phantom feelings
There have been many Dark Angel season one episodes these past few days, and I just watched Rising, which was, by far, the best of the bunch. It had subplots, it had a theme - transformation, and the change it can affect - that also involved the secondary characters. It had a disturbingly sexual - and romantic - transfusion of blood. It had the predictable "Logan surprises Max by standing" scene and the very *wavy hands* almost kiss that followed.
I have one problem with the Logan and Max arc, though, and it's that I don't see the reason they're not getting together. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for the build-up of tension, and for them not getting together as long as possible. But I need a reason for them to come this close so many times in a row, and still back off. And I don't think we've been given a strong enough reason to counteract the obvious forces pulling them together. I don't know, the fact that they had to manufacture a deadly virus plot to keep Max and Logan from each other in season two might be coloring my view of their fatedness, but I still want some more significant season-one reason for their dance around each other, some, "You're my boss, I'm your assistant, I'm a skeptic, you're a believer" something.
Random thing that I like about season one and am depressed that we don't get with season two: details. World-building. Subtle character details that don't directly contribute to plot. Logan playing wheelchair basketball. The science genius with cerebral palsy. Kendra teaching Japanese and accepting coffee in lieu of money. Herbal. Original Cindy talking about her old girlfriends. Sketch failing at show-off bike tricks.
I don't know, my mind's all a mess with where the story is going know and my foreknowledge of where the story goes in the second season, and I feel like I want to step inside of it and make an intervention, to rewrite the history and set things back on the track that I think they jumped. I've been all talk about writing season 3, but in truth, I think I want to write something more along the lines of season 2 revised, or season 2.5, or some other title evocative of the story I think we missed out on. Right now, though, I probably just need more coffee.
I have one problem with the Logan and Max arc, though, and it's that I don't see the reason they're not getting together. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for the build-up of tension, and for them not getting together as long as possible. But I need a reason for them to come this close so many times in a row, and still back off. And I don't think we've been given a strong enough reason to counteract the obvious forces pulling them together. I don't know, the fact that they had to manufacture a deadly virus plot to keep Max and Logan from each other in season two might be coloring my view of their fatedness, but I still want some more significant season-one reason for their dance around each other, some, "You're my boss, I'm your assistant, I'm a skeptic, you're a believer" something.
Random thing that I like about season one and am depressed that we don't get with season two: details. World-building. Subtle character details that don't directly contribute to plot. Logan playing wheelchair basketball. The science genius with cerebral palsy. Kendra teaching Japanese and accepting coffee in lieu of money. Herbal. Original Cindy talking about her old girlfriends. Sketch failing at show-off bike tricks.
I don't know, my mind's all a mess with where the story is going know and my foreknowledge of where the story goes in the second season, and I feel like I want to step inside of it and make an intervention, to rewrite the history and set things back on the track that I think they jumped. I've been all talk about writing season 3, but in truth, I think I want to write something more along the lines of season 2 revised, or season 2.5, or some other title evocative of the story I think we missed out on. Right now, though, I probably just need more coffee.