You know I believed for years (ever since it first aired) that Dark Angel was directly lifting elements wholesale from Battle Angel/Gunnm, but at the time it came out I couldn't get people to listen to me. But it only just occurred to me this morning that, oh yeah, Cameron's much-trumpeted desire to make a live a
ction Battle Angel is the proof I needed all those years ago to say that, yes, actually, Max is a low-rent Gally and her boyfriend/thingy is Doc Ido.
It's not just the octo-lips thing, though that's part of it. But the premise, the setting, the look of the characters--all of it. Only Gunnm is better. Which is probably why I read the entire series but, despite a genuine effort on my part to watch Dark Angel, I never made it through an entire episode. (And god knows I've tried--I even this year tried to wade through that one ep with Ben, and couldn't make it through the first 5 minutes. I've never seen Avatar, either, though, so maybe Cameron just isn't the director for me.)
That does make me wonder though: is there a DA counterpart to Desty Nova? And does he love flan?