dammit!

[jaina]

Yarg. I knew going in that I wasn't going to like S2 of Dark Angel as much, but I watched the first ep anyway. And it made me grrrrr! They weren't kidding when they said they toned down the post-apocalyptic stuff since it was right after 9/11. Which I understand, but dammit, the post-apocalyptic feel was a huge part of why the show was so awesome, for me. ("There's a dead guy under there." "Yeah, we know, he's the foul line.") Also, someone needs to go back in time five years and feed Jessica Alba some cookies or something, and also re-curl her hair. And then it's all with a rehash of Buffy/Angel and the stupid curse, which was dumb the first time anyway, except apparently the writers were like "ooh, but that wasn't enough, let's up the ante and make it so they can't even be near each other! that'll be great!" Yeah not so much, actually.

Jensen Ackles had better be worth it, for serious. I've been promised that he can actually act and that I will stop thinking of him as Eric Brady. (Which, how can I stop thinking of him as Eric? Every time I look at him, I see him lecturing Sami over something. And how is it that he managed to get out of soaps and be a Real(ish) Actor while people just as good as him, or better, never make it? The world is an unfair place, truly.)

Clearly, this is all the fault of those damn Harry Potter plagiarists. I mean, all their shit was going down around the same time as this, right?

Comments

[jawajames.livejournal.com]

i only saw a few early eps of Dark Angel.. toning down the post-apocalyptic america i think would be bad.. the point of the show was that the US was now a third world country, with some at the top, and a lot more just trying to get by.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's it exactly. But I guess we were all so hypersensitive post-9/11 that they didn't want to emphasize that their show was set in a post-terrorist-attack America. Which, again, I understand, but it really took away from the feeling of the show.

[jawajames.livejournal.com]

heh... they could have de-emphasized the terrorist act that brought america down, and simply shown an america impoverished, fallen from power without really alluding to how it happened....

and several years into post-9/11 era, we are getting jericho, a show about a small town trying to deal with being cut off from the rest of america after nuclear attacks are made.

speaking of post-apocalyptic americas, did you ever read Parable of the Talents and Parable of the Sower by Ursula LeGuin?

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

I was trying not to say anything about Season 2 because I felt the same way. I didn't want to spoil it for you, though.

Sorry to hear that it tanked for you, too.

[ellbogen.livejournal.com]

that icon is hilarious!

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

I pretty much knew it was coming, from all the various reading around I'd done, but it was still disappointing. :( I'm going to keep watching, since it's only 22 episodes, but alas, the thrill is gone.

I hate it when you discover a new show that's so awesome, and then discover that it took a sharp turn downwards after awhile. Happened to us with Gilmore Girls, too. Grr.

[ellbogen.livejournal.com]

You know my feelings on the current incarnation of Jessica Alba. I hate it when actresses start out playing really cool roles and look unconventionally attractive, but then go Hollywood clone on us the minute they get an ounce of success. I'm still mad at Claire Danes for going blonde and sex kittenish after she did My So-Called Life (which is GREAT if you haven't seen it - I think you'd be into it.)

[hokie.livejournal.com]

Jessica Alba was unconventionally attractive before? =)

[ellbogen.livejournal.com]

well, unconventional as in not-blonde and not (too) skinny, indeterminate ethnicity, i.e. not one of those starlet clones I tend to confuse with one another

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

I giggle that you mentioned Claire Danes, because this entry (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/08/stage_fug.html) just popped up on Go Fug Yourself.

I did watch a bit of MSCL, but at the time I didn't understand it enough to appreciate it. Think it's on DVD? I'd like to watch it again.

[lexsara.livejournal.com]

I am feeling the same way--having not seen season 2...yet watching the first few eps (also thanks to Netflix) I was seriously disappointed. For all the above reasons.

My friends who watched say Ackles was okay during the season--but I'm glad to hear that someone else can only think of him as Eric Brady. That's who he's always been to me--despite DA and Supernatural!

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

I know! I mean, he was Eric for-freaking-ever! How can he be someone else? Three episodes into S2, he's starting to win me over a bit, if only because his is the only character who isn't so goddamn serious about everything. Lost the post-apocalyptic live-life-for-now feel, gained the life-sucks-let's-be-grumpy-all-the-time feel, which is just not cool. *glares five years into the past at stupid show* No wonder they cancelled you!