odycee: (Life On Mars - Gene & Sam)
odycee ([personal profile] odycee) wrote2007-04-10 10:31 pm
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I think I've been threatened by death by more than one person on my flist if I don't spoiler cut this!

Dude! What a great episode to end the series with. There was no way that he couldn't stay in 1973 - otherwise, all the fabulous characters would have been reduced to figments of Sam's mind (are they still? - who knows!). As soon as I saw him on that roof after he realised that he didn't feel alive any more, I knew he was going to jump to try to get back (and who hasn't entertained thoughts of throwing themself off the roof during a partictularly pointless and boring meeting! ;)). And the ending was so right - finally kissing Annie and being part of the team again. Even if he is a soft nancy boy. Heh. I might have even had a few tears...

ETA: Another thing I particularly liked was that as Sam was leaping off the building and when he gets back to 1973 I think we see him smiling more that has throughout the entire series, when he finally is able to make a decision about where he wants to be.

And happy birthday to [livejournal.com profile] grammar_glamour and [livejournal.com profile] dogeared!

ETA: I've just had a spam email from 'Paul' which in the subject line claims that 'we will solve your problems instead of you'. Wow! Do you think they can do my job for a week and sort out the problems I'm currently having with Mexico?
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[identity profile] odycee.livejournal.com 2007-04-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope it's a good one!

Life on Mars is a BBC show about a policeman who has a car accident in 2006 and when he wakes up he finds himself in 1973. It's basically a cop show but with added 'is he in 1973?', 'is he in a coma?' bits and of course, the aspect of a politically correct 21st century person being out of time and having to deal with the outlook of people 30 years in the past. The characters are by far what makes it so brilliant.

I don't know where you can download it from apart from bittorrent. There's only two seasons with eight episodes each. I'm sure there must be a download comm somewhere on LJ...