# Anybody see "Dark Angel"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-dark-angel/35795 "2000-10-05T16:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Estrella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Estrella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estrella)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-dark-angel/35795/41 "2000-10-16T18:19:15Z")
If you like Jessica Alba, you can also catch her in “Never Been Kissed” with lighter, shorter hair and in “Idle Hands” in this rockin’ Angel Halloween costume. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-dark-angel/35795/42 "2000-10-16T20:12:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phobos \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > > \*\*So nobody else noticed that it was a big fat rip off of the anime movie “Black Angel”? > > Real original J. Cameron! :rolleyes: > > \*\* > > Not to mention William Gibson’s _Virtual Light_ (sci-fi bike messanger action story) and _Johnny Mnemonic_ (hacker of TV channels broadcasting messages against the current evil regime). Also, the _Matrix_’s running-up-the-wall thing. There are other rip-offs too (the enhanced human idea has been done many times).\*\* Yes, I keep thinking of Robert Heinlein’s _Friday_ ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-dark-angel/35795/43 "2000-10-17T08:07:02Z")
Missed the pilot; don’t really think I missed much. Basically something really weird happened that caused the entire country to go to martial law, and there’s a bunch of special people with Bar Codes On Their Necks (which gets brought up ad nauseum), and a lot of creepy people want Max dead/recaptured for some reason. I think I can hash it out from there. Saw most of the second episode. _Very nearly_ gave up on it after it pulled that moronic think-there’s-gonna-be-sex-but-there-isn’t scene (more wonderful unoriginality), and even better, it even had the poor sap thinking he really did get it on. I am as vehemently opposed to half-baked “suggestive” garbage that goes absolutely nowhere as anyone can be and certainly don’t need to see it on an _action_ show, for crying out loud. Then there was a bunch of road scenes, a lot of sneaking around, and the ever-popular trip into the past (Waitaminnit, if this is the _future_ why not _start_ with that, and then move on to…never mind.). And Max does kick some butt. Okay, there may be some redeeming qualities to Dark Angel, but frankly, there’s nothing here that something else doesn’t do better. JAG has a far more accurate view of the military and compelling personalities I can really get into. Xena: Warrior Princess has much better action sequences, a much less cardboard heroine, and, though you rarely hear about it, great dialogue. Batman Beyond has cooler futuristic gizmos. And any number of websites and video stores have vast quantities of the fate that Max was oh so lucky to have been spared. :rolleyes: So yeah, it delivers on what it was supposed to deliver, but that’s not enough to get me to watch again. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-dark-angel/35795/44 "2000-10-17T17:03:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Estrella \* > \*\*If you like Jessica Alba, you can also catch her in “Never Been Kissed” with lighter, shorter hair and in “Idle Hands” in this rockin’ Angel Halloween costume. \*\* And out of it, too! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-dark-angel/35795.md?page=2)