Dark Matter
Dark Matterseason 2 is on the way , but if you ’re like me and ca n’t wait to see how the Apple TV+ show will continue , the same sci - fi author has already write a novel that blends bright with his multiverse saga . DespiteDark Matterseason 1 ’s playscript change , the springy - action adaptation remained incredibly faithful to the 2016 novel of the same name , and only made summation that were in keeping with the root material . There ’s one alternative reality that appears in both the Koran and the show that could easily connectDark Matterto another story by the same source .
Dark Matterseason 1 ’s endingteasing a continuation of the book really surprise me , as it now means season 2 will be all original stuff . The show ’s premise think Joel Edgerton ’s Jason Dessen can once more make full utilisation ofDark Matter ’s interdimensional traveland explore various novel realness . The adaptation has already introduced new worlds that never come along in Crouch ’s original novel , and one even manages to reference another project fromDark Matter ’s author / showrunner .
Blake Crouch’s Upgrade Could Easily Be Connected To Dark Matter’s Virus Story
Upgrade’s outbreak scene is eerily similar to Dark Matter’s doomed virus universe
Published in 2022 , Blake Crouch’sUpgradeborrows from one ofDark Matter ’s most macabre realities and flesh it out to create a more elaborate version of the miniskirt - arc . The Virus Universe is never full explicate when Jason claver the substitute reality in theDark Matterbook , nor does it receive much more context in the adaptation . However , Chicago is revealed to have been brought to its knee by a deadly contagion that has already vote out Jason ’s boy and go on to take his married woman . The picture is clearly abbreviated , butUpgradebuilds its entire story on a very similar concept .
" If you believe that you or anyone in your home is infected , exhibit a ruby-red piece of cloth in a street - face window . If anyone in your habitation is deceased , expose a smutty piece of cloth in a street - facing windowpane . "
- Dark Matter ( 2016 )
" The CDC and National Guard had set up every household to keep a optical marker suspension from their front door that identified the term of the multitude in spite of appearance . As I walked up Ninth Street S. , it was a devastating thing to see - every ninth or 10th house had a piece of grim cloth hang from its doorknob . "
- Upgrade ( 2022 )
Dark Matteruses the multiverse trope , butUpgradeis a sci - fi tale about genetic manipulation . When a inscrutable illness sweeps through a small US Ithiel Town , how the eruption is handled feels as though it has been lifted directly fromDark Matter . Of of course , there are confine to be law of similarity between both instances due to CDC procedures and such , but it ’s perhaps a little too coincidental that two Blake Crouch al-Qur’an seem so unified . So , my hypothesis is that the virus in both stories have a partake in or very similar origin .
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How Else Dark Matter & Upgrade Are Similar
Jason Dessen’s Upgrade counterpart experiences a very familiar arc
Dark Matter ’s Jason Dessenis a middle - aged serviceman who ’s torn from his wife and child due to a hard sci - fi - influenced storyline , and he ’s prevented from returning to them for the majority of the storey . Both are also put back as the family patriarch . Swapping out Jason ’s name forUpgrade ’s Logan Ramsay makes the similarity between the two characters ' arcs seem startlingly like . This synopsis can be used for bothDark MatterandUpgrade , although there are nuanced divergence when other details are take into account . If anything , it ’s just clear thatCrouch has a recognizable writing style and specific narration preferences .
Dark Matter may be based on a standalone novel , but the alive - action adaptation could act as a building block for extend Blake Crouch ’s macrocosm .
Deadly computer virus aside , Dark Matterseason 1 includes another compellingUpgradeEaster Egg . Apple TV+ ’s interpretation of the multiverse saga reveals the Dessen household once had a fourth member called Max . Also played by Oakes Fegley in an substitute reality where Max did n’t break , he never existed in the Good Book , but he was Charlie Dessen ’s twin in the version . Max Dessen give way before the events ofDark Matterseason 1 , which feel like an sure nod to Max Ramsay , who is the late twin ofUpgrade ’s main lineament . Logan ’s departed brother also never appears inUpgradebut is mentioned .
Dark Matter & Upgrade Aren’t Canonically Connected (But They Could Be)
Upgrade’s near-future setting doesn’t necessarily exclude it from the Dark Matter universe
Dark Matter ’s multiversal premise unfold the door for pretty much any of Blake Crouch ’s books to be part of the same canon . If it does n’t aline withDark Matter ’s main canon , the argument could be made that it ’s simply fix in another reality that ’s happening away from Jason Dessen ’s original world . There ’s nothing inUpgradethat would exclude it from being inDark Matter ’s canon , but such a crossover has n’t been confirmed . So , as far as I ’m bear on , they partake a persistence - albeit a high - construct one .
Upgradecould simply be the future tense of an unseenDark Matterreality where the virus is dissimilar and was unleashed much later on .
Perhaps the one matter keeping this theory from ringing true is thatDark Matter ’s virus andUpgrade ’s computer virus do n’t play in the same way . WhileDark Mattershows its computer virus victims physically suffering from an undisclosed illness , Upgrade ’s virus is unwrap to snipe the mind . Plus , Upgradeis determine in the mid-21st century , and the outbreak is fresh . As such , it ca n’t be correct alongsideDark Matter ’s virus existence . That being said , Upgradecould just be the future of an unseenDark Matterreality where the computer virus is different and was unleashed much subsequently .
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