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One of TV's more interesting
tough-girl action shows, Dark
Angel is a distinctive blend of the personal, the adventurous, and the
politically aware. Co-creators James Cameron and Charles Eglee present a complex
scenario of biological super-science and social collapse in which their
gene-manipulated heroine and hacker-journalist hero can genuinely make a
difference. Jessica Alba is impressive as Max, bred and trained as a super-soldier but
reclaiming her individual humanity; Michael Weatherly is scruffily attractive as
Eyes Only, who sits semi-paralyzed in his eyrie above Seattle uncovering crime,
corruption, and other skullduggeries and assigning deadly errands to the woman
he hopelessly loves. Jon Savage has real authority as Lydeker, a man who has
stretched his conscience to the breaking point, but is not personally corrupt. |
