Life on Mars
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spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i quite liked it - i thought the culture shock jokes were a bit too thick on the ground after a while... yes yes, they didn't have diet coke - i get it.
Also interesting how we see the 70s police as sexist but not racist...
wonder if they will address that at all?
Also interesting how we see the 70s police as sexist but not racist...
wonder if they will address that at all?
franklin1777
Time marches on
I liked, "but we dont have a warrent" cut to door being kicked down.
There are quite a few other gags as well, I look forward to the next episode.
edited to add: Annie is quite nice too.
There are quite a few other gags as well, I look forward to the next episode.
edited to add: Annie is quite nice too.
jannerboyuk
...just kids gone wild.
Thoughtit was pretty cool. I liked how not everything was explained re: coma or real. I'm going towards some sort of higher power sending him back to connect the dots of current crimes. Maybe he's in fact a future incarnation of Dr Who with concussion and the final episode will have a dalek shouting "EXTERMINATE THE SLAG!!"
I agree about the seeming avoidance of racism while the sexism comes thick and fast (ooerr) but still its just a bit of fun, isn't it?
I agree about the seeming avoidance of racism while the sexism comes thick and fast (ooerr) but still its just a bit of fun, isn't it?
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
An inspired twist on the cop show format, just when I swore I never wanted to see another cop show as long as I lived. And John Simm is excellent as usual. 
Funny to think the world was as different as that when I was one year old. 
Funny to think the world was as different as that when I was one year old. 
editor
hiraethified
About ten years ago I had one of my best dreams ever - you know, those ones where you really feel like it's happening to you and when you wake up a part of you feels like it really happened for a while?
I dreamt I was in Soho on the early 1970s, walking up to the Marquee, noting every detail as I went along. It was absolutely fantastic - in the dream I was like the Simm character, knowing that I was from the present time.
Never had the dream again tho'
I dreamt I was in Soho on the early 1970s, walking up to the Marquee, noting every detail as I went along. It was absolutely fantastic - in the dream I was like the Simm character, knowing that I was from the present time.
Never had the dream again tho'
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
It was nothing less than a triumph - goes to show that after years of dreary cop shows like Silent Witness the beeb can still make an original series - if they put some money behind it and have some good writing. They seem to have done both here, the 70's street scenes were particularly impressive. Sim was good but Philip Glennister stole the show.
I can't wait for next weeks episode and I can't remember the last time I said that about a BBC series.
I can't wait for next weeks episode and I can't remember the last time I said that about a BBC series.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
I totally agree with this.Sigmund Fraud said:
However, the LPs in Vinyl Heaven looked suspiciously tatty for new product...
I liked it too. We'll forgive them the blatant lifts from things like Vanilla Sky and the Matrix (The OU/TV and the roof thing)
I bet it took them a bit of hunting to get enough 70s vehicles - the detail is very good, without the "everyone wearing flares and platforms" shorthand that sometimes passes for depictions of the 70s on TV.
(The OU/TV and the roof thing)I bet it took them a bit of hunting to get enough 70s vehicles - the detail is very good, without the "everyone wearing flares and platforms" shorthand that sometimes passes for depictions of the 70s on TV.
2 Hardcore
mad old bat
I meant to watch it too but couldn't . Luckily the first episode's repeated on Sign Zone on BBC 1, Thursday night 25 past midnight (so you get to learn some BSL too).Griff said:Anyone know if it's going to be repeated on BBC3/4, got too drunk and missed it.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Yeah, twas good!
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
greenman said:I liked it too. We'll forgive them the blatant lifts from things like Vanilla Sky and the Matrix
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Both Vanilla Sky and The Matrix are themselves derivative (or as a seasoned sci-fi sceptic might comment, 'hugely unoriginal') so comparing Life on Mars to something which is itself a facsimilie and claiming it 'lifted' is a bit unfair methinks to things like Dark City or Ubik.
Sigmund Fraud said:Both Vanilla Sky and The Matrix are themselves derivative (or as a seasoned sci-fi sceptic might comment, 'hugely unoriginal') so comparing Life on Mars to something which is itself a facsimilie and claiming it 'lifted' is a bit unfair methinks to things like Dark City or Ubik.
Yeah, its a kind of Pop Art cum post-modern thing, where replication ceases to be derivative and becomes ironic referencing
franklin1777
Time marches on
jannerboyuk said:
Sounds like a cop version of Quantum Leap.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
I thought it might be like that too, but there is a whole plethora of differences - firstly, the John Simm character goes back in time as himself rather than as an alter ego; secondly, the writing is far grittier and more adult; thirdly, the premise is more psychologically examined and culturally self-referential in that it's a deliberate experiment in juxtaposing a present day DCI in with an old school copper and watching the sparks of principle fly; fourthly, the acting's much better.franklin1777 said:
The only similarity is that Simm seems to have gone back to sort some kind of shit out, which makes it as close to 'Demolition Man' - and it's nothing like that, believe me.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Such a shame it only attracted seven million viewers, whilst another ten were enthralled by the CBB freak show and some 'singing' 'celebrities.' Oh, well...
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