Dark Angel - Schmaltz or smarts??
POSTED BY: Zoot
UPDATED: Thursday, August 18, 2005 23:10
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Zoot, here's a good site to look up DA reviews, but don't go too far ahead of what you're watchin', it's one big spoiler!
Let me know what you think.
Spoilerific Chrisisall
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MYSTERY MAN: Or are your powers mostly mental?
LOGAN: Mostly mental, yeah.
Worthy of the Bufster ....
I think it's interesting to note that at least one writer and one director from DA went to work on Firefly after the DA cancellation. Good writers and directors don't disappear, they just jump on the next cool project.
Please let us know what you thought about the S1 finale, 'And Jesus brought a casserole', although that's probably a day away or so.
Maximum Chrisisall
“Probably a day away”! Ha! You have no idea as to the depths of my lack of social life …
. Came on the net this morning to say I take it all back!! Or rather, I take back these specific points:1. No humour – lets face it, I just plain out lied! Or rather I think I was so hooked into the plots I wasn’t taking time to appreciate the funny ….
2. The Max/Logan angst is overdone – again I was speaking of things I knew not of …. I sort of assumed that they never admitted their feelings for each other and went on in the David Addison/ Maddy Hayes (if you know what I mean) phase for eternity …. I loved the series 1 finale…. I loved that they finally get it on (if only in her dreams) and that they admit they love each other only to have it all ripped away from them …. It gives you a sense of closure without getting them stuck in that relationship place where no one is the least bit interested anymore …
So can I just say again, God I loved, LOVED, the series 1 finale!! Loved the “I would kiss you but I gotta keep my head in the game”, loved the Max and Lydecker moments – just plain creepy – the “you have her eyes” thing and all – I’d a spaced him had I had a spaceship handy …. Loved that they got rid of Zack who was getting on my tits … only thing I thought was a shame was that Jessica’s brother acts worse than her!!
Now gonna go back and watch the series again, using the finale as the glass through which to see more clearly …. That is unless series 2 plops through my letterbox today (as am hoping it will) ... although not really as have job interview to prepare for tomorrow and you just know I'm gonna end up watching it until 3 a.m.!!
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Zoot, here's a good site to look up DA reviews, but don't go too far ahead of what you're watchin', it's one big spoiler!
Let me know what you think.
Spoilerific Chrisisall
Nice site, thanks!
The only site I'd found so far with epsiode guides was http://www.darkangelfan.com/ which has whiny episode guides which don't really tell you much from a terribly biased Max/ Logan shipper ....
As mentioned already, I like to know the plots as it takes the stress out of it for me and I can concentrate on the form (so might just read a little ahead...) - I know I'll regret it ....
Edited to say: Oh and one final thought - the name Dark Angel totally sucks - gave me completely the wrong impression of the show and is probably the reason I've only jsut got round to watching it!! Anyone got any other suggestions? - I think "Manticore" would have been better ...
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I can't remember whether Logan's poem about Max is revealed first or second season, but I'll just say that I think "Dark Angel" is the right title for this show.
I mean, it's not exactly "Serenity," but it does fit.
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I can't remember whether Logan's poem about Max is revealed first or second season, but I'll just say that I think "Dark Angel" is the right title for this show.
I mean, it's not exactly "Serenity," but it does fit.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
'"Forever eyes. Dark. Somebody's angel." Whatever.'
Its in the first season .... But I just thought it was so sappy I couldn't bring myself to mention it - don't feel it gives them licence to call the show soemthing equally sapsville ...
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I thought Dark Angel was a nod to (or ripoff of) the Battle Angel Alita comic. If I recollect correctly, James Cameron admitted he was heavily influenced by it, and you can feel it's influence from time to time. Especially when Max is on top of the Space Needle.
"Don't say 'ka' until you've tried it." Daniel Jackson
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n her!!
Now gonna go back and watch the series again, using the finale as the glass through which to see more clearly …. That is unless series 2 plops through my letterbox today (as am hoping it will)
Just be prepared for a rather jarring gear switch. After the first three eps, the shows go hot and cold.
So glad you liked the finale. Forces tears outta me every time.
I always thought Dark Angel should've been titled something more like: Maximum Girl!
Just kidding- you know, like Dark Future, or Terminal City or something.
Girls kick ass, says so on a tee-shirt Chrisisall
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Maximum Girl!!!
I LOVE IT!! 
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OK so I watched the first two episodes of DA season 2 last night – and I think I must be more horrendously shallow than I thought due to my overriding reaction being:
“Bad haircut, Logan, BAD, BAD haircut!!”
Things I liked:
· Alec – nice to have a proper bad boy, constantly on the scam – trying desperately not to do good, but doing it anyhow (did I hear someone shout “Spike”?) Logan’s always been just that little bit too altruistic for me!
· The White fella – the new bad seems genuinely nasty and sorta creepy … prefer him to the platinum blonde who I kept expecting to have wrinkles on her nose (STNG?) …
· The “Max is the one we’ve been looking for” set up – what’s so special about her? Like the bit of mystery …
Things I know are gonna rile me eventually:
· S1W – feel like we already have enough characters without needing more …
· All the bloody random animal/humans – the sand creature and Joshua, not to mention all the others, I just know are gonna wind me up …
· Too much army stuff – I liked Max in her Seattle world not fitting in …
· Max’s straight hair – gotta ask, from a purely practical point of view – is it useful for a soldier to have lots of long loose hair just asking to get caught in stuff??
Anyhow – after the weekend I suspect I will know exactly what I think of the entire second series unless I have to go baby-sit my sister’s children ….
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Wow, you're plowin' right through them shows!
Logan's hair gets better.
Max's new hair will grow on you (Ha ha that sounds so stupid!), and long hair is a danger to a real soldier, however, she's no soldier!
White is sicker than Lydecker, although not as interesting.
Alec is the way he is for a reason.
Yes, the overabundance of 'nomolies will annoy, hence my list of good 2nd season shows.
Too much Army stuff? Hell, Max's small world is all but gone now, her little life is gonna get more complicated, just like ours.
I'm halfway through S2 myself (5th time now)
Cheers from Chrisisall
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