Just watched the second episode and it was better than the first. Don't
know if it'll
keep improving, but I certainly think it's watchable at the moment.

And yes, I can see a resemblance to a Traveller campaign in many respects.

On 22/06/2015 16:20, John Geoffrey wrote:
> so... I just watched the beginning of Dark Matter yesterday (as in:
> the first 2/3rds of the first episode before it got a bit too stupid
> for late at night). The acting was slightly off, the special effects
> were about 15 years out of date, and some of the character development
> was weird. It felt a lot like a 90s SF show. Even the characters
> seemed to tick off all the boxes for cliches used back then.
> But I did like the beginning of the episode.