Dark Angel Question

[ladyjanelly]

So. Those guys with the snakes and all that?

Um, what the heck was their deal? I mean the big plan that Max was supposed to be the only one that could break it.

In 100 words or less would be plenty. 25 would be great. Because I don't really care, I just need to write around it in a futurefic, maybe.

Comments

[minim_calibre]

I'm not sure they ever explained it. Step one, survive snake bite ... step three, profit?

(In the tie in novels, it's explained as some big plague thing that will hit with an astroid or comet, and Max's blood/DNA holds the key to saving humanity from said plague, which the cult were all immune to as a result of those centuries of breeding or something.)

(Or so I dimly recall.)

[domina-malfoy.livejournal.com]

That's the one thing about the show that bugged me... We didn't learn much about them in season 2. I guess more was going to be revealed in season 3 wich they never got to.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

A long time ago, a virus came that wiped out most of the Earth's population. Those that survived were immune. They basically figured out a way to pass on that genetic trait to their children. They began old fashioned breeding programs to create genetically desirable kids who would be immune once the virus came back (in season three or so). That's what the snake bloody thing was.

Manticore kinda ruined it for them, because they created all their kids with the immunity. Max was special though because she was given the cure for everyone. Apparently something was going to happen in season three where she caught the equivalent of a cold and every time she sneezed, she was spreading the cure so when the comet with the disease came, everyone would be immune.

At least this is what the commentary from the dvds tell me. I honestly never cared about the breeding cult.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I've no idea about any of that, my grasp of canon is shaky. But 2 things I do know:


1) I would PAY you to write Logan/Alec, Joshua/Alec, or Ames/Alec for me. (Not much, ok, but...*counts shekels*...something!) *cries*

and

2) There's a couple of good fics by jaguarcaine that I love to rec to anybody with even the vaguest interest. One is 'Gettin' Busy' at http://jaguarcaine.livejournal.com/2249.html ; and the other is 'Chimera', at http://jaguarcaine.livejournal.com/4238.html . FYI. *coughs*


Pesti

[loki-dip.livejournal.com]

In future fic? I tend to ignore it because it was a bad storyline. However, I try and get out of the virus if I can too.

But I'm pretty sure they never really explained it so you could write it off as crazy people jumped on PCP or something.

[cetpar.livejournal.com]

Delurking for a minute. I've been reading "In From the Cold" and enjoying it, but I've been bad about commenting. Hi!

Anyway, I just recently started watching S2 of Dark Angel because of Jensen Ackles, and I've been trying to find fic. I didn't realize you had written some. I just read your Ben/Alec story and really enjoyed it, and I'm happy to hear that you're in the process of writing another.

Since you like Ben and Jensen---the Dark Angel writer who created Ben talked about Jensen's audition in her blog. You may have already seen the post, but in case you haven't and are interested: http://tightropegirl.livejournal.com/8725.html