For that matter, where has Wil Wheaton been since his one episode? This show's had its share of one-and-dones, though it does follow up on them eventually.
Dutch shows affection towards her team and friends, whereas Two is far less expressive in those matters (quite possibly a result of male writers deciding they are better off leaving things more to the imagination, offscreen, rather than risk writing dialogue that may not be their forte). But Two is consistently shown as taking great care for her crew, making sure no-one is left behind and that everybody has a task. She's also surprisingly forgiving. In many ways, she really is the heart of the crew and show, even more so than Five or Six.
That's a fair analysis, intellectually speaking. As far as the conception of the character goes, I wouldn't argue. But in terms of my emotional reaction to the actresses' performances, I just feel John-Kamen's performance is more passionate and expressive overall, and I like that.
Dutch is great to her friends, but from the very casual way she tends to shoot her way through warrants, I feel she is often cold towards the subject of warrants. In that sense, the Killjoys often act just as much as mercenaries as the Raza crew does. Arguably even more, since the Raza gang turned on their employers in the pilot episode(s) and they seem to debate more often among themselvers "should we even do this thing?".
Except that Dutch made it clear in the very first episode that she would not take kill warrants, that she could kill in self-defense if she had to but refused to be an assassin ever again. She's very like the
Raza crew in that she's trying to get away from her criminal past, though she tends to get drawn back in despite herself.
As was mentioned by Christopher on the other thread, FTL communication is not known within the Quad (except to Khlyen).
On the other hand, the "green goo" thing goes far beyond even the bioengineering behind Two.
Well, it's always been clear that
Killjoys is much farther in the future than
Dark Matter. DM is clearly set in our galaxy. Darren Cross was from Earth itself, and a lot of the locations mentioned are familiar star names. (Indeed, there was a recent episode where the constellation of Orion was clearly visible behind the
Raza as it came out of FTL -- which made no sense, because they were said to be in a remote sector, and Orion would only look that way from within or near the Sol system.) And the characters are familiar with things from Earth popular culture, like
Star Wars and
Charlotte's Web. But
Killjoys is set in a distant galaxy, the civilization has its own distinct religion and culture and food and drink, and according to the Scarbacks' litany, they came to the Quad "from a home we've forgotten," suggesting they're so far in the future that they don't even remember Earth. So while I was always open to the idea that they were in a shared universe, I felt they had to be in very different eras within that universe.
But the revelation that FTL communication is unknown/new in the KJ universe seems to suggest that it has to be separate from the DM universe, where FTL comms are used routinely. Though there is a possibility that the tech was lost in some civilizational collapse, I suppose. Still, it suggests that the producers of the respective shows don't have any plans to cross over or coordinate their universes.
