Re: Ashes to Ashes - Comments?

On 8 Feb, 07:40, hulahoop <sweeney...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 8, 1:28 am, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





"Bazza" <bazza2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Thoughts?

Nice legs!

I was pleased to Hunt and the boys back but I'm still not sure about the
new female lead. It's a bit like getting to know a new Doctor
again...takes a few episodes I guess. Overall.....I enjoyed tonights show
though.

Well my prediction about Gean using the word Poofters was right, well sort
of right since I predicted he's call them Faggots.

The question I want answering is did the further adventures of Sam Tyler
from 1973 to 1980 take place before or after he jumped of the roof

AIUI the extra 7 years took place in the one second between life and
death.  ie one second in the world of "Gene" lasted an inordinately
longer time in our world

Which of course makes no sense in context, since during Sam's coma
it's clear that several days at least passed between episodes when the
series was set entirely in 1973 - certainly Sam was in a coma for long
enough to make people wonder if he'd come out of it, and the
impression given at the time was that time in Sam's world was
equivalent to real-world time. In moving the premise of the show from
the experiences of a mind in a coma to a near-death experience,
they've had to do some clumsy retconning (not least the idea that, at
some point during the series, Sam had to have woken up for an extended
period and been cogent enough to tell his story in full to a
psychologist before slipping back into a coma).

As for the episode - not terribly impressed, frankly. The plot was a
rehash of the Life on Mars opener, and the script much the same just
with added chauvinism to play up the fact they were using a woman as
the new character. The parody was old hat and lacked the cleverness of
the first series, finding jokes in hackneyed "Isn't PC silly?"
invented phrases like "fatality outcome" rather than the culture clash
play-off between Gene and Sam that made the first season so much fun.
And the whole messianic tint to Gene's appearances were overdone, even
granted that they were presumably intended as a pastiche.

Phil
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