History Trivia / DarkAngel

** Biggs in "Love Among the Runes" was originally going to be Krit, but Creator/JoshuaAlba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role in "Freak Nation" but Creator/NickiAycox wasn't available, and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin (named Jewel in ''The Eyes Only Dossier''). This might be just as well, since both would have been BackForTheDead.

** Biggs in "Love Among the Runes" was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role in "Freak Nation" but Creator/NickiAycox wasn't available, and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin (named Jewel in ''The Eyes Only Dossier''). This might be just as well, since both would have been BackForTheDead.

** Biggs in "Love Among the Runes" was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role in "Freak Nation" but Creator/NickiAycox wasn't available, and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin (named Jewel in ''The Eyes Only Dossier''). Fortunate for Krit and Syl, since both would have been BackForTheDead.

* RealLifeRelative: Max's brother Krit is played by Jessica Alba's actual brother Creator/JoshuaAlba in "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole".

** Originally, Rachel would given Alec [[TragicKeepsake her locket]] as a gift in a quiet moment, until it was pointed out that people generally don't give guys lockets as presents. Instead, it comes off as she's running to warn her father.

* RealLifeRelative: Max's brother Krit is played by Jessica Alba's actual brother Joshua Alba in "...And Jesus Brought a Casserole".

** Geneva Locke played both Max's younger self in flashbacks and her X7 clone in the present, and Chris Lazar played both young Zack and his X7 clone.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Part of the reason for the sudden change in the show's thematic elements between the first and second season, supposedly an attempt to tone down the show's dystopian atmosphere in the wake of 9/11.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The tie-in game by Radical Entertainment and Sierra/Vivendi Universal was originally going to avert this trope, but after the show was cancelled, the game's budget was decreased significantly and it ended up becoming a repetitive button-mashing beat-em-up with little variety in enemies and bosses (where for the bosses, '''all''' of them have the same exact attack pattern) and puzzles that have been seen before in other titles. The only significant good things about it is that Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly lend their likeness and voices for Max and Logan, and there are some decent unlockable extras.

* FridayNightDeathSlot: Shipped here in its second season. The show that replaced it in that particular timeslot? ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. Cue fan war.

* OnSetInjury: Wrestling/{{Lita}} suffered three cracks in her vertebrae rehearsing with a stunt double while filming a fight scene. She attempted a hurricanrana but the stunt double dropped her on her head and shoulders. She would finish and film the scene, but the neck injury kept her out of the wrestling ring for a year.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Jensen Ackles related that Jessica Alba was cold to him due to stress from carrying the weight of the show on her shoulders but spoke to him near the end of filming the season to apologize. Apparently, Creator/JamesCameron put a lot of pressure on her.

* NoStuntDouble: Jessica Alba and Jensen Ackles did have stunt doubles (and Jensen's continued to be his stunt double on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''), but did a lot of their own stunts, including their fight scenes with each other.

* FanNickname: "DARK [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] ANGEL", or DFA for short.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When they were filming the scene in "The Berrisford Agenda" where Alec confesses to Rachel and she slaps him, Creator/MeghanOry's attempts at fake slaps weren't really coming off, so Creator/JensenAckles told her to really slap him. It worked, and you can see his genuine reaction, but since real slaps ''really hurt'', he learned never to suggest that again.

** Creator/MichaelWeatherly apparently engaged in some pettiness behind the scenes like making sure he had more lines than Jensen in their scenes together and having the writers change a scene where Alec beat Logan at pool to the other way around, despite Alec having genetically enhanced skills. You wouldn't know it from Jensen's professional demeanor in his interviews about the show, though.

* CreatorBacklash: In the commentary for the season one finale, Creator/JessicaAlba praises the first season immensely and then completely brushes off season two like it was yesterday's garbage.

* NoStuntDouble: Jessica Alba and Jensen Ackles did have stunt doubles (and Jensen's continued to be his stunt double on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''), but did a lot of their own stunts.

* NoStuntDouble: Jessica Alba and Jensen Ackles did have stunt doubles (and the latter continued to be Jensen's stunt double on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''), but did a lot of their own stunts.

* TheCastShowoff: Jensen Ackles did his own piano playing in "The Berrisford Agenda", which he learned in the course of a few days. They hired a hand double but never had to use him.

** The story director for the show wanted to do an episode where the A-story was that Alec would be mistaken for Ben by the {{Yakuza}}, who wanted revenge for something Ben had done to them. As the season stretched on without finding a place for it, and they needed an obstacle to Alec getting to the hospital to give Logan a blood transfusion, it was reworked into the B-story of "Hello, Goodbye" with Alec being arrested for one of Ben's murders.

** Originally, Rachel would given Alec her locket as a gift in a quiet moment, until it was pointed out that people generally don't give guys lockets as presents. Instead, it comes off as she's running to warn her father.

** Biggs in "Love Among the Runes" was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role in "Freak Nation" and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin (named Jewel in ''The Eyes Only Dossier''). Fortunate for Krit and Syl, since both would have been BackForTheDead.

** A lot of snark and bickering was cut out of the scene where Max tells Alec about Ben, because the dialogue was running too long and the points that this was a really painful thing for Max to discuss and Alec wanted to know about his brother weren't getting across.

** Biggs was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin (named Jewel in ''The Eyes Only Dossier''). Fortunate for Krit and Syl, since both would have been BackForTheDead.