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Dark Angel - The Complete First Season

Dark Angel - The Complete First Season

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why?
Review: It is not fair that this t.v series has already been out on DVD and it was on way AFTER Charmed!!! This show [stinks]! Charmed should be out on DVD instead. I don't recommend this DVD at all!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: SHA-BAM!
Review: I loved Dark Amgel, so it only made sense to buy the action packed DVD! After being deprived of Dark Angel for so long, i didnt realize how much i loved it. It absolutely blew me away!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fox Canceled best show sinceXFiles, www.Amazon.com brings it back
Review: I haven't been impressed with TV latley and XFiles was the last show to draw my attention before Dark Angel hit the scene. I saw every episode from both seasons, but the first season was definatly the best. I was hooked by mid season with episodes like Meow. The show hit its peak with the season finale when Max is shot in the chest trying to bring down Manticore, the goverment agency that made them and trained them. Her transgenic brother (who'd like to be more), Zack gives his life to save her. Dark Angel was unique, a heroine who dressed sensibly to save the day yet still had plenty of ... appeal, and a futurestic U.S; humbled and no longer a world power. Urban culture added the right mood for this decadent TV Series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FOX SHOULD SOME HOW RESURRECT DARK ANGEL!!
Review: 22 50 minute episodes

SF elements escaped teenage super-soldiers

In a USA brought to its economic knees by an EMP, Max, a sulky teenage thief, breaks into Logan's apartment to steal valuables, and is caught. So starts a strange friendship: Max is a mutant super-soldier on the run from the secret Manticore base, while Logan is a rich playboy who just happens to be "Eyes Only", intent on bringing the bad guys to justice. Logan gradually gets Max to realise she can help people too. But the danger of being caught by Manticore is never far away.

This is fun, in a grungy, post-apocalyptic sort of way. A variety of plot-lines means the Manticore conspiracy is only one of many sub-plots (although it grows towards the end of season finale). We meet an interesting bunch of characters, mainly through Max's day job as a bicycle courier, and Max herself makes an interesting truculent super-hero. And although a running theme is about how one should use ones abilities to Do Good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You need to buy this!
Review: This is the best thing you could buy. I myself watched the show and it was great! All my friends love it too. This is a must have for people who enjoy girls kicking butt. I was heartbroken when the show was cancelled off of t.v,but now i can buy it here at Amazon.com. I was glad when I saw that you could buy the second season also. I highly recommend getting both season's on dvd.Trust me it is worth your money!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An angel among us!
Review: I was an attached viewer of "Dark Angel" for both seasons. Like many, I was confused and dissapointed that they pulled the plug on a show with floods of fans tuning in. The overall theme of the show was exciting. It takes place in a dysfunctionally corrupted Seattle. It was like a futuristic Robin Hood!
I liked Max (Jessica Alba) because she had different personalities on screen. She wasn't always a badass. She's nice & outgoing with her friends such as Original Cindy and her closest partner Logan. However, when the bad guys get in her path she plows through them. She applies her ... attitude when neccesary, especially with her boss. She's quick, daring, sneeky, street smart, and sexy.
Dark Angel was by far one of my favorite shows alongside "Smallville" and "Witchblade" (which also got taken off the air). Every week a different story more exciting and twisted than the next! This DVD is a must buy!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Could have been better.
Review: I had high hopes for this show. The premise was great, they chose an actress who personifies Max in Jessica Alba, and they had a great storyline with Manticore. But damn, the supporting cast was terrible. Apart from Logan, everyone else was boring and useless. This show had so much potential and it shows because the fans who started watching it at first got bored and eventually the show was cancelled due to bad ratings.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good idea, sadly, not well developed
Review: I don't watch much American tv, alot of American shows focus on the same old storylines and are riddled with clichés.

When I saw the preview to Dark Angel, I was hoping for something a little different, however I was a bit disappointed.

The main theme of the story about a secret government agency developing humans in test tubes, away from their biological parents, and combining them with dna from other organisms is a brilliant idea. To then grow these humans into elite soldiers should have made for compelling viewing. There could have been so many issues raised about this hugely controversial subject and yet the storylines focused on mostly trivial things, or things that didn't really relate to the background idea of the programme.

It seemed like the show skirted around the issues it raised, but never really got into the dark stuff.

Jessica Alba is a good actress, she can obviously deal with some pretty bad material, a good case in point being the episode when she was 'in heat' due to her feline dna. The plot for that episode was weak, but she handled it well. Again, Michael Weatherly and John Savage play their parts just as well.

The music throughout all the episodes is really good, the right music has been used at the right time. Thats one of the things I feel helped me put 3 stars on this review as opposed to 2.

If you want to watch an entertaining programme, with a gorgeous female lead, then tune in (that was the main reason I did!), but don't expect anything brilliant - even if James Cameron was involved.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Dark Angel is just brillant!!!

From start to finsh of the first season it's great, the humour, the acting, the storey, although I do wish that max would use a bit more of her skills sometimes but on the whole is just aboslutley FANTASTIC!!!

I just can't wait to watch Season 2, I've watched the first season many times and not got bored once.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Grippng story, heroine, hero & villain.
Review: My first exposure to Dark Angel was the episode entitled Blah, Blah, Woof Woof. From then on, Dark Angel night was a must with no interruptions allowed. The premise of this show, creating genetically altered human beings, is a controversial topic. The illegally diverted government funds that paid for the experiment added to the story's vitality. The characters were complex and dynamic: a heroine in search of her humanity and how she fit into a society that was not ready for her altered state; a hero driven to confront and expose the injustices of a "third-world" United States and the business corruption that exploited the down-trodden while benefitting from that same corruption; a cold-blooded villain whose dedication to and protection of the genetically enhanced humans made him feared and heralded simultaneously. Both the friends and enemies of these characters kept the action suspenseful and well paced.

The characters dealt with the world we face and its problems. Their motives and actions were as complex as humans can be with no easy answers. The plot and characters interweaved well and kept the audience intrigued. The actors kept getting better as their characters developed. I still miss this show. I'm hoping that a movie or another "series" or "special" will continue the story. The book Before the Dawn, published after cancellation, was a welcome addition to the background story.


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