Dark Angel

I started to watch Dark Angel before all the hype about Jessica Alba started and I still thought she was awesome. Anyway, Dark Angel has an amazing original concept and a great cast to help pull this through. It is post apocalyptic America and an under the radar government program called Manticore breeds the perfect soldiers. Jessica Alba as Max Guevera is the strong female lead that makes this show a success. The Main Characters Max Guevera - The X5 with dirty fighting tricks. One of the original X5 series to escape from Manticore, all she wants is an ordinary life and to forget the past. Unfortunately, fate has other plans and she is soon forced to use ...  Read the complete review

The Setting: Dark Angel is set in the future. A group of terrorists have attacked America with an electromagnetic pulse resulting in the destruction of computers, communication systems etc. The series takes place in Washington where the majority of people are now living in poverty, the authorities are corrupt and there are big restrictions on where people can go within the city. The Backstory: There is a facility called Manticore where they create genetically engineered soldiers. In 2009 (the series starts in 2019), before the pulse, a group of children who were made in this facility escape. The Characters (series 1 and 2): Max ...  Read the complete review

Need more heart, but instead just felt good. - Advantages: looks great, has cool music, Jessica Alba - Disadvantages: directionless story, characters not developed enough

My 'Dark Angel' or DA (I have always been just so fond of abbreviations) phase began one Monday night when I was channel-surfing in vain for something worthwhile to watch. "Music videos from the Seventies? No. A Popeye the Sailor Man marathon? No. Oh please let 'The Simpsons' be on- damn, they've just finished for the night. Oh, well, I guess I should resort to doing my Maths homework... but what's this?" I had, in fact, channel-surfed my way into an episode of 'Dark Angel'. It was, as I recall, the episode 'Flushed'. Although I had only the vaguest idea of who Jessica Alba was and had no idea who the ...  Read the complete review

The Beginning ************* The opening sequence that kicks off every episode is a monologue with a background of a test tube baby in the background.... "They designed her to be the perfect soldier...a human weapon...then she escaped. In a future not far from now...in a broken world...she is haunted by her past. She cannot run, she must fight...to discover her destiny". Cast **** Jessica Alba - Max Michael Weatherly - Logan Cale (Eyes Only) Jensen Eccles - Alec John Savage - Lydecker Martin Cummins - Aimes White Kevin Durand - Joshua J C Mackenzie - Normal ...  Read the complete review