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Killjoys Season 1: Discussion and Spoilers

When I reflected on how Da'vin's backstory is that he's searching for a mysterious doctor that he won't say more about, I couldn't help thinking: "Captain Jack? Is that you?"
 
I agree the music is "obnoxious". But the second episode was pretty good and I am wanting to know more about the red box.

Luke McFarlane is a big yawn to me but the other two are lovely :)

I'm liking the pace and the potential for very different settings.
 
Tonight's episode: The Harvest
TV Guide said:
A warrant to retrieve a missing migrant worker on Leith isn't as simple as it seems when the Killjoys discover something dangerous lurking beyond the edge of a farm. Meanwhile, a psych exam brings into question whether D'avin is mentally fit to do the job.
 
Lisa Ryder!!! AKA, Beka Valentine from Andromeda as D'avin's RAC supervisor. Can we ditch the guys and add her please?
 
Lisa Ryder!!! AKA, Beka Valentine from Andromeda as D'avin's RAC supervisor.

I thought that was her, though I couldn't remember the actress's name.

Would they still have migrant farm workers in the future? Wouldn't they have robots to do that? Maybe it's the old trope that robots are expensive, delicate equipment, so the evil corporations prefer to exploit disposable humans. Still, a lot about this future is very retro.

Okay, the Quad has four worlds... There's Leith, Westerly, and Qresh, but what's the other one?
 
My wife and I thought the doctor was Joann Kelly for quite a while there! We finally realized it wasn't, but BOY this actress (Sarah Power) looks a lot like her.
 
My wife and I thought the doctor was Joann Kelly for quite a while there! We finally realized it wasn't, but BOY this actress (Sarah Power) looks a lot like her.

That didn't occur to me. I thought, instead, that she reminded me of Zoie Palmer in a way -- similar features, mannerisms, and personality, though not a lookalike, of course -- and I was thinking that Michelle Lovretta must have a "type" she prefers for doctor characters.
 
So John says he's like dark matter. Before the season is over, will Dutch be confronted about her defiance and D'Avin seek a haven?
 
Lisa Ryder!!! AKA, Beka Valentine from Andromeda as D'avin's RAC supervisor. Can we ditch the guys and add her please?
That's why she seemed so familiar. I thought I recognized her, but I couldn't place her.
Would they still have migrant farm workers in the future? Wouldn't they have robots to do that? Maybe it's the old trope that robots are expensive, delicate equipment, so the evil corporations prefer to exploit disposable humans. Still, a lot about this future is very retro.

Okay, the Quad has four worlds... There's Leith, Westerly, and Qresh, but what's the other one?
From Syfy.com's The World of Killjoys page:
Arkyn
The smallest of Qresh’s moons by far, Arkyn was the first moon the Company attempted to colonize - but things went horribly wrong. Much is whispered about Arkyn, but little is actually known.
We also heard another reference to someone coming to The Quad, so it sounds like there is more to this universe's civilization than just The Quad. I wonder if we'll ever get to see more than just The Quad.
I thought this was another good episode.
 
We also heard another reference to someone coming to The Quad, so it sounds like there is more to this universe's civilization than just The Quad. I wonder if we'll ever get to see more than just The Quad.

That's part of what makes it easy to imagine that this and Dark Matter are in the same universe -- though this feels farther into the future. Though that assumption might become less viable as we learn more about both universes.
 
I guess that I am just not buying the Batman/Arrow background of the lead's training or the ideal that kill warrants would be issued. So the rest of the world building doesn't reach me.

Compared to its stable mate Dark Matter they do seem to have better stunt work and choreography on Killjoys. But so far I have been drifting off with no want to make a repeat viewing to catch up.
 
I guess that I am just not buying the Batman/Arrow background of the lead's training or the ideal that kill warrants would be issued. So the rest of the world building doesn't reach me.

Well, the show seems to be set in a corporate-ruled dystopia where the powers that be are heartless and human life is cheap. So I can buy "kill warrants" as part of that universe.
 
My wife and I thought the doctor was Joann Kelly for quite a while there! We finally realized it wasn't, but BOY this actress (Sarah Power) looks a lot like her.

That didn't occur to me. I thought, instead, that she reminded me of Zoie Palmer in a way -- similar features, mannerisms, and personality, though not a lookalike, of course -- and I was thinking that Michelle Lovretta must have a "type" she prefers for doctor characters.

Zoie reminds me a tiny bit of Joann too, though not as much. Hmm. Maybe I just miss Joann. :D
 
After seeing a still shot of the character in io9's review of the episode, I now see the resemblance to Joanne Kelly.
 
The ominous description of Arkyn in my last post makes me think something either happened there or is happening there that someone wants to keep secret. I'm kind of getting a bit of a Miranda from Serenity vibe.

I guess that I am just not buying the Batman/Arrow background of the lead's training or the ideal that kill warrants would be issued. So the rest of the world building doesn't reach me.

Compared to its stable mate Dark Matter they do seem to have better stunt work and choreography on Killjoys. But so far I have been drifting off with no want to make a repeat viewing to catch up.
Kill warrants don't seem that hard to believe to me. The Quad seems to be a pretty rough place.
 
Intergalactic, literally? Or just interstellar?
It's a big pet peeve of mine when ads for a show, book or movie say "intergalactic adventures" when it actually takes place within only one galaxy. Solar systems are not galaxies.

You must have cringed, then, when McCoy told Kirk that this was; "about you flying a goddamn computer console when you wanna be out there hopping galaxies."
 
Oh yeah. But I wouldn't expect a simple country doctor to unders... aw fuck, even a simple country doctor should know the difference between a star system and a galaxy when he friggin WORKS out there! :lol:
 
I was laughing at how Atherton Wing the plantation owner Martell was. Got a very Firefly vibe in some of this which I think is working in its favour. It's cheesy and tropey but I'm enjoying the world.
 
It's pretty obvious that The Quad is just one inhabited region of the show's universe. If it wasn't, there would be no reason to explain basic politics and laws to any of the characters, who are clearly ignorant of such things and who are equally clearly from somewhere other than The Quad.

Heck, even the RAC ship appears to be somewhere beyond the Quad as there's no sign of the planet, let alone any of the moons, in the background of any of its shots. At least that I can remember.
 
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