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dangermousie) wrote2006-07-06 01:20 am
dangermousie) wrote2006-07-06 01:20 am
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Dark Angel rewatch
Anyone who was on my flist around fall-early winter last year would have seen me go nuts for the post-apocalyptic, gritty and OMG!worthy show Dark Angel. Well, it's time for a rewatch.
And I am rewatching the Pilot and it's just as good the second time around. I love the cynical, world-weary attitude of both Max (the heroine) and the story as a whole. I like the reimagining of US as a third-world country, not evil but rife with corruption and poverty and lawlessness, something like a North American version of Nigeria or former USSR. It's striking (and much as I enjoyed the second season, I am sorry that theme got derailed, even if understandably so, in the post 9/11 world).
I lovee Max. She is gorgeous, but she is also somewhat world weary, with a cynicism that is partially put on because despite it all she wants to hope, but also is a result of school of very hard knocks. She is tough and fun and messed up. And she is afraid to open up or believe. Her meeting and involvement with Logan and his causes gradually changes all that, and one of the pleasures of the show is watching her transform, but she never loses the slightly hard edge. Logan is the dreamer, the idealist. Max is the voice of pragmatism.
And that brings me to Logan. I love him. Idealist intellectual revolutionaries are a rarer scifi breed than manly tough-jawed heroes, but are as a catnip to me. Max/Logan is an OTP that not only has unholy levels of angst (a Max/Logan-centric ep in S2 is one of the very few TV eps that made me bawl), but also has a thing a lot of my OTPs have: a more practical girl and a more idealistic guy. And a girl who is tough enough to rescue the guy AND kick his ass if she wanted to. But Logan is no Gary Stu, far from it. He has his own issues and flaws and he is entirely too reserved and too proud and too prickly and too bitter about his handicap (and how much do I love that the romantic lead of this show is in a wheelchair?) ax and Logan are both very unique, very messed up people who fit together. And Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly have one of those really rare things: scorching hot chemistry. I love their meeting in the Pilot: she is robbing his house and when they lock eyes, you feel something on the TV screen. I like the way the ship is written throughout, true. But no writing could be substitute for that spark. (And I love that he is really arresred by her when she talks about the statuette she stole, the Goddess Bast and quotes her descriptions from the Egyptian texts. He is caught not just by the incongruity but by her brain. He's a keeper).
I love Normal and Original Cindy (if I were a lesbian, I'd do her) and, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dtissagirl pointed out, the unusual use of language. I am going to have fun rewatching this.
But never fear, I am still going to rewatch the rest of Veronica Mars and continue with Supernatural. Multitasking rocks.
And I am rewatching the Pilot and it's just as good the second time around. I love the cynical, world-weary attitude of both Max (the heroine) and the story as a whole. I like the reimagining of US as a third-world country, not evil but rife with corruption and poverty and lawlessness, something like a North American version of Nigeria or former USSR. It's striking (and much as I enjoyed the second season, I am sorry that theme got derailed, even if understandably so, in the post 9/11 world).
I lovee Max. She is gorgeous, but she is also somewhat world weary, with a cynicism that is partially put on because despite it all she wants to hope, but also is a result of school of very hard knocks. She is tough and fun and messed up. And she is afraid to open up or believe. Her meeting and involvement with Logan and his causes gradually changes all that, and one of the pleasures of the show is watching her transform, but she never loses the slightly hard edge. Logan is the dreamer, the idealist. Max is the voice of pragmatism.
And that brings me to Logan. I love him. Idealist intellectual revolutionaries are a rarer scifi breed than manly tough-jawed heroes, but are as a catnip to me. Max/Logan is an OTP that not only has unholy levels of angst (a Max/Logan-centric ep in S2 is one of the very few TV eps that made me bawl), but also has a thing a lot of my OTPs have: a more practical girl and a more idealistic guy. And a girl who is tough enough to rescue the guy AND kick his ass if she wanted to. But Logan is no Gary Stu, far from it. He has his own issues and flaws and he is entirely too reserved and too proud and too prickly and too bitter about his handicap (and how much do I love that the romantic lead of this show is in a wheelchair?) ax and Logan are both very unique, very messed up people who fit together. And Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly have one of those really rare things: scorching hot chemistry. I love their meeting in the Pilot: she is robbing his house and when they lock eyes, you feel something on the TV screen. I like the way the ship is written throughout, true. But no writing could be substitute for that spark. (And I love that he is really arresred by her when she talks about the statuette she stole, the Goddess Bast and quotes her descriptions from the Egyptian texts. He is caught not just by the incongruity but by her brain. He's a keeper).
I love Normal and Original Cindy (if I were a lesbian, I'd do her) and, as
dtissagirl pointed out, the unusual use of language. I am going to have fun rewatching this. But never fear, I am still going to rewatch the rest of Veronica Mars and continue with Supernatural. Multitasking rocks.
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But Max/Logan? OMG. Yeah. I watched the series on DVD (I think I saw a few episodes on TV) and fell in love. Even the side characters, as you mentioned, were great.
I don't think Jessica Alba is a good actress, but she wasn't too bad in DA. She was good at the kicking butt, looking hot, and quipping. But the rest of cast were good enough to hold up the acting aspects.
Logan. OMGANGSTYPRETTYJOURNALIST. Although I must say, the costuming people in season two must have been on crack, because he looks horrible for about half the season. The longish hair wouldn't have been that bad, but they gave him these fugly old man glasses. hehe
You were mentioning the chemistry between the actors and yeah, it was so there. There's this great scene in the bloopers where they're casting Logan and Jessica Alba is sitting there as Micheal Weatherly comes in. He shakes her hand, says something to the people behind the camera, and sits down. The whole time (and an arrow on screen points this out) she is just *staring* at him. Her eyes don't leave his face. It's pretty histerical.
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Heeeee. I so need to watch that.
I agree about the glasses of fugliness but Logan overcame it through sheer hotness.
I like virtual S3 a lot actually.
When Logan just lays that kiss on her, virus be damned, guh! Or the scene where he's wearing the latex gloves looking at the ruins on her back?
that scene with the latex gloves? That was the hottest scene EVER. Guuuuh.
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And he does overcome through sheer hotness. I think that was the only way I could watching, knowing that under there somewhere was still Michael.