Ooo, I agree with you on both of those. I think I maybe trust Whedon a little more than you-not that his choices on shows are always my choices, but I think he usually has reasons for what he does and plans more than the schizophrenia of a lot of shows.
I never saw season two of Dark Angel. A part of me wants to, for Jenson Ackles. But I'd heard somewhere that season two ruined the show for some people, and thought "why risk it?" What I always liked about that show was one of the leads in a wheelchair. That maybe sounds bad, but it's just something different and I think the media tends to portray people with disabilities as almost asexual, and definitely marginalized. I'm not sure Max was as strong a character as she was meant to be-too sexualized for me. But the show did seem to have promise.
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I never saw season two of Dark Angel. A part of me wants to, for Jenson Ackles. But I'd heard somewhere that season two ruined the show for some people, and thought "why risk it?" What I always liked about that show was one of the leads in a wheelchair. That maybe sounds bad, but it's just something different and I think the media tends to portray people with disabilities as almost asexual, and definitely marginalized. I'm not sure Max was as strong a character as she was meant to be-too sexualized for me. But the show did seem to have promise.