Life on Mars
 

I saw the pilot episode on BBC OnDemand--and that was all I got. I LOVED it, but the powers that be haven't seen it fit to show more episodes. Can anyone fill me in on what happens next??

The past and the present touch in interesting ways and there is a disturbing test pattern card girl that offers insights. Anything more specific will represent a huge spoiler.

They ran the whole series on BBCAmerica last fall. I loved it and absolutely want to see more.

The other show that I've seen tantilizing bits of is Hex.

There's no life on Mars.

hmmm. 6 pretty much nonsequitor or minimally responsive posts ... someone's either preparing to spam us, or Rael has the mind control device turned up too high. You guys clone any more babies lately? Oh, wait, you didn't actually clone the first one, so never mind.

Captain, I believe we have a security breech.

From the FAQ section of the Raelian Movement web site

Q. Where is Eve, the clone baby?

A. The Raelian Movement is a completely separate organisation from Clonaid. Clonaid is a project name (not a company) and is run by one Raelian by the name of Dr Brigitte Boisselier. Neither Rael nor the Raelian Movement fund or have any involvement in Clonaid apart from moral support of cloning technologies.
For more details, see clonaid.com

This and many more questions can be answered from http://www.rael.org by reading the summary,
checking out the FAQ section and downloading the free e-book "Intelligent design: Message from the
Designers".

...and then the link. Pretty much an open and shut case.

Wow. Did he actually just trick you into asking him to give us his spam pitch?? That's pretty amazing if the above crap is the actual spam he was sent to give us...

He might be more entertaining than the last religious spammer.

Prepare for assimilation foolish mortals.

Quiet you! The nutjobs have called a conference and we are the intended audience.

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair...

I have watched the first two episodes of the American version, and the most surprising thing I have to say about it is that it doesn't suck.

I mean, I actually like it.

Although everytime I watch it and start thinking "Harvey Keitel is doing television??" I think that I've fallen into some kind of alternate universe, kind of like the main character, only sideways.

It looks pretty good to me, from what I've read about it. I was most skeptical when I hear dthey were remaking it...apparently they've done a bloody good job.

I was really looking forward to seeing the American Life on Mars. But I dozed off about 15 minutes in to the first episode, and was completely out before this week's even started.

Looks like the network has software you can download to watch their shows, but I don't know...I don't really like watching stuff on a little laptop screen. Maybe I'll just wait until the reruns, or dvd.

I love the music. I'm not sure what I think about the show yet, but I'm hopeful.

Have they used the same music (Life on Mars)?

Yep. It was playing on his iPod before the accident, and the 8-track after.

abc.com has a "life on mars" radio setup ... you can listen to the period music from each episode. Based on a couple image insertions, it looks like they're going to resolve the first season very similarly to the Brit version.

Because of the dental emergency, I have accidentally seen the final episode of the American version. Most of it was excellent, resolved some things, gave a moment we'd all be waiting for, some tears, and then took a sharp left hand turn into stupid.

I mean really stupid.

In other news ... I was poking around BBC America and found a 'sequel' called Ashes to Ashes, where a different detective gets shot and ends up in 1981 with several of the same incidental characters. There is also a scary clown. I recall the spandex and cocaine 80s with a fair degree of clarity. I do not remember professional women wearing scoop tops that exposed their bra straps quite as often.

i dont get it
whats it got to do with bowie

I liked Ashes.

Remember, Life on Mars wasn't just a period piece interms of recreating the 70s, it was also a pastiche of a 70s style British TV cops show (ie. The Sweeney)

Ashes to ashes, like Life on Mars does the whole 80s thing...but is also a pastiche of 80s tv cop shows. The scoop tops may not have appeared much in rreal life 80s but they did on tv:P

Instead of the blokey conventions of 70s cop shows, this was the 'Brutish male cop and sexy posh bird cop, pushed together as working partners, with a will they won't they storyline.' I think it does it very well. It is just a different set of tv conventions that they are drawing on.

Incidentally, the scene from Ashes where the male cops stamp her arse with the departmental stamp, was taken from real experiencesd of female police officers in the 80s.

Soundtrack.

And Ashes to Ashes has the creepy clown from that video ...