Life on Mars
2009-12-11 11:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muneca_bravaI finished watching Life on Mars, finally. I am way behind on this, and I'm sure the fandom has sort of died and nobody is even interested in it anymore, but I still need to make a squee post. Just for me :D It's how I deal with overflowing excitment.
So, I've been watching LoM for months now. It's actually been ages since I took that long to finish a show. I usually just marathon it. But since this is the first show in forever that I could actually persuade my mother to watch with me, we had to go at a rate of about one a week.
I've actually heard people say they stopped watching because they thought it was too dark. Which...really? I mean, it's not exactly rainbows and butterflies, I admit there is a lot of violence and political incorectness, and some dark themes. But I genuinly see it as a very fun and funny show. Gene Hunt is just comedy gold, really. XD
I knew I would like it because it had John Simm, it was a very cool concept, and I had heard very good things about Philip Glenister.
But I really loved it.
I think I fell in love in the very first episode, in the scene where Sam wakes up in 1973. The camera swerves around him, showing us the landscape and his new outfit, while Life on Mars is blaring. (I love Bowie, so that helped).
By the time Gene Hunt walked out of his office and grabbed Sam in, I was sold.
It is also very scary in places (that little girl is classic horror, and one of the scariest things I've seen lately).
I truly enjoyed every single episode. Some were better than others, but overall every one had some great moments. Truthfully, every single scene that involved Gene Hunt was a success to me. He does not have a scene without at least one hilariously wrong comment.
In the first couple of episodes, I didn't really like Annie. I thought she was a little too oviously "The Love Interest" and I hate that. This, combined with the fact that I started watching this shortly after becoming active in a slash fandom, made me... not exactly ship, but at least see the potential of Gene/Sam.
There's this one episode where they're undercover in a bar, Sam takes Gene to back room to talk dome sense in to him, and Gene gets angry and pushes him against a wall.
Welll...
But later on, I started to like Annie and Sam/Annie more, and I now think that Sam/Gene is a lot better as a relationship of mutual (grudging) respect and agreeing to disagree. It doesn't need anything sexual, and in most of S2 I really didn't see it that way anymore. By the end, I was seriously rooting for Sam/Annie, even.
Now, the final episode (spoilers!).
I can honestly say it is one of the best season finales I have ever seen.
Throughout the show, you're not sure what you're rooting for. You don't want Sam to leave 1973, leave the people and the way of life, but it's clear that he also has a life in 2006 that he desperatly wants to have back.
So I think this is the perfect resolution. He does get back, but soon realises it's really not what he wants. I love how they describe it: he doesn't feel anything anymore.
And of course, the ending is perfectly dubious. It's not Hollywood-happy, because, well, he basically kills himself, but it's not overly depressing either because he gets to go back, and live the life he wants.
I only have S1 on dvd, which sucks because I'm sure I'll want to rewatch it soonish. There are also practically no decent fanvids of this out there, so I have to survive on memory XD
Yes, I'm done rambling now. This was partly because I needed to squee and didn't have anyone to annoy with it, and partly because I don't feel like studying.
So, I've been watching LoM for months now. It's actually been ages since I took that long to finish a show. I usually just marathon it. But since this is the first show in forever that I could actually persuade my mother to watch with me, we had to go at a rate of about one a week.
I've actually heard people say they stopped watching because they thought it was too dark. Which...really? I mean, it's not exactly rainbows and butterflies, I admit there is a lot of violence and political incorectness, and some dark themes. But I genuinly see it as a very fun and funny show. Gene Hunt is just comedy gold, really. XD
I knew I would like it because it had John Simm, it was a very cool concept, and I had heard very good things about Philip Glenister.
But I really loved it.
I think I fell in love in the very first episode, in the scene where Sam wakes up in 1973. The camera swerves around him, showing us the landscape and his new outfit, while Life on Mars is blaring. (I love Bowie, so that helped).
By the time Gene Hunt walked out of his office and grabbed Sam in, I was sold.
It is also very scary in places (that little girl is classic horror, and one of the scariest things I've seen lately).
I truly enjoyed every single episode. Some were better than others, but overall every one had some great moments. Truthfully, every single scene that involved Gene Hunt was a success to me. He does not have a scene without at least one hilariously wrong comment.
In the first couple of episodes, I didn't really like Annie. I thought she was a little too oviously "The Love Interest" and I hate that. This, combined with the fact that I started watching this shortly after becoming active in a slash fandom, made me... not exactly ship, but at least see the potential of Gene/Sam.
There's this one episode where they're undercover in a bar, Sam takes Gene to back room to talk dome sense in to him, and Gene gets angry and pushes him against a wall.
Welll...
But later on, I started to like Annie and Sam/Annie more, and I now think that Sam/Gene is a lot better as a relationship of mutual (grudging) respect and agreeing to disagree. It doesn't need anything sexual, and in most of S2 I really didn't see it that way anymore. By the end, I was seriously rooting for Sam/Annie, even.
Now, the final episode (spoilers!).
I can honestly say it is one of the best season finales I have ever seen.
Throughout the show, you're not sure what you're rooting for. You don't want Sam to leave 1973, leave the people and the way of life, but it's clear that he also has a life in 2006 that he desperatly wants to have back.
So I think this is the perfect resolution. He does get back, but soon realises it's really not what he wants. I love how they describe it: he doesn't feel anything anymore.
And of course, the ending is perfectly dubious. It's not Hollywood-happy, because, well, he basically kills himself, but it's not overly depressing either because he gets to go back, and live the life he wants.
I only have S1 on dvd, which sucks because I'm sure I'll want to rewatch it soonish. There are also practically no decent fanvids of this out there, so I have to survive on memory XD
Yes, I'm done rambling now. This was partly because I needed to squee and didn't have anyone to annoy with it, and partly because I don't feel like studying.