Seriously Kicking Rear ends! (Dark Angel)

Member Name: Alindrail

Product:	Dark Angel
Date:	22/01/01 (53 review reads)
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Advantages: Good characters, great effects, good fighting scenes

Disadvantages: A lot of premises we've seen before

Sky One has been plugging this series over the past few weeks, and now here it is, slipped in right after Stargate. Darn, another two hour session with Sky One now on Wed, not just Fri!

Is it any GOOD? Yes - with good potential. It's a pilot so far, so only two hours and while sometimes the plot drags a little to get us introduced to the characters, the action scenes promise that more, much more, is to come.

The basic premise is that we have Max, a young sassy woman out on her own, harbouring a dark secret, that she isn't quite human; she's been designed to be a super soldier, but herself and twelve others escaped into the world. Ever since she's been lying low, waiting for her makers to capture her. In the meantime the whole of the States has been flipped into 3rd World status due to an EM pulse that virtually destroyed the technoeconomy east of the Rockies. As a result the current society is degenrate and corrupt beyond measure (anyone say former USSR parallels???).

Max gets wrapped up with a journalist who is secretly waging a war against the corruption by revealing it over the cable by hijacking the signal. Of course the journalist is sexy, and Max is TV-o-licious and the sexual tension twangs all over the place!

Max's character is a balance between street-wise and basic goodness, balanced by her desire to find the others of her kind (oh yeah, they all split up). She doesn't want to get embroiled in the conflict, but finds herself sinking into it.

Now all we have to do is wait for the next episode with anticipation.

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