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Dark Angel:S2

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3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I mean... they left us hanging with way to many questions unanswered!

DARK ANGEL was one of the best shows to ever air in FOX's history but ever since they made the most insane move to air season 2 on fridays, it all goes down the drain.

They didn't even give it a chance to move it to another time slot where most of it's fan base are home all the time. I concider my self a pretty good fan of the series but even I had trouble tuning in every friday, so I can see why the ratings weren't to FOX's likings.

And all for what? To replaces it with another Sci-fi show that didn't even last for half a season! This is why I no longer watch anything on FOX. Buy the DVD because it's all we have and if you never watched an episode you should buy this set and the first season of course because this series was great and had potential written all over it.

FOX PLEASE TRY TO CONCIDER A MOVIE !!!

Enjoyed this show. Season one is better than season 2 - abrupt ending. Season 3 would have been interesting!

This is the 1st time that I buy a second hand DVD set and I have to say that I was very pleased with the quality. The DVD's were in mint condition and played very well. I would not hesitate to buy other box sets from this seller.

So let's see. Season 2 deals with the fallout of Manticore, a Breeder's Cult, and racism against transgenics. My my, how could it get good? You never find out what's up with the breeders cult or even have a final faceoff between Max and White. You don't find out what happens between Max and Logan, or even the Freak Nation for that matter. They never find a cure for the virus Max has. And humanity is still a group of dumb old morons, even after 2000 years of evolution.

Why couldn't they finish this with a happily ever after twist; is that oh so hard to do? Even the creators say there were several disapointments, in the final episode, with their audio commentary. Atleast I know they agree on that. I know I wouldn't mind seeing Amy Dumas and Jessica Alba duke it out again. As for Freak Nation, I say keep on fighting.

After watching this season, I can find no reason why they cancelled this excellent show. Second season is pretty much a completely different show from first season, but it is still awesome.

Second Season focuses more on Manticore and the Mutants whereas first season was more about Max finding her brothers and sisters. I prefer first season myself, but I still love second season. Bling and Herbal are no longer in this season and their absences arent ever explained. But there are four new characters in this season. Jensen Ackles plays Alec, a twin of Ben from season 1 of this show. He was really a great addition to the show. He brought a lot of comedy to the show and a lot of drama at the beginning of the season. Ashley Scott plays Asha, a character I didnt care for too much only because I really like Max(Jessica Alba) and Logan(Michael Weatherly) together and she was only in the show to try to tear them apart. Scott even says so in the special features in Max:Ressurected. Kevin Durand plays Joshua, the first creation of Manticore with canine DNA. Joshua made the show more about science fiction. So if you like that, you'd like him. Martin Cummings plays Ames White who kind of takes over Lydecker's(John Savage) role as the bad guy. Although I hate him more than I ever hated Lydecker. Just watch Dawg Day Afternoon and you'll know why.

Some of the best episodes of this season are Designate This, Fughettaboutit, She Aint Heavy and Freak Nation.

The special features aren't as great as the first season. For one, there isnt any commentary by Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly which was extrememly funny and interesting for And Jesus Brought a Casserole in first season. Also the bloopers werent as funny and were only about half as long. Of the three featurrettes, only Max:Resurrected was interesting. It was about 15 minutes long.

Go buy this today!

Having never seen the show when it was originally broadcast, I bought season one and got hooked, so naturally I had to get season two. I had read some negative reviews about this season but after seeing it for myself I realized that those reviews were misleading...

Yes, season two was different in a lot of ways from season one, but that didn't detract from my enjoyment. One big difference was that Lydecker (John Savage) was phased out and replaced by Agent White (Martin Cummins). Although I really liked John in the first season I eventually found Martin to be quite good too. (You really get to hate White after a while!)

Another difference was the advent of the transgenics in season two. Other reviewers have stated that the show became a "freakshow" in season two but in my opinion this only happened in the last couple of episodes. Joshua was definitely an interesting character and a good addition to the show. Some of the other transgenics were quite good too, notably "Mule" who was in a couple of episodes. (He was cute and I couldn't help but feel sorry for him when he met his fate.)

Some of the new characters I actually preferred to the first season - I found Alec in season two to be very funny and fun to watch, as opposed to Zack from season one who was about as interesting as unbuttered toast...

This season still retained all that made the first season great - the chemistry between Max and Logan, Max's friends at Jam Pony, great action scenes, humor, and even a few genuine sad moments. (However, I was dissapointed that there were no episodes when Max was "in heat"; I loved those episodes from season one!)

The extras are not quite as good as the first season but still not bad. Another commentary by Jessica and/or Michael would have been nice, as well as more audition footage. (I would have loved to have seen Martin Cummins' audition for Agent White!)

All in all, if you haven't seen this season, don't listen to the negative reviews - buy it!

The second season of Dark Angel was great, but sad { sad because it was the last season of it }; I loved the new character "Alec", and having more episodes with other "Manticore" escapees was really great; some although, very unattractive, you could not help but like, especially "Joshua".

After reading all online reviews, my girlfriends and I agree with them all. That,from the first season, the story does'nt have any consistency. And the whole "don't touch me" theme between Max and Logan really annoys us. Until Alec came along. Now we are all hoping that Max and Alec 'get it on' as they seem to have more in common than Logan and Max; who seem doomed to never get together (reminiscent of Buffy themes) so we reckon; HES HOT (Alec) and SHES HOT (Max) so whats the problem?

I own this, and here's why I think you should get it if you haven't made up your mind and you liked this show at all. First of all great setting and a cast that have excellent chemistry with each other, especially our leads Jessica and Michael. A setting in an economically depressed future, due to terrorism (doesn't sound that far fetched now does it?) If you love fantasy with characters that are human enough to relate to it has tons of that. Don't want to leave out one of my favorite parts, the hot Alec (Jensen Ackles from Days of our Lives), he really had a great part this year. With these dvds you get a blooper reel that shows the cast, especially Jessica, was always cutting up on the set, a really fun group of people. Also important, be sure to check out the commentary for the finale episode, they tell you everything they had planned to do in season 3. It sounded awesome, too bad it never was to be! It gives you insight into the whole season though. I missed alot of episodes the first time they aired so this was a great buy.

In a way, this series was the last show that proved that even big budget movie makers can not conquer the often upside down world that is network television. What made this series fail as it did were two things. One was Cameron's effort to use cgi effects and cgi sets for the actors to react to things that were not there and they often have this confused look of just what they were reacting too, and two was the cast just did not work well at all. Alba did not play a convinceing character, and you were never sure who should be rooting for or not. Between the bad casting the mis-use of CGI effects, it's no wonder this show went bye bye.