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Dark Angel - The Complete Second Season

Dark Angel - The Complete Second Season

List Price: $59.98
Your Price: $44.99
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Dark Angel second season- ¿spotty¿
Review: This second season of Dark Angel, while it had a fair amount of good episodes, wasn't as strong as the first, which was refreshing and original both in terms of stories and cast. The second season opens with the destruction of Manticore, but a re-tooling probably did it in. Characters such as Joshua (can you say, Beauty and the Beast) Aisha (featuring an as yet unknown Ashley Scott, whose Huntress character in Birds of Prey was far superior), and Alec (a strong point) seemed to be just plunked down for plot devices, and the lack of Jam Pony storylines made for a general lackluster season. The Halloween episode was throwaway filler, and Lydecker being reduced to a neutral presence was also a negative. Pick it up if you are a devoted fan of Jessica Alba and the show, but get your feet wet with the first season if you plan on making an investment ,and decide from then if you need them all.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dark Angel - Freak Nation
Review: I never Caught this show on TV (but God Bless DVD)and have had fun checking it out on dvd. It's a very simple straight up Sci-Fi Series one part Buffy one part Blade Runner, but the show's second season really gets bumped up a notch. Better Writing, Better Directing and much better acting help this show when it begins to wave. The shows actual Sci-fi Elements work extremely better then the normal life stuff. Where the sci-fi is convincing and fun the real world seems overwritten and tacked to make her a "normal person" buts as all genre show it only spends the first few minuets at the top of the show in this mode. The Freak's being released is a nice way not to have it feel like the first season but as the show sets out on it's own it had the rug pull out under by fox. Not for everyone but people who get a kick out of genre show's will probably love this.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worth every penny.
Review: An X5 capable of running faster than bullets, a dog boy strong enough to break a man in two, a pair of star crossed lovers fighting against a world trying to rip them apart. Welcome to the world of Dark Angel. This six disc set resurrects the second season of Dark Angel in all its glory.

Like its predecessor, the second season DVD set comes in a fold out package with a neon blue and black color scheme. The color scheme complements the theme and atmosphere of the show well. Aside from the extreior packaging, the episodes are professionally transferred. Colors are accurate and vibrant. Each episode comes in its original 4:3 aspect ratio, but with a newly created Dolby Surround audio. There are 3 audio tracks: English, Spanish and French, each in Dolby Surround, with subittles to match.

All 21 episodes are of course, included with a total running time of 943 minutes. Echoing the season 1 feature set, season 2 also includes 3 audio commentaries. Commentary episodes are:

Episode 01: Designate This
Episode 11: The Barrisford Agenda
Episode 21: Freak Nation

The commentary provides some interesting insights into how the episode was made, the challenges involved, and the different considerations that were factored in.

In addition, there are also 3 short featurettes:

- Max Resurrected
- Making the Manticore Monsters
- Manticore on the loose

and a blooper reel.

Some of the information between the three featurettes were redundant. But overall, the provided for enjoyable viewing. One complaint over the extra featurettes is that they were a little short. "Max Resurrected" was of decent length. It talks about the thought process that went into the storylines which drove Season 2. Making the manticore monsters detailed the process of creating the monster of the week customes, and taking some focus on the Joshua makeup. This featurrete was only about 7 minutes, if that. Still, the informaton covered wsa interesting. The last featurette was disappointing. It offered new information but was merely a music video of sorts of different scenes from the second season that lasted a mere 1:44 seconds.

The blooper reel was pretty decent, though be warned that it was not delivered in DVD quality video. Nevertheless, it was fun watching the invincible max, always ready with a witty reparte, screw up her lines time and time again.

Despite a few shortcomings, for a mere 42 dollars, this DVD set is a steal and really serves to commenorate a great show that is Dark Angel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FOX SHOULD GIVE US A MOVIE!!!
Review: I mean... they left us hanging with way to many questions unanswered!

DARK ANGEL was one of the best shows to ever air in FOX's history but ever since they made the most insane move to air season 2 on fridays, it all goes down the drain.

They didn't even give it a chance to move it to another time slot where most of it's fan base are home all the time. I concider my self a pretty good fan of the series but even I had trouble tuning in every friday, so I can see why the ratings weren't to FOX's likings.

And all for what? To replaces it with another Sci-fi show that didn't even last for half a season! This is why I no longer watch anything on FOX. Buy the DVD because it's all we have and if you never watched an episode you should buy this set and the first season of course because this series was great and had potential written all over it.

FOX PLEASE TRY TO CONCIDER A MOVIE !!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Jessica Alba is so hot and she kicks ass
Review: ok, I don't understand. The DVD is not yet realeased yet, but you guys already had it? Why?
I love "Dark Angel". Too bad it only last 2 seasons. It sucks. It's a great show. I will buy the DVD when it comes out, and I'm sure I will definately love it

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Excellent show that was cancelled too soon
Review: This is the first show that I FELL IN LOVE WITH. Now I liked other shows before this but not like this. I would get so excited before the show came on. I would make sure I would not miss this show. It was great. The world, the characters, the story, everything came together perfect. I just loved everything. Now many people may say first season is better but I personally liked second better. If you like Buffy or alias. I suggest getting both seasons of Dark angel. You will not regret it

Once you do, i am sure you will fall in love with it. (...)

An amazing show

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dark Angel Season 1- One of Fox's best
Review: Dark Angel season one was one of Fox's best decisions to put on the air. It is a captivating science fiction show which delivers on many levels. The characters are well developed, and the chemestry between the two lead characters, Max and Logan, is very strong. They both seem at first to be unlikely partners because they both have a different view on certain issues, but it's really interesting to see them work together as one and for that partnership to grow. There is alot of quality action sequences and overall wonderful acting by Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly. It's a fast-paced show and each and every episode of season 1 was interesting to me and held my attention. Alot of the storylines in each episode tie together with other episodes which makes it even more worthwhile to watch and more interesting.

The boxed set was put together nicely, especially considering the low price(compared to other boxed sets). There is a blooper reel and some episodes with optional commentary which is always a nice touch. I would highly reccomend this boxed set, it's definately one I couldn't go without buying.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sorry to see Dark Angel go
Review: You know, it was really depressing to see Dark Angel be cancelled. Even though some of the storylines (such as the doom of Lydecker) and FOX being stupid(!)by putting this beloved series on a Friday night when NOBODY is home got it cancelled, thank god they had the sense to release it on DVD.

I'm so glad for the DVD release. I didn't get to see the series finale and being also a wrestling fan, I will get to see Amy Dumas (AKA Lita) perform in her first mainstream role.

Even with Dark Angel being cancelled, we can be sure that Jessica and Michael are still flying the skies...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hi Everyone!
Review: I enjoyed The Dark Angel series and was disapointed to see its demise. I have read the books (prequel and the continuations of the series), but regret that we will never see them acted out by Ackles and Alba.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I think the flaws in the second part of the series...
Review: I think the flaws in the second part of the series are just a product of the hurry in the series cancelation. If only the writer have the oppotunity, the story would have a different development, maybe more interesting and atractive. In fact this second season has a particular seal, the hurry, they were trying to give the story a final, but they only have 25 episodes.

The series, in its first season, it was more obscure and decadent, in this second season became more soft, even a comedy in it's worst moments, but i like it anyway.

Who knows?, maybe in a future the idea will be used again.


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