{"id":3889,"date":"2006-02-12T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2006-02-12T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T15:29:00","slug":"dark-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Dark Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watched almost the whole of the first series whilst on holiday; finished it off on arriving home.<\/p>\n

On the whole: very enjoyable, I liked the characters, especially Logan, and Original Cindy, and I particularly liked the conception of a post-‘Pulse’ economy in Seattle, USA – one which bears a strong resemblance to how I imagine a post-Peak Oil economy would look like.<\/p>\n

But I was disappointed with the end – shouldn’t have had the last five minutes of frankly unbelievable plot-compression. It has put me off getting series two, although I was already put off by the fact that the third series was cancelled.<\/p>\n

I also kept comparing it to Alias whilst watching it. Some points of parallel – a Lara Croft type action-babe experiencing various adventures – but the differences were ultimately quite stark. The script of Alias is much more interesting, and Sydney Bristow as a character – lacking Max’s special powers – has to rely more on intelligence and wit, and suffers rather a lot more. Dark Angel lacked a ‘Rimbaldi’ element – something to sustain interest beyond the humdrum, and beyond what becomes, eventually, the repetitive and formulaic beating up of the bad guys.<\/p>\n

So, I’m sticking with Alias – we’re just about to finish Series 3 – Dark Angel, despite some good elements, didn’t have enough to sustain itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watched almost the whole of the first series whilst on holiday; finished it off on arriving home. On the whole: very enjoyable, I liked the characters, especially Logan, and Original Cindy, and I particularly liked the conception of a post-‘Pulse’ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-10J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}