Dark Angel (Starring Jessica Alba)

LM · 29/03/13 - 20:05

The horror channel have been showing the show from the start for the last two weeks and I finally caught up with the several recordings I did

I know the show didn't last long, but i have to say i am really loving the show so far. Anyone else like it?

Matt35 · 29/03/13 - 20:10

little-monster wrote: »

The horror channel have been showing the show from the start for the last two weeks and I finally caught up with the several recordings I did

I know the show didn't last long, but i have to say i am really loving the show so far. Anyone else like it?

Awesome show. I actually bought the boxset of season one and two. Don't have them now. Needed money so traded them but im gonna buy them again at some point. There is even 2 books. One is a prequel and one is set after the end of the series.

LM · 29/03/13 - 20:47

Is the last episode of season 2 a major cliffhanger or just open ended?

NinjyBear · 29/03/13 - 20:48

Both, tbh.

Season 1 is great, 2 is...less good. I'd like to see a reboot or a continuation, but with less characters like Joshua.

Jenzen · 29/03/13 - 22:25

Joshua was my favourite character in Dark Angel, would have preferred more of him

It was a good show, should really have had another season to tie things up. I really must try to remember to buy the book that was set after it finished.

BigFoot87 · 29/03/13 - 22:26

I liked Season 1 more than Season 2, and the impression I've got from reading various interviews is that some of the cast agrees with me.

degsyhufc · 29/03/13 - 23:06

little-monster wrote: »

Is the last episode of season 2 a major cliffhanger or just open ended?

It looked to be setup for a major cliffhanger and season 3 would have been quite different with a full on war but it never got tht far.

After I watched it I read up on it and it was apparently the schedulers that killed it off but putting it on at the wrong time, or wrong days, basically nightmare slots up against hit shows.

LM · 29/03/13 - 23:24

Thanks

I know this show has always had a bit of a following and have wanted to check it out for years.

KeyboardSamurai · 29/03/13 - 23:27

I quite enjoyed this show when I saw it some years ago, can't remember which channel it was on, I had Sky for a while, it may have been on the old SciFi channel.

I liked the atmosphere in addition to the very pleasing Alba, also, there were some quite well choreographed fight scenes as well.

I have all episodes of both seasons in .avi format, reasonable/passable quality and will be re-visiting this series soon.

[Deleted User] · 29/03/13 - 23:32

Oh yeah i loved the show...used to watch this and Alias alternatively from 2001 onwards...both Sydneys in my life

Yeah i did wish James Cameron got to do the third season as intended...i loved both seasons of the show very much

Kieran Seymour · 30/03/13 - 00:05

Matt35 wrote: »

There is even 2 books.

Three, actually. Before the Dawn, Skin Game and After the Dark.

Del Rey in the States published all of them but Ebury in the UK only released the first two.

[Deleted User] · 31/03/13 - 04:01

Loved it, I agree season one was better. But I loved Jensen ackels (ap?) character development in season 2. Was gutted when it was cancelled.

Ed Sizzers · 01/04/13 - 02:07

Dark Angel was the reason it took me so long to give Firefly a chance, as there were suggestions at the time that Whedon's show was part of the reason for Dark Angel's demise. Suffice to say, I was kind of bitter.

Still, we did get two full seasons and, as unresolved cliffhangers go, Dark Angel's isn't one that's particularly frustrating. Sure, there's a bunch of stuff that wasn't resolved, but there's no immediate "Aaaaagggh, how are they gonna get out of/undo that!!!???" scenario either.

BigFoot87 · 01/04/13 - 03:23

Ed Sizzers wrote: »

Dark Angel was the reason it took me so long to give Firefly a chance, as there were suggestions at the time that Whedon's show was part of the reason for Dark Angel's demise. Suffice to say, I was kind of bitter

God yeah, same here.

....then I saw Jessica Alba and all of my anger went away.

Apparently, she and Michael Weatherly (well before his head-slapped days on NCIS

) were a couple.

[Deleted User] · 01/04/13 - 17:53

I use to be obsessed with this show it was so good, gutted that they cancelled it !

Matt35 · 02/04/13 - 22:03

I heard it was cancelled to make way for Americas next top model no other reason. Whatever reason it was. It should have had a final season.

LM · 03/04/13 - 01:10

Matt35 wrote: »

I heard it was cancelled to make way for Americas next top model no other reason. Whatever reason it was. It should have had a final season.

Dark angel was on a different network to Top model, so i doubt it. Top model was on UPN and Dark angel was on FOX

degsyhufc · 03/04/13 - 01:25

From wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Angel_(TV_series)#Broadcast_history
The first season of the show premiered on Fox on Tuesday, October 3, 2000. The show aired on Tuesday nights after That '70s Show and Titus during the 2000–2001 television season

The following season, however, Fox moved Dark Angel to Friday nights preceding the network's new series Pasadena in order to try to reverse their string of bad luck with the Friday night death slot curse and to give the network's new series 24 a better time period during the week. Their efforts to improve Friday nights were unsuccessful though as Pasadena failed to find an audience and was canceled before the end of its first season on the night, while Dark Angel saw its second season audience drop by nearly 4 million viewers and was subsequently canceled. The final episode of the series aired on May 3, 2002 as a special 90-minute episode.

Though canceled due to sagging ratings in its second season, Dark Angel has been syndicated on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States and E4 in the United Kingdom. In 2003, both seasons of the show were released on DVD.

swingaleg · 03/04/13 - 02:36

I enjoyed this when it was on.

I can't remember now what was in series one and what was in series two but at first each episode seemed to be set up for JA to whup someone's ass, which was good fun...........then we had all the episodes about 'the facility' where 'they' experimented on people then all the episodes about the wolfman............

I remember it as tailing off but can't remember why............:o

Not watching it again though..........

LM · 03/10/13 - 17:25

After viewing it as a whole, I have to say I am a fan. I liked the finale of season 2 and although not everything was wrapped up, i was happy with how the show left because it pretty much ended with everyone joining together fighting for unity.

CANDYANGEL · 04/10/13 - 05:11

I loved this when it was on, have both box sets though, remember getting the 1st one from Hong Kong on EBay

so it has foreign language written all over it. I loved Joshua & the way he spoke "getting busy"

[Deleted User] · 04/10/13 - 17:02

I really enjoyed Season 1 but I think the show lost its way a bit with season 2 and as a result I kinda lost interest in it.

Stone Free · 04/10/13 - 19:26

I remember it just being the middle of season 2 that was awful, it started out and finished strong, I've never seen it since its first showing on Channel 5

LM · 04/10/13 - 20:55

Stone Free wrote: »

I remember it just being the middle of season 2 that was awful, it started out and finished strong, I've never seen it since its first showing on Channel 5

The Horror Channel tend to air it, which is where i first watched it.

007Fusion · 05/10/13 - 05:38

Big fan. Loved the manticore kids story of running away and surving while hunted. More so their abilties and the Sandman's true intentions with his creations - which wasn't fully resolved by the end. The finale was good as it was open-ended.

T.K. · 06/10/13 - 01:46

Great show. Still ranks as one of my Top 5 shows. Just a shame it was cancelled just when the overarching storyline was really kicking into first gear. Bloody FOX.

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