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  References A to C - Television
Angel and the group go down into the caverns of the sewers to find a sword.
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  Dark Angel (series)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The series was cancelled after it's second season, during which the series had trouble sustaining the standard of excellence established in its first year (in her commentary, Alba forthrightly states that she feels the first season of the series is the real Dark Angel).
The fascinating premise of the series, so carefully planned and worked out over the course of season one, is shunted aside (along with most of the supporting cast) from the very first episode, virtually destroying the compelling personal undertone that had given the series much of its punch.
From that point on the series seriously falters, with the focus shifting from the very human problem of the Manticore escapees of the first season trying to adjust to the realities of the real world and the lies one which they were brought up, and onto the escaped mutants: from action-drama to geek show.
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 James Cameron's Dark Angel for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 James Cameron's Dark Angel Review
The development of Dark Angel probably should have been canceled at the same time as the television series on which it is based.
About the only aspects of Dark Angel that might hold a fan's interest are the story and setting, which seem to have been lifted from the series in their entirety.
The development of this game probably should have been cancelled at the same time as the television series upon which it was based.
www.gamespot.com /ps2/action/darkangel/review.html?sid=2907906&print=1   (959 words)

  
 Serenity Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Joss Whedon's series was built on the crew's relationship, witty dialogue and well-handled skill with a slowly building mythology.
The TV series was very obviously limited with a rather small budget which forced more reliance on solid storytelling that never tried to reach too far beyond its means.
Dark Horizons® is registered in US patent and trademark office for Dark Futures Pty.
www.darkhorizons.com /reviews/serenityn.php   (1378 words)

  
 Cameron: The Light Behind Dark Angel
The hero of Dark Angel, a genetically engineered, smart-mouthed superbabe (Jessica Alba), has escaped her military handlers and is on the lam in 21st-century America.
The title may be Dark Angel, and the look of the show may be dark, but there's light in its soul, Cameron insists.
Dark Angel has yet to match its Oct. 3 debut when it drew about 17 million viewers against the first presidential debate, but it is performing respectably for Fox.
www.space.com /sciencefiction/tv/cameron_dark_angel_001030_wg.html   (783 words)

  
 Darkworlds - the ultimate portal for fantasy, science fiction and horror news, culture, art, collectibles, figures and ...
Angel does not believe that Lindsey is redeemable — to Angel, he is part of the problem.
Angel no longer fully trusted him and never would, Gunn and he would never have the brotherly bond they once shared, Lilah, who understood him better than anyone, is long dead, and Fred is utterly destroyed, leaving Illyria as a pale imitation.
Angel: This was "The Fight" for Angel, and he sacrificed a hell of a lot to get there.
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 'Dark Angel' will touch on more sci-fi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fox's Dark Angel seems to have sparked a trend in TV drama this season: the empowered young female action hero, evidenced in ABC's upcoming Alias and Thieves and three other new series featuring ensemble casts.
But Angel, which made a star of Jessica Alba, is fine-tuning its mission as the show moves to Friday, installs a new executive producer and adjusts to the off-screen wedding plans of Alba and co-star Michael Weatherly.
Angel, co-created by James Cameron (Titanic) concerns a genetically enhanced human, conceived by the evil Manticore conglomerate, who escapes from her handlers and teams with cyberjournalist Logan Cale (Weatherly) to battle corruption.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/2001-08-24-dark-angel.htm   (384 words)

  
 TNMC Movies: Reviews: Dark Angel (premiere)
Dark Angel is the new sci-fi series from James Cameron, the same man who brought you modern classics like The Terminator, T2, Aliens, and all-time box office champ Titanic.
The main problem with Dark Angel, is that while the backdrop for the story is pretty intriguing, the story itself really isn't.
This was certainly true for Farscape in the beginning, so I'll reserve judgment on Dark Angel for the time being.
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 Television Heaven
Max is also surrounded by a number of other friends, too, including Kendra, Original Cindy and Sketchy; at the outset each blissfully unaware of the Dark Angel's origins and her dependence on the drug Triptophane, a side effect of her genetic enhancements.
Although he appears to be a cold-minded evil killer, the truth is that he seriously believes his motives are for a good cause, wanting to bring together his unique fighting force in the interest of national security so they can try to preserve the freedom of a society brought to its knees.
Dark Angel premiered on FOX on October 3rd, 2000 and was the result of a co-creation by long time friends the Academy Award-winning director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning writer Charles Eglee.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /darkangel.htm   (756 words)

  
 Television Without Pity » Angel » In The Dark
Then a chain is wrapped around Angel's neck and he is pulled down by a mysterious bald man, while Spike looks on happily.
Angel tries to act like he's not scared, the big baby, so Marcus sticks a hot poker through him.
Angel swallows his heartbreak, to which I say, "Whatever," and responds "She's cuter when she's kicking your ass." Again, maybe I'm biased (gee, y'think?), but Angel's quips don't cut quite as deeply as Spike's.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /articles/content/a2688/index-3.html   (615 words)

  
 ICv2 News - Cameron To Direct Dark Angel Finale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dark Angel episode's $3 million budget is roughly equivalent to a month's catering bill on the typical Cameron cinema epic, so it should be interesting to see how he copes with the financial and temporal pressures of working in television.
Dark Angel is of some importance to pop culture retailers because the property has already demonstrated some licensing potential by spawning a series of action figures from Art Asylum (see "Art Asylum Goes Major") and trading cards from Topps.
Dark Angel has some additional licensing possibilities if the TV series can stay on the air (or at least retire gracefully to a second, lower-budget life on a cable network).
www.icv2.com /articles/news/1218.html   (396 words)

  
 Indiantelevision dot com's First Take on Star World's Dark Angel
Dark Angel from the mind of Oscar winner James Cameron premieres tomorrow at 6:30 pm with a repeat at 10 pm.
Before she is trying to maintain a low profile, Alba is understandably reluctant to help the journalist in his crusade as she finds him to be too idealistic and not practical enough.
Also, one found it odd that a pulse could destroy everything electrical to such an extent that we are clueless as to how to fix the problem, though of course, we created the darn electrical gadgets in the first place.
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 The Beginning of it All >> Dark Angel Season One
Welcome to the TFL approved fanlisting for the first season of the television series Dark Angel.
Dark Angel is a telivision series by James Cameron that began airing in October 2000.
It's about Max, a genetically enhanced woman in a technology void future Seattle, who is trying to find out about who she really is, find others like her, and maintain her freedom from the group who genetically engineered her at the same time.
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 The Unofficial Guide to Fox's Dark Angel Television Show
Dark Angel fanatics...have a new and improved site up at: http://www.darkangel.f2s.com (Go check it out).
The scene is Seattle, shortly after terrorists have set off an electromagnetic pulse in the atmosphere that knocks out all satellites, toppling the economy and plunging the world into a 1930s-style depression in which politicians are for hire, cops are crooked and the future looks drearier than Seattle in March.
Dark Angel," a sci-fi drama about a genetically altered superwoman (Jessica Alba) who reluctantly fights for truth, justice and a place to park her motorcycle while eluding the bad people who did experiments on her when she was a child.
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 Dark Angel (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dark Angel is a video game based on the television series Dark Angel (2000-2002).
After a fairly extensive tutorial level, the player is thrust into a series of levels that revolve around Max beating up an endless array of villains.
Said villains are generally representative of either policemen or Manticore operatives, and it is testament to the game's overall poor design that one is never quite sure which is which.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_Angel_(video_game)   (295 words)

  
 SCIFI.COM | Dark Angel
Jessica Alba achieved worldwide recognition as the lead character in James Cameron's Dark Angel, his first project since the history-making Titanic and his debut television venture.
During the series' first season, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a People's Choice Award.
Dark Angel has replicated its success around the world, establishing Alba as an international star.
www.scifi.com /darkangel/cast/max   (224 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dark Angel - The Complete Second Season: DVD: Jessica Alba,Michael Weatherly,Alimi Ballard,John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Watching the second season of "Dark Angel" knowing that the show would be cancelled it becomes easier to see that there the fundamental dynamic of the series was just changed way too much.
Instead of the super-soliders from the X-5 series trying to blend in with humanity and avoid being killed by their creators, we know have transgenics of every description, which far too often becomes a "freak" of the week.
Ironically, FOX's reasoning for cancelling "Dark Angel" was that they did not want to do two futuristic science-fiction shows (i.e., costly sets and special effects), and decided to go with the highly anticipated sci-fi western "Firefly" from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon.
www.amazon.com /Dark-Angel-Complete-Second-Season/dp/B00008YGRX   (2981 words)

  
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It also allows other characters from the TV series, such as Asha and White's associate Otto, to be brought into the story.
The TV series' regulars of Max, Alec, Joshua and Logan are all given plenty to do and it's possible to imagine the actors who played them reading the lines the characters get here.
Other characters from the TV series help flesh out the various plot strands, with Original Cindy and Sketchy working from the outside and White trying to track down the "freakish" transgenics.
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 Keefer Madness - Dark Angel (PS2) Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dark Angel was a great little show on Fox, created by T2's James Cameron and starred the beautiful Jessica Alba as Max, a genetically enhanced soldier in a post-apocalyptic near future.
The Dark Angel game, available on the PS2 and X-Box appeared on the market months after the series went defunct.
It was most likely in development before plans to cancel the series took place and Sierra decided to still release it.
www.ryankeefer.com /reviews/games/dark_angel.php   (486 words)

  
 Dark Angel | PopMatters Television Review
Again and still, she's tracking down the other X5s who escaped with her (the series is all about the derangements of family, in its way).
While Dark Angel has offered some downright corny manifestations of this theme (Max gussies up to crash some rich folks' party: haven't we seen this class-busting routine before?), it also has something to say about the process, its significance and stakes.
As you'll no doubt recall, at the close of last season ("And Jesus Brought a Casserole"), Max was recaptured by the evil soldier-making factory Manticore, the place where she was made and trained, the place she ran from as a child.
www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/d/dark-angel2.shtml   (1496 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dark Mirror (Angel): Books: Craig Shaw Gardner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And if Angel, Lorne, and their friends can't band together to figure out where the clones are coming from, a murder spree that starts in their lobby might spread to the entire city.
If it isn't enough that Angel is scheduled to be part of a coming apocalypse, now Angel Investigations must deal with the Seven Sinners, a demon cult that intends to hijack that apocalypse and substitute one of their own - 'The Remorse,' which is something akin to a wave of world destroying guilt.
And if Angel, Lorne and the others can't band together to find out where the replicas are coming from and why, a murder spree that starts in their lobby might spread to the entire city.
www.amazon.com /Dark-Mirror-Angel-Craig-Gardner/dp/0689867018   (1759 words)

  
 Dark days for dramas at Fox and UPN
The need for light was obvious to Fox Television Entertainment Group chairman Sandy Grushow, even before he announced a fall schedule filled with dark shows.
When Fox announced its schedule to advertisers in May, it had "Dark Angel," Freakylinks" and "Night Visions" ready to spook viewers this fall and "The X-Files" spin-off series, "Lone Gunmen," waiting in the wings for midseason.
He prefers to call "Freedom" a show that's sometimes "serious" rather than "dark." The military coup that rocked the United States in "Freedom" was precipitated by a stock market crash, but Tobeason said the show's depiction of America's future will not be post-apocalyptic.
www.post-gazette.com /tv/20001022darktv3.asp   (1187 words)

  
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Needless to say, the WB is about to air the final episode of Angel, “Not Fade Away.” In conjunction with the end of the series, David Boreanaz took the time for an exclusive chat to sum up his feelings regarding the show, portraying Angel and the new direction his life is taking him.
I felt strongly about it a year ago, but when they kind of revamped the show this year, it was a good enough thing to have happened just for the story structure and the people and the fans.
But just in general, as far as the series is concerned, I was itching about a year ago or a year and a half ago.
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 Dark Angel | PopMatters Television Review
As her description of the state of the planet circa 2019 suggests, the protagonist of Fox's Dark Angel has attitude to spare.
Cynical, resentful, and hyper-self-aware, she's the urban rendition of Buffy the vampire slayer, a bit less focused (there are no ancient rules, missions, or Watchers for "transgenics") and less worried about parental disapproval or chem exams (she has neither) than paying off the neighborhood crooked cop, so he'll overlook her squatting in an abandoned building.
Still, the numbers suggest it was a sound economic decision: Dark Angel averaged 17.4 million viewers and a huge 8.3 rating/22 share in its target demographic, adults 18-34, and a 8.5/30 with teens.
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 SCIFI.COM | Dark Angel
His early and life-long passion for music gave him an additional creative outlet and, combined with the usual laundry list of starving-actor odd jobs, provided enough professional success to keep a roof over his head while he pursued his acting career.
Weatherly's first real job as an actor was on the then No. 1 television comedy series The Cosby Show, for which he played Theo Huxtable's occasionally seen roommate.
His first series-regular role was on the television series Significant Others.
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 Dark Angel Merchandise
But it is to the point, exciting, and even sometimes terribly romantic, and she has produced a fine novel.
I was very upset that a major theme of the second season of the Dark Angel TV series was treated as an afterthought and casually disposed of.
Dark Angel stars Jessica Alba who also starred in the movie Fantastic Four as the Invisible Woman.
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 Dark Angel (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the year 2009, a genetically enhanced female child (whom creator James Cameron refers to as "transgenic") super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara, also known as X5-452, escapes, along with 11 others like her, from a secret government institution.
Initially a third season appeared to be greenlit, but when Joss Whedon reworked his Firefly pilot, Fox chose Firefly for a Fall slot at the expense of Dark Angel.
During April of 2006, Fox held a poll on their broadcasting website asking, "Now we've brought back Family Guy for another series, which of these would you like to see resurrected for another series?" Among the choices were Dark Angel, Tru Calling, Angel, Futurama, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_Angel_(TV_series)   (3892 words)

  
 "Dark Angel" (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This series seems to have firmly polarised viewers, with commentators either loving or hating it.
In this age where Survivor or American Idiot can last for decades, but something truly creative such as Dark Angel basically exists with a gun to its head, this was a bad move indeed.
The problem with Dark Angel was that its creators wound up so focused on what was "hip" that they were obviously quite unaware how big a backlash there has been against the turgid offal being served up by MTV and the RIAA.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0204993   (963 words)

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