I know, I know. This two-season-long show has been off air for nearly 10 years but what can I say? I love it. And so I’m going to talk about it.
I didn’t get to see the show when it aired live. I somehow missed that it was on though I had heard about a series that James Cameron was going to do on TV and it sounded interesting. I just never heard that it started airing. A few years ago, I browsed through the TV Show DVDs at the store and stumbled across Dark Angel Season 1. I bought it, took it home, and popped into my DVD player. After all what could go wrong with a TV show about ‘genetically-enhanced children in post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest’?
I fell in love and immediately started searching the TV guides for the air dates for current episodes. That was when I found out that this lovely, funny show had been cancelled after just two seasons. <sigh> I returned to the store and bought the second season. When I finished watching it, I was bummed. It does not end in a great place and as anyone who has been reading this blog for very long knows, endings mean a lot to me.
A while later I discovered that there were Dark Angel books and that they even tied things up. Finished the story even and I became very excited. But I couldn’t find copies of them anywhere. Finally last month, it dawned on me to look through the Nook library for e-book versions of them. Eureka! I immediately added all three to my nook wish list and last payday bought the first one.
Yesterday, I finished it. Dark Angel: Before the Dawn covers the timeline between when Max escaped from Manticore and up to the first scene in the first episode. It filled in a lot of backstory for all the characters and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Today is payday and I’ll be purchasing the next one in the series as soon as the money hits the bank.
One of my favorite things about the show is Michael Weatherly. His character, Logan Cale AKA Eyes Only, is a man with a cause and yet sense of humor. When life puts him down (paralyzing him in episode one), he doesn’t give up. He keeps going. He shines a light into Max’s life and she uses her uber-rogue skills to help him with his cause. The series is full of light and dark, weaving a rich and detailed glimpse into this world.
If you haven’t seen this series, you should. If you have, did you love it? Did you read the books and did they help satisfy the need for an ending?
I’ll be back in two books to let you know what I think of them.
