There are a few fundamental problems with series 2. Firstly, it's unbeliavability. It may have been set in the future, but it was a future that could have come to be. Believable, as it were. However, season two brings in human/animal hybrids, and puts the series straight into fantasy.

It seems like they were tryting to copy Buffy The Vampire Slayer - we get monsters, vampires, religious cults. We get what are called transgenics, humans who look half human and take on animal instincts. This just doesn't work. It ruins the Dark Angel world. Genetic humans was fine, believable, they are just enhanced beings. But mix them with animals, and it all starts to get a bit silly. But at least the make up is good.

The second stupid thing the film makers did was separate ourtwo main characters. Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly have a scren chemistry about them, particularly in the first series. However, by series two, Alba has been infected with a virus that will kill Logan if he touches here. they spend the ENTIRE series apart. That's no fun. We want to see them together, not force each other away.

That's another point - the show is overly depressing. No-one ever gets what they want. If something good happens to a character, teh scripters have to weight that down by then doing something bad to that charactrer, seemingly to make up for their moment of happiness. Not only does that mean the show gets very depressing, there is also no hope that things will ever work out.

And finally, the new characters are just plain annoying. Alec, all arrogant, blustering, annoying swagger who needs to get rid of his ego trip, and plain, boring, comic relief Joshua, half dog half human who just gets on your nerves. Baddie this time round, White, is just a sub-Lydecker, who isn't very evil, or menacing, and just comes across as a petulant schoolboy who hasn't got what he wanted. In fact, it makes the characters who were annoying in series one look much better, and its a shame you don't see more of them and Jampony.

But, the few things that have kept the series good are it's marvellous action scenes and fights, and two outstanding episodes where Max battles an evil clone of herself (TWO Jessica Alba's...mmmmm) and any episode with Zach in are excellent.

However, this is the last Dark Angel series because it was cancelled half way through. That meantthe scripters had to wrap up all the storylines - and that's a lot of story! The final five episodes are fast paced excellent affairs, however, tied in with this problem is the fact that the storylines are just too big, and they never get satisfactorily concluded.

If you watched the first series, then you should watch this. Despite being poor most of the time, it does at points exceed and live up to the original series.

Season 2 Is Brilliant
Review date: 2005-07-25 Rating: 8 out of 10

Season 2 continues from the last episode from Season 1 (...And Jesus Brought A Casserole) when Max gets brought back to Manticore. In the first episode of season 2 Max as you can see has been in Manticore for a long time and has been saved from her gun shot wound and has a new hairdo. But she finally escapes with the help of another fugitive in Manticore. But when she goes back to Logan she gives him a really deadly disease that she was given in Manticore to kill 'Eyes Only' but she finds a cure and has to keep a distance from Logan through the second series.
Episodes:
1. Designate This
2. Bag 'Em
3. Proof Of Purchase
4. Radar Love
5. Boo
6. Two
7. Some Assemby Required
8. Gill Girl
9. Medium Is The Message
10. Brainiac
11. The Berrisford Agenda
12. Borrowed Time
13. Harbor Lights
14. Love In Vein
15. Fuhgeddaboudit
16. Exposure
17. Hello, Goodbye
18. Dawg Day Afternoon
19. She Ain't Heavy
20. Love Among The Runes
21. Freak Nation (Last Episode In The Series As It Was Cancelled)

It was a shame that Dark Angel was cancelled because if it went on to a third series then it would explain what happened to the mutants (or freaks).

Season 2 tops season 1
Review date: 2005-06-04 Rating: 10 out of 10

Watch it, if only for the tv interviews with the residents of seattle in the final episode.

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