# What the hell happened to Dark Angel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647 "2001-10-10T20:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/1 "2001-10-10T20:10:30Z")
I mean seriously. Last season it was cool… it was dark, you didn’t know what was happening. This season… Mutant animal people? Escaped cute little bio-enhanced kids getting cutsey “justice league” names… Using the "they can’t touch because she has a super contagious Virus card (which effects no one but the love interest) it makes me sick… I hope to hell it’s all some bad dream sequence or something. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/2 "2001-10-10T21:18:23Z")
And I liked her hair better the way it was last year too. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/3 "2001-10-10T21:21:51Z")
yeah it was really nice of them to restyle her hair and makeup while she was trapped in a military training camp. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/4 "2001-10-10T21:26:16Z")
I don’t watch it, but as I understood it, it was one of FOX’s favorites. So why did they move it to Friday? Friday, where good shows go to die. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/5 "2001-10-11T04:29:04Z")
Jessica Alba gets less cute with every year…I need to see if I can find some Flipper reruns in the TV Guide. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/6 "2001-10-11T13:07:00Z")
Mutant animal people–because a girl in black, a man in a wheelchair, and guys with guns makes for a limited selection of action figures to sell. Cutesy names–Hey, they’re leaving anyway. Then again, she didn’t like Ralph because it’s a boy’s name? Good call, “Max.” Virus–because they figured out the only thing that made the romances in Lois & Clark, Dark Angel, and Northern Exposure work was the fact that they were unrequited, so they slapped together a half-baked reason for them not to be jumping into bed at the end of every episode. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-happened-to-dark-angel/86647/7 "2001-10-11T14:58:28Z")
Hey, the first few episodes last season gave no indication of how good this show was going to turn out, so I ain’t worried. (And I like the animal-people.) –Cliffy