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Top Amazon Review
One of TV's more interesting tough-girl action shows, Dark Angel is a distinctive blend of the personal, the adventurous and the politically aware. Cocreators James Cameron (yes, that James Cameron) and Charles Eglee present a complex scenario of biological super-science and social collapse in which their gene-manipulated heroine and hacker/journalist hero can genuinely make a difference. In this first series they also provide an adversary who is a lot more than just a conventional villain. Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralysed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime, corruption and other skulduggeries and sending the woman whom he hopelessly loves out on deadly errands. Jon Savage has real authority as Lydeker, a man who has stretched his conscience to breaking point, but is not personally corrupt. Some of the best episodes here--"Prodigy" for example--are ones in which Lydeker and Max are forced into temporary alliance. Early on the relationship between Max and the other workers at Jam Pony--the courier firm that provides her with a cover identity--is a little forced, but later on the two parts of Max's life are more successfully integrated: "Shorties in Love", for example, is a genuinely touching tale about Diamond, the doomed criminal ex-lover of Max's lesbian roommate. Dark Angel was never a perfect show, but at its occasional best it manages to be simultaneously funny and dramatic. On the DVD: Dark Angel, Series 1's Region 2 DVD is ungenerous with special features, providing only short interviews with James Cameron and Charles Eglee and with the stars, and giving us a preview of the Dark Angel computer game. The episodes are presented in widescreen and have excellent Dolby Digital sound which gives vivid presence to both the dialogue and the hard-driving contemporary rock score that is part of the show's style.
Customer Review 1
Awful semi sci-fi soap sludge. Watched the first disc of the first season last night and CRIKEY! What a pile of of old rubbish this show is. A kind of soapy teen sci-fi with the worst of both worlds. I.e, poor script, poor characters and pathetically poor action scenes. Worst is seeing the Alba girl trying to rip off the Faith character from Buffy and dying painfully in the process.
Awful to the point of funny. Axed after its 2nd season not without good reason.
Avoid if you're over 13...
Customer Review 2
Amazing. I remember thinking when my friends told me about it that it was going to be a load of rubbish. then the other day it happened to be on the sifi channel and i though i might as well give it a go as nothing else was on. i was very suprise and really enjoyed it i have now just bought it off amazon and to tell you truth i have never been so excited to get a boxset like dark angel
Customer Review 3
Outstanding. I can't deny that this is one of the most fantastic shows I have ever seen on TV. I would suggest that you DONT BUY IT as there is no third series, or fourth or fifth...it just stops at the end of season 2 so that when you get hooked theres nothing left...an extreme disregard for the fans. I don't plan to watch any more of James Camerons tv shows should he release another in case he pulls the same stunt.
Customer Review 4
Occasionally great, occasionally lacking..... This TV series may have been too ambitious for TV. James Cameron, who has done many epic sci-fi cinematic films, turns his attention to an epic sci-fi TV show with mixed reaction.There are some five star episodes, there are some two star episodes, but overall, this was an average outing. Jessica Alba is Max, a genetically modified soldier who escaped, along with other soldiers who had been tested on, from the X5 military installation. Ten years later, and she's making her own life as a message courier by day, thief by night. When she meets Logan (Michael Weatherly), who is also an undercover rebel, her modified abilities are used for good.So we get a series of episodes that show the rebel team righting wrongs. After the spectacular pilot (also incuded in this boxset) the series didn't start off too well. Run of the mill storylines didn't help, and the series didn't live up to the action promised in the pilot.Alba is also the best thing on offer here. Not only does she looks great, she really brings the compleities of her character out in the open and is very engaging in what is her show. So it's a shame that, apart from Logan, and uber-villain Lydecker, that the rest of the supporting characters can really get on your nerves.The pseudo youth talk grates, as does any of the characters from the Jampony message service. The supporting characters are weak and annoying, and the Jamaican character borders on racism. Still, giving up on Dark Angel there would be doing the show a dis-service, because later episodes are much, much better. As the show goes on, other soldiers and people from Max's past in the X5 project come to light. Any episode that contains Zach is brilliant, and thankfully many of the episodes have a main plotline centred around the X5 installation, that makes up for the obligatory light-hearted sub plot that takes place each episode.Towards the end of the series, things that seemed unconnected come together in a big way, and little bits and pieces from various episodes fill in the jigsaw for what is an astounding and eciting last third of the show. The action picks up dramatically, and is always quite well done. The acrobatics by Alba are amazing, and there's a good balance between strong characters in strong storylines with decent action fights. With some surprising plot twists, the positives about this show more than make up for its deficiencies. However, the show doesn't quite clear everything up, perhaps with so many plots used throughout the show there was just too much to take on. It's very ambitious, and succeeds mostly, apart from the few duff characters and episodes, and obviously there is season 2, which I now look forward to seeing how they can develop this series.
Customer Review 5
Dark angel. It has to be one of the most exciting shows that i have ever seen i watched it and could not stop. the show there is not a tv show that is like it ever it has something for every one it keeps you on your toes to wit will happen next
