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?

Comments

[non-trivial.livejournal.com]

I thought it was rather good fun, but the initial setup was a bit ludicrous - sending in a negotiator without a flak jacket? Not shooting the nutter who had just grabbed a child when he moved his weapon away from the hostage? Or maybe that was some bizarre alternate-world Met as well...

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Gene's PET wouldn't've had a hard disc in '81. And they wouldn't've called it a "hard disc" back then. It was a bloody WINCHESTER!

Otherwise - Marvellous!

Sam and Alex, I reckon, in the last episode. ;)

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I liked the poster of the tennis player scratching her bum, on the inside of the coffee cupboard. And where did they get that can of TAB?

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I laughed through half of it. It helped that I was alive in the 80s so got more of the pop culture references than I did with LoM.

I'm not sure the Pet makes sense. Wouldn't they have had a dumb terminal to a mainframe instead? Also, it appeared to be running MSDOS...