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Jun. 6th, 2008 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleI came across the term "psyops" on one of the blogs I read and, because I'm a blithering idiot, it made me think of Dark Angel.
Can anyone tell me WHY Dark Angel was such a lousy show? It should have been awesome. It was full of things that I love, Birthright-y things, like evil government conspiracies and humans being used for nefarious experiments and really good-looking people on the run. Why did it not rock?
It should have been, as the name implies, DARK. Instead it was just goofy. The supposedly post-apocalyptic "broken world" was pretty much the same as ours. The "hunted" transgenics' lifestyle was not so much desperate as appealingly bohemian, similar to that of many urban twenty-somethings. In fact, everyone seemed to be having such a good time that you could never tell why Max was always in such a snit. I mean, what's not to be cheerful about? You're young, you're gorgeous, you have an undemanding job that gives you plenty of freedom and pays well enough to let you live in a huge, shabby-chic apartment close to all your pals and your favorite hangout. It was like a sci-fi version of Friends for cryin' out loud!
And my God, what they could have done with Alec.
Dark Angel is just one of those shows that makes you sit there going, Why does this suck!? It wasn't even good enough (or maybe it wasn't around long enough) to produce really heart-stopping fanfic, at least not the sort of angsty stuff that I like. I know that one look at Jessica Alba'a vapidly pretty face is enough to slaughter any plot bunnies that I've ever had about the darn show. Poor little bunnies.
Can anyone tell me WHY Dark Angel was such a lousy show? It should have been awesome. It was full of things that I love, Birthright-y things, like evil government conspiracies and humans being used for nefarious experiments and really good-looking people on the run. Why did it not rock?
It should have been, as the name implies, DARK. Instead it was just goofy. The supposedly post-apocalyptic "broken world" was pretty much the same as ours. The "hunted" transgenics' lifestyle was not so much desperate as appealingly bohemian, similar to that of many urban twenty-somethings. In fact, everyone seemed to be having such a good time that you could never tell why Max was always in such a snit. I mean, what's not to be cheerful about? You're young, you're gorgeous, you have an undemanding job that gives you plenty of freedom and pays well enough to let you live in a huge, shabby-chic apartment close to all your pals and your favorite hangout. It was like a sci-fi version of Friends for cryin' out loud!
And my God, what they could have done with Alec.
Dark Angel is just one of those shows that makes you sit there going, Why does this suck!? It wasn't even good enough (or maybe it wasn't around long enough) to produce really heart-stopping fanfic, at least not the sort of angsty stuff that I like. I know that one look at Jessica Alba'a vapidly pretty face is enough to slaughter any plot bunnies that I've ever had about the darn show. Poor little bunnies.