Life on Mars--The Next Sound You Hear Will Be ABC Killing Quality

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XianneKei		#401	[-]
Posts: 2401 (04/01/09 11:10 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Well, that just sucked.
managerr		#402	[-]
Posts: 15005 (04/01/09 11:10 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The BBC is showing their spinoff series to Life in Mars now and basically implies that: Spoiler [+] Sam killed himself when he jumped off the building. However, in the series, a girl cop gets shot and finds herself in the 1980's and all of Sam's buddies are still there working at the same precinct. So she's familiar with Sam's case and is going "WTF" and wonders if all of it is real or if she's just in a coma and imagining the whole thing. It's a bit more humorous in the sense that she kind of refuses to believe that any of them are real people.
Badlands66		#403	[-]
Posts: 69 (04/01/09 11:35 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Well, that totally sucked! Way to get us invested into characters that don't exist. The female Obama as president was a little too cute. Not to mention that while Malia will just barely be old enough to be president in 2035, she won't be old enough to be elected in 2032 (and Sasha would be too young and Michelle doesn't have a sister).
Phantom Nut Syndrome		#404	[-]
Posts: 1378 (04/01/09 11:48 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	And, if you want to get geek....you can't communicate to astronauts in real time if they were orbiting mars, the speed of light that the transmission would take would be 20-40 minutes, depending on orbit, so having a real-time conversation is impossible, can't change physics. First run of shows was good, jumped the shark with Whoppi Goldberg, and died tonite. As it should of, it had promise, but in the end, it sucked ass.
madpack		#405	[-]
Posts: 1301 (04/02/09 12:11 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Badlands, Malia could have come into office in a Gerald Ford type of situation.
BillNyeSurvivorGuy		#406	[-]
Posts: 2177 (04/02/09 12:26 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Hmm, yeah this definitely was..something. I kind of liked the more definitive ending and the title Life on Mars makes a lot of sense now and also they might find literal life so thats cool. But yeah WTF happened with Lisa Bonet? Maybe Lisa Bonet was the life on mars that they will find. She will be the first alien race, she contacted him telepathically through the computer during the turbulence? Heh, I don't know just making shit up. That's so lame how Imperioli's character always called him "Spaceman" all along and that just came from real life. Like, who calls another astronaut spaceman as an insult? That is so stupid. Gretchen Mol as brunette = Epic Fail Can't say I remember a hair color change completely hinging so much on someones hotness before... it sucked all the life out of her. I will say that at least the show ended on a hopeful note. I think now that humanity needs to go to Mars even if it is basically a folly, because when we stop exploring it seems as a species we go crazier. Sorry off topic note.
The Heartbreak Yid		#407	[-]
Posts: 6515 (04/02/09 6:26 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Well that was one of the more unexpected ending to a show Ive ever seen. Stupid, but unexpected. I just wonder if this was planned all along, since the show was titled Life on Mars, or they were just rushed to give closure, and that was all they could come up with.
Pragmatically Absurd		#408	[-]
Posts: 1434 (04/02/09 7:21 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I was okay with the Mars thing, but astronaut Annie's hair broke my suspension of disbelief. Not only because it was so obviously a crappy wig, but also because no self-respecting female astronaut would ever have a hairstyle like that. Still. Sam reading Gulliver's Travels to Annie in 2010 gave me chills, as did the part when Sam told his mother his real name. And I loved Wendy being the ship's computer. We got to see Annie and Sam finally connect, plus one last fix of shirtless O'Mara. I'm satisfied. I cried like a little girl. I love those characters so much. BBC, here I come.
AshBender		#409	[-]
Posts: 2022 (04/02/09 7:43 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Wait.. yesterday was April Fool's! That was one hell of a set-up. The more I think about it, the more I respect the writers for going this route.
erickman		#410	[-]
Posts: 20452 (04/02/09 9:00 AM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The Heartbreak Yid wrote: Well that was one of the more unexpected ending to a show Ive ever seen. Stupid, but unexpected. I just wonder if this was planned all along, since the show was titled Life on Mars, or they were just rushed to give closure, and that was all they could come up with. they just pulled the ending out of there hind-end. i liked the brits ending better. lets hope bbca plays life on mars again soon.
maxxfisher		#411	[-]
Posts: 4004 (04/02/09 9:02 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It have ended with hm hanging up the phone, saying he liked it there.
The Heartbreak Yid		#412	[-]
Posts: 6517 (04/02/09 10:08 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Pragmatically Absurd wrote: Still. Sam reading Gulliver's Travels to Annie in 2010 gave me chills, as did the part when Sam told his mother his real name. And I loved Wendy being the ship's computer. We got to see Annie and Sam finally connect, plus one last fix of shirtless O'Mara. I'm satisfied. My problem with that part was why was Annie so damn old? Back in 1973, she was 30, 35 tops.In 2009, its 36 years later, so she would only be 65-70, so why did they have her done up like she was in her 80's or even 90's. Do the writers just have no concept of aging?
AshBender		#413	[-]
Posts: 2023 (04/02/09 10:37 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	While there are a lot of people that look much younger than they had her look at 70, I have met people in their 60s that look much much older and more frail, so it may not be the 'norm', it isn't all that out in left field.
Phantom Nut Syndrome		#414	[-]
Posts: 1379 (04/02/09 12:10 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	As for "Mars" on the brit show, Mars was an acronym for the task force that Sam was on, to study corruption at the precinct. And, it was revealed to him that he had lost his parents when he was a kid and that his name was something else and that he was hit by a car,etc which explained his bouts with amnesia. So, Sam in the Brit show was a plant, to investigate the cops and to bring in his boss "Guv'nor" The American ending was sloppy, cobbled together shit. It reminds me of the Simpson's episode about Poochie "Poochie went back home to his planet" Sorry, but suspended animation, cheesy scifi effects, horrible wigs and that completly stupid Obama reference just made this into a steaming pile.
lucydog33		#415	[-]
Posts: 186 (04/02/09 12:41 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The only thing that made it watchable was Sam running back to the precinct to kiss Annie. also: Lisa Bonet was credited in the beginning and never appeared. did her (likely lame) scenes get cut? I have a theory that Jason and Gretchen's chemistry knocked Lisa off the show...i mean why go back to 2008 when you got Gretchen Mol making doe eyes at you?
cabanachat		#416	[-]
Posts: 3020 (04/02/09 1:13 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	please put stuff like that in a spoiler tag, Phantom?
Mrs Krista Boogie		#417	[-]
Posts: 1719 (04/02/09 1:21 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's probably in Lisa's contract that if she appears at all (even a voice over) she's considered a guest star. Therefore, the credit.
DS51		#418	[-]
Posts: 273 (04/02/09 1:39 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Phantom Nut Syndrome wrote: As for "Mars" on the brit show, Mars was an acronym for the task force that Sam was on, to study corruption at the precinct. And, it was revealed to him that he had lost his parents when he was a kid and that his name was something else and that he was hit by a car,etc which explained his bouts with amnesia. So, Sam in the Brit show was a plant, to investigate the cops and to bring in his boss "Guv'nor" What ??? Did you see the same ending I did ?? That part was while he was still in the coma...there was something else that happened after that. I don't know how to do spoiler tags so I won't say anymore.
ghostbusted		#419	[-]
Posts: 930 (04/02/09 1:44 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Spoiler tag help. http://survivorsucks.yuku.com/topic/21069
DS51		#420	[-]
Posts: 274 (04/02/09 1:55 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	^ ^ Thanks, I'll see if I can do it. Spoiler [+] When Sam wakes up from the coma, he realises he's not that happy with his life. He misses Annie, Gene & the rest of them. He goes up to the top of the building & jumps off. The next scene, he's back in '73 with them all again. It was supposed to be an ambiguous ending. But when the sequel Ashes to Ashes started, you see a file that says Sam committed suicide. Last Edited By: DS51 04/02/09 2:09 PM. Edited 1 times.

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