8/4/2023 0 Comments Dark angel series![]() ![]() A terrorist attack unleashing an electromagnetic pulse has sent the United States into a severe economic depression. Post-Titanic Hangoverĭirected by James Cameron, riding the epic wave of his Titanic success (pun perhaps intended), Dark Angel is set in 2019. ©1999-2001 Cameron/Eglee Productions & 20th Century Fox Television. This was a subtle homage to the show’s technological futurism and a reference to the wealth disparities that play a prominent background role in the show’s plot, alongside the bootstrapped repairs to aging cars owned by the general public. Smart cars were then brand new, so the appearance on a primetime American TV show marked the first time many viewers had even seen one. Left: Max (Alba) rides past a Smart Car in traffic in her day job as a bike messenger. I’m especially thinking about this in light of my recent piece on imagining disaster. Remember those predictions of self-driving cars that haven’t proven to be too realistic? There were a few pretty wild things from Dark Angel, which I figured it’d be worth revisiting– both as part of my interest in media critique, in general, but also in terms of thinking about how we envision the future. The series was in a few ways bizarrely ahead of its time. ![]() I watched this series as a kid and I thought it was neat but I didn’t really appreciate it at a full level beyond the cinematic intrigue. In Jessica Alba’s breakout role, a primetime, cyberpunk series that survived all of two seasons, Dark Angel is a pretty great tour-de-force that I rediscovered recently on an aging hard drive. Because I know you guys get bored with that. Yes, it’s a rare piece media critique instead of just writing about buses. ![]()
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