Dark Angel (American TV series)
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 43 (list of episodes) |
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Network | Fox |
Release | October 3, 2000 May 3, 2002 | –
Dark Angel is an American
The high-budget
A series of novels continued the storyline, and a
Plot
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1 | 22 | October 3, 2000 | May 22, 2001 | |
2 | 21 | September 28, 2001 | May 3, 2002 |
Season one
In February 2009, a genetically enhanced nine-year-old female
Ten years later in 2019, the now 19-year-old X5-452 (Jessica Alba), who calls herself Max Guevara, struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In the recovering United States, which is now barely more than a developing country, she tries to live a relatively normal life and evade capture by Manticore, which wishes to recover its lost asset. Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly), an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only, attempts to recruit her to help fight corruption in the post-Pulse world. She initially refuses but accepts after Cale is rendered a paraplegic while attempting the assignment for which he was attempting to recruit her. A romantic interest buds between the two. While assisting Cale, Max also makes a living as a bicycle messenger at Jam Pony, a courier company, along with her friends Original Cindy (Valarie Rae Miller), Herbal Thought (Alimi Ballard), and Sketchy (Richard Gunn). Other X5s are periodically introduced, most significantly the unit leader Zack (William Gregory Lee). The Manticore hunt for the escaped X5s is led by Colonel Donald Lydecker (John Savage). Near the end of the season, Lydecker is betrayed by his superior, the even more ruthless Elizabeth Renfro (Nana Visitor), and he defects from Manticore. He aids Max and Zack in an assault on Manticore headquarters. Max is badly wounded and captured. Zack, who has also been captured, commits suicide to provide Max with his heart, as she needs an X5 heart transplant to survive.
Season two
Cale exposes Manticore to the world. Renfro decides to burn the facility to cover up the evidence and is killed in the process. Aided by Joshua (
Cast and characters
The first season introduced Jessica Alba as the main character Max Guevara (X5-452), a genetically enhanced transgenic super-soldier who escaped from a government facility named Manticore. She works as a bike messenger for the courier company Jam Pony during the day and as a cat burglar at night. Michael Weatherly played Logan Cale, the show's second most prominent character. Cale is a wealthy cyber-journalist and vigilante who operates under the alias Eyes Only.[2] He recruits Max to assist with his campaign against corruption and crime in return for helping her find information on her fellow Manticore escapees.[3] Main roles were given to several of the couriers at Jam Pony, including Valarie Rae Miller as Cynthia "Original Cindy" McEachin,[2] Richard Gunn as Calvin "Sketchy" Theodore, and Alimi Ballard as Herbal Thought.[4] J. C. MacKenzie played Reagan "Normal" Ronald, the company's boss,[4] and Jennifer Blanc played Kendra Maibaum, Max's first roommate,[5] and John Savage played the main antagonist, Col. Donald Lydecker, who is trying to recapture Max and the other Manticore escapees.[3][2]
The Lydecker character is written out of the series early in the second season,[4] and Herbal Thought and Kendra Maibaum do not appear at all.[6][7] Season two introduces Kevin Durand as Joshua, an experimental creature from Manticore who has distinct canine facial features.[4] It also brings back Jensen Ackles as Alec McDowell (X5-494), who is an identical twin of Ben (X5-493), one of the original 12 escapees from Manticore, and introduces Ashley Scott as Asha Barlow, a resistance fighter who has a romantic interest in Cale.[6] Martin Cummins portrayed the season's main antagonist Ames White,[4] a National Security Agency agent tasked with destroying the Manticore escapees.[8]
Production
Background
Following his success with the film Titanic, director James Cameron teamed up with Charles H. Eglee with whom he had previously worked on projects including Piranha II: The Spawning.[9] The two formed a production company, Cameron/Eglee Productions, and began working on ideas for a television series. They considered several options, including a family drama, before deciding on the idea of Dark Angel. Cameron said they began with the idea that Max would be a genetic construct who "looked normal on the outside but was different on the cellular, genetic level. We explore what that could mean."[9] Cameron was influenced by the manga Battle Angel Alita,[10] which he was originally intending to adapt into a film after completing Dark Angel.[11]
Dark Angel would be the first and only work by Cameron/Eglee Productions.[12] Max followed a long line of strong female characters in Cameron's work, including Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley. Cameron said "it's a win/win situation" as "women respond to characters who appear strong and capable" and young male audiences "want to see girls kick ass".[13] Later they decided to set the series in a post-social collapse world,[9] saying that the hysteria surrounding Y2K served as inspiration; in the series, an electromagnetic pulse previously destroyed every computer in the United States.[14] Working titles for the series included "Experimental Girl"[9] and "Maximum Girl".[15] The project marked Cameron's television debut; he worked mainly as a writer and executive producer for the series.[13]
Casting and filming
More than a thousand young actresses were considered for the part of Max.[13] Cameron started reviewing audition tapes when the field had been narrowed down to twenty or thirty applicants. He was initially not impressed with Alba's audition tape, saying "she had her head down, she was reading out of the script ... she didn't present herself all that well. But there was something about the way she read the script that copped an attitude that I liked." Cameron continually reviewed the audition tapes but kept coming back to Alba's, eventually deciding that he needed to meet her.[16] Alba was hired for the role before the script was written. Eglee said: "We had the benefit of being able to write a script kind of backward, we were writing for this actress, with her cadences and her rhythms and her sensibilities and her attitude and her slang." To train for the role, Alba spent a year doing martial arts and gymnastics and riding motorcycles.[17]
The two-hour premiere episode cost up to $10 million to produce, and Cameron reportedly "brought the pilot in on time and on budget".
Fox "just barely" renewed the series for a second season.[4] The budget for episodes in season two was $1.3 million each.[6] After the intended director of the final episode did not work out, Cameron decided to step in and fill the position. He did this partially for the experience but also to show the network the potential for a third season. It was his first experience directing a TV drama.
The producers were initially told a third season had been approved, but two days later Fox informed them that the series had been canceled.
They called us on Saturday and told us we were on schedule and we'd been picked up. We got together Saturday night and celebrated. Sunday goes by, and Monday morning we get a call saying, "No, you're not on the schedule! It's been changed." I've never heard of that happening. But then, I'd never been around television. ... We were supposed to be on a plane on Monday to go to the [network] upfront in New York on Tuesday. They called us that day and told us not to go! I was pissed![20]
— James Cameron
Dark Angel was set in Seattle, and filmed in
Unproduced season
In the DVD commentary for "Freak Nation", the series finale, Charles H. Eglee explained what had been planned for season three. The intention was to bring together the storylines of seasons one ("Manticore") and two ("Breeding Cult") and reveal the mythology of Dark Angel. The season would reveal that thousands of years ago, Earth passed through a comet's tail which deposited viral material that killed 97% of the human race. The breeding cult preserved the survivors' genetic immunity so that when the comet returned, only members of the cult would survive. Sandeman, a cult member, and Max's creator betrayed the cult and decided to give this genetic immunity to the rest of humanity through Max, who would be the savior of the human race. There were multiple ideas on how to spread Max's immunity, including an air burst that would disperse the antibody through the atmosphere, or attaching the immunity to a common cold virus (Eglee detailed how a scene would show Original Cindy sneezing as part of the beginning of the immunity spread).[22] This storyline is expanded upon in the final Dark Angel novel After the Dark though when the comet returns nobody falls ill, and it is believed that the cult simply had a false prediction.[23]
Broadcast history
The first season premiered in the United States on Tuesday, October 3, 2000, from 9:00 pm until 11:00 pm. Fox had to obtain agreements from its affiliates to broadcast past 10:00 pm, as most of them air local news programs at this time.
The final episode of the series aired on May 3, 2002, as a special 90-minute episode.
Music
The score for the Dark Angel pilot was composed and conducted by Joel McNeely.[31] The pilot score track "Bicycle Ride" was used in the end credits for the duration of the series. The pilot score was released in full as part of the original publicity press kit, titled Dark Angel: Complete Score from the Dark Angel Pilot. The 37-track CD was for promotional use only and not for resale.[32] McNeely returned to score the entire series, making frequent use of "grumbling timpani rolls, bass drum beats and shrill brass and violin crescendos that familiarly sketch the action arcs of the narrative."[33] Traditional orchestral elements are integrated with innovative electronic sounds and female vocals to create a sense of Max's "otherworldliness", "haunting wind chimes, pseudo-Orientalist refrains and extenuated high-pitched eerie sounds" evoke Max's super-human abilities, and "driving hip hop bass beats with heavy percussive effects [and] high-pitched feedback and reverberation" convey Max's struggles with violence and her memories of Manticore.[34] The theme song for the series was composed by Chuck D and Gary G-Wiz.[35] Both McNeely and G-Wiz cited Dark Angel as an opportunity to push sonic boundaries; G-Wiz stated that Eglee and music supervisor Randy Gerston kept calling him and telling him to make the theme song "crazier". McNeely said scoring the series was "like the difference between jazz and classical music. I'm a jazz player, so Dark Angel is as free form and as weird as we want to get."[33]
A soundtrack album consisting of
No. | Title | Music | Length |
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1. | "Dark Angel Theme" | The Spooks | 4:35 |
12. | "The One" | Niki Haris | 4:12 |
13. | "Bring It to Me" (Dark Angel Remix) | Samantha Cole | 3:15 |
Total length: | 49:09 |
Themes
Dark Angel is considered to be in the cyberpunk genre.[1][29] Writing in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Lorna Jowett considered Dark Angel to be a "hybrid of science fiction, Gothic, and action" which incorporated forms and themes from all three genres. Jowett compared Dark Angel to the Gothic novel Frankenstein, saying that Max's genetic engineering makes her a "postmodern Frankenstein's monster, blurring boundaries between human and monster".[40] Kathleen McConnell in Gothic Studies also compared Max's unconventional conception to Frankenstein's monster, and cited several other Gothic themes in the series. She states that Max fits the model of a Gothic heroine who "ostensibly appear[s] to be conforming to their accepted role within the patriarchy but who actually subvert the father's power at every possible occasion."[41] In her book Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television, Alison Horbury theorizes that Dark Angel, along with the shows Alias, La Femme Nikita, and Dollhouse have themes of abduction, physical and symbolic rape, motherlessness, and the discovery of a sister.[42]
Several academics have considered Dark Angel to be part of a wave of shows in the late 90s and early 2000s including
Butkus stated that Dark Angel repeatedly paid homage to the film
Reception and legacy
Initial reaction to the series and Max's character was mostly positive, with favorable reviews in Rolling Stone and Time.[47] Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel said: "Television's newest warrior woman possesses skills worthy of Catwoman, Xena, Emma Peel, and Wonder Woman."[48] Howard Rosenberg said: "If pouty faces and sexy walks could destroy, the highly arresting Max would be wiping out the entire planet."[47] However Joyce Millman said Max was "little more than lips and ass" and considered the series to be an expensive Britney Spears music video.[47] People ran a negative review of the Pilot episode in October 2000,[49] though in December they listed Alba's portrayal of Max as among the "breakthrough" performances of 2000.[50]
The first episode was behind only
Commenting on the release of the second season, Cynthia Fuchs of
Writing in his book The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, John Kenneth Muir said it was necessary for Cameron to set Dark Angel in the future because the prosperity of the U.S. in 2000 "offered little possibility for crime, squalor and other societal problems". While criticizing certain plot elements in the second season as contributing to the show's downfall, Muir said that larger factors in ratings dropping were the September 11 attacks, the Enron scandal, and the depletion of the U.S. government's surplus, which changed Dark Angel's "futuristic vision of recession in a Third-World America" from an interesting, far-fetched premise to a "depressing reminder that things could still get worse".[6]
In 2004, Max was ranked number 17 on
The 2007 film Hitman re-used footage of Max and other Manticore children in training from Dark Angel. It was used to portray the Hitman protagonist Agent 47, a cloned assassin who, like the Manticore children, has a barcode on the back of his head.[64]
Accolades
In its first season Dark Angel won the Favorite Television New Dramatic Series award at the 27th People's Choice Awards,[65] and was nominated for Best Television by the International Horror Guild Awards.[66] The production team was nominated for the Excellence in Production Design Award by the Art Directors Guild.[67] Editor Stephen Mark won Best Edited Motion Picture for Commercial Television at the Eddie Awards for the pilot episode,[68][69] and the pilot was also nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards[70] and "Best Visual Effects: Dramatic Series" by the Leo Awards.[71] Dark Angel was nominated for the 2001 Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing – Television Movies and Specials – Dialogue & ADR,[72] and for Choice Drama at the 2001 Teen Choice Awards.[73]
Jessica Alba won Best Actress on Television at the 27th Saturn Awards, Breakout Star of the Year at the TV Guide Awards,[74] Outstanding Actress in a New Television Series at the ALMA Awards,[75][76] and Choice Actress at the 2001 Teen Choice Awards.[77] She also received nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for the 58th Golden Globe Awards[78] and Best Performance in a TV Drama Series – Leading Young Actress for the 22nd Young Artist Awards.[79]
Dark Angel was nominated for fewer awards in its second season. It was nominated for Choice Drama/Action Adventure for the 2002 Teen Choice Awards, where Alba was also nominated for Choice Actress, Drama.[80] Alba was also nominated for Outstanding Actress in a Television Series for the ALMA Awards.[81] At the Leo Awards the episode "Boo" received a nomination for Best Visual Effects: Dramatic Series, and David Geddes won Best Cinematography: Dramatic Series for the episode "Two".[82]
Year | Event | Award | Nominee | Result |
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2000 | 27th Saturn Awards | Best Actress on Television | Jessica Alba | Won |
58th Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Jessica Alba | Nominated | |
2001 | 22nd Young Artist Awards | Best Performance in a TV Drama Series – Leading Young Actress | Jessica Alba | Nominated |
27th People's Choice Awards | Favorite Television New Dramatic Series | Dark Angel | Won | |
53rd Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series (for Pilot episode) | Special effects team | Nominated | |
2001 Teen Choice Awards | TV – Choice Actress | Jessica Alba | Won | |
TV – Choice Actor | Michael Weatherly | Nominated | ||
TV – Choice Drama | Dark Angel | Nominated | ||
ALMA Award | Outstanding Actress in a New Television Series | Jessica Alba | Nominated | |
Art Directors Guild | Excellence in Production Design Award | Production team | Nominated | |
Eddie Award | Best Edited Motion Picture for Commercial Television (for Pilot episode) | Stephen Mark | Won | |
International Horror Guild Award | Best Television | Dark Angel | Nominated | |
Leo Awards | Best Visual Effects: Dramatic Series (for Pilot episode) | Visual effects team | Nominated | |
TV Guide Award | Breakout Star of the Year | Jessica Alba | Won | |
Actress of the Year in a New Series | Jessica Alba | Nominated | ||
Golden Reel Award | Best Sound Editing – Television Movies and Specials – Dialogue & ADR | Sound team | Nominated | |
2002 | 28th Saturn Awards | Best Network Television Series | Dark Angel | Nominated |
Best Actress in a Television Series | Jessica Alba | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series | Michael Weatherly | Nominated | ||
2002 Teen Choice Awards | TV – Choice Drama/Action Adventure | Dark Angel | Nominated | |
TV – Choice Actress, Drama | Jessica Alba | Nominated | ||
ALMA Award | Outstanding Actress in a Television Series | Jessica Alba | Nominated | |
Leo Awards | Best Visual Effects: Dramatic Series (for episode "Boo") | Visual effects Team | Nominated | |
Best Cinematography: Dramatic Series (for episode "Two") | David Geddes | Won |
Home media
The R1 releases contain several special features, including four episodes with optional commentary in each season, bloopers, deleted scenes, and featurettes. The R2/4 releases contain no commentaries and fewer other special features, but the episodes are presented in anamorphic widescreen, while R1 releases are fullscreen.[83] Adam Tyner of DVD Talk gave the R1 first season three out of five stars for audio and video, and three and a half stars for special features.[15] Shannon Nutt of DVD Talk gave the R1 second season three stars out of five for audio and video, and two and a half stars for extras, stating: "it appears [to have] a decent number of features, but then you discover the length of each one and really feel short-changed by Fox". She also noted the episode's commentary was mainly by writers and producers, and did not feature James Cameron or any of the actors.[86]
Both seasons were re-released in R1 on June 5, 2007, with slim packaging consisting of one plastic case containing all six discs (which were unchanged in content and cosmetics).[87]
Related media
A
Three original
- Dark Angel: Before the Dawn (2002) is a prequel to the television series, detailing Max's life after her escape from Manticore in 2009. After witnessing footage taken in Seattle of a man she believes to be one of her X5 siblings, Max moves from Los Angeles to Seattle, meeting Original Cindy and Kendra on the way, before finding employment at Jam Pony. Max eventually discovers the man in the footage is her brother Seth, who unbeknown to her has been working for Logan as a personal agent. Shortly after being reunited with him at the Space Needle, Seth, who has been injured, commits suicide by falling from it to avoid being captured by Lydecker. Max begins returning to the Space Needle to think and "to be with Seth".[93]
- Dark Angel: Skin Game (2003) immediately follows the events of "Freak Nation", the final episode of season two, describing days in May 2021. Skin Game focuses on a killer terrorizing the streets of Seattle and the growing suspicion and evidence that the killer could be transgenic. As the killings escalate, the U.S. Army and National Guard prepare themselves for an invasion of Terminal City. Max uncovers that the killer is a shapeshifting transgenic named Kelpy, though he has been unwillingly given a drug by Ames White that is causing his psychosis. When Max reveals this information to the public through Eyes Only, Ames White goes into hiding, and the invasion of Terminal City is called off. When Kelpy takes on Logan's form he is killed by the virus Max carries which was designed to kill Logan.[94]
- Dark Angel: After the Dark (2003) follows Skin Game. It is revealed that Max's virus is gone, the most likely explanation being that when the virus killed Kelpy it went dormant as it believed its mission to kill Logan was accomplished. However, Logan and Max's relationship is thrown into turmoil when he reveals that he inadvertently caused Seth's death by sending him on an assignment. Just as Max is ready to forgive him, Logan is kidnapped by Ames White and the breeding cult, who are preparing for the coming of a comet they believe will destroy everyone except cult-members and transgenics through depositing viral material into Earth's atmosphere. They are trying to kill Max as they believe she possesses a genetic code that will save ordinary humans from the comet's viral material. With the aid of a team of transgenics, Max eventually rescues Logan and destroys the headquarters of the breeding cult; Joshua kills Ames White. When the comet arrives, nobody falls ill, and it is believed the cult's prediction was false. Max finds Lydecker in a prison cell at the cult's headquarters. He promises to help her find her mother if she saves him, and she agrees. The book ends with Logan and Max finally consummating their relationship.[95]
The companion book, Dark Angel: The Eyes Only Dossier, begins with a letter written by Logan Cale during the stand-off at Terminal City. It is addressed to Detective Matt Sung, a recurring character from the series who aides Logan, instructing him that the package he is sending him contains documents pertaining to the four most critical Eyes Only investigations. If he is killed by the potential invasion of Terminal City, Logan wants Sung to carry on the investigations. The rest of the book contains the documents relating to the four investigations.[92]
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External links
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