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Dark Angel: Complete Season 1 [2001]
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 | Product Details: Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Region: 2 Number of Discs: 6 Format: Box set, PAL Widescreen Rating:   Sales Rank: 4917 | | Look for similar DVDs by genre: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: Awful semi sci-fi soap sludge (06 August 2007)Watched the first disc of the first season last night and CRIKEY! What a pile of of old rubbish this show is. A kind of soapy teen sci-fi with the worst of both worlds. I.e, poor script, poor characters and pathetically poor action scenes. Worst is seeing the Alba girl trying to rip off the Faith character from Buffy and dying painfully in the process. Awful to the point of funny. Axed after its 2nd season not without good reason. Avoid if you're over 13... amazing (05 June 2007)i remember thinking when my friends told me about it that it was going to be a load of rubbish. then the other day it happened to be on the sifi channel and i though i might as well give it a go as nothing else was on. i was very suprise and really enjoyed it i have now just bought it off amazon and to tell you truth i have never been so excited to get a boxset like dark angel Outstanding (04 April 2006)I can't deny that this is one of the most fantastic shows I have ever seen on TV. I would suggest that you DONT BUY IT as there is no third series, or fourth or fifth...it just stops at the end of season 2 so that when you get hooked theres nothing left...an extreme disregard for the fans. I don't plan to watch any more of James Camerons tv shows should he release another in case he pulls the same stunt. Occasionally great, occasionally lacking.... (21 February 2006)This TV series may have been too ambitious for TV. James Cameron, who has done many epic sci-fi cinematic films, turns his attention to an epic sci-fi TV show with mixed reaction. There are some five star episodes, there are some two star episodes, but overall, this was an average outing. Jessica Alba is Max, a genetically modified soldier who escaped, along with other soldiers who had been tested on, from the X5 military installation. Ten years later, and she's making her own life as a message courier by day, thief by night. When she meets Logan (Michael Weatherly), who is also an undercover rebel, her modified abilities are used for good. So we get a series of episodes that show the rebel team righting wrongs. After the spectacular pilot (also incuded in this boxset) the series didn't start off too well. Run of the mill storylines didn't help, and the series didn't live up to the action promised in the pilot. Alba is also the best thing on offer here. Not only does she looks great, she really brings the compleities of her character out in the open and is very engaging in what is her show. So it's a shame that, apart from Logan, and uber-villain Lydecker, that the rest of the supporting characters can really get on your nerves. The pseudo youth talk grates, as does any of the characters from the Jampony message service. The supporting characters are weak and annoying, and the Jamaican character borders on racism. Still, giving up on Dark Angel there would be doing the show a dis-service, because later episodes are much, much better. As the show goes on, other soldiers and people from Max's past in the X5 project come to light. Any episode that contains Zach is brilliant, and thankfully many of the episodes have a main plotline centred around the X5 installation, that makes up for the obligatory light-hearted sub plot that takes place each episode. Towards the end of the series, things that seemed unconnected come together in a big way, and little bits and pieces from various episodes fill in the jigsaw for what is an astounding and eciting last third of the show. The action picks up dramatically, and is always quite well done. The acrobatics by Alba are amazing, and there's a good balance between strong characters in strong storylines with decent action fights. With some surprising plot twists, the positives about this show more than make up for its deficiencies. However, the show doesn't quite clear everything up, perhaps with so many plots used throughout the show there was just too much to take on. It's very ambitious, and succeeds mostly, apart from the few duff characters and episodes, and obviously there is season 2, which I now look forward to seeing how they can develop this series. |
