Re: "Life on Mars", bored now

In article <be5ffa34-e78a-4f39-a6b8-
3a99f5c7eb99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, hancock4@xxxxxxxxxxxx
says...
On Oct 20, 4:24 pm, Barry Margolin <bar...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Those are "occasional comments", triggered by specific behavior he's
been trained to consider inappropriate.  He's only been there a short
time, he still hasn't gotten used to what's considered normal.

It's like if you travel to a foreign country, for a while might complain
about how they don't have the type of food you're used to.


It was ok for the first episode when he first "arrived". But now he
is settled in.
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That is just it, he hasn't had a chance to "settle in" it is only
been a few days show time. And how does one settle in when they find
themselves in a totally new world not knowing how they got there or
worse how to get back?

As a supposedly mature adult and police detective, he would know how
to adjust to new situations and play nice with the other kids. He
never would've made it as a cop otherwise. As mentioned, all of us go
through life and face transitions we don't want and don't like, but we
have to adapt to them to get along.
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This is not normal situation and he is a human being that has been
taken from everything he knows including the woman he loves who for
all he knows could be dying somewhere. He as a cop isn't trained for
this. No one is. This is not like going to a new job or living in a
new neighborhood. You volunteer for those things, you have some time
to prepare. Tyler's situation is more like an abduction and being
dumped somewhere with no idea as to how to get back with no one not
being able to help you.

If you got sent to a new job (for whatever reason), how long would you
last if you kept saying to your co-workers, "oh, at my old job we did
it this way, not your way...". In a police precinct, where there is
a tigher bond among the people, this wouldn't be tolerated very long.
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It is not the same thing. You volunteer for a new job. A more
accurate analogy would be for some one to come up behind you, put a
hood over your head, knock you out, and then wake up on an
construction site in a foreign country not knowing how the hell you
got there and not knowing how to get back and no one being able to
help you and think you're crazy when you tell your story of being
abducted.

I don't think I would've liked the central character even if he was
around in today's world.
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Then you are not seeing his situation. It is not like anything
anybody is used to. I guess it is a different viewing phliosphy
between you and me. I am treating Tyler's character as if this
happened to a real person, suspending disbelief. As such, you have to
imagine yourself being torn from everyting you know. You have a
family? Imagine not being able to get back to them or even contact
them after being taken somewhere against your will without knowing
why or who is responsible. That is roughly Tyler's situation. You
don't settle in after just a few days.

However, he *did* do what you claim you want him to do and face the
reality of the situation. I guess you missed it but he clearly said
in the second episode (the scene in which he listed on the blackboard
the possible senerios of what happened to him: coma, time travel
etc. IIRC) to PW Morris (Mol), that he has to go with the situation
and in the mean time do what he does best: Catch bad guys. From there
he worked the Check Cashing robberies. And at the end of the episode
he relaxed and danced with the hippie chick, but you can't expect him
notto be frustrated and yes scared. He is a human being first.
--
----->Hunter

"No man in the wrong can stand up against
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."

-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907
.

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