Life on Mars.

[MorganFreeman911]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has heard of / seen the show "Life on Mars"?


It's a BBC police drama and it's really good.

 

[Shift]

Seen both series, thought i was cracking. Too bad its now finished, although the directors are now working on a similar production call 'Ashes to Ashes' set in the 80s with a women as the lead, but John Simm aint in it sadly . Dont ask for a source because my mum told me this as she browses through the internet a lot.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Yea. My dad told me about Ashes to Ashes. Lookin' forward to it.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

The ending to the new series was...confusing to say the least.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Confusing yet awesome, though.

 

[StardogChampion]

Seen both series, thought i was cracking. Too bad its now finished, although the directors are now working on a similar production call 'Ashes to Ashes' set in the 80s with a women as the lead, but John Simm aint in it sadly . Dont ask for a source because my mum told me this as she browses through the internet a lot.

It would be pointless having him in it since he killed himself didn't he?

 

[Shift]

Well thats where the mystery comes in, this series has been hardest i have had to interpret, i think, he lived in the modern world but nothing was really there for him, then he was in an accident and put in the coma. He dreams the world of the 70s, and its so real its like he is really there, its like his brain has created this reality because he never really felt truely alive in the real world, but he did in this 70s reality. However, he suffers from these hullutionations in this 70s world, as his mind is combating this new world he is in, however he grows to like it but doesn't realize this until he wakes up in the modern world again, so he kills himself, so he can awake and be trapped in the 70s reality, where he is happy.

It has a bunch of science-fiction to it, just gotta use your imagination, but basically, Sam was a nutcase lol.

Well 'Ashes to Ashes' is meant to just be an 80s cop show without the freaky science-fiction added, which is actualyl what i wanted, but they should have just stuck with Simm and the others in the 70s, and kept that as a normal 70s cop show.

 

[gick]

Well Ashes to Ashes will have Gene Hunt in it, and he was the best thing about Life on Mars anyway.

'Hands up! You're surrounded by armed bastards!'

'This investigation is moving about as quickly as a spastic in a magnet factory!'

'He's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course'

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Well Ashes to Ashes will have Gene Hunt in it, and he was the best thing about Life on Mars anyway.

'Hands up! You're surrounded by armed bastards!'

'This investigation is moving about as quickly as a spastic in a magnet factory!'

'He's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course'

I also liked:

Gene: "Whats he like?"

Sam: "Very...proffensional"

Gene: "bastard"

 

[Shift]

aye Gene Hunt had some hilarious lines, good job he is in it, wouldn't have been the same without him

But then again, if he is in it, wouldn't Sam etc be there too? Unless like Sam and Annie went away for unknown reasons.

 

[stemot]

Well thats where the mystery comes in, this series has been hardest i have had to interpret, i think, he lived in the modern world but nothing was really there for him, then he was in an accident and put in the coma. He dreams the world of the 70s, and its so real its like he is really there, its like his brain has created this reality because he never really felt truely alive in the real world, but he did in this 70s reality. However, he suffers from these hullutionations in this 70s world, as his mind is combating this new world he is in, however he grows to like it but doesn't realize this until he wakes up in the modern world again, so he kills himself, so he can awake and be trapped in the 70s reality, where he is happy.

It has a bunch of science-fiction to it, just gotta use your imagination, but basically, Sam was a nutcase lol.

Well 'Ashes to Ashes' is meant to just be an 80s cop show without the freaky science-fiction added, which is actualyl what i wanted, but they should have just stuck with Simm and the others in the 70s, and kept that as a normal 70s cop show.

The writers have already explained the ending in an interview.

Basically, Sam always was in a coma in 2006/7, and dreaming the 70`s, then when he awoke after the operation to remove the tumor, he no longer felt he belonged because he had become to acclimatised to his 70`s dream, which meant that`s where he wanted to be.

He then jumped off the roof to go back, and as we never actually see Sam hit the ground, it is said he is living his last living moment for an eternity in his dream world.

That`s the gist of what the writers came out with.

 

[Shift]

ahh i see, well i was way off ^^

 

[stemot]

ahh i see, well i was way off ^^

Nah, you pretty much had it nailed, he killed himself to get back, but i think that if they were gonna reveal the mystery when the series had ended, they should have put it in the show and not made it so confusing.

Still an amazing series though.

 

[Shift]

aye twas, now just eagerly await 'Ashes to Ashes'