TODO - Is this out in blu-ray?

She looks even better when wet.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204993/

A girl, engineered to be a killer, flees her keepers, but as a woman she pursues general vigilante justice by helping a crime-fighting genius.

This series hits the ground running, featuring not just a stupifyingly hot Jessica Alba, but a great world, plot and everything else.

However, like too many series', Dark Angel suicide-bombs like it's been lit on fire and is heading for a volcano to end it's suffering. Not only is the second season bad enough to end the show, it's bad enough to not watch, even and especially for people who like the first.

See also Max Headroom - (1987 show), if you like the general feel of this show.
See also Orphan Black - (2013 show)

It sucks that there is no "play all episodes" feature on the DVDs.

2023-01-17
2016-01-04
Watched on DVD earlier, likely more than once; no notes were taken.
Watched on TV earlier; no notes were taken.

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1 s01
2 Ending thoughts

s01 ∞

s01e01 - 2000-10-03 - Pilot ∞

2023-01-17

1:45 -- 2009
3:00 -- Did he get tazed through his armor?
4:00 -- 10°F is -12°C
5:00 --
- Law firm
- Architect
7:45 --
- Nuclear bomb
- EMP
8:30 -- Seattle - United States - 2019
20:30 -- Search engine
25:15 -- Bast
45:30 -- Rocky the Flying Squirrel
47:00 -- Chimera (mythology)
50:00 -- Bug
1:21:00 -- Three months later.

s01e02 - 2000-10-10 - Heat ∞

2023-01-19

9:00 -- There's an image of Che Guevara on his shirt. Guevara was a fucking monster.
12:30 -- That was a rather immediate disrobing..
15:00 -- Gilligan is from Gilligan's Island - (1964 show)
18:45 -- Japanese
19:45 -- Haiku
22:00 -- Janitor
22:30 -- So how is she going to get back in?
26:45 -- But you weren't trained to close the fucking door..
32:00 -- Canopy (biology)
38:45 -- Tai chi

s01e03 - 2000-10-17 - Flushed ∞

2023-01-24

s01e04 - 2000-10-31 - C.R.E.A.M. ∞

2023-01-30

4:45 --
- Birthday
- November 11th
- Grapefruit
- Chicken
8:30 -- Game Boy Color
9:30 -- What's her face's bag strap has been shifting position..
24:15 -- God damn that shirt is amazing on her.
26:45 -- Apple Martini
28:00 --
- Casino
- Roulette
35:00 -- Casual misandry.
38:15 -- I'd also plant a bomb in her apartment..

s01e18 - 2001-05-01 - I and I am a Camera ∞

2016-01-04

2:45 -- Why not just shoot her? Well I guess he wasn't expecting a fight, and she reacted quickly, and you can't hit a girl.
6:00 -- "The great communicator" is, I believe, a reference to former United States president Ronald Reagan.
16:45 -- Social class and Class conflict.
- Ideology warning: This concept is and has always specifically about and only about wealth (money) and it's likely to have been rewritten into a pack of lies by armchair philosophers.
19:15 -- Just what would whacking his computer do about its connection, when it's supposedly blackouts on the other end? Logan is a smart guy. I guess reasons.
23:15 -- DoD = United States Department of Defense
25:15 -- It's awkward to have the same volume as he turns and walks away.
26:15 -- Bohemianism
26:45 -- The X-Files - (1993 show)
31:00 -- He's rich enough for there to be an investigation. Sub-machine pistol fire sprayed from outside the window seem suspicious.
32:00 -- You could fucking call him to warn him about the drone.
33:00 -- I guess the drone couldn't tell its target was no longer in the car.
33:45 -- It should have been established that the drone uses sliver-rounds or something, to explain how many shots it has.
34:15 -- HAL = HAL 9000
34:45 -- See also The Ministry of Silly Walks
42:00 -- That's a fast printer.

s01e19 - 2001-05-08 - Hit a Sista Back ∞

2016-01-04

0:30 --
- Exfoliation (cosmetology)
- Pores = Sweat glands
- Zits = Pimples
- Human skin
- Hyperpigmentation
0:45 -- Complexion
1:00 --
1:45 -- You monster! Tossing an apple into a lunchbox like that will bruise it!
6:45 -- She's do the same for you? No, because apparently she didn't do that for herself.
14:45 -- J. Edgar Hoover
16:00 -- He knows the mother is there, and he ought to suspect Max as well, and he's only sending one X to handle the transfer?
- He should be sending at least three, or.. all of them. Not only is that kid important, the dad is important and capturing the mother is important. Maybe if Max is there, then capture her too.
18:45 -- Well those civilians moved quickly.
24:00 -- The dad and son don't have the skills to hide.. I guess Professor X there could help, or have his resources started dwindling too much to relocate people?
27:45 -- He doesn't have the right, but she would. Social and legal equality.
34:15 -- So many things I would have done differently.
- Were I Max, I would have lied and said it was Lydecker's retribution.
- Were I stoic-boy, I would have killed the kid myself.
- Were I the mother, I would get the son cured and then killed myself before being taken.

s01e20 - 2001-05-15 - Meow ∞

Cliffhanger ending.

2016-01-04

0:15 -- Singapore
1:15 -- Taliban
4:00 -- That's Steve Bacic, from Andromeda - (2000 show).
5:00 -- In heat = Estrous cycle
12:30 -- Johannesburg - South Africa
17:30 -- Wet T-shirt contest
25:45 -- Okay, how many times would I screw this scene up?
26:15 -- Regret, therefore rape.
36:30 -- Now this is a scene I'd screw up.

s01e21/22 - 2001-05-22 - ...And Jesus Brought a Casserole ∞

Cliffhanger-ending.

(no notes were taken)

This show is not worth watching into its second season. Trust me. If you liked it to this point, just let it go. Let. It. Go.

Ending thoughts ∞

Only two seasons were filmed, and after watching it all.. I can tell why. The second season stepped away from a lot of the feel of the first. The new style really wasn't what I fell in love with and although I kinda wanted to get more of the storyline, frankly I was disappointed in the direction it was taken in.

Chasing 'father': 'the sandman'

The entire infection of Max thing is a fucking stupid idea and isn't properly implemented. The idea is horrific and in practice is pretty fucking difficult to avoid. Way to invent a reason for the ol' sexual tension, but you could have done a lot better than this guys. She comes near anything and it requires sterilization. Realism went way out the window on this plot hammer. Ruins a lot of it for me really. =( What they should have done is stressed (and re-stressed) the idea that it has a very short lifespan and can't survive after leaving Max.

They used to be righteous about having an original soundtrack and not using contemporary music for fear of it sounding inappropriate. Well they broke from that and chose to use contemporary music in order to have a shitty soundtrack full of 'catchy' pop tunes. Very bad move.. way to be on the take guys!

Last updated 2024-07-10 at 20:12:08

spiralofhope

Dark Angel - (2000 show)

s01 ∞

s01e01 - 2000-10-03 - Pilot ∞

s01e02 - 2000-10-10 - Heat ∞

s01e03 - 2000-10-17 - Flushed ∞

s01e04 - 2000-10-31 - C.R.E.A.M. ∞

s01e18 - 2001-05-01 - I and I am a Camera ∞

s01e19 - 2001-05-08 - Hit a Sista Back ∞

s01e20 - 2001-05-15 - Meow ∞

s01e21/22 - 2001-05-22 - ...And Jesus Brought a Casserole ∞

Ending thoughts ∞

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