Summary
IfDark Matterseason 2 gets greenlit by Apple TV+, the story’s continuation needs to explain a potential hole in the franchise’s canon, as it’s an issue that also was never addressed in the source material. Based on a 2016 novel of the same name by Blake Crouch,Apple TV+ made many tasteful changes and additions to theDark Matterbook, but it didn’t resolve one nagging mystery. If theDark Mattercastdoes return for another run of episodes, this would be the perfect opportunity to wrap up that particular loose end.
Dark Matterseason 1’s endingsuggested showrunner Blake Crouch wants to continue the story beyond his original version of the story. The finale, “Entanglement,” contained several hints and teases that would mean the saga being extended beyond the last page of the source material. With the novel now exhausted,Dark Matterseason 2 would be uncharted narrative territory for Blake Crouch. Hopefully, he also uses the opportunity to clear up a big component of the canon surroundinghowDark Matter’s interdimensional travel works.
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The ending Apple TV+’s mind-bending sci-fi series Dark Matter was anything but conclusive, and that opens the door for even more in season 2.
How The Box Appears Throughout Dark Matter’s Multiverse Makes No Sense
Blake Crouch also omits an explanation from his live-action Dark Matter adaptation
Dark Matterseason 1 intentionally leaves several compelling mysteriesin its wake, but it also fails to explain one massive enigma from the book.Crouch has clearly put a lot of thought into how Jason2’s box travelsthrough various worlds. The author-turned-showrunner addresses everything from the box’s relatively simple design, the compound needed to impact the pilots' perceptions, and even how the inside of the box transforms while in transit. However, what he’s continued to fail to explain is how the box appears in every universe.
Even if it only materializes once the pilot opens the door from the inside, that means there is now another universe with a box - an occurrence that repeats itself countless times throughout the story.
The box doesn’t travel like a traditional vehicle but rather suddenly allows its passengers to be immediately transported to another reality once they open the door from within. What’s confusing is thatJason2 is strongly implied to be the only version of the character to have developed the box, making it incredibly precious. On the other hand, it seems to be present in every single reality. Even if it only materializes once the pilot opens the door from the inside, that means there is now another universe with a box - an occurrence that repeats itself countless times throughout the story.
Dark Matter Season 1 Made The Box Logic Even Worse
Apple TV+ has the box landing in some crazy scenarios
The live-actionDark Matteradaptation on Apple TV+ had the chance to elaborateon this confusing aspect of box canon, but instead made it even harder to follow, along with making it feel just a little more impossible. For instance, more than one universe inDark Matterseason 1 was revealed to be a reality where Jason had died long ago, but perhaps never even existed. So, he would never have developed the box, and it shouldn’t exist in that universe.
The box is established to permanently reside in each universe it arrives in, raising questions of how such a discovery would impact each world.
Even more confusingly, the landing spot for the box in each universe - which is supposedly always the same coordinates regardless of the reality - made no sense whatsoever. In one reality,the box was in the middle of a busy highway, so it would be highly illogical for it to have been there beforehand. In another, the box materialized in the same position, but hovering just above the Chicago River, plunging to the depths right after. When it sank, it should technically have appeared in the next universe at a lower altitude, but didn’t. Instead, it returned to ground level.
How We Think Jason2’s Box Appears Out Of Nowhere
Dark Matter’s box logic revolves around the concept of superposition
If there is any solid logic to how the box materializes across the multiverse, it’s yet to be shared with either the readers of the novel or Apple TV+’s audience. However, other established parts of the sci-fi vessel’s lore can be extrapolated to provide at least a token explanation for the box’s growing presence in so many alternate realities. In short, it all comes down to the observer effect.
The pilots can’t travel using the box unless they take a fictional compound known as Lavender Fairy, which deactivates key parts of the brain.
Dark Matter’s plot revolves heavily around the observer effect, which is a genuine concept in quantum physics. The pilots can’t travel using the box unless they take a fictional compound known as Lavender Fairy, which deactivates key parts of the brain. After this, the sensory-depriving qualities of the box paired withthe drugs in their system allow the box pilots to exist in a state of superposition- which means occupying more than one space at the same time. Once the drug runs out or the door to the box is open, this state stops being active.
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So,the leading theory is that the box originally only existed in Jason2’s universe, as he is the one who invented it. Then, every time someone stepped inside and took the neural compound, nothing initially changed in terms of how many boxes there were. When they open the door, this ends the state of superposition and causes a new box to pop into existence in that reality. This happens every time any pilot uses the box. When the landing coordinates were occupied or unsuitable, it didn’t matter, andDark Matter’s box worked around what was already there.
Dark Matter
Cast
Dark Matter (2024): Jason Dessen is thrust into an alternate reality where he must confront an ominous version of himself. His quest to return to his original life leads him on a challenging journey to reunite with his family, navigating the complexities of parallel existences.
