History Headscratchers / DarkAngel

*** The novel ''Skin Game'' mentions that Max still struggles with going into heat twice a year and still needs tryptophan, but that leads to different Just Bugs Mes. It would be a prime storytelling opportunity to have Max go into heat around Alec, since a male X5 would probably be ultra-receptive to a female X5 in heat. One is reminded of the largely dropped love triangle idea, and wonders what the original storyboard of "Radar Love" might have been like. It would also be a prime storytelling opportunity to see Alec have seizures, exposing a vulnerability beneath the devil-may-care facade.
** In a somewhat related note, how does the whole tryptophan thing work? If you can't make seratonin because you don't have the enzymes, overloading your system should just make you sleepy.
*** I'm sure they wouldn't be alive if they couldn't make seratonin, all that's been stated is that they're deficient.

* Logan's Eyes Only broadcasts keep his identity secret by showing only his eyes - [[FridgeLogic which should include his retinal patterns]], which are unique to each person.

** Besides, the show takes place in a post-pulse US a decade or so later, with sector passes and a thriving black market. Either the law could have changed by then, or the characters don't feel the need to follow every law in broken(ish) country with a semi-corrupt government. After all, Max steals for a living and squats in her apartment. It really says more about the world she lives in than about what real-life young adults should do.

*** The novel "Skin Game" mentions that Max still struggles with going into heat twice a year and still needs tryptophan, but that leads to different Just Bugs Mes. It would be a prime storytelling opportunity to have Max go into heat around Alec, since a male X5 would probably be ultra-receptive to a female X5 in heat. One is reminded of the largely dropped love triangle idea, and wonders what the original storyboard of "Radar Love" might have been like. It would also be a prime storytelling opportunity to see Alec have seizures, exposing a vulnerability beneath the devil-may-care facade.

* Why did Max recognize Jace in "Female Trouble" but not Zack in "411 On the DL"?

** Knowing the way Alec worked the system when he was in Manticore,maybe he traded some of his hoarded 'vitamins'for it.

*** But Sandoval worked with Alec, and he was subordinate to Lydecker. Also, it was originally going to be Lydecker in those flashbacks if the actor had been available, Lydecker was in charge of the twins assigned to the Phoenix project in ''The Eyes Only Dossier'', and Alec recognized him in "After the Dark". Even discounting these, it would be stupid of Manticore not to give pictures of the escapees' twins to Lydecker as they aged so that he would know what the escapees would look like. That's why this belongs in Just Bugs Me, because if it's not a continuity error, it's the result of stupidity.

** In a somewhat related note, how does the whole Tryptophan thing work? If you can't make seratonin because you don't have the enzymes, overloading your system should just make you sleepy.

** Potentially because using heat scanners on the whole of America (the world? Who knows how far they could have got) is impractical, but once there were a huge number of transgenics on the loose and mostly concentrated in one area, it is worth it. The risk of arresting someone running a high fever in Season One, and then exposing Manticore, is far greater than by Season Two when they're pretty much ready to kill anyone they have to.

* The whole breeding partner thing in the first episode of Season 2 makes no sense. Manticore could easily have extracted sperm and eggs from the X5s and combined them into embryos that would then be implanted in surrogate mothers; there was no need whatsoever to make the X5s have sex with each other and render the females unsuitable for combat due to pregnancy. The only semi-reasonable explanation I can come up with is that after the destruction of the DNA Lab, Manticore's sponsors withdrew so much of the funding that Manticore can no longer afford to hire surrogates. And that still feels like a stretch.

* When does Logan move apartments? In several episodes, he lives in the penthouse, on the top floor. Then, on the day he decides to kill himself, water drips from the apartment above and he investigates to find his elderly neighbour there, having fallen running a bath. This miraculously restores his will to live, but the apartment is still the top floor in later episodes!