Ashes to Ashes
Feb. 7th, 2008 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerOh, wasn't that fun! There's no doubt at all the writers knew just how far they could push it without becoming self parody - and then nudged it just that little bit further. I was creased up half a dozen times in sheer delight. It's not Life on Mars, but it's the postmodern self-referential recursive bastard offshoot of it and that's just as good for me.
Gene Hunt has a Commodore Pet! I'd actually guessed that one of the characters would have a computer, but I was expecting it to be Chris with a ZX81... And the end titles were a nice touch.
The SFX shot of a pre-Dome Greenwich was also good. I was having fun trying to work out where some of the location shots were; I think that the disused factory south of the Excel Centre might have been standing in for 1980s Shadwell.
A double reference to The A-Team - not only what Gene dubs his squad, but also the whole hail-of-machine-gun-fire-that-slightly-wounds-the-baddy trope :-)
So, Sam Tyler is missing presumed dead, but no body was ever found. Which plot development is more inevitable: Gene getting together with Alex, or Sam turning up?
Gene Hunt has a Commodore Pet! I'd actually guessed that one of the characters would have a computer, but I was expecting it to be Chris with a ZX81... And the end titles were a nice touch.
The SFX shot of a pre-Dome Greenwich was also good. I was having fun trying to work out where some of the location shots were; I think that the disused factory south of the Excel Centre might have been standing in for 1980s Shadwell.
A double reference to The A-Team - not only what Gene dubs his squad, but also the whole hail-of-machine-gun-fire-that-slightly-wounds-the-baddy trope :-)
So, Sam Tyler is missing presumed dead, but no body was ever found. Which plot development is more inevitable: Gene getting together with Alex, or Sam turning up?
