Ashes to Ashes

[major_clanger]

Oh, 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?

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[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

It's 2008. I have never deliberately set foot in a wine bar, and don't intend to.

Mind you I come from the kind of place where garlic bread "GARLIC? BREAD?" was exotic.